Today I was at Rite Aid buying ice cream when the lady in front of me had her phone go off. At first I had thought nothing of it, until I recognized that it was the new CM9 ringtone that says "cyanogenmod" then brecks off into dubstep lalaland.
My point is she did not look like the type that would be into mobile hacking.
My theory is either her son or husband touches her phone, OR our little society is growing
Have any of you seen other Cyanogenmoded phones in the wild?
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Well I hope it is the later
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Never. One of my friends had a se x8 (yes its an ancient two years old model). Apart from his sms, contacts and few mp3, the phone rom is literally like its just came fresh from factory. No game, no apps, no nothing. Hell even the market wasnt activated yet, and theres no goggle account linked to that phone. Thats how i realize we the geeks are still minority among masses.
One time, I heard the default CM6 notification tone (Pixie Dust) at a mall and got all excited that someone else was using a modded Android device... But it turned out that the notification came from mine. XD
I know a couple of tech people (a developer and an IT guy), even, who refrained from modding their phones because they didn't see a compelling reason for it.
I've encountered a number of second-hand devices (HTC G1, LG G2X, and HTC Sensation 4G) that were all modded by their previous caretakers, though. The mod versions weren't up to date, and one of them had stability issues, but there they were. I suppose it's possible that people who resell their devices tend to be enthusiasts?
i saw a nexus s in westfield carphone warehouse (london)
with a "do you want to unlock the bootloader screen" i was like
i went back next week to find cm7 on it.... a show phone... in a massive shop.. in Europe's largest shopping center
how is that possible LOL
an0nym0us_ said:
Never. One of my friends had a se x8 (yes its an ancient two years old model). Apart from his sms, contacts and few mp3, the phone rom is literally like its just came fresh from factory. No game, no apps, no nothing. Hell even the market wasnt activated yet, and theres no goggle account linked to that phone. Thats how i realize we the geeks are still minority among masses.
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my friend has a Xperia X10 with no apps, games, just sms and basics....but worst of all..............he was still running ANDROID 1.6!!!
there and then in college... in class time... i updated his phone to 2.3.3
oeshol success
seen couple ppl with galaxy ace or gio running cm9 and my friend has galaxy ace and i updated his phone to cm9
So, Shark_On_Land, did you talk to this lady?
I see a lot of people with modded phones
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I'm running 4.0.4 build cm9 with a matr1x kernel. Its a great daily driver. Its been rumored that cm9 was going to be available as an alternative to HTC sence on on their newer drives this year.
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Hey, somes guys i know are jealous because my phone is rooted, running cm9. Some if them come to see me for advices. I'm addicted to flash, tried different kernel. I cannot sait to get home to see what you guys have to say and tried. Somes of my nights are less boring because of XDA.
I'm in the fortys french canadian.
This world is really amazing sometimes!
I don't write often because I'm shy but your post made me laugh.
I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone for your hard work and dedication
I hacked my sisters vibrant to run AOSP ICS and when she pulled it out to tether from it, one of the members of her club noticed and showed her his rooted nexus s.
Edit: btw my sister tethers between 20 and 60 gb a month on AT&T, unthrottled.
Oh and a few members of my fraternity are also flashaholics like me.
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Shark_On_Land said:
Today I was at Rite Aid buying ice cream when the lady in front of me had her phone go off. At first I had thought nothing of it, until I recognized that it was the new CM9 ringtone that says "cyanogenmod" then brecks off into dubstep lalaland.
My point is she did not look like the type that would be into mobile hacking.
My theory is either her son or husband touches her phone, OR our little society is growing
Have any of you seen other Cyanogenmoded phones in the wild?
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Where can I find this dub step ringtone?
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g1user101 said:
Where can I find this dub step ringtone?
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You can extract it from a CM9 nightly build, it's in system/media/audio/ringtones/CyanTone.ogg.
qaz2453 said:
i saw a nexus s in westfield carphone warehouse (london)
with a "do you want to unlock the bootloader screen" i was like
i went back next week to find cm7 on it.... a show phone... in a massive shop.. in Europe's largest shopping center
how is the possible LOL
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Whoa... That is amazing! If only more stores showed off what these devices were truly capable of, then I daresay they'll attract more informed customers. Though... Given that those of us who mod are used to looking online to learn how to do it ourselves, I guess it might not make so much of a difference in practice. ^^;
Still really cool to see it being flaunted by a major store though.
*Saw a woman with a cm9 nexus s
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One of the it guys at work got a nexus running aosp+. I told him "what are the odds. I use the same rom
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Poriotis said:
So, Shark_On_Land, did you talk to this lady?
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No she seemed to be in a rush. But I do remember what she had bought, soap & candy.
And on my way out I saw her driving away in a Diesel Jetta.
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Deciare said:
I know a couple of tech people (a developer and an IT guy), even, who refrained from modding their phones because they didn't see a compelling reason for it.
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That's me. I keep my bootloader locked and my firmware unrooted because root doesn't really provide me anything that I need. I've never really been into the whole custom ROM thing for a lot of reasons. So really, the only reason for me to root is because I can. Not a compelling reason in my book.
I'm happy just keeping my phone straight stock. The stock ROMs are generally very stable even if that comes at the cost of performance.
Talking bout that, why we never see a woman here in xda...
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need more woman. ha. well i just sold a htc radar to a guy thats using a nexus s. we were just standing there and talking about our phones lol
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Talking bout that, why we never see a woman here in xda...
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The same reason you never see guys on a cross-stitch forum. Generally, most women I've met just aren't interested in this kind of stuff.
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I was just thinking, in two or three years when we've all moved on from our N1s, we could band together and stick them together into a giant android sculpture, or a transformer
#random
Crazy idea buddy but good idea to honor the n1, the best bravest and most innovative phone ever but the worst treated by the media, utterly assassinated.
Maybe a site which each person with an n1 IMEI rate their n1 online on a 1 to 5 scale - and get a virtual n1 to build a sculpture with, and a place to write comments on their virtual n1.
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Or maybe make a chat app like chatroulette that uses the device numbers as registration so its n1 users only then create a meetup.
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OT: I met someone with a Nexus One the other day....he was just sitting there WATCHING A BASEBALL GAME LIVE STREAMING WITH FLASH (unrooted btw) and I said...nice phone...pulled mine out my pocket, and we shared a nod of recognition about how Awesome we are....
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OT: I met someone with a Nexus One the other day....he was just sitting there WATCHING A BASEBALL GAME LIVE STREAMING WITH FLASH (unrooted btw) and I said...nice phone...pulled mine out my pocket, and we shared a nod of recognition about how Awesome we are....
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omgz that was me
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OT: I met someone with a Nexus One the other day....he was just sitting there WATCHING A BASEBALL GAME LIVE STREAMING WITH FLASH (unrooted btw) and I said...nice phone...pulled mine out my pocket, and we shared a nod of recognition about how Awesome we are....
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Shoulda recorded him in 720p to post here lol
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AbsoluteDesignz said:
OT: I met someone with a Nexus One the other day....he was just sitting there WATCHING A BASEBALL GAME LIVE STREAMING WITH FLASH (unrooted btw) and I said...nice phone...pulled mine out my pocket, and we shared a nod of recognition about how Awesome we are....
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I have never seen anybody in real life with a nexus one.
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I have never seen anybody in real life with a nexus one.
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I have. I went into the tmobile store to browse around (I like using the mytouch to remind me how fast my nexus is) and a black guy (no offense to black people) that worked there was like (literally) "Oh shiz you gotz a nexus two? Beast phone evar." And he whipped his out. So I showed him mine.
Long story short, he payed me 50 bucks to make his as awesome as mine.
Too bad I forgot to mention I voided his warranty xD
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I have. I went into the tmobile store to browse around (I like using the mytouch to remind me how fast my nexus is) and a black guy (no offense to black people) that worked there was like (literally) "Oh shiz you gotz a nexus two? Beast phone evar." And he whipped his out. So I showed him mine.
Long story short, he payed me 50 bucks to make his as awesome as mine.
Too bad I forgot to mention I voided his warranty xD
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Haha. What'd u throw on his phone?
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omgz that was me
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lol, unless you happen to be from small town #34, NJ I doubt it.
I wonder how long it will be until Google has a manufacturer produce another developer phone?
The Nexus one is the most perfect phone for me and I cant see anything but another developer phone replacing it. It's beautiful, cutting edge, gets updates quicker, is with T-mobile, and is not under carrier control.
What more could you want?
I only know two other people who have nexii one. And they both bought one because they saw how awesome mine was.
Im sure we could get google to organise something like this, an N1 graveyard of kings.
I wonder how well it would've sold if it had been available in stores.
Now that Google have announced they have the final batch of N1s from HTC, I went and ordered another one! I'm going to leave it in mint condition.
I have had range of different cell phones since 1993 and none come close to the N1.
I know that the future will bring much better phones, however, I do recognise what Google was trying to achieve with the N1.
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I have never seen anybody in real life with a nexus one.
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Neither have I... I'm sure there are more people with the N1 in Toledo, but I haven't run across any yet.
Chopes said:
Haha. What'd u throw on his phone?
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I unlocked it, rooted it, upgraded his radio and kernel (OC, UV - and he was still running 2.1 update 1. Working for Tmo you'd think he'd get the upgrades first xD) And after that, I gave him CM6, cause that was pretty much the easiest way to get all of the GOOD mods in one. I gave him ADW using the paperless theme, and he thought that was way cool, along with the black desire notification bar. It probably took me, including download times, about 25 minutes using his laptop. So, if I could do this for a living, I could charge $120 an hour =D
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Neither have I... I'm sure there are more people with the N1 in Toledo, but I haven't run across any yet.
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Good idea for an APP. Kind of like Google Latitude, but open, and it only shows other people with the same phone. =D
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I wonder how long it will be until Google has a manufacturer produce another developer phone?
The Nexus one is the most perfect phone for me and I cant see anything but another developer phone replacing it. It's beautiful, cutting edge, gets updates quicker, is with T-mobile, and is not under carrier control.
What more could you want?
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Not a lot, but what if they come out with a phone that has 1gb of RAM and a dual core 2ghz proc.
I'm pretty sure that if there was a developer phone with something like that, I *might* drop my Nexus, and run drooling to the online store =D
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Neither have I... I'm sure there are more people with the N1 in Toledo, but I haven't run across any yet.
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i live in atlanta, never seen anybody its quite depressing.
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i live in atlanta, never seen anybody its quite depressing.
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I live in NYC and havent seen anyone with one...except the person I bought it from. lol
i was
i was actully in the bank here in miami and a person asked to see my phone and went omg this is a nexus one he said he has never seen one before lol made me feel good about the 400 bucks i paid froma guy on craigslist lol.. even at the tmobile store where i bought my case all the employes liked flocked over to check it out.. we do have a great phone feels good to have something very few around me have... kinda like day one when i got my g1
So...I've had my Nexus S 4G for 2 weeks now, and I have to say, the first few days I was having trouble justifying the off contract price of the phone, especially when my Epic was perfectly fine.....
Fast forward to the first week, I was really liking how well it fit in my pocket, not to mention the battery life stock, and the GPS lock in seconds...awesome.
I also decided to root and try CM7, and I've been running it for a week so far, and I'll say it's changed my mind, and I'm definitely keeping this phone now!
And the ONLY thing I missed from my epic was the camera button, and today fooling around with my Nexus, I found that in CM7 you can assign the volume buttons to take pictures, EFFIN AWESOME!
So, I'm in love!
That is all,
Chris
cm7 opens the phone up so much more. its awesome
You better try kush rom its almost the same but with out Tue adw I hate adw on roms
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i really need to learn how to Root this bad boy. I rooted my evo easily, but for some reason this scares me. I'm not good with command prompt.
Oh please!
cyaiphone said:
i really need to learn how to Root this bad boy. I rooted my evo easily, but for some reason this scares me. I'm not good with command prompt.
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Go for it. If you have any trouble, the reason we are all here is to help you. So just try and ask for help if you need it. If you don't get the help you need you can always PM me and I will help you.
really love cm, but i really wanted that 2.3.4 was completelly merged, really like gtalk video chat!!!
Yep.
10 char.
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cm7 is awesome
Love !!!!
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cyaiphone said:
i really need to learn how to Root this bad boy. I rooted my evo easily, but for some reason this scares me. I'm not good with command prompt.
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As long as you got all the need it drivers and sdk you rooting procces should take 3-4 minutes
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And the ONLY thing I missed from my epic was the camera button, and today fooling around with my Nexus, I found that in CM7 you can assign the volume buttons to take pictures, EFFIN AWESOME!
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noob question here: where exactly in CM7 do i go to change that? looked everywhere but couldn't find it ;(
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noob question here: where exactly in CM7 do i go to change that? looked everywhere but couldn't find it ;(
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Launch the camera app and in menu go to advance settings
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Ive had the nexus s since launch back in dec. an while for the most part i love the phone i hate how its built my bezel, an everyone i know whos had the phone for awhile, is coming loose and creaks when u apply pressure to the side of the phone but everything else is great
i like cm7 too
Cm7 is awesome! I flashed with netarchy's kernel and getting great quadrants
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<3 CM7
SNS is fast and pretty now
cswee1932 said:
So...I've had my Nexus S 4G for 2 weeks now, and I have to say, the first few days I was having trouble justifying the off contract price of the phone, especially when my Epic was perfectly fine.....
Fast forward to the first week, I was really liking how well it fit in my pocket, not to mention the battery life stock, and the GPS lock in seconds...awesome.
I also decided to root and try CM7, and I've been running it for a week so far, and I'll say it's changed my mind, and I'm definitely keeping this phone now!
And the ONLY thing I missed from my epic was the camera button, and today fooling around with my Nexus, I found that in CM7 you can assign the volume buttons to take pictures, EFFIN AWESOME!
So, I'm in love!
That is all,
Chris
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So did the Sprint employees look at you funny when you bought it off contract for full retail?
I've always wondered what they think when enthusiasts come in and lay down half a grand on a phone... It's an expensive hobby.
I also came from the Epic... it's hard to tell they have the same hardware inside.
I don't see myself ever buying a non nexus device again..(here is hoping Sprint continues to play a role in the Nexus devices!!) Android is at it's best when it's running as Google intended. Not to mention the updates and development..
Anyways. Welcome glad you like it.
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So did the Sprint employees look at you funny when you bought it off contract for full retail?
I've always wondered what they think when enthusiasts come in and lay down half a grand on a phone... It's an expensive hobby.
I also came from the Epic... it's hard to tell they have the same hardware inside.
I don't see myself ever buying a non nexus device again..(here is hoping Sprint continues to play a role in the Nexus devices!!) Android is at it's best when it's running as Google intended. Not to mention the updates and development..
Anyways. Welcome glad you like it.
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I have bought 3 phones off contract now and it is expensive hobbie but then again smoking is expensive too ( I used to smoke a pack a day/ the was like 150$ at month ) so I don't regret it
TheDub said:
So did the Sprint employees look at you funny when you bought it off contract for full retail?
I've always wondered what they think when enthusiasts come in and lay down half a grand on a phone... It's an expensive hobby.
I also came from the Epic... it's hard to tell they have the same hardware inside.
I don't see myself ever buying a non nexus device again..(here is hoping Sprint continues to play a role in the Nexus devices!!) Android is at it's best when it's running as Google intended. Not to mention the updates and development..
Anyways. Welcome glad you like it.
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The sprint stores always seemed surprised. Best buy and the T-Mobile stores never blinked an eye. I've purchased 6 phones at full retail and only got an odd response once (from a Sprint employee).
Having gone from the Nexus One to this phone (and I'll buy the next Nexus phone as well) I hope it comes to Sprint. Otherwise I'll have to jump carriers again.
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I am aware that the devs are hard at work to find a root method for og evo users and they will most likely find one but just out of curiosity what would you do a root wasnt found? Would you get a new phone? What phone would you get would you buy a rooted phone off craigslist?
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yes, if a sprint phone comes out that would be worth upgrading to and has root, I would be inclined to do so.
I wouldn't because its still a excellent phone for everyday usage ..
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I ve been looking @ this photon. Not a bad phone and has been rooted. I would switch
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I know that this question has already been asked before, but I am too lazy to search for the thread.
No, I would not go out of my way to upgrade and/or replace my phone just because it doesn't have root unless an easy way to do so presented itself. I would prefer to have a rooted phone, but since I will likely be waiting for a new generation (i.e. not this current refresh cycle, including the EVO 3D, Photon 4G, etc.) of phones before I do a replacement, any new phone I get will probably not be rooted right away (or if I get an iPhone, the issue becomes moot) so it makes no difference to me.
If I get an Android phone the next go-round, it will almost certainly be an HTC. Aside from the fact that I just like their form factor and think they make quality phones, they seem to have the support of a large portion of the dev community so whatever the FOTM HTC phone is will be what I get.
That Photon looks pretty fancy.
My wife got the photon and it just seems generic to me. All the widgets are plain Jane...I guess I've just grown acustomed to sense..
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No because coming soon at htcdev.com they will ave an unlocked bootloader webbased tool
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No because coming soon at htcdev.com they will ave an unlocked bootloader webbased tool
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Which is already confirmed to not currently support the EVO 4G, nor is there a projected timeframe for when it might. Most of us assume it never will, because HTC wants to encourage people to upgrade.
Nope! cuz I waited for a long ass time to get this phone and regardless if there's root or not my phone is still the **** and compared to a blackberry...Mmmhmm Naaw I don't think so I'll die before I go back to that
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Nah, I just got this phone at the end of June when Sprint was allowing 2 year upgrade resets. LauncherPro Plus allows me to hide the bloatware in the app drawer, and it runs really smooth for being stock.
If I get bored I could always activate the HTC Touch or Touch Pro, I regret trading in my Moment though; Still quite a bit of development going on with it.
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Nope! cuz I waited for a long ass time to get this phone and regardless if there's root or not my phone is still the **** and compared to a blackberry...Mmmhmm Naaw I don't think so I'll die before I go back to that
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I have actually been honestly taking a hard look at their newest QNX operating system and thinking about whether or not that would be something I could see myself moving towards. I have a BB for work and while it's substandard compared to my EVO (a lot of the reason is that the BES settings for government phones are very restrictive and lock out a lot of features) there are some things that just can't be beat about it. For example, I haven't plugged it in to charge it for three days and it's still got almost 75% of its battery left, and I get a lot of emails and phone calls at work.
I don't know. It would be a hard sell, but I have been thinking about it.
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I have actually been honestly taking a hard look at their newest QNX operating system and thinking about whether or not that would be something I could see myself moving towards. I have a BB for work and while it's substandard compared to my EVO (a lot of the reason is that the BES settings for government phones are very restrictive and lock out a lot of features) there are some things that just can't be beat about it. For example, I haven't plugged it in to charge it for three days and it's still got almost 75% of its battery left, and I get a lot of emails and phone calls at work.
I don't know. It would be a hard sell, but I have been thinking about it.
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Oh man the battery life on those things are ridiculously good my pearl was a soldier lol I dropped it in 3 different types of liquid :drunk: 3 times the damn thing came back to life with the rice trick lol
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Oh man the battery life on those things are ridiculously good my pearl was a soldier lol I dropped it in 3 different types of liquid :drunk: 3 times the damn thing came back to life with the rice trick lol
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Yeah, my BB is a trooper; been carried around the house by a great dane with no negative impact.
I'm keeping the Evo until I am eligible for an upgrade, or it dies.
If it goes the way of the dodo, I would probably go back to my hero, until the next HTC phone comes out.
I personally would go get a evo3d or epic touch i used to not b into all this rooting and flashing roms but i love trying to find the next new tweak to make my phone more powerful damn you xda!!! damn you!! Haha jk
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I think a lot of people on this site don't face the issue you do since they've been active on the site and didn't foolishily upgrade to the latest OTA when it came out.
I think it's safe to say the majority of the people here in the EVO section still have root
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I think a lot of people on this site don't face the issue you do since they've been active on the site and didn't foolishily upgrade to the latest OTA when it came out.
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I didn't take the OTA, I had to get my phone replaced. Your attitude is unwarranted.
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I didn't take the OTA, I had to get my phone replaced. Your attitude is unwarranted.
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well be more careful with your phone then
deathsled said:
well be more careful with your phone then
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Wow because hardware failure is our fault. You tard.
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Well guys, this may be it. I'm probably going to buy a G-Nex tonight, if not, sometime this week. I've had a great experience here. My first android phone was the DINC and it will be remembered....as my new MP3 player... Sad yet great day! Thanks to all the Devs! Hope to see some of you over at the G-Nex LTE forums!!!
Also, everyone else feel free to use this as a home for your goodbyes!
Same here! I loved my Inc, got it on launch day shipped.
Also same here - I'm thinking of passing it on to my son, who is too young for a phone but loves to game on it. Anyone know of a ROM that is specifically designed to turn it into a sort of aPod?
How would you be able to get one tonight? It releases tomorrow. I'm getting one too probably tomorrow.
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jdukedrum said:
Same here! I loved my Inc, got it on launch day shipped.
Also same here - I'm thinking of passing it on to my son, who is too young for a phone but loves to game on it. Anyone know of a ROM that is specifically designed to turn it into a sort of aPod?
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There isn't a ROM for that, but there is a WiFi only script in the Dev. section, let me go find it for ya.
EDIT: here it is:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217038
jdukedrum said:
Same here! I loved my Inc, got it on launch day shipped.
Also same here - I'm thinking of passing it on to my son, who is too young for a phone but loves to game on it. Anyone know of a ROM that is specifically designed to turn it into a sort of aPod?
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Try miui then put this theme+ the incredikernal+ WiFi script smokey posted
Theme http://forums.miui.us/archive/index.php/t-301.html
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Excellent - thanks!
Goodbye DINC forums, I've been such a fan for so long. Thank you so much to all the Devs who made the DINC so awesome to have that I kept it way past my upgradability timeframe. I'm off to Galaxy Nexus land but I'll still be around since I now have 3 DINCs I have no idea what I'm going to do with.
I got it! Best phone ever.
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Picked up my Nexus last night too. Thanks for all the help, guys hope to see some of you over in the Galaxy Nexus forums.
Got one as well! Hopefully some of our great devs migrate over with us!
Ah DInc, you were a great phone, and because of that I've met a ton of great people in the community. My DInc will be my glorified MP3 player for my car.
I've learned a lot here, since it was my first Android device. I'll miss it here, but you can find me in the Galaxy Nexus / HTC Flyer / Xoom forums.
I'll stop back from time to time, see how things are going!
Mr Skyraider, Jermaine, McD, 'Stang, Newtoroot, and all the devs and others, thanks for doing what you do. See you on the Nexus forums or in future endeavors!
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Not good enough
I went into Verizon yesterday to look at the Galaxy Nexus and I just wasn't impressed enough to spend the money. Oh well, maybe the next big phone release will be too irresistible. The whole game playing with the release date changing so much just left a bad taste in my mouth too.
I too, am joining the Galaxy Nexus crowd! It's been a great year and half everyone, hope to see all of you around GN forums!
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I went into Verizon yesterday to look at the Galaxy Nexus and I just wasn't impressed enough to spend the money. Oh well, maybe the next big phone release will be too irresistible. The whole game playing with the release date changing so much just left a bad taste in my mouth too.
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Trust me. Nothing can beat this phone.
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Smokeey said:
Trust me. Nothing can beat this phone.
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Agreed. Love it.
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Goodbye Galaxy Nexus
Well,
After 26 days of owning not one, but 3 Galaxy Nexus phones, I have returned mine as the problems I had with the call quality/signal strength and the phone constantly muting itself during calls, have made me not want it anymore. Yes it was a beautiful device, had great speed, an awesome screen, and a lot of other things, but it didn't live up to what a phone is meant to be, a PHONE!. I know that there are software updates coming out to all of the folks with this phone and I hope that you get your issues resolved by it, but I simply couldn't justify keeping it for what I paid. So now back to an old phone for me until something works out!
Former Inc owner with a Nexus now. Unlocking and rooting the phone was easy. Haven't had a chance to flash anything on it yet but the roms look great. I dunno making the switch was easy for me.
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same for me,digging my rezound
I have a rezound, an OG Droid and just picked upa Dinc for the hellovit from a cousin...I cant tell you how impressed I am at the speed and feel of the dinc. I had a tbolt too for a while and the dinc feeps way faster and battery life is magnificent with an evo 2000mah battery in it. May activate the dinc one day just for $h1ts and giggles....
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How is the Rezound? I'm not up for an upgrade till April, but I'm between the Rezound and GNex... I'm leaning for for the gnex due to the problems they've had rooting the Rezound
So for my moms birthday I got her an iphone 4s just because I thought it would be easy for her to use seeing how she isnt much of a techy. Early this morning (about 5 minutes ago in fact) she woke me up saying how she saw the gs3 on the news and about how amazing it is and she demanded that i sold the iphone on craigslist and pre order this phone for her. I have to say my mom surly did surprise me today and i am so proud :')
cool story bro
Nice .. you should have had more taste also .. an iphone .. heheh.... joking
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fireburn said:
Nice .. you should have had more taste also .. an iphone .. heheh.... joking
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lol you are right I severely underestimated her lol
Haha... I'd called that paradigm shift
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Now thats my kind of girl wow
pics?
The next thing you mom is going to ask is to flash custom rom on it
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pics?
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Of his mom?
blackguy101 said:
So for my moms birthday I got her an iphone 4s just because I thought it would be easy for her to use seeing how she isnt much of a techy. Early this morning (about 5 minutes ago in fact) she woke me up saying how she saw the gs3 on the news and about how amazing it is and she demanded that i sold the iphone on craigslist and pre order this phone for her. I have to say my mom surly did surprise me today and i am so proud :')
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Your mom isn't that tech savvy, the previous night just before she woke you up I was telling her all about the sgs3 I had in pre-order!
P.S. I AM YOUR FATHER......
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Of his mom?
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lol!
isn't anyone gonna start a "yo momma joke"?
nice, your mum has got good taste
Lol, hahaha I had a good laugh with this thread.
I admit that I also underestimate the non techy sometimes
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moshe22 said:
Lol, hahaha I had a good laugh with this thread.
I admit that I also underestimate the non techy sometimes
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Nah, it's more "I don't want to be tech support for X years." Let's face it, Android gives you a while lot more control, and with control come more options, and with more options, mass questioning/general hysteria is soon to follow.
I would still recommend the iPhone for the non-tech.
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I would still recommend the iPhone for the non-tech.
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My mom got the S1 shortly after release as a birthday present.
She kept complaining about not being able to to stuff or certain things taking too many clicks, so I installed Darkyrom first and CM9 later, customized the phone with some apps (most of the 'Go Dev' apps) and she's completely happy now.
With an iPhone such features would've been nearly impossible to get.
Note that she's technically illiterate (well she thinks otherwise but meh...) and uses the smartphone-capabilities only at home to check Amazon orders, get a weather forecast and listen to foreign radio stations through TuneIn.
I've configured MyBackup for daily backups to be kept for a whole week so even if she mistakely deletes or misconfigures something it's like 2 clicks to restore it.
Set me up with your mum :silly:
cmd512 said:
Nah, it's more "I don't want to be tech support for X years." Let's face it, Android gives you a while lot more control, and with control come more options, and with more options, mass questioning/general hysteria is soon to follow.
I would still recommend the iPhone for the non-tech.
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Well yes and no.
Generally parents aren't really that tech savvy and they use these smartphones in limited range of functions. Take my parents for an example. I got my mother an iphone which she transitioned from a blackberry. I got my father an Evo which he transitioned from a blackberry. Initial reasoning behind the purchase was same as what you're saying above but it's actually not quite true. Both of them use it for calls, email, text message, im, and internet and both have had no issues doing just that. In fact my mother seems to envy my note purely based on size.
Now i did pre-order the S3 for sprint for father's day based on his feedback. Despite the fact that he has an ipad, my father wanted the S3 over iphone4s and evo lte based on the interest in AMOLED screens (he asked me on more than few occasion what kind of screen tech is used in my phone)
ph00ny said:
Well yes and no.
Generally parents aren't really that tech savvy and they use these smartphones in limited range of functions. Take my parents for an example. I got my mother an iphone which she transitioned from a blackberry. I got my father an Evo which he transitioned from a blackberry. Initial reasoning behind the purchase was same as what you're saying above but it's actually not quite true. Both of them use it for calls, email, text message, im, and internet and both have had no issues doing just that. In fact my mother seems to envy my note purely based on size.
Now i did pre-order the S3 for sprint for father's day based on his feedback. Despite the fact that he has an ipad, my father wanted the S3 over iphone4s and evo lte based on the interest in AMOLED screens (he asked me on more than few occasion what kind of screen tech is used in my phone)
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You've completely missed the point bud. I'd get any of my non-tech relatives an iPhone over an Android anyday of the month. This is because I've been been the "guy to call whenever **** blows up."
Now, no where in my rant did I say they didn't envy my SGS3 for one reason or another. Hell, my mom even said over the weekend that "wow, I can read the text so clearly because that screen is so much bigger on your phone...!" And, just about every iPhone user quivers when I'm sitting there Swyping like a boss. But, does that mean I'd get them an Android over another phone? No, hell no, and twice again on Sunday... no. The fact of the matter is, any carrier sold phone in the States here that ISN'T an Apple product is riddled with bloatware. Add on top of the fact that Android simply isn't as polished an experience out of the box, I wouldn't bother.
Now for myself, I wouldn't touch an iPhone. I need my phone for work. I need it to do the things I need it to do when I need them. And, the only way to get that is to setup and customize my phone the way I like it. I'd be nowhere near as productive on an iPhone, and that would only end up pissing me off, resulting with the iPhone 6 feet under in the pool, hah.
But again, to each their own. For me, I've been the family tech support dude... really, been there done that. Got way too many other things on my plate now than to keep carrying that torch if you know what I mean.
blackguy101 said:
So for my moms birthday I got her an iphone 4s just because I thought it would be easy for her to use seeing how she isnt much of a techy. Early this morning (about 5 minutes ago in fact) she woke me up saying how she saw the gs3 on the news and about how amazing it is and she demanded that i sold the iphone on craigslist and pre order this phone for her. I have to say my mom surly did surprise me today and i am so proud :')
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I'm having a bit of parent envy here. My dad, after watching me using my Touchpad running CM9, asked me "is it as good as the real thing?" (read: iPad). I was so ashamed for him. :crying:
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The next thing you mom is going to ask is to flash custom rom on it
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I'd like her to flash something for me too.