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can att track u down

i guess i did a warranty job and the phone got sent to my old adress and thing is i dont live there anymore and i told them so they refunded me momney so i wouldnt have to pay them back and they sent me another phone for free. anyways i go back to my old house just to say hi to friends and stuff and i see that my phone that they sent was there its a 8525 so now i have an extra 8525 can they track it down if i use it ?

They could if they really wanted to. But do you think they'll go through all that trouble just for you ? lol Doubt it...

i work for att... so Mike we know now....

lol i was just saying shogun im not actually saying it happened more like a wat if

alleyezondisromo said:
lol i was just saying shogun im not actually saying it happened more like a wat if
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but if you will be more than happy to ship it to me i will pretend it never happened

alleyezondisromo said:
i guess i did a warranty job and the phone got sent to my old adress and thing is i dont live there anymore and i told them so they refunded me momney so i wouldnt have to pay them back and they sent me another phone for free. anyways i go back to my old house just to say hi to friends and stuff and i see that my phone that they sent was there its a 8525 so now i have an extra 8525 can they track it down if i use it ?
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So you ordered a phone, and initially thought it never came. Then you called and said, "Hey, where's that phone?" They said, "Sorry. We'll send another one."
Now you are basically saying, "Thanks AT&T for being so helpful and sending me a replacement phone. Now that you were so helpful, I will keep both phones and really give you the shaft for being honest."
Having two phones, you now wonder if you can get in trouble. Well, let me put it this way: if AT&T was to find out you have both phones, they might think you lied to them in an attempt to steal a phone from them. Most people and most businesses wouldn't respond too well to this.
The ethical thing to do is exactly what your question asks when reading between the lines: Should I keep what doesn't belong to me?
If you have to ask, you probably already know the answer.

Whatever...I worked for at&t for a year...nothing ethical about that company. I say keep it and be happy.

Answer is yes they could find out whos SIM is in the phone with that IMEI... Unless you use that program floating around and change the IMEI haha.

alleyezondisromo said:
lol i was just saying shogun im not actually saying it happened more like a wat if
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"More like a wat if"?
Strange, because you've offered to sell this phone to another member here already. You might want to get your story straight before Mark comes knocking on your door looking for his "kickback".

Isn't that like stealing more than half a thousand dollars?
I mean, Don't get me wrong, but you could let them know you moved, so they can send the phone to the right place.

TaurusBullba said:
You might want to get your story straight before Mark comes knocking on your door looking for his "kickback".
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Im on it

surrept said:
Whatever...I worked for at&t for a year...nothing ethical about that company. I say keep it and be happy.
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You're probably right. But at the same time, is it worth the trouble and worry? Even if AT&T isn't ethical, does that mean you shouldn't? It's all about how you want to live your life.

Found a G1

Found a G1 the other day and left it on for the owner to call em to get the phone back. Lost phones before, I know how annoying it was, but the owner hasnt called in 2 days so im assuming they dont want it.
That said, they will more than likely call and block this phone, if they do, is there any way I can get it working again?
Thanks for your help.

swap sim cards

I dont think Tmobile blocks stolen phones from the network. (I didn't check to see if you were in the US or not)
I've lost a phone in the past and asked if Tmob could block the phone from their network and they say its not possible.
If you want to be more proactive, open up gmail and send yourself an email, then you'll have the owner's address and then send him an email. Hopefully he'll give you a small reward for your trouble and kindness.

I don't understand why you couldn't more proactively look through his/her contacts and call 'Home' or 'Mom' or 'Dad' etc??

sblmnl said:
I don't understand why you couldn't more proactively look through his/her contacts and call 'Home' or 'Mom' or 'Dad' etc??
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No offense but I am going to ask this question, How old are you? and Do you have something listed as Mom or Dad?
LOL I am not trying to say anything bad I just never heard of anyone over the age of 30 having Mommy in their phone LOL I am only 22 and have it as their full names, but I do have ICE for them as well.

sblmnl said:
I don't understand why you couldn't more proactively look through his/her contacts and call 'Home' or 'Mom' or 'Dad' etc??
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Yea he could of done that.. but to me I would keep it.. finder keeper

i would keep it but tats just me either look for home in the contacts.. Or email him.. Thats the best u can doo

neoobs said:
No offense but I am going to ask this question, How old are you? and Do you have something listed as Mom or Dad?
LOL I am not trying to say anything bad I just never heard of anyone over the age of 30 having Mommy in their phone LOL I am only 22 and have it as their full names, but I do have ICE for them as well.
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1. I'm 21
2. There's a lot of people that wouldn't necessarily use 'Mommy', but many definitely use Mom or Dad
3. There was no age mentioned here, just trying to help
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sblmnl said:
1. I'm 21
2. There's a lot of people that wouldn't necessarily use 'Mommy', but many definitely use Mom or Dad
3. There was no age mentioned here, just trying to help
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I was just saying that I haven't met many with mom or dad in their phone listed as mom or dad.
Either way have you thought of calling 611?

I agree. I have no "mom", "dad", "sister", "home" etc. In my phone book. Closest thing I have is "aunt ----" haha. It is easy to text anyone from the inbox and say "hey I found this phone how do I contact the owner?" -simple isn't it?

I am 31, and have 'Mum' in my phone...

I have Mom and Dad in my phone and I'm 28. Never really seen a reason to change it. When I talk to them I call them Mom and Dad so thats how they are listed in my phone book.
As for the lost phone you could have easily taken it into a T-mobile store or called T-mobile customer care. Sounds like you wanted to keep the phone and to make yourself feel better you waited a whole 2 days. Loosing your phone sucks I would try and be more proactive about finding the owner.

Most lost phones never reach there owner and i would say if the sim is still active the owner hasnt reported it to tmob. if it has been disabled then i would say they will have most likely have claimed on there insurance so i would give it another 2 days (4 in total) look through the contacts and see if you an find anything that relates to a family member and call them to find the owner.
by this time you should have spoken to the owner and with any luck he will haev an insurance replacement and say you can have the phone for £25 or so ( the insurance excess) or at least if i lost my phone and had a replacement via insurance and then was told someone had found it i would try and make a deal with them.

I don't have mom and dad listed as I call them but by their proper names.
Closest I have are aunt and uncle so and so.
My phone is also locked with contact info displayed that doesn't include the cell in question. Now if only I could get a Google Voice acct.

neoobs said:
No offense but I am going to ask this question, How old are you? and Do you have something listed as Mom or Dad?
LOL I am not trying to say anything bad I just never heard of anyone over the age of 30 having Mommy in their phone LOL I am only 22 and have it as their full names, but I do have ICE for them as well.
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I am 32 and have Mom and Dad listings in my phone, I also have my grandparents listed as (get this) Grandparents.
Because... get this, they are my mom, dad, and grandparents. My dad is not Daniel to me, even though that is his name, he is my dad.

Outcome?
Hope to see the outcome, LOL, wanted to see the person reaction when he had his phone returned to him. Please update us, thank you

Can I have my phone back now?

A whole two days is a lot more than what thousands of other people would have done. I could go to a t mobile store after I work all week, like I have nothing better to do, but for what? the guy behind the counter to say yes sir, il get this right back to him, and put it in his pocket?
IMO the guy had 2 days to ring me, he didnt, he dosnt want the phone so my question was, am I going to be able to use it normally or is it as good as a brick?

I think you should be able to use it, however, if it is as good as a brick let me know I may buy it off of you for a small price. I need a development phone that isn't my primary device.

Wow. There is a good amount of flimsy moral rationalization going on in this thread.

Need to Flash my Evo 4G for the Carribean Will Pay $$!!

Hello Peeps
I'm gunna b going to the island Antigua soon in January and would like to know if there's anyone out there that can flash an EVO 4G so I can use my phone while im in the islands. FYI: im gunna b there for quite sum time in case ur wondering
P.S. Also I heard there's a service called lime that's offered there i know this is a cdma fone and that only GSM phones work there I'm not retarded, I'm also aware that CDMA fones are no good there but I would pay u if u can find me a way , like I always say when there's a will there's always a dam way.
(DAM EVO 4G Y WON'T U WORK WITH MY DAM WII REMOTE STUPID BLUETOOTH STACK)

You answered your own question. CDMA phones are no good there. There is no way around that.
On a side note, PLEASE use punctuation and spelling correctly. It doesn't make you look very bright when you talk like that. It could be just me, but I find stuff like that REALLY annoying. ._.

Instead of paying someone for a solution that won't appear anytime soon, why don't you just spend that money on a gsm phone and buy the sim cards for service over there? Is it the 4G service that you want or the wifi tethering you were hoping to utilize?

thetakara said:
You answered your own question. CDMA phones are no good there. There is no way around that.
On a side note, PLEASE use punctuation and spelling correctly. It doesn't make you look very bright when you talk like that. It could be just me, but I find stuff like that REALLY annoying. ._.
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When I went to Antigua this year I bought an unlocked Blackberry and took it down with me. Just buy a prepaid sim while down there. I was there for 2 weeks so I don't know if you will find it worth your while.
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And about you Wii remount question, CyanogenMod 6 will find it.

ualeem said:
Hello Peeps
I'm gunna b going to the island Antigua soon in January and would like to know if there's anyone out there that can flash an EVO 4G so I can use my phone while im in the islands. FYI: im gunna b there for quite sum time in case ur wondering
P.S. Also I heard there's a service called lime that's offered there i know this is a cdma fone and that only GSM phones work there I'm not retarded, I'm also aware that CDMA fones are no good there but I would pay u if u can find me a way , like I always say when there's a will there's always a dam way.
(DAM EVO 4G Y WON'T U WORK WITH MY DAM WII REMOTE STUPID BLUETOOTH STACK)
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Do a search for a VOIP solution in these forums. I remember reading where someone went to Belize and was able to mod their EVO to work there. Similar situation to yours.
To the lame people who commented that it's impossible: Advancement is only made when it is believed that there is an answer and that is possible. Then you have to keep searching until you find that answer. Don't expect it to be handed to you. Saying something is impossible without trying is just plain lazy. Let go of your mother's tit!
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I always use brightroam.com whenever I go overseas.
You can rent everything and have a blackberry or cheapo phone already setup to use over there. It's signficantly cheaper then getting service when you arrive. They mail you the phone, you set it up and take it with you. Plus you can always google coupon codes w/ them. "15AEREWARD" gets you $15 off.

sombdy said:
Do a search for a VOIP solution in these forums. I remember reading where someone went to Belize and was able to mod their EVO to work there. Similar situation to yours.
To the lame people who commented that it's impossible: Advancement is only made when it is believed that there is an answer and that is possible. Then you have to keep searching until you find that answer. Don't expect it to be handed to you. Saying something is impossible without trying is just plain lazy. Let go of your mother's tit!
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Even with VOIP he's regulated to only WiFi which is a pretty shoddy solution. But hey, that might be good enough for him.
As far as saying it's lame to think it's impossible, unless you open the EVO and physically change the radio, and then update the software to reflect that change, it is. So sure it's not 100% impossible, just impracticable and almost impossible. But hey, now I know who to go to when I want my XBox 360 to play PS3 games.

Lol @ thetakara yea it may be annoying but dis ain't no english class, @ sombdy I like ur enthusiasm im behind u 100%, lmao let go of ur mother's tit lol, i'll look into dat website rutter09. as for bb...yea blackberries not my thing but mite as well go 4 a gsm fone

sombdy said:
Do a search for a VOIP solution in these forums. I remember reading where someone went to Belize and was able to mod their EVO to work there. Similar situation to yours.
To the lame people who commented that it's impossible: Advancement is only made when it is believed that there is an answer and that is possible. Then you have to keep searching until you find that answer. Don't expect it to be handed to you. Saying something is impossible without trying is just plain lazy. Let go of your mother's tit!
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that has got to be the dumbest response i've ever seen.. str8 up its impossible, regardless of how lazy you think ppl are.. it was an easy call.. its the very reason u havent seen iphones on the verizon network.. its not possible. we're talking two diff technologies (cdma vs gsm) in antigua, all cell companies are gsm..

fitz62 said:
that has got to be the dumbest response i've ever seen.. str8 up its impossible, regardless of how lazy you think ppl are.. it was an easy call.. its the very reason u havent seen iphones on the verizon network.. its not possible. we're talking two diff technologies (cdma vs gsm) in antigua, all cell companies are gsm..
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So don't pursue running cdma on a gsm network. You can run a VOIP hack. That has been done. The point is I see people respond frequently with "that's not possible" when the truth is they just don't know the answer. People are hacking their phones to run on Verizon and boost mobile. What if people had said "that's impossible" before someone found the answer? Pretty dumb.
The point of my post was that it is not constructive to say that it is impossible. The reason for these forums is to help each other find the answers we need.
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Award Tour said:
But hey, now I know who to go to when I want my XBox 360 to play PS3 games.
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lol......that's a funny and accurate analogy.

Considering your grammar errors and complete arrogance when called out on those errors, I sincerely hope your reasoning for going to Antigua for an extended period of time is not for the purpose of attending medical school.

sombdy said:
Do a search for a VOIP solution in these forums. I remember reading where someone went to Belize and was able to mod their EVO to work there. Similar situation to yours.
To the lame people who commented that it's impossible: Advancement is only made when it is believed that there is an answer and that is possible. Then you have to keep searching until you find that answer. Don't expect it to be handed to you. Saying something is impossible without trying is just plain lazy. Let go of your mother's tit!
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You are correct. It can be done.

Help Flashing to Cricket, Need "ESN with all numbers, or MEID"

I need to find the ESN with all numbers, not the one on qpst with the D and letters and numbers, the guy said he couldn't activate today when i took my phone to the cricket store. i was hella mad because i had been flashed the prl to cricket already so i now have no service. tomorrow, i need to bring the numbers there to activate. its already 9pm hopefully someone will chime in before then. thx in advance.

akaine2001 said:
I need to find the ESN with all numbers, not the one on qpst with the D and letters and numbers, the guy said he couldn't activate today when i took my phone to the cricket store. i was hella mad because i had been flashed the prl to cricket already so i now have no service. tomorrow, i need to bring the numbers there to activate. its already 9pm hopefully someone will chime in before then. thx in advance.
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They WILL NOT allow you to activate this phone in that method. I'm on my phone so it's way to much to text. Pm me a number and I will call you to break it down.

ziggy484 said:
What in the world is cricket? Is it the new firmware after gingerbread? I thought it should be dessert name though? Well i guess maybe some people eat crickets for dessert... kinda gross though.
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Cricket is a wireless carrier (7th largest in the US)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_Wireless
-Doug

ok so i talked to jenisiz on the phone and he told me the whole process i need to do now. which is take the phone to a cricket store that will activate it as a zio then i can proceed to the getting 3g working. i have it saying welcome to cricket when i dial *228! so i'm halfway there... then another time for my gfs phone

Zomg... really? once again... another post in here ... i check it... for nothing... don't post if nothing helpful yo i'm not tryin to be a asshole i just need help not wasteful comments i wouldnt have checked if u didnt write the comment thread

Menu>Settings>About phone>Status
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Menu>Settings>About phone>Status
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For what he's trying to do, they won't accept that.

the one they need is in status. they need to know this at every store. i had to go to a store 20 minute drive away and i have 5 cricket stores within 10 minutes... just because noone knows about this type of thing evidently in NC... damn southerners... i'm about to do the steps to get 3g working, then flash 2.2 and all that back up. the cricket phone service sounds just like verizon on my fascinate, can't wait to see how this 3g performs... haha i have unlimited minutes and text/web/mms for 55$ for my phone and 50$ for my gf phone BANG

and im bout to start flashing phones in NC and remotely eventually, so if you want to get down on this holla at me, i will flash you to cricket with mms and all working, assuming i get mine up in a bit =D
and i'm going to do it lower than everyone else... 30 bux. for one. two for 60. when the other guys charging 50 per phone... i'mma get all that business

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and im bout to start flashing phones in NC and remotely eventually, so if you want to get down on this holla at me, i will flash you to cricket with mms and all working, assuming i get mine up in a bit =D
and i'm going to do it lower than everyone else... 30 bux. for one. two for 60. when the other guys charging 50 per phone... i'mma get all that business
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Just a heads up bud, try not to promote business on the forum. I share all information just like the devs share their work for free on xda. But good luck, there are other methods to get it working on the 45 dollar plan but I don't share those as I believe it's wrong cheating the provider. Those guys will probably be your compitition. Oh and 3g is just as good as verizon.

put ad on CL and did 1 already and my gfs and mine... whatchu talkin bout... its a hot service champ ... im bout to take that to the max lol all the mexicans here want that done

NVM...adryn pretty much said it...as I stated back on page 1 - We on the forum do this for fun, not profit. If you're going to take it to craigslist then by all means go have at it. But don't promote it here. Plus, try not to use racial comments. I don't care about it, but it may offend some.

Dude akaine....you are a low life. You wanted to charge for theme ports and now this? Go hang out on Craigslist, this community is not for you. We do things on donations here and if that means free...that's cool too. Stop trying to exploit people.
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adrynalyne said:
Dude akaine....you are a low life. You wanted to charge for theme ports and now this? Go hang out on Craigslist, this community is not for you. We do things on donations here and if that means free...that's cool too. Stop trying to exploit people.
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+1 Agreed. What a piece of trash....

flash yet another fascinate to cricket today... whos the trash now suckas haha =p
jailbroke an itouch and flashed an epic to boost last week. whos the trash buddy step ur game up

akaine2001 said:
flash yet another fascinate to cricket today... whos the trash now suckas haha =p
jailbroke an itouch and flashed an epic to boost last week. whos the trash buddy step ur game up
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Did you do it for free, or did you scam someone....again?

akaine2001 said:
flash yet another fascinate to cricket today... whos the trash now suckas haha =p
jailbroke an itouch and flashed an epic to boost last week. whos the trash buddy step ur game up
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akaine, its posts like this that lead to flame wars
this thread died 2 months ago...and yet u revived it by calling others trash
if you are happy on a budget carrier than great..im happy for ya
most of us prefer to be on 1 of the big 4 however

Yeah, just gonna leave a little comment here (since I like lurking on other forums).
Have fun with cricket, because as soon as you get 5 miles outside of a major city, you'll have NO signal whatsoever.
At least with one of the big 4 (especially Verizon), you will almost ALWAYS have signal.

Well dang

Did we just lose Rom support for Qualcomm?
Lol I go look all ROMs but two are closed that sucks

No we didn't lose rom support. Just some small issues.

KyleBryant said:
No we didn't lose rom support. Just some small issues.
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SO every thread gets closed? Lol

NGD1 said:
SO every thread gets closed? Lol
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People kept nagging him about stuff that didn't work and what not when the roms were clearly in alpha phase and he even stated what worked and what didn't. He got sick of people being stupid and not reading so he closed them all.

Well that makes sense
Kinda sucks though
I was about to ask him if building MIUI would be hard lol

NGD1 said:
Well that makes sense
Kinda sucks though
I was about to ask him if building MIUI would be hard lol
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It's pretty sad that people think Qualcomm support is dead because I left. I'm nobody special. I can't believe nobody else has posted any ROMs other than squid2 and one guy just trying to spread around his donation link more trying to make money off other peoples work basically. I'm going to pm a select few of you guys with a link to somewhere we can do this on our own terms. I know you guys all probably think I'm a ****, but I'm really not. I got pissed because I very calmly and nicely responded to someone's comment, they responded back ending with "take a xanax", I took offense and reported them and I ended up with 2 infractions (my first ever) that I didn't quite understand. One was retracted after the fact. But anyway, don't worry I didn't go far.

amarc78 said:
I know you guys all probably think I'm a ****, but I'm really not.
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I don't think you're a ****, I completely understand your frustrations. I had a mod give me an infraction over something completely irrelevant and stupid too on these forums. Literally my first infraction in 8 years.

amarc78 said:
It's pretty sad that people think Qualcomm support is dead because I left. I'm nobody special. I can't believe nobody else has posted any ROMs other than squid2 and one guy just trying to spread around his donation link more trying to make money off other peoples work basically. I'm going to pm a select few of you guys with a link to somewhere we can do this on our own terms. I know you guys all probably think I'm a ****, but I'm really not. I got pissed because I very calmly and nicely responded to someone's comment, they responded back ending with "take a xanax", I took offense and reported them and I ended up with 2 infractions (my first ever) that I didn't quite understand. One was retracted after the fact. But anyway, don't worry I didn't go far.
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It's all good man, I was a mod on phandroid and dabled a little here for a fraction of a second i get it.
I'd love to still help you test and do things lol, just got this phone and was like "yay something with ROMs!!! I can tinker!"
Then you went poof (with good reason) and I just said awe man XD just my luck.
Do what you need to to save your sanity
Those of us who get it will be here to play.

amarc78 said:
It's pretty sad that people think Qualcomm support is dead because I left. I'm nobody special. I can't believe nobody else has posted any ROMs other than squid2 and one guy just trying to spread around his donation link more trying to make money off other peoples work basically. I'm going to pm a select few of you guys with a link to somewhere we can do this on our own terms. I know you guys all probably think I'm a ****, but I'm really not. I got pissed because I very calmly and nicely responded to someone's comment, they responded back ending with "take a xanax", I took offense and reported them and I ended up with 2 infractions (my first ever) that I didn't quite understand. One was retracted after the fact. But anyway, don't worry I didn't go far.
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I would jump in, but I had to cut my home internet for financial reasons. I have the CDMA version so the current ROMs weren't of use to me yet. I feel kinda useless right now, lol. I might be able to go to an unlimited plan (another $15 a month) instead of my current 10GB. Just setting up my new phone (and wife's) used most of my data. I'll figure something out. Thanks for laying so much groundwork bro.

madbat99 said:
I would jump in, but I had to cut my home internet for financial reasons. I have the CDMA version so the current ROMs weren't of use to me yet. I feel kinda useless right now, lol. I might be able to go to an unlimited plan (another $15 a month) instead of my current 10GB. Just setting up my new phone (and wife's) used most of my data. I'll figure something out. Thanks for laying so much groundwork bro.
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I hear you. I had to do the same thing being laid off for a while, waiting for a call from my union hall to go back to work. Also why I haven't acquired another E4 for testing, and can't have my phone down so I don't miss a call. If it wasn't for my unlimited plan with boost, I wouldn't be doing much right now. I can build a ROM way faster than I can upload it. Sometimes I go to a near by coffee shop and have a cup or 2 and make use of the free WiFi.
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amarc78 said:
I hear you. I had to do the same thing being laid off for a while, waiting for a call from my union hall to go back to work. Also why I haven't acquired another E4 for testing, and can't have my phone down so I don't miss a call. If it wasn't for my unlimited plan with boost, I wouldn't be doing much right now. I can build a ROM way faster than I can upload it. Sometimes I go to a near by coffee shop and have a cup or 2 and make use of the free WiFi.
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Yeah I get to work like an hour early (air conditioning tech) to use the wifi at our shop for ROM updates on my Nexus 9, lol.