Database Users

RIP xoom..

So i was leaving for work yesterday and laid my xoom on my fender and went around to the other side to strap my daughter into her carseat...dropped her off at daycare and get halfway to work when i realized i never got my xoom off my fender. So i pulled over and pretty much had a panic attack then sped home to look for it..long story short, it was nowhere to be found..backtracked my route 3 times and found nothing...i had no insurance on a 2 year contract...moral of the story is..get insurance people because im not even done paying for it and i now have no xoom and a data plan to pay for until my contract is out...i still feel sick to my stomach thinking about it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

ben1284 said:
So i was leaving for work yesterday and laid my xoom on my fender and went around to the other side to strap my daughter into her carseat...dropped her off at daycare and get halfway to work when i realized i never got my xoom off my fender. So i pulled over and pretty much had a panic attack then sped home to look for it..long story short, it was nowhere to be found..backtracked my route 3 times and found nothing...i had no insurance on a 2 year contract...moral of the story is..get insurance people because im not even done paying for it and i now have no xoom and a data plan to pay for until my contract is out...i still feel sick to my stomach thinking about it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Why dont you install Plan B from market.android.com
It uses your devices GPS to locate it

ben1284 said:
So i was leaving for work yesterday and laid my xoom on my fender and went around to the other side to strap my daughter into her carseat...dropped her off at daycare and get halfway to work when i realized i never got my xoom off my fender. So i pulled over and pretty much had a panic attack then sped home to look for it..long story short, it was nowhere to be found..backtracked my route 3 times and found nothing...i had no insurance on a 2 year contract...moral of the story is..get insurance people because im not even done paying for it and i now have no xoom and a data plan to pay for until my contract is out...i still feel sick to my stomach thinking about it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow, that is unfortunate and sorry to hear that. You really have to keep paying Verizon after something like this? That sucks.

ben1284 said:
So i was leaving for work yesterday and laid my xoom on my fender and went around to the other side to strap my daughter into her carseat...dropped her off at daycare and get halfway to work when i realized i never got my xoom off my fender. So i pulled over and pretty much had a panic attack then sped home to look for it..long story short, it was nowhere to be found..backtracked my route 3 times and found nothing...i had no insurance on a 2 year contract...moral of the story is..get insurance people because im not even done paying for it and i now have no xoom and a data plan to pay for until my contract is out...i still feel sick to my stomach thinking about it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Real moral of the story, have it tied to you at all times...

login the market from your pc. Install Plan B to your device remotely, it will auto start, and email your gmail account the coordinates if the device is still on

DroidHam said:
Why dont you install Plan B from market.android.com
It uses your devices GPS to locate it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Would that work?

Legacystar said:
Would that work?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes, if the device is still on. Thats the whole point, its plan B incase you didnt do anything before. It remotely installs and sends your registered gmail account a email with the coordinates in google maps

Yeah i do. Im a verizon rep also, and they can still do nothing for me. Oh well.
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

I see the "Man Purse" as a future must have accessory...and as anti-metro-sexual as I am, I am equally as clumsy, forgetful, and un-graceful(is that a word). I think I may have to give in to a bag of some kind that goes well with my hunting boots.

The only thing with that though is i changed my gmail password this morning just in case someone got a hold of it. So now it wont be synced with the correct password on the xoom. Ill still try it though. Thanks for the heads up
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

ben1284 said:
The only thing with that though is i changed my gmail password this morning just in case someone got a hold of it. So now it wont be synced with the correct password on the xoom. Ill still try it though. Thanks for the heads up
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
change the password back to what it was

Ok. Tried plan b and it says it will send the xoom a text message and if its powered on then it will email me the coordinates..i thought the xoom couldnt recieve text messages
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

sorry for your loss.

crap... that's true... doesn't it mean an email? I mean this is via GMAIL...

never tried it for the Xoom, but I did it with my phone and it sent the stuff via gmail, but it may need to send the text to turn on gps etc
Maybe there is a option to do it via gmail instead?

Sorry to hear that. I have issues with forgetting drinks, keys, phones, etc. on top of my car as well. I've grown accustomed to putting all of my devices into my Targus backpack and throwing it into the back seat before doing anything else.

ben1284 said:
So i was leaving for work yesterday and laid my xoom on my fender and went around to the other side to strap my daughter into her carseat...dropped her off at daycare and get halfway to work when i realized i never got my xoom off my fender. So i pulled over and pretty much had a panic attack then sped home to look for it..long story short, it was nowhere to be found..backtracked my route 3 times and found nothing...i had no insurance on a 2 year contract...moral of the story is..get insurance people because im not even done paying for it and i now have no xoom and a data plan to pay for until my contract is out...i still feel sick to my stomach thinking about it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That messed up man I feel for you, if it will mafje you feel better my first android phone fell off a balcony in Portugal, just paid for it, 350 gone to waste 10 days after I baught it
Sent from the Aids ridden slums of China using the claw of an unborn rat

Just add the insurence for the device and make your claim later..work for me when I lost my droid
Sent from my Droid using XDA App

Kartiel said:
Just add the insurence for the device and make your claim later..work for me when I lost my droid
Sent from my Droid using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Most of the time the insurance company needs to see a call made from the phone after u add insurance but since the Xoom cant make calls should be no way for them to know

Kcarpenter said:
I see the "Man Purse" as a future must have accessory...and as anti-metro-sexual as I am, I am equally as clumsy, forgetful, and un-graceful(is that a word). I think I may have to give in to a bag of some kind that goes well with my hunting boots.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I rock my xoom inside a old N64 bag i had so i have no problem carrying a nerd purse.

[UPDATED: 5/10/12] Sprint's Policy on Handling Rooted Devices

Here is the official document outlining their methods and procedures for handling devices with suspicion of root.

oo reary ??

so basically it's a "please don't root, but if you do...umm...well please don't"?

Seems pretty inoffensive to me. But the stuff about "schoolmarming" a rooter is ridiculous. I'd like to believe that anyone smart enough to find out about and root doesn't need a talking-to. I also doubt that rooted customers take up much of a support center's time overall. Of course, Sprint employees including Korey AKA WDM may say something else about that.

DroidApprentice said:
Seems pretty inoffensive to me. But the stuff about "schoolmarming" a rooter is ridiculous. I'd like to believe that anyone smart enough to find out about and root doesn't need a talking-to. I also doubt that rooted customers take up much of a support center's time overall. Of course, Sprint employees including Korey AKA WDM may say something else about that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well, they don't want you to root for obvious reasons... tethering probably being the biggest one. Plus having to replaced bricked phones would be another. I can see their perspective... and instantly disregard it

Lol
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G.

This is funny
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

Appreciate the info but this does not seem to cover what it means if they open a ticket and note that the device is suspected of root. Now with this suspect of root does this then give them an out on replacing or repairing?
Again this is all coming from my experience of my local and only place to get service, threatening to blacklist my phone if he "suspected" root.
Here is the Emeryville, CA store number (510) 596-0930 Give them a call and ask if you can bring in your phone for repair if you have root. I bet you will get a "no"

CrippleB said:
Appreciate the info but this does not seem to cover what it means if they open a ticket and note that the device is suspected of root. Now with this suspect of root does this then give them an out on replacing or repairing?
Again this is all coming from my experience of my local and only place to get service, threatening to blacklist my phone if he "suspected" root.
Here is the Emeryville, CA store number (510) 596-0930 Give them a call and ask if you can bring in your phone for repair if you have root. I bet you will get a "no"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Print this pdf out and show it to them. Tell them it came from ISC in the "Service and Repair" section. If they ask how you got it, tell them it doesn't matter and that it is your job to know these things.
Yes it is noted that your phone is rooted, but like it says if there is an issue with a phone that cannot be fixed that will Advance Exchange it. No matter what. Trust me. If you have a problem just PM me and then I'll call.

Thanks for the info. The local reseller he wouldn't touch mine when she saw it was rooted. Mind you I took it in for the slider being loose and first thing she did was scroll through my apps and look for super user, then promptly showed me the door.
Sent from my Samsung Epic 4G.

I wouldn't even walk into a Sprint store without having first used ODIN to get back to 100% stock. I don't want to give any Sprint tech/rep an excuse to play the blame game with my device/account.

nikon120 said:
I wouldn't even walk into a Sprint store without having first used ODIN to get back to 100% stock. I don't want to give any Sprint tech/rep an excuse to play the blame game with my device/account.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For sure. My display went out and managed to Odin blind through download mode before going in for service.

tenaciousj said:
Thanks for the info. The local reseller he wouldn't touch mine when she saw it was rooted. Mind you I took it in for the slider being loose and first thing she did was scroll through my apps and look for super user, then promptly showed me the door.
Sent from my Samsung Epic 4G.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Who in their right mind would bring back a rooted phone expecting it to be covered/serviced. One with a working display for that matter.

You people are absolutely ridiculous.
I've been telling you all this for weeks now, and now korey posts one of the documents I was referring to, and you STILL choose to not only waste your time by going to stock, but making it harder for us to replicate and solve issues by not handing us the phone in the original environment when you found the issue. That can make it very hard at times to properly triage and repair a phone; think of it like forensics, a crime scene is only properly diagnosed when NOTHING IS TOUCHED.
So please, save me the frustration, and simply bring this doc in with you. And if they give you a hard time, tell them to look up the OTHER doc, the one that outlines which tier rooted phones fall in to (tier 2, btw, which dictates a $35 charge if you don't have TEP and free if you do. Which, hey, guess what, is the same ****ing tier as a nonrooted phone! Who would've thunk it!)
And to whoever says educating a customer is unneccessary because obviously they're smart enough blah blah blah...you're ignorant. Very very ignorant. Because no, I didn't get that customer that came in no less than SIX times with a bricked epic from just ATTEMPTING to root, actually ROOTED it for him, and flashed godamn srf, and yet still returned A SEVENTH ****ING TIME with a bricked epic. No, that definitely didn't happen. No way. There's just no way freaking way somebody who is interested in "hacking" their phone is actually an idiot. Nope.
Ridiculous
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

squshy 7 said:
You people are absolutely ridiculous. "Oh! Well now that whosdaman said it!..." But that still isn't stopping you from being ignorant.
I've been telling you all this for weeks now, and now korey posts one of the documents I was referring to, and you STILL choose to not only waste your time by going to stock, but making it harder for us to replicate and solve issues by not handing us the phone in the original environment when you found the issue. That can make it very hard at times to properly triage and repair a phone; think of it like forensics, a crime scene is only properly diagnosed when NOTHING IS TOUCHED.
So please, save me the frustration, and simply bring this doc in with you. And if they give you a hard time, tell them to look up the OTHER doc, the one that outlines which tier rooted phones fall in to (tier 2, btw, which dictates a $35 charge if you don't have TEP and free if you do. Which, hey, guess what, is the same ****ing tier as a nonrooted phone! Who would've thunk it!)
And to whoever says educating a customer is unneccessary because obviously they're smart enough blah blah blah...you're ignorant. Very very ignorant. Because no, I didn't get that customer that came in no less than SIX times with a bricked epic from just ATTEMPTING to root, actually ROOTED it for him, and flashed godamn srf, and yet still returned A SEVENTH ****ING TIME with a bricked epic. No, that definitely didn't happen. No way. There's just no way freaking way somebody who is interested in "hacking" their phone is actually an idiot. Nope.
Ridiculous
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nice post.
Also .... am i the only one cracking up everytime i see one of those
"Siemens" ad on xda ?

tenaciousj said:
Thanks for the info. The local reseller he wouldn't touch mine when she saw it was rooted. Mind you I took it in for the slider being loose and first thing she did was scroll through my apps and look for super user, then promptly showed me the door.
Sent from my Samsung Epic 4G.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My slider is loose, its extremely annoying is this anything fixable by them?
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

ac16313 said:
My slider is loose, its extremely annoying is this anything fixable by them?
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If they have harvested parts, yes
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

And allow me to reiterate, any trouble you get for a rooted device IN NO WAY IS A REFLECTION OF SPRINT. It is a reflection of the employee, and their laziness/ignorance/misconceptions. Fight them, because they are wrong.
Also, I cannot speak for 3rd party stores (your typical mall retailers). Not only do they sometimes operate under *slightly* different rules that I'm not privy to, but some of them frequently operate poorly and intentionally misguide you.
A classic and shockingly common example is sending us customers with liquid damage, telling them that we'll replace a liquid damaged phone for free if they complain enough.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

squshy 7 said:
If they have harvested parts, yes
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Would they charge? If so how much? I'm not on TEP.
Thanks.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App

ac16313 said:
Would they charge? If so how much? I'm not on TEP.
Thanks.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
$35, but it is open enrollment this month so you can get tep added
Sent from my PG86100 using XDA Premium App

Caught tethering on Atrix at 7pm EST tonight

I posted this on the have you been served tethering thread but I think everyone needs to read this. I am pulling my battery now but ill get back online when I can (not using my Atrix)
So At&T caught me tethering. I turned on mobile hotspot for the first time today since last week and then **** hit the fan. Script running now that is renaming files, permissions and is even searching my dropbox files. It is looking for APN related files. That is just the beginning. I don't have much time to explain because im on the phone now and my data which was deactivated at 6:59 PM is now connecting me to a diffferent server and trying to change SU and telling me false information about servers and data. This really sux big balls like a hardcore virus so im pulling the battery until tomorrow. I will post logs and db files when I can. Don't tether using APNs [custom] because you'll get screwed. I don't see how this is legal.
Sent from Atrix 4G root/unlocked. "That's what she said"
Sent from Atrix 4G root/unlocked. "That's what she said"

What script is running? Stock rom? I'm tethering right now with no issues on cm7
Sent from my MB860 using XDA Premium App

dupreeks said:
Don't tether using APNs [custom] because you'll get screwed.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wifi Tether.

WiredPirate said:
Wifi Tether.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Using wifi tether, not one notice minus the time from my iPhone. 10GB strong.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA Premium App

nosit1 said:
Using wifi tether, not one notice minus the time from my iPhone. 10GB strong.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I said the same thing as you today and over the weekend on here. **** came on fast. My phone is crippled and I never got a letter or anything. I've been with at&t 13 years with 3 lines and I was grandfathered on the unlimited data. Im getting UMTS speed even though the phone lies and says HSPA. I can't mirror HDMI, MMS is gone, not sure about SMS. Im not a developer but looking at the log file I wanna say root is is trying to be revoked and ROM is.being altered. I thought I.would never lose my hotspot but its gone.and I can't be the only person experiencing this. The log is telling the phone to appear normal to me so I guess someone might not even know they got throttlled if this happened to them while not using the phone. This all.started 7 hours ago and if they take anything else from me I might just throw my sim into my good old.Nokia 6120 because this blows. I hope nobody has to deal with this but get prepared!
Sent from Atrix 4G root/unlocked. "That's what she said"

dupreeks said:
I said the same thing as you today and over the weekend on here. **** came on fast. My phone is crippled and I never got a letter or anything. I've been with at&t 13 years with 3 lines and I was grandfathered on the unlimited data. Im getting UMTS speed even though the phone lies and says HSPA. I can't mirror HDMI, MMS is gone, not sure about SMS. Im not a developer but looking at the log file I wanna say root is is trying to be revoked and ROM is.being altered. I thought I.would never lose my hotspot but its gone.and I can't be the only person experiencing this. The log is telling the phone to appear normal to me so I guess someone might not even know they got throttlled if this happened to them while not using the phone. This all.started 7 hours ago and if they take anything else from me I might just throw my sim into my good old.Nokia 6120 because this blows. I hope nobody has to deal with this but get prepared!
Sent from Atrix 4G root/unlocked. "That's what she said"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Come on, really? Att is revoking root and altering your ROM? Any post that ends in "thats what she said" is hard to take seriously.

dupreeks said:
I said the same thing as you today and over the weekend on here. **** came on fast. My phone is crippled and I never got a letter or anything. I've been with at&t 13 years with 3 lines and I was grandfathered on the unlimited data. Im getting UMTS speed even though the phone lies and says HSPA. I can't mirror HDMI, MMS is gone, not sure about SMS. Im not a developer but looking at the log file I wanna say root is is trying to be revoked and ROM is.being altered. I thought I.would never lose my hotspot but its gone.and I can't be the only person experiencing this. The log is telling the phone to appear normal to me so I guess someone might not even know they got throttlled if this happened to them while not using the phone. This all.started 7 hours ago and if they take anything else from me I might just throw my sim into my good old.Nokia 6120 because this blows. I hope nobody has to deal with this but get prepared!
Sent from Atrix 4G root/unlocked. "That's what she said"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
pics or it didn't happen

WiredPirate said:
Come on, really? Att is revoking root and altering your ROM? Any post that ends in "thats what she said" is hard to take seriously.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Or saying it twice?
Plus this is also a dormant account. How hard is it to type more posts when you are tethering on a physical keyboard?...
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium

ccrows said:
Or saying it twice?
Plus this is also a dormant account. How hard is it to type more posts when you are tethering on a physical keyboard?...
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok ball breakers. I might never post but I was trying to give people a heads up. Screenshots coming in a few minutes. I put the sim in my backflip and it crippled it as well. When you see the proof this quiet daily XDA user deserves an apology and expect some ball breaking in return....I can't tether and its gonna take me a few to get the proof together (I used tethering instead of paying for my old ISP) so I had to email all the logs to myself. If I uploaded the entire log files the message would take up half of the storage over at XDA so give me about twenty minutes to cut and paste. And before anyone says I photoshopped the pics let it be known that i'm far from clever enough to know what half of the stuff means. I compiled the first release of redhat about 15 years ago but forget the majority of what I knew. Stand by ball breakers and ball breakettes.
Sent from my MB300 using xda premium

this thread is hilarious.
OP is a troll, ATT would get sued to high hell if they did ANY of the things you described.
OP, either youre a sh*tty troller or you have a really bad virus.

dupreeks said:
I said the same thing as you today and over the weekend on here. **** came on fast. My phone is crippled and I never got a letter or anything. I've been with at&t 13 years with 3 lines and I was grandfathered on the unlimited data. Im getting UMTS speed even though the phone lies and says HSPA. I can't mirror HDMI, MMS is gone, not sure about SMS. Im not a developer but looking at the log file I wanna say root is is trying to be revoked and ROM is.being altered. I thought I.would never lose my hotspot but its gone.and I can't be the only person experiencing this. The log is telling the phone to appear normal to me so I guess someone might not even know they got throttlled if this happened to them while not using the phone. This all.started 7 hours ago and if they take anything else from me I might just throw my sim into my good old.Nokia 6120 because this blows. I hope nobody has to deal with this but get prepared!
Sent from Atrix 4G root/unlocked. "That's what she said"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's no way this is being caused by AT&T. The most they would do is change you to a tethering plan. Also, the Nokia 6120 was a TDMA phone, it doesn't use SIM cards.
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium

dupreeks said:
Ok ball breakers. I might never post but I was trying to give people a heads up. Screenshots coming in a few minutes. I put the sim in my backflip and it crippled it as well. When you see the proof this quiet daily XDA user deserves an apology and expect some ball breaking in return....I can't tether and its gonna take me a few to get the proof together (I used tethering instead of paying for my old ISP) so I had to email all the logs to myself. If I uploaded the entire log files the message would take up half of the storage over at XDA so give me about twenty minutes to cut and paste. And before anyone says I photoshopped the pics let it be known that i'm far from clever enough to know what half of the stuff means. I compiled the first release of redhat about 15 years ago but forget the majority of what I knew. Stand by ball breakers and ball breakettes.
Sent from my MB300 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If the shoe was on the other foot, you would have to admit that you would be a little suspicious.
Anywhoo... I'm looking forward to what pics you have to post later...
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium

Where this thead does appear to be hilarious this is true what im telling you. I am still working on screen shots but if this is not a tethering crackdown then what else would have initiated this script to take apart both my atrix then my backflip. It started the moment I turned wifi hotspot on last night and the motorola services and some other system services started going nuts. Webviewglue started killing all my apps, motoblur.contacts.unconnected appeared and took all my contact data, I think fluffy was another process killing and admob was having info sent to it non stop to do some weird ****. Root was not taken away but MMS is down and data is UMTS on boh phones yet they are showing their normal values. All of my APN related files were tampered with and dropbox is showing an x in titanium backup and the logcat said 27 files were noted. Maybe this is something else but motorola.xxxx blur.xxxx and system.xxxx files are the ones doing damage. I just find it very odd this would happen the moment I turned hotspot on. And one other thing is that when I pullup testing through *#*#4634#*#* the values when the radio are on are all false but when I shut the radio I get the true info. Is there someone that wants to see my logs who knows linux in and out? If this isn't tethering throttle **** then its something real bad that is ruining both of my phones.
Sent from my MB300 using XDA App

ccrows said:
If the shoe was on the other foot, you would have to admit that you would be a little suspicious.
Anywhoo... I'm looking forward to what pics you have to post later...
Sent from my MB860 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh without a freaking doubt. Yeah I woud definitely be suspsicous and as bad as it sux atleast this thread has me laughing now. Ccrows are you a developer?
Sent from my MB300 using XDA App

His phone probably caught a virus or something. This seriously sounds ridiculous.

AndroidDane said:
His phone probably caught a virus or something. This seriously sounds ridiculous.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It very well could be. Just very big coincidence that it was the moment teathering was used for the first time since the 30th. I know the network speed issue is coming from at&t. Im no genius but its pretty obvious by the logs and db files I have.
Sent from my MB300 using XDA App

How does the phone catch a virus?

ssmr2t said:
How does the phone catch a virus?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How does a computer catch a virus?

Ford jacked my car on the way to work this morning! All of a sudden it started to break really hard on the freeway, then the radio changed channel to a Ford commercial, my car turned around, and it drove me right to the nearest Ford dealer. They told me they reprogrammed my Mustang on the fly via WiFi to be an Escort because they caught me going to a Meidas and not a dealer for tires. My car changed colour now, drives very slowly, and the computer keeps changing the timing so I backfire all the time! Am I screwed? Please help me XDA!

Funny... something similar happened to me
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

Spoof Phone on T-Mobile website

If I edit build.prop will it change the phone reported on T-Mobile's website?
If so, what are the non market related adverse effects of this edit? I wanna spoof MT4GS, thanks.

You can simply choose 'not my phone' and pick any phone you want. What are you trying to accomplish?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Gootah said:
If I edit build.prop will it change the phone reported on T-Mobile's website?
If so, what are the non market related adverse effects of this edit? I wanna spoof MT4GS, thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would like to know this too.
tycoonlq said:
You can simply choose 'not my phone' and pick any phone you want. What are you trying to accomplish?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As what he stated "spoof"

Simple
tycoonlq said:
You can simply choose 'not my phone' and pick any phone you want. What are you trying to accomplish?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you do this they'll reping and get the correct phone model. I don't just want the MT4GS to DISPLAY, I want T-Mobile to think I'm actually using it.
I bought the N4 from Google Play and I kind of don't want them to know I have it.

You kinda can't since T-Mobile just gets that information from your IMEI which is hardcoded in your phone. Each time you make a phone call or connect to the network in anyway your IMEI is sent (along with your SIM IMSI) to authenticate you to the network.
As such they've made tampering with IMEIs illegal as well

But...
shotta35 said:
You kinda can't since T-Mobile just gets that information from your IMEI which is hardcoded in your phone. Each time you make a phone call or connect to the network in anyway your IMEI is sent (along with your SIM IMSI) to authenticate you to the network.
As such they've made tampering with IMEIs illegal as well
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I bought my N$ from Google Play, should my IMEI even register?
I've been using it for about a day and the phone hasn't changed on the site yet, I may be in luck.

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this so I'll go ahead and say it.
This thread makes no sense. Why don't you want t mobile to know what phone you use?
You can't spoof another phone unless you change the imei which isn't legal. Editing the build.prop will probably only cause issues with the play store.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Gootah said:
If you do this they'll reping and get the correct phone model. I don't just want the MT4GS to DISPLAY, I want T-Mobile to think I'm actually using it.
I bought the N4 from Google Play and I kind of don't want them to know I have it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Seriously? Why does it matter if T-Mobile knows what kind of phone you have?
And T-Mobile sells the N4. It doesn't matter where you bought it, they know what the IMEI pulls up as.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

joshnichols189 said:
Seriously? Why does it matter if T-Mobile knows what kind of phone you have?
And T-Mobile sells the N4. It doesn't matter where you bought it, they know what the IMEI pulls up as.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I too would like to know why it matters what phone they think you have.
At&t knows I'm using an N4 based on the IMEI, and they don't sell it, so unless you're willing to possibly destroy your phone/spend some time in jail, I would just forget about it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

I don't understand this thread either, I was literally in my local T-Mobile store not more than an hour ago, told the rep I was purchasing an N4 from Google (its 200$ cheaper than t-mo wants for month-to-month contract price) and he gave me instructions on how to activate it with their monthly 4g plan. why would they care where you got it?
Sent from my XT912 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2

Whoa...
revamper said:
I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this so I'll go ahead and say it.
This thread makes no sense. Why don't you want t mobile to know what phone you use?
You can't spoof another phone unless you change the imei which isn't legal. Editing the build.prop will probably only cause issues with the play store.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
First of all, slow down....second, this thread makes a ton of sense.
My other phone is EOL and I want to cash it in for a new one with my insurance. In order to do that the old one must report be reported to T-Mobile before I drop it and it smashed to pieces. Thanks for being a jerk about it.
Sincerely,
Me

Gootah said:
First of all, slow down....second, this thread makes a ton of sense.
My other phone is EOL and I want to cash it in for a new one with my insurance. In order to do that the old one must report be reported to T-Mobile before I drop it and it smashed to pieces. Thanks for being a jerk about it.
Sincerely,
Me
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So you want to commit insurance fraud?
Nice...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

Gootah said:
First of all, slow down....second, this thread makes a ton of sense.
My other phone is EOL and I want to cash it in for a new one with my insurance. In order to do that the old one must report be reported to T-Mobile before I drop it and it smashed to pieces. Thanks for being a jerk about it.
Sincerely,
Me
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
LOL at calling someone a jerk after admitting to wanting to commit insurance fraud.
Best thing I have seen all week.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Gootah said:
First of all, slow down....second, this thread makes a ton of sense.
My other phone is EOL and I want to cash it in for a new one with my insurance. In order to do that the old one must report be reported to T-Mobile before I drop it and it smashed to pieces. Thanks for being a jerk about it.
Sincerely,
Me
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha that is awesome. How does a thread, to regular law abiding folks, make "tons of sense" if the thread itself is a scheme to commit fraud? Damn, how could we not have thought of that?
Like the other poster said, this is the best thing I've read all week.

Not Really
El Daddy said:
So you want to commit insurance fraud?
Nice...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It was just a joke, the phone is actually damaged (cracked screen and kb double presses buttons) this is why I got the N4.
When I called Asurion they told me they no longer carry the phone and tried to give me a G2 (which I already own), I then got some documents in the mail showing that the N4 is now in my device bracket, so I want to raise hell and trade it in.
...and even if I did want to commit fraud it's no ones business but mine. What is this? The moral police forum? Why is everyone sweating the details instead of helping me with my inquiry? This is the most hostile (though it IS at a minimum) group of posts I've encountered since 2007! lol

Regular Law Abiding Folk....?
El Daddy said:
So you want to commit insurance fraud?
Nice...
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Enhanced said:
Haha that is awesome. How does a thread, to regular law abiding folks, make "tons of sense" if the thread itself is a scheme to commit fraud? Damn, how could we not have thought of that?
Like the other poster said, this is the best thing I've read all week.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I guess I'm the only one from the hood, the only torrent user, the only one who has ever used a cracked program, and the only one planning to rob my local bank this Friday with a banana in my pocket....lol
But seriously, stop being prudes guys... -_-

Your not going to be able to trick t mobile into thinking your phone is anything other than what it is. If your intent is to swap out an older phone through insurance your going to have to actually use the phone you want to claim so that t mobile can inform assurion or whoever of when the phone was last used. Your device sends a lot of info to its carrier every time you use it and editing a build.prop or whatever will not change that.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

Not that I agree with what you are doing, but how was anybody supposed to come to this conclusion based on what you submitted in the OP?
Secondly, whether you have a secondary phone or not (N4) has absolutely no bearing on your ability to file for insurance for. Especially considering you purchased the phone at full value without a contract from a non-carrier vendor.

Rod3 said:
Not that I agree with what you are doing, but how was anybody supposed to come to this conclusion based on what you submitted in the OP?
Secondly, whether you have a secondary phone or not (N4) has absolutely no bearing on your ability to file for insurance for. Especially considering you purchased the phone at full value without a contract from a non-carrier vendor.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Having a secondary phone does not matter but when making a claim on the insured device they have to be able to verify that the damage occured within the last 30 days. If the phone has not been used in over 30 days they can deny the claim.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

location : brooklyn. figures......lmao j/k bro lol but honestly you should know that XDA doesnt generally like helping people "get over" on cell phone compnaies. I mean, I personally dont care or look down on you for it. Heck if it works more power to ya. I think you knew this already hence why your OP mentioned nothing of the reasoning for you wanting to do this.

Stolen N4 - Who blocks IMEI?

Hi folks.
I feel stupid (and angry) as hell right now. The worst part is that I can't even explain how it happened. I'm the most careful person in the world with my phone, and haven't lost a smartphone in, like, a decade, but I believe I have just had my N4 stolen from me. I had it, then I put it in my pocket, stood up for 10 minutes, then it was gone, and, of course, immediately switched off. All my careful planning is null and void; once it's stolen / off, there's very little that pintail, plan b, lookout etc can do. (?)
Anyway, I just need to know where and how I get the IMEI blocked? It was bought directly from Google, not via a carrier. Does anyone know?
Thanks. I'm off to dust off my credit card, and try to replace my baby

I would think talking to your carrier would be a good idea since they have access to block imei's. Even if they can't they are best able to point you in the right direction.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

GSM phones don't have IMEIs, do they? I thought you pop a new sim card in and it's usable again.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Call Google, they can block the IMEI and remotely shut it down, I think I also seen that you can file a lost/stolen report with them. You mfight get a replacement, too.

chrisrozon said:
GSM phones don't have IMEIs, do they? I thought you pop a new sim card in and it's usable again.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
YES THEY DO.
......... :laugh:
I'm afraid you can't block your phone from every carrier in the world OP. You should of flashed Cerberus as a system app onto your phone.

Thanks all for your replies.
chrisrozon said:
GSM phones don't have IMEIs, do they? I
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Silly billy
wilsonlam97 said:
You should of flashed Cerberus as a system app onto your phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Cheers, I'll check that one out for next time :/
Infekxion said:
Call Google, they can block the IMEI and remotely shut it down,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So far, I've filled in a form I found for order related queries, but that's the best I could find. If anyone has any help for phone numbers/URLs/emails, I'd be really grateful. I'm still searching.
Infekxion said:
You mfight get a replacement, too.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ha! That would be nice, but I won't hold my breath!

If you use a mastercard and you bought it within 90 days, they'll replace it if stolen.
http://www.mastercard.us/card-benefits.html

Rakeesh_j said:
If you use a mastercard and you bought it within 90 days, they'll replace it if stolen.
http://www.mastercard.us/card-benefits.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Badass. But just tell Google. They can block it from T-Mobile and AT&T. I think straight talk too. Emails take along while but they do get back to you. I would put flyers up near where it was stolen that say the phone has been deactivated and will not work on any carrier. If it is returned to you there will be no questions asked ( maybe even lie about a reward) see what happens. You can say my number is on the lock screen or call this number in the contacts. Maybe they will just return it to lost and found or something. Could be it died and you just left it somewhere and someone picked it up to give it to lost and found?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

Censura_Umbra said:
I would put flyers up near where it was stolen that say the phone has been deactivated and will not work on any carrier. If it is returned to you there will be no questions asked ( maybe even lie about a reward) see what happens.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How much of a fake reward would be required for a thief to return a phone? $100 bucks? Not worth incriminating myself. $200 bucks? Then my BS detector goes off because you are approaching the price of purchasing a new one.
I like your optimism but too bad the world doesn't work like that.

Rakeesh_j said:
If you use a mastercard and you bought it within 90 days, they'll replace it if stolen.
http://www.mastercard.us/card-benefits.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks for this post. my nexus 4 was also stolen a few weeks back. I didn't even think to contact my card company to see if they would replace it. According to the website, looks like they will :laugh:
And to think I was actually debating buying another N4 because my Galaxy Nexus is starting to act stupid

Sorry about your loss..
But according to your description of the incident... Someone stole it from your pocket after you stood up? How?? Or am I reading the op wrong
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Crisisx1 said:
Sorry about your loss..
But according to your description of the incident... Someone stole it from your pocket after you stood up? How?? Or am I reading the op wrong
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yeah I don't get that one from the OP either lol. mine was stolen from my car along with my wallet

Rakeesh_j said:
If you use a mastercard and you bought it within 90 days, they'll replace it if stolen.
http://www.mastercard.us/card-benefits.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is really good info, thanks. Sadly, it doesn't apply to me.
Censura_Umbra said:
Could be it died and you just left it somewhere and someone picked it up to give it to lost and found?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Crisisx1 said:
But according to your description of the incident... Someone stole it from your pocket after you stood up? How?? Or am I reading the op wrong
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There was literally ten or fifteen minutes between me sitting at the table in the bar using my phone, and it being switched off when I asked my girlfriend to call it. I guess I was pickpocketed when I went outside for a smoke. Sucks, but this is what credit is for, I guess. I'd only just paid off my card
I just want to block that SoB from using it. I'm still no nearer to finding the right contact at Google.

If they didn't wipe your phone, go to Google Play on the web and install Plan B to your phone. It will tell you where it is.

DanielNTX said:
If they didn't wipe your phone, go to Google Play on the web and install Plan B to your phone. It will tell you where it is.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The phone was stolen and switched off within ten to fifteen minutes of the last time I had it in my hand. Pretty tough to install Plan B in those circumstances I have various apps for locating it, as well as a number of Tasker scripts to locate, erase, etc. but they are all pretty much worthless the minute the thief has switched off the phone.
--
I have tracked down the phone number for US Google Device Support , which I have called and they appear to have it in hand, although they have had to escalate my call to a specialist as they were not sure if they could block the IMEI.
Thanks all for taking the time to reply. My new phone has been ordered and should be here in a few days. Everything's backed up to Dropbox, so I'm only down a bit of money and some inconvenience. It could be worse.

CheshA said:
This is really good info, thanks. Sadly, it doesn't apply to me.
There was literally ten or fifteen minutes between me sitting at the table in the bar using my phone, and it being switched off when I asked my girlfriend to call it. I guess I was pickpocketed when I went outside for a smoke. Sucks, but this is what credit is for, I guess. I'd only just paid off my card
I just want to block that SoB from using it. I'm still no nearer to finding the right contact at Google.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You must wear some really big/loose pants for someone to pick pot a pretty big phone from your pocket... Or you were really drunk
Good luck bro.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

CheshA said:
The phone was stolen and switched off within ten to fifteen minutes of the last time I had it in my hand. Pretty tough to install Plan B in those circumstances I have various apps for locating it, as well as a number of Tasker scripts to locate, erase, etc. but they are all pretty much worthless the minute the thief has switched off the phone.
--
I have tracked down the phone number for US Google Device Support , which I have called and they appear to have it in hand, although they have had to escalate my call to a specialist as they were not sure if they could block the IMEI.
Thanks all for taking the time to reply. My new phone has been ordered and should be here in a few days. Everything's backed up to Dropbox, so I'm only down a bit of money and some inconvenience. It could be worse.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, at least you weren't hurt in the incident. It sucks to have your stuff stolen (I had a phone stolen about 2 years ago in a mugging) but at the end of the day we move on and don't let it get us down. I've found that I'm now much more cautious with my electronics in public, which I guess is a good thing.

Hello there, sorry to hear about your situation. I actually JUST lost my Nexus 4 this past weekend as well. Were you able to get a resolution from the Google team regarding the block on the IMEI? I've tried searching around for more info but haven't been able to find much. What ended up happening if you don't mind me asking?