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Android now #1 in USA!!

Might be posting in wrong forum, but I knew you guys would love this!
Android sales up over 800%!
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500093&subSection=Operating+Systems

wase4711 said:
Might be posting in wrong forum, but I knew you guys would love this!
Android sales up over 800%!
http://www.informationweek.com/news...icleID=226500093&subSection=Operating+Systems
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So is my stock!!! Thanks everyone.
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I wonder why that happened.
Maybe it's because people have been getting steadily more and more tech savvy over the last couple of years, since the introduction of mainstream smartphones with all carriers.
And, of course, more tech savvy people know that iphone is just a toy.

Clarification: It was #1 in sales for the quarter. Not sure what it's market share is overall, but it's moving fast.

Apple's brainwashing is wearing off and people are realizing the iPhone isn't the best thing since condoms.
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dglowe343 said:
Apple's brainwashing is wearing off and people are realizing the iPhone isn't the best thing since condoms.
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Wait, but condoms aren't gre.... errr I see what you did there.

As a self proclaimed techno-geek I can tell you that what grabbed my attention was the "what droid gets" commercials. Those started me on a search for a droid device and I grabbed the EVO on launch day. My contract with Verizon had just expired and even though it was their commercial, I went with Sprint.
Got the wife a Samsung Moment and she is on that thing more than I'm on my EVO

how many android devices can you name that were out this time last year though, these numbers don't mean anything. the hero, moment, droid, eris, incredible, evo, even the backflip are counted as opposed to counting JUST the magic and G1.. really meaningless. if it happens again Q4 this year or later then it will mean everything though.

google ftw

dglowe343 said:
Apple's brainwashing is wearing off and people are realizing the iPhone isn't the best thing since condoms.
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Oh lord that was classic...
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wase4711 said:
Might be posting in wrong forum, but I knew you guys would love this!
Android sales up over 800%!
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500093&subSection=Operating+Systems
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Does that make you feel good about yourself??? This kind of post is what reminds me of idiots who are apple fans!

more people more developers thats a great thing
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bigupurself7 said:
Does that make you feel good about yourself??? This kind of post is what reminds me of idiots who are apple fans!
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wow, what's wrong with you?

Since apple lil screw up. And people coming to reality Its newsletters everyday stating how Android is moving up, stating that its more then 200,000 android phones gettting activated a day.
But i think its just people are finally moving up to the tech ages and not basic feature phones.

Let's see an iPhone owner do this!

http://gizmodo.com/5809847/police-shooting-video-saved-by-hidden-memory-card-in-witness-mouth
The police = iphone
The clever guy = Android/htc evo
Who wins?

starplaya93 said:
http://gizmodo.com/5809847/police-shooting-video-saved-by-hidden-memory-card-in-witness-mouth
The police = iphone
The clever guy = Android/htc evo
Who wins?
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To me it seems ridiculous that he was a bystander that just happened to be there and decided to catch it on tape. How is that illegal? Nothing he was doing was illegal at all. To top it off the cops pull guns on him? Sounds like Miami police has problems.

I find it impressive that he was able to get the micro-sd card out of the evo fast enough. That thing tends to be a pain to remove let alone when you are in a hurry.

Here is the direct video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpMzT5yGp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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novanosis85 said:
Here is the direct video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpMzT5yGp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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One of the users in the comments read this in a article.
"He didn't have a weapon. He hit a police officer earlier that day with his car. The officer was not severly injured and was part of the five that took part in this shooting. They found him later that day, surrounded him, yelled at him to put his hands on his head, and proceeded to unload 90 bullets on him, four innocent bystanders were hit by the cops during this exchange."
Sounds to me they have some really bad cops.

splmonster said:
To me it seems ridiculous that he was a bystander that just happened to be there and decided to catch it on tape. How is that illegal? Nothing he was doing was illegal at all. To top it off the cops pull guns on him? Sounds like Miami police has problems.
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Unfortunately anybody can be a cop nowadays...and that's what happens when you give power to week minds, it's abused.
No offense to cops, i'm sure there are good ones also it's just that the pre-requisites to becoming a cop should be harder and more particular imo. Then again, there is already a shortage of police. So what can you do.

starplaya93 said:
Unfortunately anybody can be a cop nowadays...and that's what happens when you give power to week minds, it's abused.
No offense to cops, i'm sure there are good ones also it's just that the pre-requisites to becoming a cop should be harder and more particular imo. Then again, there is already a shortage of police. So what can you do.
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Yeah indeed.. It's sad what power can do to somebody.

starplaya93 said:
Unfortunately anybody can be a cop nowadays...and that's what happens when you give power to week minds, it's abused.
No offense to cops, i'm sure there are good ones also it's just that the pre-requisites to becoming a cop should be harder and more particular imo. Then again, there is already a shortage of police. So what can you do.
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They should do harsher test like the FBI do.
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What the duck does this have to do with an iPhone?

goodboynyc said:
What the duck does this have to do with an iPhone?
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IPhone smashed on ground,guy can't remove and hide an SD card...
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Pretty soon well see iPhone owners use an new and revolutionary pull down notification too.
That's pretty bad, cops pointing thief guns at the bystanders. I don't see anything wrong with recording their actions. Its should be encouraged.

phatmanxxl said:
Pretty soon well see iPhone owners use an new and revolutionary pull down notification too.
That's pretty bad, cops pointing thief guns at the bystanders. I don't see anything wrong with recording their actions. Its should be encouraged.
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Believe it or not but I never had any negative feelings towards ios until the announcement of ios 5. Pretty amazing how gullible people are and apple feeds on it perfectly...
I can see why cops wouldn't want this posted on the internet, since it could potentially show their faces and make them vulnerable, but imo that just comes with the territory. They have all that power and it's only right that ordinary citizens have some sort of check on them

I from Miami and the police there is more crooked than a broken finger.
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starplaya93 said:
Believe it or not but I never had any negative feelings towards ios until the announcement of ios 5. Pretty amazing how gullible people are and apple feeds on it perfectly...
I can see why cops wouldn't want this posted on the internet, since it could potentially show their faces and make them vulnerable, but imo that just comes with the territory. They have all that power and it's only right that ordinary citizens have some sort of check on them
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I filmed a woman maybe 5'4 70 pounds wet being slammed to the ground multiple times here in Orlando by the police. There are more citizens than police yet we let them treat us like this.
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I saw this on channel 4 news today in south florida.

DirtyShroomz said:
I filmed a woman maybe 5'4 70 pounds wet being slammed to the ground multiple times here in Orlando by the police. There are more citizens than police yet we let them treat us like this.
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the android community should take a stand!

starplaya93 said:
the android community should take a stand!
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Funny thing is she wasn't doing anything whatsoever not even screaming, fighting, she was just saying to allow her to sit because they had her face down in the middle of the street in nasty sewer water... Assholes
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novanosis85 said:
Here is the direct video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpMzT5yGp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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crazy video

There a way to get the SD card out quick? With guns in your face?
I think he probably took his smashed phone after the fact that the police were stupid and got it out
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There is no way he took the sd card out while the video was being shot, because you have to remove the battery. This would turn the phone off, which means he can't be recording like he is till the end..

Getting Out Before It's Too Late!!

Bought an Inspire 4G a few days ago and just sold my Epic today for $300. I figure I'm extremely lucky as someone who loves development and has seen it completely die out on the Epic. Farewell and hopefully everyone else can unload their's before it's too late. Goodbye whiny babies and attention-starved developers (the few that are left around here). It was (somewhat) fun while it lasted. Sorry that Samsung is only half as good at phones as it is at televisions.

Quitter, i still love my epic
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cds0699 said:
Quitter, i still love my epic
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I somewhat liked that phone too. No support = boring though. We have no decent developers left because the mods here and the ****ty phone owners have run them all off and Samsung's very poor customer support amount to ****. Time to move onto a more user/developer friendly machine. Sorry you're loyalty leaves you in the past.

i'm so sick of 'no name' members posting threads about how they're leaving..
it's almost as bad as trolling.. if you're leaving allow me to hold the door open for you but make sure it don't hit you on the but-tocks

Peace out beotch.
Oh yeah, and its your not you're.

Too late for what? Does your phone spontaneously combust once all XDA development for it comes to a stand still? Well hell, thanks for the warning.
There has been a whole bunch of new stuff over the past couple weeks, so I apparently am not seeing where the development has become dead.

I for one am really pumped about this forum. Thanks to everyone here I rooted my phone and flashed my first rom. Going to flash my first modem tonight. I think the developers are all quality too. I'm running SRF right now and find it to be nearly flawless. I'm new to all this, and maybe I'm wrong, but a few quality devs seems better to me, as a noob, than trying to weigh through a bunch of potentially crappy ROMs just because a phone is popular. I'm very pleased about my first experience with rooting, and will likely listen closely to the suggestions of people from this forum when its time for a new phone.
Enjoy whatever you got going though, I wish you well.
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I'm sure this post is bound to spur all kinds of development - you've given so much to the community that I'm sure the devs will all be scrambling to produce something just to try and draw you back in...
Yeah, I'm sure that will happen...
This doesn't even belong in General, sounds like more of a personal problem...
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Willieumm said:
Bought an Inspire 4G a few days ago and just sold my Epic today for $300. I figure I'm extremely lucky as someone who loves development and has seen it completely die out on the Epic. Farewell and hopefully everyone else can unload their's before it's too late. Goodbye whiny babies and attention-starved developers (the few that are left around here). It was (somewhat) fun while it lasted. Sorry that Samsung is only half as good at phones as it is at televisions.
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I hate being a troll, but I've seen way too many threads like this as of late so here it goes.
OP, In your good bye to us all you do is *****, moan and complain about the developers and Samsung. What did you add to the forum? What did you develop? What help did you provide to other users? Did you spend hours upon hours developing roms, mods, kernels and themes then providing then free of charge to ungrateful blood sucking users like yourself?
A simple "Thanks but it's time for me to move on" would suffice.
Like daddymikey said, I'll hold the door.
See ya

snarf snarf.. removed my post.. snarf..

Willieumm said:
Bought an Inspire 4G a few days ago and just sold my Epic today for $300. I figure I'm extremely lucky as someone who loves development and has seen it completely die out on the Epic. Farewell and hopefully everyone else can unload their's before it's too late. Goodbye whiny babies and attention-starved developers (the few that are left around here). It was (somewhat) fun while it lasted. Sorry that Samsung is only half as good at phones as it is at televisions.
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Real nice. Thank you for proving my point. Enjoy your new phone.
The exit is ---------> just in case you get lost on your way out.

daddymikey1975 said:
in the context of my post (if this was directed at me) the contraction that I posted was short for "you are".. if you remove the contraction that I posted and insert "you are" in it's place, the sentence still makes sense.
just sayin'
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Wasn't directed at you Daddy. I was referring to OP's second post. Sorry for the confusion.

Willieumm said:
Bought an Inspire 4G a few days ago and just sold my Epic today for $300. I figure I'm extremely lucky as someone who loves development and has seen it completely die out on the Epic. Farewell and hopefully everyone else can unload their's before it's too late. Goodbye whiny babies and attention-starved developers (the few that are left around here). It was (somewhat) fun while it lasted. Sorry that Samsung is only half as good at phones as it is at televisions.
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Enjoy over paying and getting crappy service on AT&T

stir fry a lot said:
Peace out beotch.
Oh yeah, and its your not you're.
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Lol its also theirs not their's. The word their is already possessive
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stir fry a lot said:
Wasn't directed at you Daddy. I was referring to OP's second post. Sorry for the confusion.
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<insert beavis and butthead sounding voice> huhh huh.. you called me daddy </beavis and butthead voice>
ROFLMAO..
It's all good

Edit: nvm.
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daddymikey1975 said:
i'm so sick of 'no name' members posting threads about how they're leaving..
it's almost as bad as trolling.. if you're leaving allow me to hold the door open for you but make sure it don't hit you on the but-tocks
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Those are the chicken ****s who hide behind the internet He should call them whiny babies in their faces sometime and see what happens. He should have bought an Inspire anyways LOL HTC sucks, the Sense UI sucks and AT&T sucks HAHA!

****, we can get 300 for our epics? That's pretty cool to know. That's about the only useful info the OP provided as no one cares what phone he has.
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MikeyLee said:
Those are the chicken ****s who hide behind the internet
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Hiding behind the internet is so "loose butthole" hahaha
MikeyLee said:
He should call them whiny babies in their faces sometime and see what happens. He should have bought an Inspire anyways LOL HTC sucks, the Sense UI sucks and AT&T sucks HAHA!
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AT&T + T-mo + HTC = Epic Fail (sorry for the pun) Sprint + Epic FTW

Bye
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Tips for Increasing Battery life

I found this link in the thread for the new MikG ROM, I did all of this when I was trying out ShiftDeck and noticed a massive increase in battery life.
Just did all (most) of the steps on MikG and even though the ROM hasn't settled in because I just flashed the ROM last night, I am still noticing some increases in battery life .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148578
Enjoy.

Thanks for the link - will try this once 2.3.3 is rooted.
I see you're from Toledo - I am too. Great to see another Toledoan on the board.

zeke803 said:
Thanks for the link - will try this once 2.3.3 is rooted.
I see you're from Toledo - I am too. Great to see another Toledoan on the board.
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yaa! me too, well, not from there but went to college there at UT. small world...

jwigley24 said:
yaa! me too, well, not from there but went to college there at UT. small world...
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Born and raised in Sylvania. Spent a lot of time at Maxwell's growing up lol. Stationed in Louisiana (unfortunately). Good times!
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zeke803 said:
Born and raised in Sylvania. Spent a lot of time at Maxwell's growing up lol. Stationed in Louisiana (unfortunately). Good times!
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A Tanker I see, Thanks for your SERVICE! Sorry Dubs didn't mean to hi-jack your thread!

FdxRider said:
A Tanker I see, Thanks for your SERVICE! Sorry Dubs didn't mean to hi-jack your thread!
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Appreciate the sentiment - my time in the Army is almost up (if the VA ever finishes up my ratings) - I've loved the past 8 years, but time to move on. Not sure if the forum will block the acronym that usually applies, but I'm a Tanker Without A Tank...haven't been inside an Abrams in several years unfortunately. Although, many of us Kilos are in the same boat. Are you prior service or currently in?
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Nah,me personally m an air force brat ,brother was a green benie and his son is a foward combat air controller(just deployed for 5th time afgan.) I got military housing paint running thru my veins
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Sprint losing money

Just got my Note 4 a couple of weeks ago, but this article has me a little worried. Looks like Sprint is hemorrhaging money.
http://www.newsday.com/business/tec...-more-jobs-reducing-staff-5-percent-1.9582332

M4ver1ck said:
Just got my Note 4 a couple of weeks ago, but this article has me a little worried. Looks like Sprint is hemorrhaging money.
http://www.newsday.com/business/tec...-more-jobs-reducing-staff-5-percent-1.9582332
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Don't forget Japanese company Softbank bought Sprint. They have very deep pockets. They will turn this thing around.

tarpon6 said:
Don't forget Japanese company Softbank bought Sprint. They have very deep pockets. They will turn this thing around.
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I read a similar article at cnet yesterday. Remember they are just getting started. I believe that the Japanese company will get sprint turned around. The article I read stated they are back to gaining instead of losing customers. That's a good sign.

tarpon6 said:
Don't forget Japanese company Softbank bought Sprint. They have very deep pockets. They will turn this thing around.
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Yup and smart Masayoshi Son knows how to run a company.

furiousgtz said:
Yup and smart Masayoshi Son knows how to run a company.
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Yes, he named new COO from Softbank.
http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-rel...kawa-as-technical-chief-operating-officer.htm

2,000 more jobs...Merry Christmas employees. FU.
Love, Sprint

UPSGuy said:
2,000 more jobs...Merry Christmas employees. FU.
Love, Sprint
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UPS... When I was 20 years old (1978)I went through the hiring process with them. I show up at the last pre hire meeting... I was told... Hey, your only 20? Well you can't drive for us but you can load packages. They screwed up.
Anyway, yes 2k people are going to lose a job let's hope those that do are the idiots that don't have a clue. Sprint still has a lot of them.

jhill110 said:
UPS... When I was 20 years old (1978)I went through the hiring process with them. I show up at the last pre hire meeting... I was told... Hey, your only 20? Well you can't drive for us but you can load packages. They screwed up.
Anyway, yes 2k people are going to lose a job let's hope those that do are the idiots that don't have a clue. Sprint still has a lot of them.
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What was the moral of the story or did it just go over my head....lol

bignibb said:
What was the moral of the story or did it just go over my head....lol
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Well, first you have to have a head... Sorry you "boyz" lost control of the Senate.... Deal with it...

jhill110 said:
Well, first you have to have a head... Sorry you "boyz" lost control of the Senate.... Deal with it...
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^^^^^^^^ Politics on XDA

Yeah... Let's keep the political discussions off of XDA. Not the place for such hot topics. Thanks.

M4ver1ck said:
Just got my Note 4 a couple of weeks ago, but this article has me a little worried. Looks like Sprint is hemorrhaging money.
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And they are making customers fuming with note 4 zagg issue. As of right now I will NOT recommend sprint. They have not changed their behavior from 10 years ago. Same b.s. that gave them a bad rap. I am really regretting moving to sprint.
I bought my phone outright. And am really considering selling it paying off phone and going elsewhere.
Or just keeping it and taking phone to another carrier.
I hope they go bankrupt. Maybe then they will listen to their customers.
AS FOR ME.....GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH

jhill110 said:
Well, first you have to have a head... Sorry you "boyz" lost control of the Senate.... Deal with it...
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For some silly reason I thought there was something that happened by him not getting the driving job, that lead to him becoming some great something or another and I could use that story to better myself........... or did I miss it again??

bignibb said:
For some silly reason I thought there was something that happened by him not getting the driving job, that lead to him becoming some great something or another and I could use that story to better myself........... or did I miss it again??
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You missed it. The guys handle was Upsman... Back to the topic...
I've been with sprint for ten years now... Through the good times and the bad... What I am trying to convey is let's hope that sprint is getting it's act together... Seem to be... Fingers crossed...
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llawen said:
And they are making customers fuming with note 4 zagg issue. As of right now I will NOT recommend sprint. They have not changed their behavior from 10 years ago. Same b.s. that gave them a bad rap. I am really regretting moving to sprint.
I bought my phone outright. And am really considering selling it paying off phone and going elsewhere.
Or just keeping it and taking phone to another carrier.
I hope they go bankrupt. Maybe then they will listen to their customers.
AS FOR ME.....GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH
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Bye

Hopefully Sprint turns around. I don't like the idea of limited data with the other carriers. T-mobile dies look good... But it's not much cheaper than the plan I have now.

jhill110 said:
Well, first you have to have a head... Sorry you "boyz" lost control of the Senate.... Deal with it...
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Leave your politics to Facebook

M4ver1ck said:
Leave your politics to Facebook
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Not a Facebook chump... I don't do that "social" crap like most of you all (a little southern lingo there). End of conversation...

Ok, this is explaining why their customer care service is not working after 9:00 pm anymore...

It's 2014 and you can't use data and voice at the same time.
Only at Sprint.
Sent from my SGNote 3

ubigred said:
It's 2014 and you can't use data and voice at the same time.
Only at Sprint.
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This isn't exactly true..... I'm sure Sprint probably doesn't want you to be able to do it but my daughter's both have sprint phones. EVO LTE and a Motorola Photon and believe it or not they both can use data and talk at the same time.