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Wifi problem SOLVED (acc'd to sprint rep)

I just had the best conversation ever with a sprint rep. This was an in-store tech person, mind you, so all of my facial expressions were more than obvious.
The conversation went like this:
Hi, my E4GT is having some wifi connectivity issues. When I try to connect, it says connected but then keeps scanning, and in fact, it's not connected at all because I can't get a webpage to...
(Interrupting me) WAIT RIGHT THERE...let me see the front of your phone, turn it around! (I do so.) Yup, that's the problem...you downloaded something to make your ANDROID phone look like a WINDOWS phone.
You mean a launcher?
Yes, it's an unapproved app, and you corrupted your whole system. You need to delete that and hard reset. Don't make it look like it's not an Android phone...otherwise you corrupt the system.
(My face has a wtf are you serious look on it at this point.) Oooooh-kay. Um, are you sure?
YES! ABSOLUTELY! Also, I bet you have checked off install apps from unknown sources, don't you?
Yes...so?
THERE YOU GO AGAIN --- COMPLETELY CORRUPTED YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM. Now, anyone anywhere can just go into your phone and access everything. That's why you can't get online.
(Now my face has the wtf look on it as well as a little bit of anger from this rep having somehow survived this long in her life, and in doing so, disproved darwinism.) So, you're telling me installing the amazon appstore breaks our phones?
YES, it's an unapproved app, just like that one that made your phone look like a windows phone!
But, that app's from the google market...??
I BET YOU'RE TETHERING TOO, AREN'T YOU?
(Damn, she got me there.) No! What is tethering?
Someone will come up and tell you to tether...go right ahead and do it if you want, but you'll be corrupting your entire phone again and it won't work.
Ok, thanks, this has been a big help.
You bet! Thanks for coming in!

Erislover said:
I just had the best conversation ever with a sprint rep. This was an in-store tech person, mind you, so all of my facial expressions were more than obvious.
The conversation went like this:
Hi, my E4GT is having some wifi connectivity issues. When I try to connect, it says connected but then keeps scanning, and in fact, it's not connected at all because I can't get a webpage to...
(Interrupting me) WAIT RIGHT THERE...let me see the front of your phone, turn it around! (I do so.) Yup, that's the problem...you downloaded something to make your ANDROID phone look like a WINDOWS phone.
You mean a launcher?
Yes, it's an unapproved app, and you corrupted your whole system. You need to delete that and hard reset. Don't make it look like it's not an Android phone...otherwise you corrupt the system.
(My face has a wtf are you serious look on it at this point.) Oooooh-kay. Um, are you sure?
YES! ABSOLUTELY! Also, I bet you have checked off install apps from unknown sources, don't you?
Yes...so?
THERE YOU GO AGAIN --- COMPLETELY CORRUPTED YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM. Now, anyone anywhere can just go into your phone and access everything. That's why you can't get online.
(Now my face has the wtf look on it as well as a little bit of anger from this rep having somehow survived this long in her life, and in doing so, disproved darwinism.) So, you're telling me installing the amazon appstore breaks our phones?
YES, it's an unapproved app, just like that one that made your phone look like a windows phone!
But, that app's from the google market...??
I BET YOU'RE TETHERING TOO, AREN'T YOU?
(Damn, she got me there.) No! What is tethering?
Someone will come up and tell you to tether...go right ahead and do it if you want, but you'll be corrupting your entire phone again and it won't work.
Ok, thanks, this has been a big help.
You bet! Thanks for coming in!
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Lol, now that's funny
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Damn that guy is hilarius
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Ha ha ha, it's to funny! How incompetent.
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so...did it work?

Lol... I thought she was joking but shes serious... It anoys me that i know more about my phone and other phones then a sales rep(no offense to the sales reps that know what there talking about ).
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I once had a verizon droid incredible with a screen that literally moved when you touched it (this screen hardware itself physically moved, not anything on the screen). Took it into a Verizon store and the rep seriously asked me "did you try doing a battery pull?" I was just like wtf does a loose screen have to do with a battery pull.
I don't know where they find these people. When I apply for jobs there I never even get an interview, I think I fail their personality testing during the application.

I don't even understand how people like that can get hired. You would think they would require at least some basic knowledge of the industry and products. I am actually looking to change careers and would like to get a position managing a sprint store but I can't seem to find an opening in my area because they keep hiring people like this. I have been to four stores in my area and every single one has not one person who seems to know much of anything. Maybe its just the central florida area.
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Normally, I would say this story seems too far out there, and that there is no way someone is that clueless as an employee at the Sprint store.
However, I have dealt with some of the Sprint store employees and I guess it is feasible.
Either way, thanks for posting as it was an entertaining post.

Thanks op that was classic, I seem to run into these people all the time. Awesome

I had a similar thing happen at Radio Shack. I had bought the Photon there and before my 30 days were up I wanted to trade it for our SII...on launch day they didn't have any so I told them I wanted to return it and go to Sprint to get the phone. The salesman said why...the Photon is dual core and a much better phone...I immediately told him it was none of his business and then proceeded to rattle off the specs of the SII..he went into the back room. These people are clueless!

Haha I purchased an app called HVAC Buddy for work and a sprint tech told me it broke the gps in my Moment. Wtf
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smark72 said:
I don't even understand how people like that can get hired. You would think they would require at least some basic knowledge of the industry and products. I am actually looking to change careers and would like to get a position managing a sprint store but I can't seem to find an opening in my area because they keep hiring people like this. I have been to four stores in my area and every single one has not one person who seems to know much of anything. Maybe its just the central florida area.
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All of FL, bro...I'm in the ft laud area myself, and it's harder to find a glimmer of intelligence in the general population than it is to find a guy who doesn't shave his chest here.
anyway, just fyi, it's an absolutely true story. the worst part, which I forgot to mention in the OP, is that a couple minutes before this dolt began "helping" me, I was talking with another customer who had an E4GT with some crazy problems (phone with a mind of it's own...would just randomly open up apps and close them and restart...) and I was telling her about this forum and how her problems were atypical and how she should just get a new E4GT...and then every time this stupid, stupid customer service rep talked, I had to just look over at this lady and hope she knew how completely retarded the rep was.

I hate that I am associated with these types of employees ...
-J
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zonacats23 said:
I hate that I am associated with these types of employees ...
-J
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I know there has to be some knowledgeable reps, I just haven't encountered any myself.
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In my defense, not all of us are idiots.
And a 2nd thought, ive met such people. I sometimes feel ashamed that theyre one of my own.
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zonacats23 said:
I hate that I am associated with these types of employees ...
-J
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Yeah, this. I'm sorry guys.
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squshy 7 said:
Yeah, this. I'm sorry guys.
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No need to apologize on their behalf...it's the same at every job and every profession. It's just a shame that people don't say, "sorry, I don't know," when they don't know. But, on the bright side, it does sometimes make for some funny ish when they talk out their ass

Walked into my local repair center and showed the Guy my OG Evo, told him that I was having some issues with the fact that my $400+ phone had a crack in the casing near the volume and power buttons. He immediately told me "you dropped your phone and it cracked. that's not covered sorry." and proceeded to the next customer. I walked up, showed him again my phone was in an otterbox defender case, had NO signs of damage... mind you I kept the case on since day 1 and I had never dropped the phone....
He looks at me with the straightest face and says "it is because you are using a Facebook IM application which causes the problem." at this point I laughed in his face, left the store and proceeded down the block to the next repair center.
This Guy still works there....
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Oh and here's another one.
Took another OG Evo 4G to another local repair center to have the dust cleaned out from behind the screen (there was a **** ton) and the service tech puts my phone back together and broke the power button, camera, and screen and then tells me "Uhhhh it came like that sorry"
.... fail of sprint repair centers. I'm better off fixing the phones myseld
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Does anybody have dreams of their phone?

Last night I had a dream I was playing with my phone but it was all melted looking but still functional. I've had other dreams where im trying to talk to someone, I can hear a voice but can never understand what they're saying. Anybody have weird dreams that are phone related?

I see that you started an entire new thread to discuss the exact same subject that already had a thread on the pretense of providing a different link that you could have shared in that one. Is that what you "did" or am I missing something more subtle and clever?

One op already changed his title. Ill edit it make another discussion I wanted to start anyway.

Clearly all chips in relation must transfer all diodes in harmony.

I dream about getting laid on piles of money. If my phone jumped in there and tried to distract me....I would have to end its life.

Does stuffing them in a sock and beating Dan Hesse till he fixes data speeds count?
Los Angeles data speeds 130k down, barely measurable up? I get better speeds in Tijuana. That is putting ice sculptures in the McDonald's bathroom.

12MaNy said:
I dream about getting laid on piles of money. If my phone jumped in there and tried to distract me....I would have to end its life.
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+1 Hahaha

I have dreams of smacking people over the head with my phone now that I have a Ballistic Case on it. Specifically, those people that come on forums like this and do nothing but ***** about everything.
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kd0axs said:
I have dreams of smacking people over the head with my phone now that I have a Ballistic Case on it. Specifically, those people that come on forums like this and do nothing but ***** about everything.
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Man, I hate posts like this

boe said:
Man, I hate posts like this
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Don't listen to him, he's just a dumbass truck driver.

To answer your question, no, but you spend way too much time on your phone, it would appear (so do I)
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Sounds like LSD.
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I haven't had a dream I was flashing a ROM yet, maybe if I do ill admit I have an addiction.

did anyone find out about Mazook?

Did anyone ever find out what happened to him?

I heard his girlfriend dumped him and he spiraled into depression, resorting to alcoholism and prescription medication abuse to help numb his pain.
Oh wait, that's me. No I haven't heard what happened to mazook.

I did a little research a few days ago, and saw some "suicide watch" websites, where people had been posting about him, but, haven't checked those again..He hasn't posted anything since then anywhere, so I hope that something bad didn't actually happen...

Did he just vanish from the scene or did he give an indication that something was up?

_MetalHead_ said:
I heard his girlfriend dumped him and he spiraled into depression, resorting to alcoholism and prescription medication abuse to help numb his pain.
Oh wait, that's me. No I haven't heard what happened to mazook.
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Was that before or after the iPhone?
mazook98? I must have missed that thread.

here is the last thing anyone has about him...kinda depressing..
http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/pzrme/i_have_about_10_minutes_left_fuck_a_throwaway/

Mattheyu said:
Was that before or after the iPhone?
mazook98? I must have missed that thread.
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After. I never should have gotten this infernal POS.
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wase4711 said:
here is the last thing anyone has about him...kinda depressing..
http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/pzrme/i_have_about_10_minutes_left_fuck_a_throwaway/
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Damn, I had no idea. That's nothing to joke around about, I hope he's ok.

wase4711 said:
here is the last thing anyone has about him...kinda depressing..
http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/pzrme/i_have_about_10_minutes_left_fuck_a_throwaway/
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If it was an attempted suicide and they handle it the same as in my city (in Texas), mazook was probably taken to a short-term center for observation, which could be six weeks or so. Depending on behavior there, they may be transferred to a long-term facility for three months.
Without insurance, going to a state center means you will stay there every day that the state is paying for it, so the full three months.
Edit: And if they used pills/alcohol, there is a high chance that the paramedics made it in time.

i guess the issue is, no one knows if they got to him on time, let alone if this actually happened..he was very active here and on Rootz, and hasn't posted anywhere since that incident..

Mattheyu said:
Was that before or after the iPhone?
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LOL... That is awesome

Damn, did you guys read that?! Hopefully he is OK. They tried to call him and called an ambulance. I haven't seen anything like that before. That's very disturbing. I talked to him a few times via PM and he seemed fine. Edit.. .I have to go read through my old PM's
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wase4711 said:
i guess the issue is, no one knows if they got to him on time, let alone if this actually happened..he was very active here and on Rootz, and hasn't posted anywhere since that incident..
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He probably has more important things to handle right now then worrying about what ROM his phone is on, respect the man's privacy.
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I am just trying to find out if he is still with us or not..I absolutely have no intentions of delving into his personal life. I just hope he is ok..

xda noob vide is horrible

I hated the "xda noob" video, all the flashing spinning text, too fast to read, poor, I clicked the box and went on. Replace it with something serious if you want people to watch it. btw thanks for the seizure.

Personally I thought it was witty and funny. But do you suffer from conditions triggered by effects such as flash photography? If there's stuff in the video that can be a problem for such conditions, we should post a warning and meanwhile produce a better video.

madmunki said:
I hated the "xda noob" video, all the flashing spinning text, too fast to read, poor, I clicked the box and went on. Replace it with something serious if you want people to watch it. btw thanks for the seizure.
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I think the content is fine. I also think people with conditions such as this should be able to look out for themselves. Nobody blames Hollywood for putting out movies with lots of explosions, or dubstep artists who whose songs are probably seizure-inducing. The video itself is humorous and informative and I don't think anything should be changed content-wise. At the very most, maybe a 3-5 second delay with a video dialog box that has a warning in it, but that's it.

madmunki said:
I hated the "xda noob" video, all the flashing spinning text, too fast to read, poor, I clicked the box and went on. Replace it with something serious if you want people to watch it. btw thanks for the seizure.
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The idea is to make it witty and funny, so members will watch the whole video and learn a little about the rules, also not being able to read it, thats why is says everthing that is show in the vidoe. Also i think a lot less people would watch the video if it was to serious, resulting in less members understanding the basic rules.

madmunki said:
I hated the "xda noob" video, all the flashing spinning text, too fast to read, poor, I clicked the box and went on. Replace it with something serious if you want people to watch it. btw thanks for the seizure.
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The video is not only hilarious, but it's most importantly memorable. It gets across a message, and it does it very well. I can only assume the seizure thing is a joke, but even if it isn't then the video still isn't that bad and people know what to do if they know they have a condition of some sort.

It is the best intro video I have ever seen, so i don't think it should be changed

If it was seizure inducing, a warning would be legit. That's why video games have the warning. If people have this condition, it is hard to stop looking fast enough to prevent a seizure. It only takes 3 flashes in one second to cause. That being said, very funny video..
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Il say its ranked as one of my top 10 funniest vids on youtube...

I was joking about the seizure. I couldn't follow it, just seemed like a lot of "your a noob" flashing randomly with no underlying message.
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Maybe I'm too old to get it.
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madmunki said:
Maybe I'm too old to get it.
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Try this then: [GUIDE] How to be a New User (and not a noob)

madmunki said:
Maybe I'm too old to get it.
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No offense, but that might be the matter
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madmunki said:
I was joking about the seizure. I couldn't follow it, just seemed like a lot of "your a noob" flashing randomly with no underlying message.
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I thought that there were actually a lot of important messages in the video. It tells people to search before posting, to be courteous, to use the thanks button and, if they have to post, to provide as much relevant information as is possible.

I thought it was quite funny... still awaiting xxxdadevelopers.com...

There''s a new one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735941

Is XDA up for sale?
The new video is lame. No swearing. No talking down to n00bs.
The new skin... The new ghey emoticons.
I have seen it many times in the past. They are cleaning house and making the place marketable to a potential buyer. JMHO.
Like I said, I have seen it before.
Just like when your neighbor finally starts fixing up his house. He is going to put it on the market.

85gallon said:
The new video is lame. No swearing. No talking down to n00bs.
The new skin... The new ghey emoticons.
I have seen it many times in the past. They are cleaning house and making the place marketable to a potential buyer. JMHO.
Like I said, I have seen it before.
Just like when your neighbor finally starts fixing up his house. He is going to put it on the market.
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85gallon said:
The new video is lame. No swearing. No talking down to n00bs.
The new skin... The new ghey emoticons.
I have seen it many times in the past. They are cleaning house and making the place marketable to a potential buyer. JMHO.
Like I said, I have seen it before.
Just like when your neighbor finally starts fixing up his house. He is going to put it on the market.
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I think that is a bold statment, i cant see XDA being sold, as that would go against everything it stands for, and although i like the old video better the new video does the job it was made for and in a good way.

The video is "AWESOME"
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85gallon said:
The new video is lame. No swearing. No talking down to n00bs.
The new skin... The new ghey emoticons.
I have seen it many times in the past. They are cleaning house and making the place marketable to a potential buyer. JMHO.
Like I said, I have seen it before.
Just like when your neighbor finally starts fixing up his house. He is going to put it on the market.
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Awww shiiiiiiiit.......
Where did I leave my tin foil hat?
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(APP) Waze Gps

just wanted to pass on a little app i found. its great for traveling tells you where traffic is where the cops are set up at even gas prices..
check it out let me know what you think im loving it so far
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&feature=nav_result#?t=W10.

It's a crown sourced navigation. It won't tell you where every cop or traffic jam is, someone has to report it first.
Also done things like police are not up to date unless someone says there are not sitting there anymore.
Never the less it is a cool app to play around with.
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Pretty cool.. especially for the cop spotter.. Speeding tickets suck lol

Speedin07si said:
It's a crown sourced navigation. It won't tell you where every cop or traffic jam is, someone has to report it first.
Also done things like police are not up to date unless someone says there are not sitting there anymore.
Never the less it is a cool app to play around with.
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So far mine has been up to date with the cop postings you can see how many minutes ago someone reported it...but any information helps lol
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saf100792 said:
Pretty cool.. especially for the cop spotter.. Speeding tickets suck lol
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reason I like it lol to many tickets
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I just start using it and like it. The cops can be hit or miss but it also posts red light cams... those don't change Also love that if something is backed up that you can adjust for another route instead of most GPS that just force you down the route assumed the fastest without taking traffic into consideration. This with Google Now will be awesome since I will know when things are backed up and adjust route.

I love it as well.