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[S O F I]

^did it come to you over the air?

 

[ARon]

Yeah. I lost my other phone and paid the insurance crap for a new one that I got like a week ago. i didn't want to bother flashing it til the weekend but then the update came ota so i said fuck it. It's cool though.

I want to flash to hero again but I dont know, think I'm gonna wait til a new one comes out again, or someone updates theres to something quicker and more stable

 

[masta247]

So you guys get a new phone for free once your old one gets stolen/lost? ^^

That's funny and clearly shows the difference between American operators and ours then (though some of them are in fact same companies) since I had to pay for locking my number when my old phone got stolen and had to buy a new one for it's full price (which is 1.5x more than a new one in a retail store) only then I could have my number unlocked and get a new sim card (which I had to pay for too). It was long ago so now you don't have to buy a new phone, just buy a sim card but still you're phoneless.
And I think I don't have to say how often you happen to get your phone stolen here.

 

[ARon]

I have insurance on my phone which is like $6 extra a month, then to replace it cus it was lost/stolen it was straight up $80. If it's water damage, hardware failure, etc.. they will send me a new one for free. It depends on the problem though. The new one isn't necessarily "new" either, sometimes they're refurbished or what not, it's pretty much new though. The one I got was brand new though so it's cool

 

[THEV1LL4N]

So you guys get a new phone for free once your old one gets stolen/lost? ^^

That's funny and clearly shows the difference between American operators and ours then (though some of them are in fact same companies) since I had to pay for locking my number when my old phone got stolen and had to buy a new one for it's full price (which is 1.5x more than a new one in a retail store) only then I could have my number unlocked and get a new sim card (which I had to pay for too). It was long ago so now you don't have to buy a new phone, just buy a sim card but still you're phoneless.
And I think I don't have to say how often you happen to get your phone stolen here.

i dont know why they charge so much for you guys. its not fair the way they price you out of buying phones or getting insured.

I have insurance on my phone which is like $6 extra a month, then to replace it cus it was lost/stolen it was straight up $80. If it's water damage, hardware failure, etc.. they will send me a new one for free. It depends on the problem though. The new one isn't necessarily "new" either, sometimes they're refurbished or what not, it's pretty much new though. The one I got was brand new though so it's cool

you're lucky you get insurance for $6 extra per month, mine was like £10-12 which is like $25-$30 a month extra.

 

[ARon]

I ran into a major problem. How can I run my apps of my sdcard now?

 

[Casey]

I ran into a major problem. How can I run my apps of my sdcard now?

What ROM are you running?

 

[ARon]

Just 1.6 Donut. I lost my old phone runnin cyans and got a new one a week ago like I said earlier. I updated OTA to the new Donut and yeah.

 

[S O F I]

where's my donut ota update?

 

[ARon]

Is your phone rooted? If so it won't send OTA. You can find it though for sure

 

[S O F I]

naw, it's not.

but I didn't wait for the cupcake update OTA, I downloaded it off of a link that casey here provided...so I wonder if that will stop me from getting the update OTA..

 

[THEV1LL4N]

i want donut, but i know it wont really be much different.

if only it was possible to root but keep the stock rom, i.e. no messing around with ROMs and flashing etc...

 

[Casey]

naw, it's not.

but I didn't wait for the cupcake update OTA, I downloaded it off of a link that casey here provided...so I wonder if that will stop me from getting the update OTA..

No, it won't stop you. You'll only stop getting OTA's if you're running a custom ROM, because official updates will remove root access.

There's a new full 1.6 Cyanogen ROM out now anyway. I'll probably update to it later.

 

[masta247]

This looks good:

Samsung T939 Behold II joins T-Mobile Android army - GSMArena.com news

A slim and rather small Android phone.

 

[S O F I]

i got the Donut update early this morning...aside from the market and the camera I can't notice a difference. But I like the changes to them..

 

[Casey]

Power control widget, global search, and Battery Use (Menu>Settings>About Phone>) are the main new things in 1.6

 

[S O F I]

thanks!

and yeah, that text to speech synthesis nonsense. It was fun repeating "[name] sucks cock" for 5 minutes in the car though.

 

[Casey]

LMAO! Gotta love that TTS.

 

[ARon]

I have more fun seeing what it thinks I said then actually using it lol. Shitty tech right now but once it gets better it'll be tight. I said fuck and it spelled #### but the person i sent it to stil got fuck spelt out as fuck, was weird

 

[THEV1LL4N]

thanks!

and yeah, that text to speech synthesis nonsense. It was fun repeating "[name] sucks cock" for 5 minutes in the car though.

LMAO! Gotta love that TTS.

lol. i used to do that with my nokia 6280 and n95 except it wasnt speech to text, it was text to speech using 'tags' for my contacts.

I have more fun seeing what it thinks I said then actually using it lol. Shitty tech right now but once it gets better it'll be tight. I said fuck and it spelled #### but the person i sent it to stil got fuck spelt out as fuck, was weird

wierd, lol. got the job done in the end.

if that were apple, they would ban it and not even send the censored word again policing the place and banning our freedom in yet more ways ha.