This was my wife's old phone. She recently got a Nexus 5 and love it, so I got her hand-me-down. When I got it, the handset was chock-a-block with T-Mo junk. Well, one flash of CyanogenMod 11 20140220-UNOFFICIAL from jfbl took care of all that.
So, for $0, I have a fully functional smartphone, that does everything I need. I'm happy and will use it for a little longer and smile all the way to the bank!
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Hey guys, well when i first got the g2x i couldn't put it down, but it lost it's luster the longer i held on to it, i sold my ipod touch last year and ive missed it since, i also spent a goo $100 in the itunes store, i decided to move to the iphone and the first step was to get rid of my phone, i know the 5's coming out but i cant afford that , and im not gonna sign a contract, i got $300 out of my G2X, which i think isn't too bad, i am currently looking at craigslist and ebay for an unlocked/unlockable Iphone 4 for about $300, if anyone has one hit me up. Maybe once ice cream sandwhich hits and the fragmentation stops i might come back to android, but until then im gonna be on an iphone, i'll keep this updated with my thoughts/regrets if any, did i get a good price, let me know what you think?
It was in perfect condition, did i get a good deal on it what do you think?
unlocked iphone 4 for 300$? unless your looking for a used one
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thats too expensive
ok, so i finally got one a 16gb for $300 cash, perfect condition, it was on 4.2.1, then i messed with it got it stuck in dfu mode and had to update and restore it to 4.3.5 , the good news though is my gevey turbo sim got here today, and it unlocks ios 4.3.5, im on a tethered jailbreak so that kind of sucks, but if i want i'll go to stock and be able to reboot, other than that it's all good.
A couple weeks ago I hated this phone and couldn't get rid of it fast enough. But then Google fumbled the launch of the nexus 4 and I'm stuck waiting. I contemplated paying full price for a gs3,one x+, or optimus G, but $550 is just too much so I've been forced to try and like this phone, so what happened exactly?
#1. I realized since I got the ics update from day one I've been trying to break sense 3.6 and combine mods with it. Never did I ever really give it a chance so I decided to do just that. My old wcx 9/27 mod build was performing like crap, mainly Google now combined with my alterations so it was time to update, but this time I went for his pure stock build. The result is my phone is performing snappier than my Nexus 7, and I'm starting to like sense 3.6.
2. Can a case make you hate your phone? The answer is yes, yes it can. I shed the old otterbox commutter and I am currently going naked with a cheap tpu case on the way. It's a different phone without it. It's slim, sexy, and the screen is easier to touch on the sides. You couldn't beat the protection but it completely kills the asthetics and usability of the phone. For this reason I'm done with otterbox, sticking with clear tpu cases now, and only for grip reasons, otherwise I'd just go naked.
3. For once their is hope for this phone from a development prospective. CM is almost complete and these guys really have banded together to pull this off and I congratulate all of them. I definitely plan on donating at some point, just hard when my wife doesn't quite get that lol.
And then just other things like I'm certain that build quality of the vivid is better. Also I can live without lte, a removable battery, and sd slot but I'd prefer not too. Overall Google has just given me too much time to think.
I'm still keeping the order in now but my vivid will be kept around regardless. Overall we have a great phone here, just spent too much time trying to make it better instead of enjoying it
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I know exactly what you mean. I used CM as a daily driver a couple months ago, even though my carrier is AT&T and voice calling didn't work at that time.
Now that voice calling works, this phone has at least another year of life (maybe more?) left in it.
Lesson learned, though, I bought the Vivid a week after initial release. Now, I'm only buying phones after CM announces official support.
jh64dsb877r said:
I know exactly what you mean. I used CM as a daily driver a couple months ago, even though my carrier is AT&T and voice calling didn't work at that time.
Now that voice calling works, this phone has at least another year of life (maybe more?) left in it.
Lesson learned, though, I bought the Vivid a week after initial release. Now, I'm only buying phones after CM announces official support.
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It is nicer with official cm support but the devs here have done a great job with cm10 and the other jelly bean roms.
jh64dsb877r said:
I know exactly what you mean. I used CM as a daily driver a couple months ago, even though my carrier is AT&T and voice calling didn't work at that time.
Now that voice calling works, this phone has at least another year of life (maybe more?) left in it.
Lesson learned, though, I bought the Vivid a week after initial release. Now, I'm only buying phones after CM announces official support.
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Another year should be easy, hell I was using a Captivate to start the year with, a phone released in July of 2010.
I'm going to go through with my Nexus order, because I've always wanted one but unlike my Captivate, the vivid will be kept around for backup. Gonna have to find a nice sim adapter though because the nexus 4 uses micro sims
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Cor-master said:
Another year should be easy, hell I was using a Captivate to start the year with, a phone released in July of 2010.
I'm going to go through with my Nexus order, because I've always wanted one but unlike my Captivate, the vivid will be kept around for backup. Gonna have to find a nice sim adapter though because the nexus 4 uses micro sims
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cut your sim. not that hard( be VERY carful around the contacts though; said from expierience lol)
XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
cut your sim. not that hard( be VERY carful around the contacts though; said from expierience lol)
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They sell punches cheap (http://www.amazon.com/CUTTER-ADAPTE...095855&sr=8-3&keywords=sim+to+micro+sim+punch)
That one even comes with some adapters
Hello gents, and ladies.
Before I got the S5, I started off with the S4. Was really happy switching to Android after owning the iPhone 4S for 3 years. I pretty much got tired of it, even when it was Jailbroken. After I saw the S4, I jumped on it.
Took me a week to get used to the S4. Finally got used to it and rooted the phone. After the 4.4.2 update was released, it started acting up. SIM card was unable to read and after a couple of restarts, it would work again. Then one day, the phone stopped reading the card and was unable to get it working again. I thought I needed a new card, so I had it replaced for free since it also wasn't working. The same night, I went to a drive in, and wanted to check the time on my phone, then find out the screen cracked :/.
So I went back to the AT&T store and picked up the S5. I love how fast the phone is and battery life is unbelievable. I even have it rooted thanks to the person that made it really simple to do. Hopefully one day I can do something productive and help around here. Till then, have a great weekend and a Happy 4th of July.
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Hello gents, and ladies.
Before I got the S5, I started off with the S4. Was really happy switching to Android after owning the iPhone 4S for 3 years. I pretty much got tired of it, even when it was Jailbroken. After I saw the S4, I jumped on it.
Took me a week to get used to the S4. Finally got used to it and rooted the phone. After the 4.4.2 update was released, it started acting up. SIM card was unable to read and after a couple of restarts, it would work again. Then one day, the phone stopped reading the card and was unable to get it working again. I thought I needed a new card, so I had it replaced for free since it also wasn't working. The same night, I went to a drive in, and wanted to check the time on my phone, then find out the screen cracked :/.
So I went back to the AT&T store and picked up the S5. I love how fast the phone is and battery life is unbelievable. I even have it rooted thanks to the person that made it really simple to do. Hopefully one day I can do something productive and help around here. Till then, have a great weekend and a Happy 4th of July.
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Welcome and enjoy your phone
Cool story bro. Enjoy.
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Enjoy your s5 man. I think we can all say that we love ours.
Glad you're enjoying your s5
There are many other people making the switch as well, which is being discussed in this thread. I'll close this one so you can further discuss with everyone in that thread on the same topic.
I just got my nexus 6, two and a half weeks ago. I am coming from a Verizon galaxy nexus, so I'm pretty good at unlocking, rooting, installing roms, and the like. I bought it at best buy because I broke my gn, and being they are the only ones that had any in stock, and I need a phone or im lost, I was on vacation visiting family. So I got the none branded one called Verizon got it up in running in five minutes after the 20 min wait to talk to someone.
The first few days I played with it as is never had a problem. So I unlocked it, rooted it and still not any problems. Then a few days later I noticed the speaker would crackle not big thing just noticed it. After that though another weird thing started happening if I answered the phone then decided to use speaker phone i could not hear the other person and they could not hear me, and going back off speaker didn't help till we hung up and recalled.. It does not do it ever time just sometimes.. I had not installed a rom just kept it Google 5.1.1, I really like the new Android. But I did unrooted, relock, factory reset. Then did it all again. Still get some of the problems but not as much. This last problem really pist me off. I had been in 4 states and service from Verizon was great in all but one of them. The one that it didn't not work in was in Missouri not even when I got to Springfield. It was late at night so none of the ton Verizon stores I seen were open, I could dial but not have net service. I tried restarting phone even did a factory restore after trying everything I could think of. That reset screwed me though because it made it a useless since I had no net and was unable to set it back up.. Also I couldn't stop at the ton of Verizon stores in the morning bc they didn't open till later in the day and I needed to get home. The weird thing is almost as soon as I crossed into OK the phone loaded up and started working internet and all.
So my question is, is this normal with these phones? And is their any way to make the radio better? It was on global in that setting so I switched to USA. Still seems to work fine now at my house.
Any help or tips would be much appreciated. Or should I try and do a warranty through Motorola?
I really like this phone and its a major improvement over the gn since we at Verizon got skipped with nexus 5. This battery is a beast 12+hrs doing a crap load of stuff on it rocks
Rbh50815 said:
I just got my nexus 6, two and a half weeks ago. I am coming from a Verizon galaxy nexus, so I'm pretty good at unlocking, rooting, installing roms, and the like. I bought it at best buy because I broke my gn, and being they are the only ones that had any in stock, and I need a phone or im lost, I was on vacation visiting family. So I got the none branded one called Verizon got it up in running in five minutes after the 20 min wait to talk to someone.
The first few days I played with it as is never had a problem. So I unlocked it, rooted it and still not any problems. Then a few days later I noticed the speaker would crackle not big thing just noticed it. After that though another weird thing started happening if I answered the phone then decided to use speaker phone i could not hear the other person and they could not hear me, and going back off speaker didn't help till we hung up and recalled.. It does not do it ever time just sometimes.. I had not installed a rom just kept it Google 5.1.1, I really like the new Android. But I did unrooted, relock, factory reset. Then did it all again. Still get some of the problems but not as much. This last problem really pist me off. I had been in 4 states and service from Verizon was great in all but one of them. The one that it didn't not work in was in Missouri not even when I got to Springfield. It was late at night so none of the ton Verizon stores I seen were open, I could dial but not have net service. I tried restarting phone even did a factory restore after trying everything I could think of. That reset screwed me though because it made it a useless since I had no net and was unable to set it back up.. Also I couldn't stop at the ton of Verizon stores in the morning bc they didn't open till later in the day and I needed to get home. The weird thing is almost as soon as I crossed into OK the phone loaded up and started working internet and all.
So my question is, is this normal with these phones? And is their any way to make the radio better? It was on global in that setting so I switched to USA. Still seems to work fine now at my house.
Any help or tips would be much appreciated. Or should I try and do a warranty through Motorola?
I really like this phone and its a major improvement over the gn since we at Verizon got skipped with nexus 5. This battery is a beast 12+hrs doing a crap load of stuff on it rocks
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The speaker issue is definitely a known issue. RMA is the only solution.
Crap that really sucks. Thank you though for the reply. Do you know with the RMA if I have to send the phone back first and wait, or will they send a replacement first? Also do they replace with a new one or reman?
I was really hoping it was something in the settings
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Crap that really sucks. Thank you though for the reply. Do you know with the RMA if I have to send the phone back first and wait, or will they send a replacement first? Also do they replace with a new one or reman?
I was really hoping it was something in the settings
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Not sure, best to call and find out.
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Crap that really sucks. Thank you though for the reply. Do you know with the RMA if I have to send the phone back first and wait, or will they send a replacement first? Also do they replace with a new one or reman?
I was really hoping it was something in the settings
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May luck out and get new but at this point in the cycle probably refurb. Have to send in first or have creditcard they can hit for what it worth now to send first. Credit hit will be deleted once they show it coming back.
Ok I've had the worst bit of luck for digging into rooting and went in with out looking and that's how I learn the best but open for more knowledge. The Sprint Note 5 I rooted about a year and a half or so ago and had it since the first few weeks that it hit the shelf but didn't realize that phone was so difficult to work with and figured that out with the nougat update. But that's fine learned alot but the Ironman rom that has been taunting me ever since I seen it. Lol has any one get it to actually work on the SM-N920P Sprint Note 5 like every one likes to claim it works one every note 5? I've been trying every lead and read everything I've came across. The phone works like a champ and mainly use it for a back up and games and no matter what I put it through it still will not die. So thanks if you do have a option or point me the right direction but if not all good just figured I would ask any ways. Merry Christmas.