[Q] Windows Phone Challenge - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Has anyone tried this yet? Microsoft is giving away free phone. I don't have a crap phone but I would love to get the laptop, anyone have any luck winning this?
http://slickdeals.net/f/4120241-Swa...-contract-Microsoft-Store-B-M-Only-thru-3-29?

Sucks they don't have a store in Oregon.
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synergeticink said:
Has anyone tried this yet? Microsoft is giving away free phone. I don't have a crap phone but I would love to get the laptop, anyone have any luck winning this?
http://slickdeals.net/f/4120241-Swa...-contract-Microsoft-Store-B-M-Only-thru-3-29?
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you should just read the comments they have on SD

Damn no stores near ohio, was gonna trade my mytouch 3g slide
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Yeah, they are ripping people off on the challenge, but if you have a crap smart phone laying around you can swap it out for a $600 windows phone. Pretty good deal.

Just took the challenge in Oakbrook, IL. I was #3 in line, took about 20 min no phones in stock got gift card and have to wait for a phone call to pick up the new one. Worth it fo sho
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Till when is the challenge because the store in NJ isn't open yet.
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Depends on the location, but seems to be normal business hours

Challenge ends 3/29. It sucks they have so few stores.

Theres a store in Atlanta, which is where I live I'm gonna probably try it soon. Time to trade up my old iPhone 3g or T-Mobile G1!

Post back if it works for you.

synergeticink said:
Post back if it works for you.
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Will do.
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Can someone please tell me what this 10char thing is? No idea

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Can someone please tell me what this 10char thing is? No idea
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Your message has to be atleast 10 characters long, so if it's not long enough, you just put 10char or something. Example:
lol.
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synergeticink said:
Can someone please tell me what this 10char thing is? No idea
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space filler...your response has to be a minimum of 10 characters...people write that at the end of their comment if they didnt reach that minimum
edit: looks like i was beaten to the punch

lol...gotcha....makes so much sense no. Sorry for that.

I'm going to try this after work

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lol...gotcha....makes so much sense no. Sorry for that.
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lol...i asked that too once before...a long time ago...
this is a sick deal..i saw a list of microsoft stores and i didnt see one in NY (closest 2 were in NJ and not open yet)
how are there no stores in the NYC area? that sounds ridiculous

Yeah that makes no sense why there would not be one in NYC

My brother is there right now doing it. He wants to try to win with his S2 but they said if he loses, he has to sign a 2 year contract to keep his phone.

Related

Hopefully moving to the Epic Touch.

Some of you might remember me from the original Epic and my roms and work there.
I will hopefully be able to switch to the Epic Touch since I've had three replacements on my Nexus S 4G.
Going to try the store today and see what happens.
The zImage shouldn't be that hard to pull..
i dont think they put the epic touch on the wel exchange list yet, at least what my buddy thats a store manager said when i bought this on thursday told me.
hope you can get it to go thru though! good luck buddy
Success100 said:
i dont think they put the epic touch on the wel exchange list yet, at least what my buddy thats a store manager said when i bought this on thursday told me.
hope you can get it to go thru though! good luck buddy
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Well, I've been asking them to bump my upgrade up and I'll just pay the contract price for whatever device I want. Hopefully, that or I can just give them the cost of the Epic Touch.
I really want to port my ROMs over, and Sense.
Bubby!!
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bubby323 said:
Well, I've been asking them to bump my upgrade up and I'll just pay the contract price for whatever device I want. Hopefully, that or I can just give them the cost of the Epic Touch.
I really want to port my ROMs over, and Sense.
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Let me know if that works and how much that will cost. I don't know if I can wait for my online order anymore lol
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Yeah bubby!
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Anybody know of the terms of the Sprint Well Program? I hate to drive all the way to a city an hour and a half away and be turned away. The phone has been replaced 3 times in 2 weeks, and the issues noted on the account.
bubby323 said:
Anybody know of the terms of the Sprint Well Program? I hate to drive all the way to a city an hour and a half away and be turned away. The phone has been replaced 3 times in 2 weeks, and the issues noted on the account.
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Call them and ask... I would do that first.. Just be really nice and see if that works.. Hope that helps... Glad to see devs already moving to this phone
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deano0714 said:
Call them and ask... I would do that first.. Just be really nice and see if that works.. Hope that helps... Glad to see devs already moving to this phone
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I've been in constant contact with them for the past 2-3 weeks on the issue, not even looking to get a different phone, just one that works, but now they don't want to do anything for me since I've already had 3 replacements, the phone should 'already work by now'.
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I really want to port... ...Sense.
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This makes us friends. Yay for you!
AbsolutZeroGI said:
This makes us friends. Yay for you!
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I ported it to the Nexus S 4G.
bubby323 said:
I ported it to the Nexus S 4G.
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Nice! The more devs the merrier!
Nice. Hopefully u get an epic!
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This has worked for me before! They let me upgrade early and at a ridiculous price! And every since they forced this upgrade my upgrade eligibility renews every month now lol.
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Can I get the download link? I don't see it there
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I ported it to the Nexus S 4G.
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castro08 said:
Can I get the download link? I don't see it there
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I'm waiting to release at the same time as the Nexus S Sense port.
We are also still working on some WiFi issues, but 3G works.
They have actually offered to buy back my Nexus for $100 and reset my upgrade eligibility so I should be good to go within the next 24-48 hours, hopefully today, so I can reserve an Epic Touch 4G.
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They have actually offered to buy back my Nexus for $100 and reset my upgrade eligibility so I should be good to go within the next 24-48 hours, hopefully today, so I can reserve an Epic Touch 4G.
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Not bad. Hopefully everything works out for you
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Sprint customer service

No offense to any employees here on xda, but wow. Some (97.996%) of the people that work there are clueless.
Walked in asked for the samsung epic touch dock, they talked back in the office about it. Came out and said this for the epic touch.
turns out no. not even close
Moral of the story, sprint, hire xda members.
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Best buy too
Samsung Galaxy S Dos indeed
A lot of coworkers at radioshack have no clue about anything that has to do with phones... Its sad..
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Jusy dont get it . They literarily dont know anything they need too and they hang up when they know there wrong.
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I tried to apply for a sprint job, but **** I never get pass the stupid personality test or whatever it is. I know way more then most sprint employees, but don't get the chance because of that stupid test.
Honestly, customer service related to anything (not just technology) is just flat out pathetic anymore.
I've gone to an autoparts store where the guy knew less about cars than my grandma.
There's no money in customer service so there's no desire to be good at it.
Dont agree with that people should be working extra hard considering the state of the economy.
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Kurupt1 said:
Dont agree with that people should be working extra hard considering the state of the economy.
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I'm sorry?
I personally wouldn't be too interested in doing a job well that can't even pay a liveable wage.
You'll find that to be true moreso with customer service jobs than other fields.
ok sure your right all customer service sucks
Kurupt1 said:
ok sure your right all customer service sucks
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Hmm?
I didn't say that, just that it has gone down hill significantly.
Sprint's representatives can be pretty ridiculous.
I once heard A female manager at a local Sprint store related processing power to data speeds for the Evo.
Something of the nature of "The data is faster on this phone over others because it has a 1 ghz processor"
You could clearly tell she had no clue what a processor was. Much less any relation to data speeds.
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I'm sorry?
I personally wouldn't be too interested in doing a job well that can't even pay a liveable wage.
You'll find that to be true moreso with customer service jobs than other fields.
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meh I made 14 a hour at charlton inc (comcast/timewarner/charter 3rd party calling center)
But that was because of commision and I busted my ass for a whole year then the company got bought out and laid off all sales/customer service reps making over 10 a hour and went through a temp agency to get mindless morons with no work history/education or had a major criminal charge...
Without a proper education (college/internship) you wont make much more than 25k a year
Unless you know someone ;p
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meh I made 14 a hour at charlton inc (comcast/timewarner/charter 3rd party calling center)
But that was because of commision and I busted my ass for a whole year then the company got bought out and laid off all sales/customer service reps making over 10 a hour and went through a temp agency to get mindless morons with no work history/education or had a major criminal charge...
Without a proper education (college/internship) you wont make much more than 25k a year
Unless you know someone ;p
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My point exactly.
You get what you pay for when it comes to workforce.
mattykinsx said:
My point exactly.
You get what you pay for when it comes to workforce.
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True true I have a really good store by me but tge manager is a moron... Everyone else seems to at least research a bit before and after a phone is released
I asked the manager if they knew when the evo 3d was coming out (back in may when I switched to sprint from tmo) and she said "yeah we have them in stock"
I about **** my pants when she said that.....
Then she walks me over to the evo 4g...... I never asked that box of rocks for h elp after than.... Bet she makes atleast 30-35k a year tho... Or has a rich husband cuz shs has a 2011 cadillac cts-v :/
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nate420 said:
True true I have a really good store by me but tge manager is a moron... Everyone else seems to at least research a bit before and after a phone is released
I asked the manager if they knew when the evo 3d was coming out (back in may when I switched to sprint from tmo) and she said "yeah we have them in stock"
I about **** my pants when she said that.....
Then she walks me over to the evo 4g...... I never asked that box of rocks for h elp after than.... Bet she makes atleast 30-35k a year tho... Or has a rich husband cuz shs has a 2011 cadillac cts-v :/
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Or has a $5000 house and $50000 car.
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Or has a $5000 house and $50000 car.
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Lololol
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fetalp said:
I tried to apply for a sprint job, but **** I never get pass the stupid personality test or whatever it is. I know way more then most sprint employees, but don't get the chance because of that stupid test.
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This. Same thing here.
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I'm sorry?
I personally wouldn't be too interested in doing a job well that can't even pay a liveable wage.
You'll find that to be true moreso with customer service jobs than other fields.
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I emphatically disagree. I was raised with a solid work ethic of doing your best no matter what job you have. I have a bachelors in Finance but work in crappy C.S making pay I'm ashamed to even say, but do I do it half-arsed, no.
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Those personality tests are not that hard... The hardest ones are for at&t and best buy.. All you do is answer as honest as possible.. Most people say answer with "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree" but some of the questions are borderline and answering like a machine from irobot *(the ones that are 3 law "safe") will send a flag to the employer... And they will know if your being honest or not
But yes I agree, I commit my self to my job and try to learn something new every day (I suffer from sever ADD) so anything to keep me active weather its improving or learning helps... Rather than doing a half ass job and slacking off for 8 hours
*disregard the analogy if you never seen irobot
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Looking for XDA guy from Craigslist: I bought a Galaxy S2 from you

Hopefully this isn't against the forum rules.
I'm looking for someone, I bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S2 from you off Craigslist yesterday. We were supposed to meet up today so I could pick up the box and accessories but I realized now that you don't have a phone anymore, I don't know how to reach you. You gave me your XDA username in case I needed to reach you but I'm an idiot and forgot it.
If you see this, could you PM me so I could get the box, the case piece, the receipt, charger, and extra battery from you?
Thanks
LOL and good luck.
If he sold you the phone I doubt he's in these forums any more.
Hercules Hercules!!
Do a search for his name...lawl missed that you lost his name.
this is literally the good'ol "looking for a needle in a haystack"
good luck buddy
i hope you haven't pay him yet
Yep, hope you didn't pay yet. Sounds like you hv the phone already though?
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Lol this is hilarious.
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Finally figured out his user name after a bunch of trial and error. Now hopefully he responds.
This thread can be deleted or locked.
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Finally figured out his user name after a bunch of trial and error. Now hopefully he responds.
This thread can be deleted or locked.
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Helllllll no! You're in deep now, boy! You keep us updated on this smart decision you made.
Now give us his username so we can all flood his inbox, lol.
Hercules Hercules!!
mettleh3d said:
Yep, hope you didn't pay yet. Sounds like you hv the phone already though?
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Lol, well, I paid him already.
But I do already have the phone, and the case, and the extra screen protector.
The box/receipt/extra part for the case/USB charger/extra battery seems like a weird thing to rip someone off over.
Heh, maybe I'll wait until tomorrow before I go nuts. From his XDA user name I found his Twitter and Google Plus accounts and contacted him on all of them. He's pretty active on XDA.
On the downside, he did mention when I met him yesterday he was leaving the country on Saturday....
On the other downside, he did mention on his Twitter dropping his phone and it slipping under the wheel of a car right before I bought it from him....
Lol. You're kidding right?
manekineko said:
Lol, well, I paid him already.
But I do already have the phone, and the case, and the extra screen protector.
The box/receipt/extra part for the case/USB charger/extra battery seems like a weird thing to rip someone off over.
Heh, maybe I'll wait until tomorrow before I go nuts. From his XDA user name I found his Twitter and Google Plus accounts and contacted him on all of them. He's pretty active on XDA.
On the downside, he did mention when I met him yesterday he was leaving the country on Saturday....
On the other downside, he did mention on his Twitter dropping his phone and it slipping under the wheel of a car right before I bought it from him....
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Lol. You're kidding right?
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If there's one silver lining to my situation, I suppose it's that it seems to be bringing joy to the people of this thread.
Sadly, everything I stated is true.
Wow, this story just gets better and better. Lucky for you, you can always do a warranty exchange if something is wrong with the phone.
Good luck!
Hercules Hercules!!
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On the other downside, he did mention on his Twitter dropping his phone and it slipping under the wheel of a car right before I bought it from him....
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me think, me gonna faint
LMAO! This is too much! Schadenfreude overload...
Ok ok... Sorry... But that's just epic.
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Lol this guy is still a retard, why would he give his xda account
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cashyftw said:
Lol this guy is still a retard, why would he give his xda account
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+ 1 that's hilariously stupid
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tweak. said:
Helllllll no! You're in deep now, boy! You keep us updated on this smart decision you made.
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ahaha classic man! >.< well atleast all is well then. XD
Even though he sold you his phone, didn't he keep his sim card? his number should be unchanged...... unless he just totally went off the radar and decided he didn't need a cell phone anymore or switched providers without porting the number.

Selling my Epic 4G Touch

I am selling my Epic 4G Touch. If anyone is interested or knows a person who may be feel free to click on the link. I put it up on craigslist. The contact info is on there as well.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/mob/2873297975.html
How did you get the phone in October?
Bielinsk said:
How did you get the phone in October?
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It came out in September
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It came out in September
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Whosdaman where you been dude haven't seen you in awhile
iSaint said:
Whosdaman where you been dude haven't seen you in awhile
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It has been awhile Saint. Just been lurking most of the time. Been a bit more active since ICS was leaked.
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That's what I got Mine for BNIB
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To bad your selling it and not trading it. Oh well.
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To bad your selling it and not trading it. Oh well.
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I'm selling it because I am leaving Sprint.
Getting an iPhone 4S huh?
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Getting an iPhone 4S huh?
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lol heck no. If I ever get an iPhone that screen of theirs needs to be bigger. I'm too use to the Epic Touch's size. I am leaving for service reasons, the Epic 4G Touch is a beast!! If it were on Verizon's network, that would be the best gingerbread phone.
how much dud you want? my cousin wants one and CL is blocked on our work computers
Success100 said:
how much dud you want? my cousin wants one and CL is blocked on our work computers
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Check your pm's.
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lol heck no. If I ever get an iPhone that screen of theirs needs to be bigger. I'm too use to the Epic Touch's size. I am leaving for service reasons, the Epic 4G Touch is a beast!! If it were on Verizon's network, that would be the best gingerbread phone.
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should have held out for the iPhone 5
Hey, I don't know if you signed another contract yet but I know for a fact Sprint is going to have a huge difference in service over the year. I mean HUGE. I mean really big difference. Like 4x difference. So, if you like the cheap prices you might stick around. Get an airave for home. If you want me to elaborate PM me.
I just don't want you stuck paying twice as much with another 2 year contract.
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Hey, I don't know if you signed another contract yet but I know for a fact Sprint is going to have a huge difference in service over the year. I mean HUGE. I mean really big difference. Like 4x difference. So, if you like the cheap prices you might stick around. Get an airave for home. If you want me to elaborate PM me.
I just don't want you stuck paying twice as much with another 2 year contract.
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I have not signed a new contract yet. Check your pm's.
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I'm selling it because I am leaving Sprint.
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where and to whom are you going? what phone?
And, I really hate to see you go, but I do understand. My coverage drives me nuts too!
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where and to whom are you going? what phone?
And, I really hate to see you go, but I do understand. My coverage drives me nuts too!
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Your questions sound like the people who work in customer service and don't want you to leave lol. I have not decided what carrier yet but I do have ideas. I've been with 3 of the 4 majors so I know 3 services and how good/bad they are. Verizon is the only one I haven't tried but they are expensive. We will see. I can't rely on Sprint's network. I got a family. What if there's an emergency you know? I can't be getting voice mails 3 days late or text messages hours or a day after they were sent by the other person. And I live in a good service area, my bars are mostly up and I get 2 bars of 4G out of 3 bars so I just don't understand it with Sprint.
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should have held out for the iPhone 5
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It's gonna be awesome! I can't wait to finally leave pos android
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It's gonna be awesome! I can't wait to finally leave pos android
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Ikr
Can't wait

My phone got stolen.

Hello, today my baby just got stolen by a bunch of ********! somehow after an hour in gym at school, i look and my phone isn't there. I called it and it sounded like a jerk *****. Anyway, i tried to install Plan B but looks like he shutdown the phone or that my stupid gps isnt locking like it always does because of ICS! is there any chance i can track it? I'm a prepaid consumer so insurance is impossible.
You should call the cops and tell them its an iPhone 5 prototype and I'm sure they would get a swat team involved like they did last time.
If Gps isn't working it looks like you might be out of luck bro.
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Invest in the app on play market called gotya I swear it works they try and open your phone and put pin a wrong key bam takes a silent pic of them send it to Facebook and sends you a location GPS spot in your email that you can give the police then you get your phone back
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OMG LOL!!! the guy who stole it told me ill never get my phone back. now after i went home and tried to install stuff, the school called me and they told me they found it in the floor. Looks like the guy didn't like Face Unlock! in his face!
What if they know the buttons to hard reset the phone? I mean its not really that hard but the only thing you can do now is call tmo and let them know what's up. Get a police report and file an insurance claim through ASSurion. Assuming you have insurance.
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What if they know the buttons to hard reset the phone? I mean its not really that hard but the only thing you can do now is call tmo and let them know what's up. Get a police report and file an insurance claim through ASSurion. Assuming you have insurance.
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Well, looks like you didnt read everything im prepaid plus i found my phone, thanks.
Thankfully most of the gutter scum who steal phones are dumbass thugs who see something shiny and assume its theirs and have no idea how it works.
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Thankfully most of the gutter scum who steal phones are dumbass thugs who see something shiny and assume its theirs and have no idea how it works.
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Very true, good point
Glad you got it b back, man.
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Wow make sure you get something on there now to track your phone
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Too bad they're always scum
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Gotta say after reading this I put where's my droid on my phone...
Double0EK said:
What if they know the buttons to hard reset the phone? I mean its not really that hard but the only thing you can do now is call tmo and let them know what's up. Get a police report and file an insurance claim through ASSurion. Assuming you have insurance.
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98% of people who own a smartphone are complete buffoons and really don't deserve to have them. The only reason the average Joe gets an expensive piece of hardware is to have bragging rights. Most iPhone users don't know what a jailbreak is nor do android users know what a root is.
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98% of people who own a smartphone are complete buffoons and really don't deserve to have them. The only reason the average Joe gets an expensive piece of hardware is to have bragging rights. Most iPhone users don't know what a jailbreak is nor do android users know what a root is.
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Half of them probably don't even know what hardware or ndroid or iOS is...
Get Cerberus app.
Thanks guys for the replies and im so happy i got my phone back. i think why he left it is because when u unlock my phone its face unlock so maybe he thought i was taking pictures of him
+1 to cerberus, flashed it the first day I ever heard about it
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Thanks guys for the replies and im so happy i got my phone back. i think why he left it is because when u unlock my phone its face unlock so maybe he thought i was taking pictures of him
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Bwahahahahahaha! And people say that the FaceUnlock security is Low. Oooh...I've got an idea...maybe someone can change the text to Face Captured...when Face Unlock doesn't work instead of it saying...Face not recognized.
I use avast if you're rooted its free and cannot be uninstalled writes where a factory reset doesn't go.
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