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FOr those looking for the T-Mobile snap...

Its official http://www.tmonews.com/2009/06/t-mobile-announces-dash-3g/

Thanks, but for some reason I think you may be rubbing in our face a bit
How do you like it?

Im considering adding a line to get one. Then we'll all be obessing about the G2 after the snap is old news.

shwweeetness
Yeah only issue I'm having is 3G is still a no go in my city. Flippin Tmo get your network up already. TMo Baxter is barking and in Milwaukee.
WTF I hear Q3 but that's blowing smoke

i saw a "snap" at best buy the other day for sprint, and i must say i was not very impressed at first use.
the leyboard seemed pretty nice and i liked the hardware upgrades, but i dont know if its for me. (hell ill probably get one if the price is not to high and they dont require a data upgrade, i got the tzones setup right now and i fought hard to get it back)
then again when i first saw the dash on the internet i was like, man thats an ugly phone, then i got one lol. man i love the dash

cswroe said:
Thanks, but for some reason I think you may be rubbing in our face a bit
How do you like it?
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So far so good. I have not had a chance to really get under the hood but as far as usage its fast, the GPS is smooth (usually have 7 to 20 sats at any given time) the battery lasts a full day with the GPS running nearly all the time (I use it as my Nav device) the track ball takes a bit getting used to but after a day or two you will wonder how you got along without it. Calls are clear and crisp. 3G is awesome.. the limited areas I have that is. The only real issue I have with it is speaker volume (watching movies, listening to MP3's etc) It seems a bit low in my opinion.
Mine is T-Mo branded device, I got it through.. lets say.. the back door

So did Tmo do a sloppy job on the ROM like they did with the Dash or is it usable? Does it have useless crap like handigo and will there be an HTC unbranded ROM availible for it?

Bupahs said:
So far so good. I have not had a chance to really get under the hood but as far as usage its fast, the GPS is smooth (usually have 7 to 20 sats at any given time) the battery lasts a full day with the GPS running nearly all the time (I use it as my Nav device) the track ball takes a bit getting used to but after a day or two you will wonder how you got along without it. Calls are clear and crisp. 3G is awesome.. the limited areas I have that is. The only real issue I have with it is speaker volume (watching movies, listening to MP3's etc) It seems a bit low in my opinion.
Mine is T-Mo branded device, I got it through.. lets say.. the back door
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Fantastic, I shall wait patiently! The countdown is on!

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So did Tmo do a sloppy job on the ROM like they did with the Dash or is it usable? Does it have useless crap like handigo and will there be an HTC unbranded ROM availible for it?
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Yes, its sloppy, and T-Mobile added their junk of course. But the ROM aint too bad considering. As for as the HTC ROM, There will be a WM 6.5 HTC ROM (at least that is the buzz) and T-Mo will probably offer an update to 6.5 as well. Of course it wont take long for the folks here to offer up some variety ROMs

I seriously think I might use my upgrade credit to get one.
My company has been blackberry-only for 2 years, and i'm finally getting a dash for my personal line, but I may decide to try one out.
I'll have to get blackberry connect on it though.
Now, if they would just hurry up and get 3G in Albuquerque and EL Paso

3g is offered here where I live, but Im moving to Missouri where Ill be roaming on ATnT. Oh well, I wonder if I can weasel out of my contract due to living in an area where no service is offered and unlock my T-Mo phones.

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3g is offered here where I live, but Im moving to Missouri where Ill be roaming on ATnT. Oh well, I wonder if I can weasel out of my contract due to living in an area where no service is offered and unlock my T-Mo phones.
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You can get out of contract if you can prove you moved to an area without service. As far as unlocking, do it before you cancel contract, a stipulation is you have to be an active customer to get the unlock codes

Cool and yea im aware of that. I been a long time customer of T-mo thought and with flex pay I get free roaming. So Im not sure what Im gonna do, if I do switch to a similar plan Ill be paying around 15 dollars more a month and not get fav 5.
Have you tried the pocket emulators (snes,NES) on the snap yet? How do they run? I was thinkin of just remapping the D-pad to QWES so I wouldnt have to play using the track ball. Also what kind of java is it running?

It has JBED, but since I dont use Java its not that big of a deal. I installed Smartgear and a few hundred ROMs, no problems so far on any of the games, the track ball actually works perfectly with the games.. since it is not a spin and cycle track ball it works pretty much the same as the D-Pad. I installed most of what I had on my Dash and the only program to give me any 'issues' was Duke 3d.. but after tweeking the user files it runs perfectly.

datz phat.

I would get it if there was a GBA emulator for smartphones.
But until then, I'll be putting my eye on a new PPC xD

Any Images of the VF branded TP2 please...

Hi Folks,
Just wanted to check what this thing looked like as I cannot get to see one, especially the keyboard. All the marketing pictures on VF's site seem to be the original HTC ones.
Also interested to hear how folks have got on with any unbranding efforts now that we are quite a few weeks into availability. I think there are some beta CABS around...
Thanks,
Sam

Look on the vodafone business site at the picture of the Diamond. The TF looks the same as that. Horrible!
It is simple to remove using one cab file that will put the phone to a plain black. You can then use any other theme you like, or part of a theme

Stunno,
Thanks for this. Yes, had a look.... hmm. But as you say it takes just one cab file.
Has the keyboard been "painted" red in anyway or lit up in red or is it the original? Hopefully the external branding is just the front and back logo.
Otherwise are you happy with VF? About to take the plunge from another operator.
Thanks,
Sam

Double post due to system hanging....

Sam, no the keyboard appears to be standard, grey keys with black lettering until it lights up and the lettering glows white and green for the FN button. The only visible VF stuff is indeed on the front and back but is very discreet
Vodafone has been very good. I have been with Tmobile for about 6 years and the signal strength/reception is much better with VF, apart from the odd blank spot, Tmobile reception in rural areas was shocking. Having said that I haven't seen an 'H' yet with VF.
I've uploaded the VF manual for you if you want to take a look its about 14MB. It has several depictions of the branding, but as i say it only takes one cab installation of about 10 minutes to clear it
http://rapidshare.com/files/250000341/HTC_Touch_Pro2_Vodafone_UK_English_User_Manual_v1.pdf

Stunno,
You are a star...... Thanks...
Sam

Stunno,
Just scanned the manual... Very useful insight... and reassuring to be honest althought the theme is a little "blood red".
One final thing.... Have VF removed any apps off the original ie YouTube App etc... No doubt any VOIP functionality might have been nobbled as well ???
Another point that you might have thought about is the upgrade policy of VF for things such as firmware and WM6.5. Apparently they are slow. Do you have thoughts on this?
Just trying to decide between 18 and 24 months contracts now !!!
Sam

That's a good question!
I have no Youtube app on mine, but, then again, I had Facebook integration until I changed themes and now I haven't.
I have read elsewhere that the youtube app had been removed, which is no bad thing as the 'allowance' is only 500MB.
There is also no sign of VOIP although I don't know if it is nobbled or not as I don't use that either. I rarely make international calls and my unlimited landline calls makes up for it

Stunno,
Yes the unlimited calls is very attractive to me as well. I guess it will be a good "hand free" tool as when when talking through stuff on the PC or whatever. I tended to us this a bit with my standard business landline which is now costing me too much, so turning my TP2 over for "hands free" mode may be quite an improvement.
Thanks again,
Sam

Double post...

The VF upgrade policy for software doesn't really concern me. I doubt that I would download it anyway as I always tend to use this site for anything like that.
In a few weeks hardSPL will be available, hopefully, and once the chefs get working on here there will be far superior ROMs available than anything VF can put together
I initially went for the 18 month contract, but the 3 months free and a fiver off my bill swung me to the 24 month one

Stunno,
Thanks for your thoughts... Interesting to hear how other think...
Obviously you are quite a hardcore smartphoner!! How do you deal with upgrading within contract? Do you just wait until the 21st month on the 24 when VF allows an upgrade or do you sell you the current phone and get an unlocked "newer" phone to use on the current contract?
Thanks,
Sam

Keep getting these hangs and thus double posts !!

A long time user yes, but I don't know about hardcore! I just read a lot and take grateful advantage of the excellent stuff that gets shared on here!
I tend to stick with the contract until upgrade time then look around for the phone that I want on the best deal. Apart from when I broke my Wizard, which at the time would have cost more to fix than to buy another phone! I got a great deal from Orange on a 12 month contract with a free Prophet which worked out cheaper than buying the phone!

Thanks. Appreciate the comment.
Sam

Is there an app for filtering text/calls from specific numbers?

First, if I see another "use the search" reply I'm gonna flip out...unless it's sarcasm because of me typing that. I have searched...and search, and searched, and searched. Not just on xda either.
All I want to know, is if there is an app, free, not free - WHATEVER - that can be set to delete/reject texts and call from a phone number you enter into the program. I'm sure someone would suggest it, but changing my phone number isn't an option...so after about 150 texts from the most obnoxious, stuck up, self centered.....yeah.....in the world, I need a way to keep their texts (and calls, but especially texts) from coming through.
And please don't say it isn't possible, because it is. My old Samsung had exactly that feature and it wasn't HALF the phone the Rhodium is.
So please, if anyone knows of one, please tell me and accept my apologies if my post seems rather blunt... It's been a stressful day and I don't sugar coat what I say when I'm frustrated.

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First, if I see another "use the search" reply I'm gonna flip out...unless it's sarcasm because of me typing that. I have searched...and search, and searched, and searched. Not just on xda either.
All I want to know, is if there is an app, free, not free - WHATEVER - that can be set to delete/reject texts and call from a phone number you enter into the program. I'm sure someone would suggest it, but changing my phone number isn't an option...so after about 150 texts from the most obnoxious, stuck up, self centered.....yeah.....in the world, I need a way to keep their texts (and calls, but especially texts) from coming through.
And please don't say it isn't possible, because it is. My old Samsung had exactly that feature and it wasn't HALF the phone the Rhodium is.
So please, if anyone knows of one, please tell me and accept my apologies if my post seems rather blunt... It's been a stressful day and I don't sugar coat what I say when I'm frustrated.
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use the search button!!!! jk, look for pocket bouncer.it lets you put in numbers to block im pretty sure.

Lol, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out after I get back from my run.
-edit- looks like Pocket Call Bouncer is only for calls. Is there one for texts? Even if it lets it through and deletes immediately it I'd be happy.

refyused said:
Lol, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out after I get back from my run.
-edit- looks like Pocket Call Bouncer is only for calls. Is there one for texts? Even if it lets it through and deletes immediately it I'd be happy.
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just call your service provider and have them do it.prolly the easiest way.

Just called them, didn't realize they could do that (Sprint couldn't when I worked for them). They want to charge me $5 a month to do it... I'm already paying too much for AT&T's lousy service that works less than half the time. Guess I'll just keep searching and pay their monthly fee as a last resort.
Thanks bud.

refyused said:
Just called them, didn't realize they could do that (Sprint couldn't when I worked for them). They want to charge me $5 a month to do it... I'm already paying too much for AT&T's lousy service that works less than half the time. Guess I'll just keep searching and pay their monthly fee as a last resort.
Thanks bud.
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i just told them i wasnt gonna pay that and if they wanted to lose 3 customers over 5 bucks a month be my guest. they cracked. i pay them nothing{not to mention got a new phone for free!!}

I'll try that when I call them tomorrow... Been a frustrating day.

i used kaspersky mobile security about a month ago, they have a 30 day free trial. im not sure if it will block phone calls, but it has a black and white list for text messages. it got kind of annoying to accept the first text from each different person, but maybe there was a way to add your phone book, or only worry about the black list page. had lots of extra features too you might find interesting. let me know what you think and post back for other people who have the same question!!

Use the following cab, its blocks both calls n text

Thanks for those two replies. Got some testing to do now. Thanks again!

SMS Bomber Does exactly what it says.

here is a link. try it out.
bomb the crap out of people with sms bomber.
sends the same text as many times as you want.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T8EL5NFH

I use SMS Barrage which seems to do the same.

o. never heard of it. :/. is it on the market? cuz i know this one is down from the market.

i believe it was taken down, i download JDS sms bomber before it was taken down.
The anti-sms bomber is still there however lol

thats cool but first download the unlimited sms limit remover and have a field day. i prolly got throttled from sms hitting the limit...jk, lol

Hmmm, yeah, SMS Barrage isn't on the Martket either. Maybe I downloaded it from Mobilism then...
(I'm sure it's freeware, but if anybody thinks it's not OK to post it here please delete the attachment)

well I know this app and most others were on the market but then got taken down really quick because of what it does. . It's pretty fun to mess with people though, you got to admit it.
has anyone downloaded this and tried it out?

I have, and I love it.
The problem came when I got carried away. I sent my friend 100 texts, forgetting that he didn't have unlimited texting.
I'm going to pay him back tomorrow, but I think I'm really lucky in that I was going to send him 500, but decided not to in case this happened.
He's not extremely mad though, it's only ten dollars

Wait, in the USA both you and the person you're texting have to pay for the SMS??? Isn't that against the law somehow, not being able to reject the SMS but still having to pay for it? Interesting...
Here I have approx. 600 free messages each month and I seldom use SMS, so from time to time it's fun to annoy people by sending 50-100 messages in a row. Older phones actually freeze when you do that, or run out of storage space for messages and they have to erase all.

darthmelk said:
Wait, in the USA both you and the person you're texting have to pay for the SMS??? Isn't that against the law somehow, not being able to reject the SMS but still having to pay for it? Interesting...
Here I have approx. 600 free messages each month and I seldom use SMS, so from time to time it's fun to annoy people by sending 50-100 messages in a row. Older phones actually freeze when you do that, or run out of storage space for messages and they have to erase all.
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Yes, even phone calls u need to have prepaid load if ur using prepaid...
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

darthmelk said:
Wait, in the USA both you and the person you're texting have to pay for the SMS??? Isn't that against the law somehow, not being able to reject the SMS but still having to pay for it? Interesting...
Here I have approx. 600 free messages each month and I seldom use SMS, so from time to time it's fun to annoy people by sending 50-100 messages in a row. Older phones actually freeze when you do that, or run out of storage space for messages and they have to erase all.
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yea both have to pay for it. I have tmobile and if you don't have a texting plan/ go over your limits they charge you $0.20 each. However you can call them and tell them to block text messaging on your line.

darthmelk said:
Wait, in the USA both you and the person you're texting have to pay for the SMS??? Isn't that against the law somehow, not being able to reject the SMS but still having to pay for it? Interesting...
Here I have approx. 600 free messages each month and I seldom use SMS, so from time to time it's fun to annoy people by sending 50-100 messages in a row. Older phones actually freeze when you do that, or run out of storage space for messages and they have to erase all.
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yea I know thats the greatest thing. I did that to my friend and her phone froze... dumb old blackberries.
anakin908 said:
I have, and I love it.
The problem came when I got carried away. I sent my friend 100 texts, forgetting that he didn't have unlimited texting.
I'm going to pay him back tomorrow, but I think I'm really lucky in that I was going to send him 500, but decided not to in case this happened.
He's not extremely mad though, it's only ten dollars
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haha that's good. . Most I sent I think was like 119? I kinda wanna try to send 1337 texts

there is any free app to block sms bomber or other app like this (sms bomber) ??

easeiest rom for G3?

thinking about getting one but I want to know the easiest way to flash one and the best custom rom for this
Note: I am literally saving up all my spare cash for this, as I have to buy up front and I can't have the luxury of a cheap contract phone. I don't make much and I can't brick this or it will be all my spare cash for the next 3 months.
I have only 300 and I can't just hop on over to a verizon store or whatever and get a new phone subbed. If I brick it I'm out a ton of money, as I also have a house to renovate and I need to ditch sprint/gnex so I can have somethin reliable and something I don't have to pull the battery out of every day.
I am not the best with flashing/roms/etc and I don't have too much patience and stuff often is messy around my place so...
I want something liek cm installer but a tad better updates and less of this stagefright nonsense paranoia. It's stupid of the CM team to neglect it over SF when you can simply enter dummy MMS data and do without picture messaging. I never use picture messaging and always disable it anyways so CM's stance on keeping it from everyone even those that don't use it is beyond stupid. Just change your APN settings for MMS to stuff that don't work and SF is bypassed I did that so ppl don't ask me as a female for nudes and can't spam me, still have data, still have sms txt, still can take calls... can't see why they are so hellbent on pleasing pic message users when stuff like skype and snapchat easily replace MMS and nobody uses MMS when you have apps for that. No sense. Only people with dumbphones use MMS. So the CM team is pretty naive for thinking that. MMS is so early 2000s anyways... why should people have to go to risky ways to custom rom thier phones for the whole 2% that still use antique MMS?
I just need something quick, clean, and provides me to use hotspot without paying 30+mo for. and to be able to block some apps from using GPS, etc and draining battery... that's it...

Hey man, I don't normally point someone in a different direction but my personal opinion posting this from a g3 you should grab the zenfone 2.
http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/asus-zenfone-2-2264-vs-lg-g3-1624
I only checked the first couple listing and the zenfone 16gig was right around $210 and the 64 was right around $300. Just both of those are the unlocked version. Just an idea I wish I would have done

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thinking about getting one but I want to know the easiest way to flash one and the best custom rom for this
Note: I am literally saving up all my spare cash for this, as I have to buy up front and I can't have the luxury of a cheap contract phone. I don't make much and I can't brick this or it will be all my spare cash for the next 3 months.
I have only 300 and I can't just hop on over to a verizon store or whatever and get a new phone subbed. If I brick it I'm out a ton of money, as I also have a house to renovate and I need to ditch sprint/gnex so I can have somethin reliable and something I don't have to pull the battery out of every day.
I am not the best with flashing/roms/etc and I don't have too much patience and stuff often is messy around my place so...
I want something liek cm installer but a tad better updates and less of this stagefright nonsense paranoia. It's stupid of the CM team to neglect it over SF when you can simply enter dummy MMS data and do without picture messaging. I never use picture messaging and always disable it anyways so CM's stance on keeping it from everyone even those that don't use it is beyond stupid. Just change your APN settings for MMS to stuff that don't work and SF is bypassed I did that so ppl don't ask me as a female for nudes and can't spam me, still have data, still have sms txt, still can take calls... can't see why they are so hellbent on pleasing pic message users when stuff like skype and snapchat easily replace MMS and nobody uses MMS when you have apps for that. No sense. Only people with dumbphones use MMS. So the CM team is pretty naive for thinking that. MMS is so early 2000s anyways... why should people have to go to risky ways to custom rom thier phones for the whole 2% that still use antique MMS?
I just need something quick, clean, and provides me to use hotspot without paying 30+mo for. and to be able to block some apps from using GPS, etc and draining battery... that's it...
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You could try XenonHD

Thanks guys.. still wating more input... hope a good sale for black friday !!!

RemixedCat said:
Thanks guys.. still wating more input... hope a good sale for black friday !!!
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You could also look on Google + for more ROM for devices. There are many roms which can not be found here