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I am NOT one of the iPhone people, however, I did see a commercial for the iPhone and the key feature was actually viewing a list of your voicemail messages so that you can decide which message to listen to and which one to skip over, and not waste your time on. Has anyone got their hands on this and been able to make it Wizard compatible? Of all the "features" on the iPhone, this one is the only one I'd truly want or even use.
Please if you have heard anything about this application, and whether anyone can HTC-ify it, please post and let me know...or if there is an individual 3rd party app out there the is very similar, I'd sure appreciate a linky.
Thanks.

as far as i know this feature depends on the provider. it's a special service that AT&T offers for the iphone.
T-Mobile (germany) had to implement it in their infrastructure to have the iphone show the messages in the mailbox.
so, it's not only a tool and i guess it won't work with providers, that don't have the rights to sell iPhones.

Cipher said:
as far as i know this feature depends on the provider. it's a special service that AT&T offers for the iphone.
T-Mobile (germany) had to implement it in their infrastructure to have the iphone show the messages in the mailbox.
so, it's not only a tool and i guess it won't work with providers, that don't have the rights to sell iPhones.
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Well now, THAT sucks!!!
I am NOT going to AT&T or buying a stupid iPhone...but damn, I wish I had that feature with Tmo!!

akashastrega said:
Well now, THAT sucks!!!
I am NOT going to AT&T or buying a stupid iPhone...but damn, I wish I had that feature with Tmo!!
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I hear you on that one... I really liked that feature when I saw it on TV and was wondering the same thing myself but I doubted it as soon as I thought of it and now it is proving to impossible... Sadly...

GotVoice.com also has this service. You link to your v-mails via their site. Sorry, no stand-alone app, plus I think you have to pay for the service and/or to have an account.

When Rooted do I have to go back to stock ruu it another account

If I can get one quick answer for how many times I might be torn apart for asking that would be great. Friday I added a new line to my family plan to get the evo. I am trying to put my hero running fresh 2.1.2 on another line that is one my account. I got it at Radio Shack and they had no idea what they were doing and screwed up my account. After a day and a half I finally got the accounts switched and when I activated the 3g wont come on the hero. I have all needed codes and have spent about 7 hours total trying to get it working. I am thinking about flashing back to stock but don't want to if not needed. Any help or at least a direction to be pointed. All else fails, I'm going to the sprint store.

Try it. Use the 2.1 ruu .exe in the 2.1 root guide. DONT DONT DONT accept the OTA when you boot or you can't reroot. Use the UNREVOKED.apk to one click root again.

feefeeboomboom said:
Try it. Use the 2.1 ruu .exe in the 2.1 root guide. DONT DONT DONT accept the OTA when you boot or you can't reroot. Use the UNREVOKED.apk to one click root again.
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Good looking out. Going to do it right now. Just out of curiosity, has anyone else had trouble switching accounts on a rooted phone

Not that IV heard.

feefeeboomboom said:
Not that IV heard.
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Yeah, I'm thinking i was cause where I bought it. The people I got it from RadioShack had no idea what they were doing. They thought I was crazy when I asked them to switch some esn's around. When I talked to sprint they said radioshack had been screwing up alot of accounts. So if are buying from there, have them do nothing but sale you the phone and activate it. Heading to sprint, quick question, if I go in there with a rooted hero will they trip?

svlittle said:
Yeah, I'm thinking i was cause where I bought it. The people I got it from RadioShack had no idea what they were doing. They thought I was crazy when I asked them to switch some esn's around. When I talked to sprint they said radioshack had been screwing up alot of accounts. So if are buying from there, have them do nothing but sale you the phone and activate it. Heading to sprint, quick question, if I go in there with a rooted hero will they trip?
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Depends on who's working and how obvious it is.
Usually they're dumb enough to believe you when you say "Oh, it's an app I found"

svlittle said:
Yeah, I'm thinking i was cause where I bought it. The people I got it from RadioShack had no idea what they were doing. They thought I was crazy when I asked them to switch some esn's around. When I talked to sprint they said radioshack had been screwing up alot of accounts. So if are buying from there, have them do nothing but sale you the phone and activate it. Heading to sprint, quick question, if I go in there with a rooted hero will they trip?
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This has nothing to do with the phone being rooted.
FYI indirect dealers like radio shack don't have the full ability to switch around esns among lines on an account.
Basically three things have to happen:
first you have to free up existing phones on existing lines. (only sprint can really do this, save for doing an upgrade)
second you have to change the account to reflect the new phones on the new lines. (indirect dealers CAN do this once the line is freed up)
third: you have to initiate either an auto ota programming, or use unlock codes to edit the mobile identification number and your mobile directory number (these are both usually your phone number, but sometimes the MDN is not) Again, only sprint can do this as they have the unlock codes.
Your RS rep probably didn't realize this, and only changed around your account as needed. Now, true, they should have just called Sprint and made sure, or had you make a call on the hero to make sure it was working right... but let's be fair, I'll bet at some point in your life you made a mistake where you thought you knew what you were doing and it turns out you didn't.
Line switches like this aren't common requests at indirect dealers. They mainly handle new account and upgrades.

I work at a Radio Shack and we regularly switch lines around like that, we do have to call it in to Sprint though. As with anywhere it's rarely the company and more the person working that's stupid.

canterrain said:
This has nothing to do with the phone being rooted.
FYI indirect dealers like radio shack don't have the full ability to switch around esns among lines on an account.
Basically three things have to happen:
first you have to free up existing phones on existing lines. (only sprint can really do this, save for doing an upgrade)
second you have to change the account to reflect the new phones on the new lines. (indirect dealers CAN do this once the line is freed up)
third: you have to initiate either an auto ota programming, or use unlock codes to edit the mobile identification number and your mobile directory number (these are both usually your phone number, but sometimes the MDN is not) Again, only sprint can do this as they have the unlock codes.
Your RS rep probably didn't realize this, and only changed around your account as needed. Now, true, they should have just called Sprint and made sure, or had you make a call on the hero to make sure it was working right... but let's be fair, I'll bet at some point in your life you made a mistake where you thought you knew what you were doing and it turns out you didn't.
Line switches like this aren't common requests at indirect dealers. They mainly handle new account and upgrades.[/QUOT
I sell att, verizon and tmobile for costco. I sell a lot of phones, but I've never sold a phone and sent the customer away with out the phone working and them to figure it out themselves. I usually reward salesman that overachieve and work for their commission by buying as much as i can. On the other hand I don't like to give credit that doubt know about what their selling. In other words, know what your selling, I always do and I've sold just about everything.
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[Q] Sprint account website - switching between phones

For me, it seems to be a major pain to switch between phones. Actually, it isn't an issue to switch back to the HTC One. But when I want to switch back to the EVO 3D, it returns an error...
Sorry, allow me to clarify. When you log in to your Sprint account, and you scroll down a bit (depending on your screen resolution, no scrolling down may be needed lol) and you see your phone info, how much 3G data you've used and how many texts have been sent/received for the current billing cycle. On the right of that, there's a drop-down menu and I select "Activate a new phone". It takes me to the next page which has a picture of the HTC One on the left, and the Evo on the right, which is the phone I want to re-use again for texting/data, and below these pictures are a list of warnings and things that need to be known (like pictures/SMS need to be backed up, blah blah) and then I press "Continue" at the bottom. And then it gives me this error:
"This page is no longer available. To complete your activation, you'll need to start over. If you have questions about your swap, please review your confirmation email.
You may also return to My Sprint."
I'm sick of having to e-mail [email protected] every time I want to do this. Is there not a way to do this on my own without contacting them? *sighs* Was much easier with GSM phones, just have to take out the SIM and then put it in another GSM phone and I'd be good to go (after rebooting of course.)

A lot of issues are due to incompatible SOCs Sprint uses to attach the certain kinds of phones onto the account. It is usually a smooth transition using the website, especially if going from an alike phone to an alike phone (Wimax capable -> Wimax capable; blackberry -> blackberry). But often times when going from a LTE device to any other device not capable of LTE requires adjusting SOCs on the account, which the website unfortunately has a hard time doing.
But that's when you either call in and have them do it over the phone or easily open up a chat session. They'll get it done for you!

Thanks \m/.
Instead of making another thread, I thought I'd ask something else in here.
It's related to selling the HTC One with an active Sprint account.
What happens if I sell the HTC One, and that new owner tried to activate it on his network but it would return an error saying that it's already active on the first owner's account? (mine)
Does that mean as soon as I sell the device, I have to cancel Sprint service and use that money to pay for the ETF so that it becomes neutral with a clean ESN?
What about the SIM card in the phone? Do I take it out or just leave it in there? I need to know these things before I go ahead and sell the phone..?

N0wy0ud1e said:
Thanks \m/.
Instead of making another thread, I thought I'd ask something else in here.
It's related to selling the HTC One with an active Sprint account.
What happens if I sell the HTC One, and that new owner tried to activate it on his network but it would return an error saying that it's already active on the first owner's account? (mine)
Does that mean as soon as I sell the device, I have to cancel Sprint service and use that money to pay for the ETF so that it becomes neutral with a clean ESN?
What about the SIM card in the phone? Do I take it out or just leave it in there? I need to know these things before I go ahead and sell the phone..?
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Pretty much yes on both questions.
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00mred00 said:
Pretty much yes on both questions.
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I ported to T-Mobile, and have this perfectly good Sprint HTC One with 7 or 8 cases but didn't realize that I can't sell it on swappa if it has a bad ESN (The point is to use the money from selling the phone to pay off the remaining balance so that it gets a clean ESN) so I wonder if there are other places to sell the phone because I'm not having much luck on Hardforum or Anandtech forums despite having 119 positive Heatware evaluations.

Did AT&T add bloatware with the camera update?

I probably just never noticed it but did AT&T add AT&T Locker to the Moto X when I installed my camera update? I swear when I got the phone the only 2 bloatware apps were Address Book and Visual Voicemail....am I going nuts?

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I probably just never noticed it but did AT&T add AT&T Locker to the Moto X when I installed my camera update? I swear when I got the phone the only 2 bloatware apps were Address Book and Visual Voicemail....am I going nuts?
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Yep.
But even with that addition, the only phone AT&T sells with less crap on it is an iPhone.

Ok cool. I disabled it but I could have sworn that I had already disabled everything that came on the phone then I saw that today and i was like whaaat?

att locker gives 50 gigs of free storage. might be worth it to keep it.

AT&T already knows enough about me I don't want even the possibility of them having access to anything else of mine

agreed. I only store media there.

My phone was lost, tracking app has come alive!

Greetings good people of the xda-developers forum!
After a little reading around I figure this is the most apropriate forum to post this thread in, correct me if I'm wrong.
Earlier this year I lost my phone in a cab after a night out, the driver decided to keep my phone instead of turning it in (usually if you leave something in a taxi in this region, you'll have it back with a little humiliation from the taxi-central the day after, not this time though).
A couple months after loosing it, I got a "emergency message" from my lost phone, and it went on and off for a little while untill yesterday when it apparently was taken into use! I have an "invisible" tracking app installed that will survive factory resets and gives me the opportunity to take pictures, record sound and some more.
Anyway, the phone has moved a couple countries away since it was initially lost, so I've lost hope of reclaiming it. My plan now is to give an honest shot at making my phone the most annoying device the new owner has ever had!
I come to this forum now, looking for inspiration/ideas and warning where warnings are due!
Is there anything I really shouldn't do, that could come back and bite me?
What would you do if you were in my situation?
Any good ideas of how to bother this guy?
So far I've only really come up with the idea of wiping his data from time to time..
I appreciate any ideas or warnings!
Thanks!

vengeful said:
Greetings good people of the xda-developers forum!
After a little reading around I figure this is the most apropriate forum to post this thread in, correct me if I'm wrong.
Earlier this year I lost my phone in a cab after a night out, the driver decided to keep my phone instead of turning it in (usually if you leave something in a taxi in this region, you'll have it back with a little humiliation from the taxi-central the day after, not this time though).
A couple months after loosing it, I got a "emergency message" from my lost phone, and it went on and off for a little while untill yesterday when it apparently was taken into use! I have an "invisible" tracking app installed that will survive factory resets and gives me the opportunity to take pictures, record sound and some more.
Anyway, the phone has moved a couple countries away since it was initially lost, so I've lost hope of reclaiming it. My plan now is to give an honest shot at making my phone the most annoying device the new owner has ever had!
I come to this forum now, looking for inspiration/ideas and warning where warnings are due!
Is there anything I really shouldn't do, that could come back and bite me?
What would you do if you were in my situation?
Any good ideas of how to bother this guy?
So far I've only really come up with the idea of wiping his data from time to time..
I appreciate any ideas or warnings!
Thanks!
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it will not back bite you if have retail invoice of that phone do whatever you want

Isn't it possible, even with sim card phones, to call your carrier, report it stolen, and have it basically bricked so Noone can use it again. I know they can with like sprint and Verizon phones that don't take sim cards. But I've heard of it happening with sim devices too. I would just try calling your carrier.
If that don't work. I'd leave it alone. The person who has your phone now probably isn't the person who took it. Which is why it was sold out of the country. And that person most likely doesn't deserve all that crap
Contemplating getting the S5....

SaintCity86 said:
Isn't it possible, even with sim card phones, to call your carrier, report it stolen, and have it basically bricked so Noone can use it again. I know they can with like sprint and Verizon phones that don't take sim cards. But I've heard of it happening with sim devices too. I would just try calling your carrier.
If that don't work. I'd leave it alone. The person who has your phone now probably isn't the person who took it. Which is why it was sold out of the country. And that person most likely doesn't deserve all that crap
Contemplating getting the S5....
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That's the nasty part of stealing a phone. The Carrier will lock the "ESN" (Electronic Serial Number) so all they need to do is flash it over to another carrier... I.E. if you have a GSN type phone from say AT&T you can flash the software over to T-Mobile who doesn't give a flying flip about a stolen ESN (As a example) I personally have T-Mobile... They did try to make a law making req the manufacture to add a "Kill Switch" allowing the consumer to render the phone useless how ever that did not pass... SO Basically some one steals your phone that's it nothing you can do but buy another phone or hack into it like the OP..
TO OP: I'd go Impractical Jokers Style. Ease drop on him and play really dirty sounds (Porn sounds... moans/grunts etc) then Fry the phone... **** that guy he had to know it was stolen and if he didn't he's a fool... Check your ESN's People!

abhishek 9650 said:
it will not back bite you if have retail invoice of that phone do whatever you want
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For the record, I do have the invoice.
SaintCity86 said:
Isn't it possible, even with sim card phones, to call your carrier, report it stolen, and have it basically bricked so Noone can use it again. I know they can with like sprint and Verizon phones that don't take sim cards. But I've heard of it happening with sim devices too. I would just try calling your carrier.
If that don't work. I'd leave it alone. The person who has your phone now probably isn't the person who took it. Which is why it was sold out of the country. And that person most likely doesn't deserve all that crap
Contemplating getting the S5....
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It is indeed possible, but not flawless. There is supposed to be some automation to it in the country the phone was initially lost, but either this automation failed or it's sucess is the reason it left that country. Problem is though, the idea is that they block the IMEI from the networks, but some countries are not part of this agreement/system.
I think the guy who is currently in posession of the phone knows perfectly well how it was acquired. Judging from pictures taken through the phone, the taxi-driver and the current holder of the phone may very well be related. Also, the phone had it's language changed to Arabic by the taxi-driver, this has not been changed by the new user (not that it prooves anything). There is also the fact that the SIM inserted in the phone in the country I lost it in, followed the phone over to the current country, where it was replaced by what appears to be a prepaid SIM. I don't think this phone was up for sale anywhere, I think the taxidriver sold or gave it away to some family member coming to visit.
As mentioned, I have no hope of having it returned. I'm not gonna push this too far, but I do feel like putting a dent in his joy over his shadily acquired device.
Drooling a little over the HTC One M8

Tangodown78 said:
That's the nasty part of stealing a phone. The Carrier will lock the "ESN" (Electronic Serial Number) so all they need to do is flash it over to another carrier... I.E. if you have a GSN type phone from say AT&T you can flash the software over to T-Mobile who doesn't give a flying flip about a stolen ESN (As a example) I personally have T-Mobile... They did try to make a law making req the manufacture to add a "Kill Switch" allowing the consumer to render the phone useless how ever that did not pass... SO Basically some one steals your phone that's it nothing you can do but buy another phone or hack into it like the OP..
TO OP: I'd go Impractical Jokers Style. Ease drop on him and play really dirty sounds (Porn sounds... moans/grunts etc) then Fry the phone... **** that guy he had to know it was stolen and if he didn't he's a fool... Check your ESN's People!
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As far as I've understood, in the European countries that are part of this agreement any locked IMEI number will be locked out of all mobile networks, this can only be worked around by changing the IMEI number or shipping the phone off to some country that is not part of this agreement. In the country my phone was lost the police send a notification to the networks when they recieve a lost/stolen report. Not sure if it went through in my case.
My list of options are limited to what my tracking software allows me to do, sadly (or happily, depending how you look at it) my programming skills are not by far sufficient for me to go beyond what the software offers, allthough I reckon someone with the right knowledge could use the tracking software as a backdoor into the device?

Wow. I'll be honest, I never thought them tracking apps would ever give you anything useful, but if your able to basically see every picture they take, take pictures yourself...I think that's crazy... wipe the phone....
What exactly can you do with yours? Read texts sent and received on the phone? Does it gps track its location on demand? Even if the gps is disabled in the device itself?
You said the one you have stays on the device even after restores and factory resets? What's the name of the app?
As for the locked esns.... If an American cell company like tmo locks one up, is that gonna stick over any of the carriers in the US? Basically, all 4 of them?
Cuz I know before, as long as you had a sim card, it didn't matter, you just swapped it for a new one.
Contemplating getting the S5....

Wish they did that here... though the explanation was for the poster above me... Id use what ever i could to screw with him... what ever happens good luck messing with the dirt bag
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I would also like to know this app

Go the South Park route. Some cartoon parodies of Mohammed should be effective. Then again, if they are in a Muslim country they could get in a lot of trouble if they have certain content on their device.
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yea... Mocking Mohammad not general a good idea... it will get you killed. I wouldn't want that on any one's conscience

Tangodown78 said:
yea... Mocking Mohammad not general a good idea... it will get you killed. I wouldn't want that on any one's conscience
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No different than mocking L. Ron Hubbard or Jesus. All of them are con men and are fair game. Don't believe the hype.
I am very spiritual, believe in a higher power, but I will never bow down to some schmuck just because I am told to.
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c5satellite2 said:
No different than mocking L. Ron Hubbard or Jesus. All of them are con men and are fair game. Don't believe the hype.
I am very spiritual, believe in a higher power, but I will never bow down to some schmuck just because I am told to.
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Bro, dafuq, don't insult other members of xda. Calling religious icons schmucks will insult some people. THIS IS NO PLACE TO HAVE A RELIGIOUS WAR. So stfu and leave the thread back to it's topic. Thank you.

I'm using Cerberus. I had the same app installed without root access/without placing it in system/apps on another phone I lost a couple months earlier, in which case it gave me absolutely nothing. This one however, installed in system/apps with root access, appears to be "immortal".
I reckon they will have a comprehensive list of what you can do with the app on their homepage.
I don't know anything about how things are done in the US.
I'm not gonna do religious insults. I wan't to annoy him, not make him want my head on a stick.
Yesterday a sound recording convinced me he was in a crowded area, so I couldn't resist the urge to sound the alarm. Which is played at max volume. The picture taken of him when he touched the screen to stop it was not optimal, but it did have a feeling of desperation to it
App is still active today