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EDIT: Well, some will say this effort had no impact, others will not be so naive and realize the voices of MANY of you were heard. Really applaud everyone... regardless if it helped or not, Samsung has stated that they have heard us AND that it's something they are not used to, but will make an effort... I feel like this is success.
OTA should start tomorrow. Source should be released very shortly after that:
http://opensource.samsung.com/
THANK YOU ALL FOR HELPING!!!
For those not certain why this thread was created: PLEASE READ
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I generally remain calm and try and remain upbeat and defend... but the news (rumor/leak) about Samsung holding off the froyo release to sell more phones set me over the edge.
While nothing is confirmed, I still believe Samsung needs to be aware of just how pissed they are making our community. I'm not talking stupid class action, blah blah... I simply want our voice heard, and for a Froyo release to happen ASAP... but beyond that, I want them to adhere to the Open Handset Alliance and release their source for our developers.
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
I believe we all now who is going to put out a better product, and right now they (our developers) are handicapped because they do not have everything they need.
That said, we need to be organized!
We need twitter to trend AND we need to spread it all over Facebook! I am ignorant and have no interest in learning Facebook. I know the majority of you use it daily so I am going to rely on you guys for that!
To do this on twitter, we all need to use the same #hashtag. We also need to threaten something that means something to them... the whole problem is they are not updating to help with their sales (allegedly). Well, we need to threaten to never buy Samsung again.
Please use this #Hashtag:
#NeverAgain
would work.... it is easy to use, short and to the point.
An example: (just copy/paste this if you like)
[email protected] & @Samsungtweets I will never buy a Samsung product after the way you've treated your customers. #NeverAgain
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[email protected] After the BH2 fail and the Vibrant fail.. I will #NeverAgain buy #samsung..
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You need to tweet:
@SamsungMobileUS and/or @SamsungTweets
I sent a similar tweet earlier, and they are now following me. THEY ARE LISTENING... MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!!
trunkstar1 found a great link for their Facebook Wall (his post is here) - with nearly a HALF OF A MILLION PEOPLE!!
d_bot also has a Facebook group, join group NeverAgainSamsung
sweshes has created a groubal as well (online petition). If you are inclined, here is the link.
http://www.groubal.com/samsung-has-...ant-even-when-they-promised-end-of-year/#sign
Here is a LOT of their information for FACEBOOK users, compliments of a post from XDA user AllGamer.
AllGamer said:
List of Facebook Samsung's accounts related to our cause:
Mobile Department
Samsung Mobile
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobile#!/SamsungMobile?v=wall
Samsung Mobile Canada
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungCanada#!/samsungmobilecanada?v=wall
Samsung Mobile España
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsu...ges/Samsung-Mobile-Espana/108610811866?v=wall
Samsung Mobile Global
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileGlobal#!/SamsungMobileGlobal?v=wall
Samsung Mobile Romania
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileRomania
Samsung Mobile Singapore
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileSingapore#!/SamsungMobileSingapore?v=wall
Samsung Mobile UK
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungUKmobile#!/SamsungUKmobile?v=wall
another Samsung Mobile ?
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=72687635881&v=wall
Country
Canada
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungCanada#!/SamsungCanada?v=wall
Korea
http://www.facebook.com/samsungkorea#!/samsungkorea?v=wall
USA
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungUSA?v=app_264732985926#!/SamsungUSA?v=wall
Models fan base pages?
Samsung Galaxy S
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsu...pages/Samsung-Galaxy-S/112079458807762?v=wall
Samsung Galaxy S Romania
http://www.facebook.com/i9000GalaxyS
Samsung Captivate
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsu...ages/Samsung-Captivate/114820871900462?v=wall
Samsung Epic ?
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungEpic#!/SamsungEpic?v=wall
Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant ?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsu...msung-Galaxy-S-Vibrant/129061660469467?v=wall
Unknowns
Engineering ?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsung-Engineering/105652329467423?v=desc
Service ?
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungService#!/SamsungService?v=wall
Samsung ?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsung/25448656869#!/pages/Samsung/25448656869?v=wall
Samsung Apps ?
http://www.facebook.com/SamsungApps?filter=2#!/SamsungApps?v=wall
If anyone can confirm which ones are official and which ones are fan based, it'll be greatly appreciated.
The ones in the Mobile Department and Country specific are definitely legit, anything else are most likely fan based sites.
- NEW full list of legit Samsung Twitter accounts -
http://twitter.com/Samsung/lists
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+10
I don't have twitter or anything, but for this cause, I'll make one...
Still on my vacation till the 12th of Feb...
Ill try to do it on my phone.
Yes, a vacation of 3 months, hehe!
Sent from the helm of Vibrant Territory!
Awesome, please do what you can people... the whole point is to be organized, make it trend on twitter and Samsung will be forced to respond. Maybe that is why I am so upset, they have not made any effort to debunk these rumors.
I personally am tired of defending them...
Do u suggest I keep saying it or just like once a day?
to be most effective, I think you should post this is all US galaxy s variant forums. Fascinate, Epic, Captivate, and the other one or two. Get all US Galaxy S users to do this too!
btw, i dont have a twitter account or have ever used it. any suggestions on how to post your message once i create a twitter account?
EDIT: i just set up a twitter account, how do i post that hashtag to samsung?
Creating an account is super easy (and the best way to keep up with our developers). Once you have the account created, just PM me if you need help.... you could just copy/paste what I have in the OP if you like.
#NeverAgain... waiting for a dual core HTC on TMO then dumping the vibrant...
I would never ever imagine this coming from you but you actually did a pretty good thread. I don't think it would make diffrence, people aren't going to follow up, XDA is a small portion of all samsung phones.
Like someone said samsung is known for their eletronics that are release as is, no follow up update. As big as they are they become greedy. Its a company out out for money, "making a new phone with new software" will get the most sales.
If they give us froyo now it will drop their new phone sales dramactecly (spelling). Because an old phone will be cheaper then a new phone The vibrant 4G isnt really a big update besides the FFC and HSPA+. Thereby the orignal vibrant.will get.bought.
Another thing to think about is when the vibrant 4G/plus gets out we will not get froyo right away, maybe a month after.
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Wow im not the only one that doesn't have a facebook wow, I think im going to make one talking smack about sammy just cause.
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kboater said:
to be most effective, I think you should post this is all US galaxy s variant forums. Fascinate, Epic, Captivate, and the other one or two. Get all US Galaxy S users to do this too!
btw, i dont have a twitter account or have ever used it. any suggestions on how to post your message once i create a twitter account?
EDIT: i just set up a twitter account, how do i post that hashtag to samsung?
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I did this... but now I realize that is against XDA rules (I never post multiple threads). I need to let the mods know my error. Hopefully this thread remains open though.
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I would never ever imagine this coming from you but you actually did a pretty good thread....
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So... you think my sticky threads are bad? PM me how to improve, but 152K and 25k views and no complaints so far. But... thanks anyway for the compliment.
just tried for the first time, how can i tell if i did it right and it got posted on samsungs twitter?
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I did this... but now I realize that is against XDA rules (I never post multiple threads). I need to let the mods know my error. Hopefully this thread remains open though.
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Can others post this same thread though?
Saw your tweet to others a bit ago and retweeted!!
sent from the other side of my galaxy.
^ LOL, epic pic. Thanks for the RT.
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Can others post this same thread though?
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Ahh.... THAT is probably the way I should have done it. Hopefully the other threads remain open. I imagine XDA wants developers to get their source too....
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just tried for the first time, how can i tell if i did it right and it got posted on samsungs twitter?
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If you PM me your twitter name I can tell you. I'm certain you did it correctly though, and I really appreciate it.
I wouldnt be upset about the hold on 2.2, if NOT FOR THE FREAKING FACT THAT THEIR 2.1 + TOUCH WIZ WAS BUGGY AS A ROACH MOTEL.
K, done. I doubt it will have any effect on whether we see updates for our Vibrants but at least I've contributed to the "user outrage", such as it is.
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K, done. I doubt it will have any effect on whether we see updates for our Vibrants but at least I've contributed to the "user outrage", such as it is.
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I agree... but we NEED to try.
I have no Dev experience
I try different ROMs daily, from Cyanogen to Virus to ACS (Koni, Kings, thanks to you all) and back: I'm wondering if the best of these Dev's lifework couldn't be combined?
Here's what I'd love to see-
The performance of ACS meets the asthetics and tweakage of Cyanogen meets something entirely different from Sense (I like the Synergy v3.5 best, myself) and throw in free Mobile Hotspot for good measure.
Wish I had an input on Kernals and recoverys, just never studied up.
I can only hope a Dev stumbles upon this thread and cooks something up. All I can say is, as a Sprint employee, I know the phones. I'll help if I can, simply looking to get something started.
Post your hearts out, especially if you have ROM suggestions
*Simply the opinions of a Daily Rider*
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I have no Dev experience
I try different ROMs daily, from Cyanogen to Virus to ACS (Koni, Kings, thanks to you all) and back: I'm wondering if the best of these Dev's lifework couldn't be combined?
Here's what I'd love to see-
The performance of ACS meets the asthetics and tweakage of Cyanogen meets something entirely different from Sense (I like the Synergy v3.5 best, myself) and throw in free Mobile Hotspot for good measure.
Wish I had an input on Kernals and recoverys, just never studied up.
I can only hope a Dev stumbles upon this thread and cooks something up. All I can say is, as a Sprint employee, I know the phones. I'll help if I can, simply looking to get something started. Yes, they do keep track of these websites.
Post your hearts out, especially if you have ROM suggestions
*Simply the opinions of a Daily Rider*
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As a Sprint employee, you might want to be careful about what you post on here, specifically "free hotspot" and other things Sprint does not condone of it's employees.
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As a Sprint employee, you might want to be careful about what you post on here, specifically "free hotspot" and other things Sprint does not condone of it's employees.
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As long as he doesn't put his real name or have facebooks linked I think he should be fine.
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As long as he doesn't put his real name or have facebooks linked I think he should be fine.
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You would be surprised at how involved Sprint is with people that post on forums, facebook, myspace, youtube, etc. I myself have been talked to by corporate security already.
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You would be surprised at how involved Sprint is with people that post on forums, facebook, myspace, youtube, etc. I myself have been talked to by corporate security already.
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I worked for t-mobile for 4 years in the past and I leaked pics, info all kinds of ish and I never got caught lol. I guess it depends on how you go about it. Of course when I did work for tmobile its not like they would find out dirkyd3rks's true identity anyways. I was just smart about it, always 1 step ahead.
...have you tried VaelPak yet?
I liked Vaelpak, except for the bat life. Didn't try any of the new versions tho.
Half my customers ask me to root their devices, most everyone within my company under 30 have rooted; people know about this stuff without even really knowing what goes into it. What can Sprint do to me when their are hundreds of YouTube vids posted showing how to root and which Rom is good, etc? These companies may be watching, but can't do a thing about it. Like Big Brother Lite haha
I got excellent battery life on VaelPak, and it's the first thing that came to mind when I read the OP. Performance is on par with with any other ROM and has all the customizability you could ask for.
On any of the more popular ROMs, battery life should be good unless an app is misbehaving or the kernel isn't playing nice (imho).
What can they do? Exactly what moto is... encrypt the boot loader.
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Half my customers ask me to root their devices, most everyone within my company under 30 have rooted; people know about this stuff without even really knowing what goes into it. What can Sprint do to me when their are hundreds of YouTube vids posted showing how to root and which Rom is good, etc? These companies may be watching, but can't do a thing about it. Like Big Brother Lite haha
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Wrong attitude to have. They can fire you.
Sent from my spaceship!
jalai said:
...have you tried VaelPak yet?
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yea it's horrible
aimbdd said:
What can they do? Exactly what moto is... encrypt the boot loader.
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^^^^^^^^^
this !!!!!!!!
CheesyNutz said:
yea it's horrible
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Lol @ your honestly
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Lol @ your honestly
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just my opinion
I am uncertain what this thread is?
A req for a ROM he'll love?
A req for "the best parts of all the ROMs he loves, cooked together in some unspecified vague manner, bug free and working for him"?
Frankly, if I was a dev here, I would be kinda... insulted.
(lol, as a "sprint employee", perhaps then you could Give a dev or two a phone of their choice, that might inspire them. )
I can't be fired from a company I don't directly work for. Especially considering I'll be of almost no use to a Dev and have yet to "leak" anything
kingdazy said:
I am uncertain what this thread is?
A req for a ROM he'll love?
A req for "the best parts of all the ROMs he loves, cooked together in some unspecified vague manner, bug free and working for him"?
Frankly, if I was a dev here, I would be kinda... insulted.
(lol, as a "sprint employee", perhaps then you could Give a dev or two a phone of their choice, that might inspire them. )
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Might be more of a request for people, like yourself, with nothing helpful to add to find another post. Hopefully one far, far away.
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skatrwannabe3 said:
Might be more of a request for people, like yourself, with nothing helpful to add to find another post. Hopefully one far, far away.
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LOL. indeed. very interesting. do go on.
skatrwannabe3 said:
Especially considering I'll be of almost no use to a Dev or the XDA community and have yet to "leak" anything
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Fixed that for ya!
[EDIT: by golly, judging from you previous posts and the one following, you sure are aggressive and antagonistic to others you've never met! Expecting to make some friends here? Endear yourself to the community at large? Good start! ]
DirtyShroomz said:
Wrong attitude to have. They can fire you.
Sent from my spaceship!
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Assuming your handle stems from personal experience and not some hypothetical situation, I would expect a more liberal approach to "following the rules" so to speak. If Sprint is too busy paying people to surf Xda for people like me "hypothetically" instead of pouring money into Clearwire and the WiMax network, then we can basically kiss nationwide 4G goodbye
Rather than sit idly on the forums wondering what could have been and spouting mis-information I decided that I'd do something pro-active and create a petition detailing our need for Android 4.0 on the I9000 and I9001.
I'm sure this could come to something if people want it enough.
http://www.change.org/petitions/www...ndwich-version-for-users-of-the-samsung-i9000
We can't force Samsung to maintain support for our phone but we can damn well try.
I signed the petition!
I signed too
i signed it too.
as
change.org/petitions/wwwsamsungcom-distribution-of-ice-cream-sandwich-version-for-users-of-the-samsung-i9000#
This petition is beter!
Signed both - but true second petition seems to be more promising...
but keep up with such ideas!
greetz
I had no idea a petition already existed, I will promote the official one instead!
I've signed the second one.
IMHO, the OP should change the link for the second one if he doesn't want fragmentation...
signed
Sent using TCP/IP
done!
Good action, really
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Signed the official one.
me too.
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...lans-for-GALAXY-line-Galaxy-S-to-follow-later
Looks like you don't have to sign this anymore ) Don't know how much credible is youmobile.
Signed,
This thing needs to be shared, samsung cant force us out just yet just cus they want more money.
I think it was more than 10 000 000 Galaxy S devices sold. Leave us behind and loose the customer base.
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I've signed the second one.
IMHO, the OP should change the link for the second one if he doesn't want fragmentation...
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I did this as soon as I was aware of the official one.
I signed too
Moshon
dukuletz said:
http://www.youmobile.org/blogs/entr...lans-for-GALAXY-line-Galaxy-S-to-follow-later
Looks like you don't have to sign this anymore ) Don't know how much credible is youmobile.
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This is just a copy of the official statement with one sentence added. The sentence that galaxy s would follow later.
From where are the sources? I doubt that whole text!
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I have signed alreadey.
Signed!!!!!!!!!
I have signed both!
Please inform the devs so that they can spread this information to more users!!!
http://androidandme.com/2011/12/new..._campaign=Feed:+androidandme+(Android+and+Me)
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Galaxy S =/= Vibrant
bosox86 said:
Galaxy S =/= Vibrant
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Here is hoping they end up including the variants. That said, it was my understanding that the delay in getting Froyo on the Vibrant had as much to do with T-Mobile as with Samsung. If nothing else, an official ICS release with a new kernel for the i9000 could mean better custom ROMs for the variants. Right?
Samsung said to be rethinking Android 4.0 upgrade for Galaxy S
Cnet Article
Samsung said to be rethinking Android 4.0 upgrade for Galaxy S
I am not one to spread propaganda or high hopes, but this one looks like it may just happen given time will tell.
dreaming...
We tmobile vibrants have not gotten gingerbread yet! so for them to spit out dreams of ics to us.... danger danger lies ahead!
But we do need to keep the squeaky wheels turning so sign the petitions tweet the "we need gingerbread for vibrants"
But yes it would be nice!
Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
RoxAbout said:
We tmobile vibrants have not gotten gingerbread yet! so for them to spit out dreams of ics to us.... danger danger lies ahead!
But we do need to keep the squeaky wheels turning so sign the petitions tweet the "we need gingerbread for vibrants"
But yes it would be nice!
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Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
serendipityguy said:
Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
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For anyone that cares; http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...ile-give-us-gingerbread-or-ice-cream-sandwich
Spread the link around! Post it on Team Whiskey's Facebook page and ICS Passion's, Google +, Twitter, porn sites! Anywhere.
I will sign this and put this on comment every time t mobile post something on the Facebook. The more of you guys can do this, the more attention it will get from t mobile. May be we will never have gingerbread but at least t mobile owes us an explanation.
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For anyone that cares; http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...ile-give-us-gingerbread-or-ice-cream-sandwich
Spread the link around! Post it on Team Whiskey's Facebook page and ICS Passion's, Google +, Twitter, porn sites! Anywhere.
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Did you make that? Thanks if you did.
Signed it, and i think we should make a bit more viral on these forums than just one post in a random thread.
Can anyone do it? or should I just do it now.. if a good "speech" comes to mind i'll make a thread.
Also to whoever made that, are we asking for GB or ICS? lol
xriderx66 said:
Did you make that? Thanks if you did.
Signed it, and i think we should make a bit more viral on these forums than just one post in a random thread.
Can anyone do it? or should I just do it now.. if a good "speech" comes to mind i'll make a thread.
Also to whoever made that, are we asking for GB or ICS? lol
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Indeed, I made it.
I just said we wanted an update, either Gingerbread or ICS.
I'll write up a thread now.
Signed but I don't have high hopes at all...
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Who is Tweeting and where do I sign? Please drop some links
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For a couple months now everytime "tmobile or samsung" put out some tweet like "invite your friends to tmobile or what would you like for the holidays..or any number of inane tweets they put out"
I have been working into the retweet with comments along the lines of ;
...give the vibrant gingerbread!..#shameonsamsung #boycottsamsung
invite your friends to tmobile "why so you can screw them like you did the vibrant owners!..give the vibrant gingerbread!..#shameonsamsung #boycottsamsung
Tmobilejohn actually replied back to my friends one...
Any ways the point is to work into the retweets the basics "give vibrant gingerbread".
And if its true that tmobile had more than a passing hand in the decline of gingerbread for the vibrant I will gladdly pay the ETF and tell them where to stuff it!
We need to complain till they cant stand it anymore!
Going to be creating a petition as an attempt to somehow get us a unlock for the device. I will update this periodically in the coming days and weeks.
Here is the link to the petition I have made.
https://www.change.org/p/amazon-unl...otloader-5884c88e-9ccf-4cdd-b2e8-846d03d294f1
UPDATE 12/27
Tomorrow I will be adding a link to the petition. With the holidays and everything going on things are quite crazy.
UPDATE 12/28
I have updated the post to include the link to the petition.
If anyone would like to include any specific wording in said petition please reply below stating so.
It's been done, never had an effect. Don't waste your/our time.
ldeveraux said:
It's been done, never had an effect. Don't waste your/our time.
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Not sure it would be a waste of time.
rjmxtech said:
Not sure it would be a waste of time.
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Look, I never agree with the guy, but Davey126 explained to you in the other thread. Even if you acquired an unobtainable amount of signatures, somehow got it in front of someone that mattered, and forced them to read it, they would ignore it. Plain and simple. If they wanted to unlock the bootloader, they would have done it at release. Oh, but a bunch of nerds want me to do it so they can sidestep the OS we designed for it. Look at the petition for the S5: 1400 signatures and didn't make a difference. The same can be said for every device this has been attempted with. I wish it weren't true, it's just not ever going to amount to anything...
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Look, I never agree with the guy, but Davey126 explained to you in the other thread. Even if you acquired an unobtainable amount of signatures, somehow got it in front of someone that mattered, and forced them to read it, they would ignore it. Plain and simple. If they wanted to unlock the bootloader, they would have done it at release. Oh, but a bunch of nerds want me to do it so they can sidestep the OS we designed for it. Look at the petition for the S5: 1400 signatures and didn't make a difference. The same can be said for every device this has been attempted with. I wish it weren't true, it's just not ever going to amount to anything...
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Still gonna try
rjmxtech said:
Still gonna try
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Can you post the link? I greet it most likely won't work, but I also agree that we might as well try.
PorygonZRocks said:
Can you post the link? I greet it most likely won't work, but I also agree that we might as well try.
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Done
What is a petition?
Sorry I am stupid
Ayden7777 said:
Sorry I am stupid
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@rjmxtech created a petition asking Amazon to allow bootloader unlocking of this device. Based on the signature count, it's not going well.
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Ok but what is a petition lol?
Ayden7777 said:
Ok but what is a petition lol?
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You can ask google for meaning of a word
petition meaning
a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority in respect of a particular cause.
"she was asked to sign a petition against plans to build on the local playing fields"
synonyms: appeal, round robin, list of signatures/protesters
"about 7,000 people signed a petition objecting to the scheme"
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@rjmxtech created a petition asking Amazon to allow bootloader unlocking of this device. Based on the signature count, it's not going well.
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