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Just Got a Phone Call From Sprint

The rep on the other end told me that they know that I was the guy who stapled Amy Rabbinowitz's maxi pad to the blackboard in 9th grade. They say they can tell that and a whole bunch more from pinging my phone because it's rooted. The say that if I don't publicly apologize on her Facebook page with 72 hours they'll cancel my contract. I told them no way they can't do that but they told me to read the fine print of my service contract, they can. No courtesy call or anything. Worst part is, Amy Rabbinowitz won't approve my friend request, so there's nothing I can do. I'm just sitting here waiting for the 72 hours to pass and my Evo becomes a paperweight. HELP, WHAT CAN I DO?!?!?!?!?!

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The rep on the other end told me that they know that I was the guy who stapled Amy Rabbinowitz's maxi pad to the blackboard in 9th grade. They say they can tell that and a whole bunch more from pinging my phone because it's rooted. The say that if I don't publicly apologize on her Facebook page with 72 hours they'll cancel my contract. I told them no way they can't do that but they told me to read the fine print of my service contract, they can. No courtesy call or anything. Worst part is, Amy Rabbinowitz won't approve my friend request, so there's nothing I can do. I'm just sitting here waiting for the 72 hours to pass and my Evo becomes a paperweight. HELP, WHAT CAN I DO?!?!?!?!?!
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really what the hell are you talking about

I'm pretty sure that's an elaborate prank. Sorry man. If it isn't I guess you are sol.
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chickut123 said:
I'm pretty sure that's an elaborate prank. Sorry man. If it isn't I guess you are sol.
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An eleborate prank? No way I could devise a prank this elaborate. It's 100% FOR REAL!

dsf3g said:
An eleborate prank? No way I could devise a prank this elaborate. It's 100% FOR REAL!
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See here

HMMM REALLY.... WHAT THE.....

Guys, this is for the guy claiming Sprint was canceling him because he was rooted.
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LMFAO. I love it OP. Needed a good laugh today!!

Sometimes people try tooo hard to be funny

robnelle said:
See here
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This one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137621

Well, damn, I better unroot my phone quickly. Who knows what else can happen!

meanmeanstride said:
Well, damn, I better unroot my phone quickly. Who knows what else can happen!
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Remember: it's not enough to unroot and go "s-on." You've also got to check the "ROOT OFF" checkbox under Menu-->Settings-->About Phone--->Superuser Settings. In fact, you must do this BEFORE you unroot or Sprint will cancel your service and charge you a double ETF.

dsf3g said:
Remember: it's not enough to unroot and go "s-on." You've also got to check the "ROOT OFF" checkbox under Menu-->Settings-->About Phone--->Superuser Settings. In fact, you must do this BEFORE you unroot or Sprint will cancel your service and charge you a double ETF.
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But only after they kill your hamster and eat it. They said they would do that to me if I didn't stop looking at an iPhone.
Sprint Brother is always watching!!

LOL! That's really funny...

There has to be more to the story. I think Sprint is tracking the rooted users that use the wireless tether and have large amounts of data downloaded. Not just the mere fact that your rooted. Just my .02 cents.
Its like modifying a car. You get a programmer to reprogram the car to perform better the manufacture i.e. Chyrsler, Ford etc cant call you up and say you cant drive our cars anymore. But if you have a warranty yes they can decline your warranty because of it. Same goes for the phone you root it and have a hardware issue that is when Sprint can decline against repairs etc.

I have found that a small aluminum foil tent placed over your EVO will prevent anyone from gathering information from it, this is especially important to do at night when it is charging or whenever you are tethering.

What this thread needs...,
Is a bump,
Front of the line,
Yeah,lol
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return or not?

well, i bought 16gb n7 and they delivered n7 with transformer rom installed, im thinking this must be other customer's n7 returned product, anyway, i emailed them asking for a replacement, just got an email an hr ago showing the instruction, with the return shipping to service center, they didnt say they going to cover for the cost of shipping or that's must come out of our pocket.
last week i tried to installed stock n7 rom on this and it works great again without any problem
so should i return this and waiting for the next n7 which maybe have problems?

You're saying you received a 16GB N7 from the Google Play Store with a modified ROM on it?
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if after installing the normal n7 software it works fine, I would keep it. If there are problems then I would return it
good luck

just lou said:
You're saying you revived a 16GB N7 from the Google Play Store with a modified ROM on it?
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Wow, talk about lack of quality control...
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Maybe I will have to buy a dozen of these, inject some spyware onto them, return them - and "see what happens"..

So did you take a system dump of the transformer ROM? What version was it?

Yes, the transformer rom preibstalled on it, i didnt take a system dump yet, i got the pic of solfware version but,
Everything seems to be great
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Is it logged into the Play Store app with some other account? :angel:

nah, there is no app google apps installed>"<
i was just trying to get back stock asap so yeah, because the rom isnt stable, it restart constantly! anyway, >"< what if they shipped the replacement?
i must return or else they ll charge my account... jez

You ordered a new device and received someones return? That just goes to show you how little they are paying attention to the details while they try to push as many of these things out as possible due to all these pre-orders. Another reason why I feel the need to wait it out for a few more months and see how things are then.
Was the package sealed like new?
I'd honestly return it just because, obviously it had a problem for someone to return it, fixed or not you basically received a "refurb" instead of a brand-new unit. That's grounds for a serious discount.

What makes you so sure it had a non standard ROM?

hullbay said:
You ordered a new device and received someones return? That just goes to show you how little they are paying attention to the details while they try to push as many of these things out as possible due to all these pre-orders. Another reason why I feel the need to wait it out for a few more months and see how things are then.
Was the package sealed like new?
I'd honestly return it just because, obviously it had a problem for someone to return it, fixed or not you basically received a "refurb" instead of a brand-new unit. That's grounds for a serious discount.
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Yeah, all new and sealed
I ll try to stretch out this process as long as im not the one who have to spend more money just because ots their mistake
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What makes you so sure it had a non standard ROM?
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I got into software info
I posted on this section somewhere, it show epad or something like that
Edited: im really confuse now since i dont have any proof other than the pic i took from the phone info on the day i recieved it, i rooted, unlock bootloader and everything, now the phone works fine and they might ask why do i need a replacement!??? Fml lols
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It might not necessarily be a customers returned unit. If it was just a blank Transformer rom it could be a mess up in the production process. Rememeber Asus make both devices so they will have all those roms floating about. I had a strange rom on my Galaxy Nexus when I bought it but it was defo a new device. It might just be a mistake when they initialy built it.
But if you flashed the N7 rom with no problems and the unit is ok I would just keep it. Opening up a whole set of new potential problems if you swap it..

tumpin said:
It might not necessarily be a customers returned unit. If it was just a blank Transformer rom it could be a mess up in the production process. Rememeber Asus make both devices so they will have all those roms floating about. I had a strange rom on my Galaxy Nexus when I bought it but it was defo a new device. It might just be a mistake when they initialy built it.
But if you flashed the N7 rom with no problems and the unit is ok I would just keep it. Opening up a whole set of new potential problems if you swap it..
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thats is exactly what im afraid of, idk if the new device defected or not, and i have to go through the process also><
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leave it. if it's good it's good.

Maybe it was a Prototype that would be sweet!
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Im thinking if the replacement arrived, can i just open and use it for like a week to see there is any defects? Bcause as i know we have 21days max to return it am i correct?

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Hey,
For those who are rooted and care to use the "T-Mobile My Account" app.
Be aware that this app now scans your phone to see if it's rooted. This information is saved and can be sent over to T-Mobile.
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Since we are rooted, I'm sure many use Xposed. Go into xposed and download an app called RootCloak. You can use RootCloak app w/ xposed to hide root within the t-mobile app. This would allow you to use the app and monitor your account usage. Also, go into the My Account app and disable diagnostics and anything related to scanning your phone for health.
You can use Titanium Backup to uninstall the app as a whole if you don't use it.
But I thought I share this info anyways.

Lol unintstalling for me....... not cool T-Mobile ?

Its in Note 3 before too. It says my phone is rooted but TMO didn't really care when I trade it in for Note 4. They didnt even check it. They just verified the serial number of phone behind the battery if I am returning the right unit.
Then they gave it back to me for a second so I can factory reset it.

They don't care at all.

Jfree3000 said:
They don't care at all.
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Nope they dont. They don't want to blow a sale. That being said, always make sure it's back on a stock rom unrooted just on case.

naruto.ninjakid said:
Lol unintstalling for me....... not cool T-Mobile ?
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What's Up Naruto...
I see you have left LG for Sammy... :laugh:
Did you ever get the 8" Sammy Tablet?

jdidtht said:
Nope they dont. They don't want to blow a sale. That being said, always make sure it's back on a stock rom unrooted just on case.
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According to a friend that works at a corporate store, they don't even check. They send it to the company who deals worth their insurance claims. That company may look, but doubtful.
I've usually returned to stock, but with Knox tripped on the Note 3, I didn't bother. Still had a custom recovery too. Never heard a thing.

RaiderWill said:
What's Up Naruto...
I see you have left LG for Sammy... :laugh:
Did you ever get the 8" Sammy Tablet?
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Hey man Im doing good lol. Yeah I sold theta G-Pad along while ago. As you can see in my sig i went for its big brother lol got the Note Pro 12.2 instead. Yeah my note 4 is coming in today lol

These rooting "paranoia" threads do NOTHING but perpetuate the MISINFORMATION that T-Mobile cares if you root your phone...THEY DON'T, so please stop posting/spreading/perpetuating this paranoid, MIS-INFORMATION all over these threads...

I know about this already when I have the rooted HTC One M7. Cook ROM do not include this app anyway.

I had called to submit a warranty claim on my Note 3, and answered all their questions. Then they asked if I had rooted my phone because that's what was showing up on their end. I had tripped Knox when I rooted, so they said that I can still file a warranty claim, but instead of it being a usual, just pay the $5 shipping fee (when they do that, they consider the defect a manufacture defect), they said I would have to pay the deductible of $180 as if it was a user problem.

jsapp said:
According to a friend that works at a corporate store, they don't even check. They send it to the company who deals worth their insurance claims. That company may look, but doubtful.
I've usually returned to stock, but with Knox tripped on the Note 3, I didn't bother. Still had a custom recovery too. Never heard a thing.
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Yup, I've returned multiple devices over the years with no issue. I returned an HTC sensation years ago running a rom, sales guy looked at it, was like, cool. What's this called. Lol they don't care. I've never understood people's hesitation over something even samsung has the ability to clear in 2 seconds.
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I had called to submit a warranty claim on my Note 3, and answered all their questions. Then they asked if I had rooted my phone because that's what was showing up on their end. I had tripped Knox when I rooted, so they said that I can still file a warranty claim, but instead of it being a usual, just pay the $5 shipping fee (when they do that, they consider the defect a manufacture defect), they said I would have to pay the deductible of $180 as if it was a user problem.
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Okay. There's always someone I guess. In store never ever an issue.

jdidtht said:
Yup, I've returned multiple devices over the years with no issue. I returned an HTC sensation years ago running a rom, sales guy looked at it, was like, cool. What's this called. Lol they don't care. I've never understood people's hesitation over something even samsung has the ability to clear in 2 seconds.
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Okay. There's always someone I guess. In store never ever an issue.
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Yeah my issue might of been calling the 611 number. Granted the 180 deductible still means I am under the warranty cover, but with an issue caused by me. Manufacture defects are covered free of charge other than the 5 dollar shipping fee. At least via phone. Never gone into a store and asked there.

I actually had them refuse to do a warranty exchange on my G3 because they say that they show my device was rooted. I pushed until they did it anyway. Now I remove the app immediately after rooting.

ptfdmedic said:
I actually had them refuse to do a warranty exchange on my G3 because they say that they show my device was rooted. I pushed until they did it anyway. Now I remove the app immediately after rooting.
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I've read this before and why I remove the app as well.

I returned my N3 rooted with Hyperdrive on it still. Lol.
Not the guy helping, but another one came and played with my phone and noticed it looked like the S5, lol.
I pretended I didn't hear that and he just walked away. Lol.
They don't care, I exchanged like 3 Notes this year also.
Sucks for those that have had problems.

OnePlus taking pre-orders for one hour on 10/27 & 11/17

OnePlus One pre-orders are just around the corner. To make things a little easier, you can go ahead and get your order just the way you want it. Save your cart, mark your calendar, and relax. You've got this.
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Edit: As we found out later, this just for one hour and not a permanent change in their way of doing business.

At least one blog says the sale is only for one hour. If so, the invite system would seem to be intact.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/20/on...nally-go-on-sale-to-all-but-only-for-an-hour/

TiltedAz said:
At least one blog says the sale is only for one hour. If so, the invite system would seem to be intact.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/20/on...nally-go-on-sale-to-all-but-only-for-an-hour/
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That's right, the preorder will just accompany the invite system. Means, if you get an invite, you can "jump the queue" of preorders and get your One directly.

It will be a ddos on request...
That site will go down, taking in hardly any pre-orders.
Enough with the hyping, start selling the device already.

CafeKampuchia said:
The invite system is finally going away, hopefully for good.
Source: OnePlus
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franatic08 said:
It will be a ddos on request...
That site will go down, taking in hardly any pre-orders.
Enough with the hyping, start selling the device already.
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The don't have the cash flow or capital of some other companies. If they produce too many phones and they don't sell, then they are gone. The way they do it at the moment means their inventory comes straight off the production line and out the door, it's a much safer bet for a new business. What concerns me though is how they intend to grow the business on such thin margins.
Mmm bacon

Does anyone know if this site is selling the international version (just in case I wasn't able to pre-order for a reason or another)?
http://www.oppomart.com/oneplus-one.html

Eyedea93 said:
Does anyone know if this site is selling the international version (just in case I wasn't able to pre-order for a reason or another)?
http://www.oppomart.com/oneplus-one.html
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I'm pretty sure this is the International (CyanogenMod) version. The chinese version comes with ColorOS.

leximu5 said:
I'm pretty sure this is the International (CyanogenMod) version. The chinese version comes with ColorOS.
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It may be chineese version but CM11S installed. International version is available only on the official OnePlus site.

I can't wait to witness the aftermath of the "1 hour preorder" disaster. This forum is going to be FLOODDED with people who weren't able to get their order completed due to the OnePlus site being overwhelmed and crashing. There will also be others *****ing because their payment couldn't be processed due to lack of funds (and somehow blame OnePlus for this...).
It's going to be entertaining.

nicholaschum said:
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EXACTLY... I just sold my spare in-box OPO, and I think I'm selling my daily driver and pre-ordering a 64GB N6.
sn0warmy said:
I can't wait to witness the aftermath of the "1 hour preorder" disaster. This forum is going to be FLOODDED with people who weren't able to get their order completed due to the OnePlus site being overwhelmed and crashing. There will also be others *****ing because their payment couldn't be processed due to lack of funds (and somehow blame OnePlus for this...).
It's going to be entertaining.
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Internet tears will flow stronger than the Amazon river in the days after the OPO pre-order. The stories will be so sad it'll be funny! I guarantee you that they have a fixed number available for immediate order and as soon as they sell those within the first 5 minutes the system will just claim that the servers are overloaded and to keep trying.

So, I should probably wait until the 27 to sell my extra OPO in order to get the best price if all this is going to do is cause chaos
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Just a quick question of opinion..
Do you guys think I should skip the preorder the 27:th and wait for an invite instead?
My concern is that I might wind up in the bottom of the pile of all the orders that'll be placed and I heard that invites will have a higher priority.
Thanks!

Xoka said:
Just a quick question of opinion..
Do you guys think I should skip the preorder the 27:th and wait for an invite instead?
My concern is that I might wind up in the bottom of the pile of all the orders that'll be placed and I heard that invites will have a higher priority.
Thanks!
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Get set up for the pre-order online as its worth a shot and try your best to get an invite as you'll still be able to use it.

Due to the technical difficulties with the first pre-order session, OnePlus is giving their customers another crack at it:
Besides deciding that an apology was in order, OnePlus has decided to give consumers a second chance to pre-order its flagship phone. So on November 17th, starting at 10am EST, another OnePlus One pre-order period will begin.
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No root coming? (all S7s/S7 Edges with the Qualcomm variant have a hardlocked bootloa

So mad right now: http://www.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7-bootloader-lock-explained-you-might-not-get-aosp-after-all/

yourbrotherrex said:
So mad right now: http://www.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7-bootloader-lock-explained-you-might-not-get-aosp-after-all/
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they should release an official unlocking tool . But im sure they will find a wayy
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Time to send the phone back, locked bootloader makes this pretty useless.

metalfan78 said:
Time to send the phone back, locked bootloader makes this pretty useless.
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It really sucks because I paid off an installment plan early to get it, because I love the device.
Now that I've got to return it, I have no idea what I'll end up with. Sprint no longer sells Nexus devices, they skipped the V10, and it'll be a while before they get either the G5 or the M10, and idk whether I'll even like those devices when they do, or whether or not they'll be locked down as well.
I might actually be stuck with the G3 for a while.

over in the tmobile thread we have started a social media campaign... search on twitter for #freethes7edge and #bootloadergate start tweeting to sprint's CEO and to @Samsungmobileus the more we get the better our chances of getting a tool to unlock these phones.

I've been tweeting all afternoon. Hopefully we can get enough people to voice our frustration.

@marceloclaure @SamsungmobileUS #bootloadergate #bootloaderfreedom

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KEEP THOSE SPRINT TWEETS COMING!!! The more we have on board, the more our voices are heard!

Hoping over from T-Mo forums... Help us out too guys! If our device gets unlocked we can probably share the goodness with you as well since it has to be done with a software update or software. Sprint doesn't have someone like John Legere.... if we ***** at him enough he'll ***** at Samsung until we shut up. He hates having his Twitter spammed.

https://www.change.org/p/samsung-unlock-boot-loaders-s7-s7-edge
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Gave mine back

I'm returning mine this weekend I think. If they unlock it I will get it again, but I'm not paying hard earned money for something I can't fully use.

Let's not give up so easily guys. I have more faith on our developers. They've faced much adversity and this one will be overcomed.
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I'll buy it again when someone cracks it.

metalfan78 said:
I'll buy it again when someone cracks it.
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Same here. Going back to the s5. And
Taking this s7 back until it creaks root
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Yea, so I bought my s5 on Swappa about 2 years ago, tried to reactivate today, turns out it slipped through Swappa's verification process and it was a stolen device. It was immediately blacklisted last Tuesday when I activated my s7, so I'm pretty much screwed right now.

metalfan78 said:
Yea, so I bought my s5 on Swappa about 2 years ago, tried to reactivate today, turns out it slipped through Swappa's verification process and it was a stolen device. It was immediately blacklisted last Tuesday when I activated my s7, so I'm pretty much screwed right now.
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Wtfffff. U serious. Thats messed up man. Good thing is i got to keep my VR and the 64gb memory chip. Probably gonna get a note 4. Because of the vr. Then wait on the note 6
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Yea, it sucks. Swappa is trying to fix it and waiting for Sprint management to call me, so mad.

metalfan78 said:
Yea, it sucks. Swappa is trying to fix it and waiting for Sprint management to call me, so mad.
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Oh man i was on the phone with sprint for 3 freaking hours. Trying to refix my upgrade
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