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[Q] A few questions... Answered

So far this community has answered my one or two questions very well. I now have a text, Google voice, and insurance question.
First, I was wondering is there a free app that allows me to see text messages as popups on my pc as well as answer them from the pc? I know I read Google voice could but I also read problems with binding (and unbinding) with sprint numbers so I wanna know of other alternatives if they exist.
If I do use Google voice and link it to my number or there any real cons to this? Do the cons outweigh the pros?
Recently found that the charger port on my phone is damaged causing slow charge and loose connection. I was told I'd have to pay the deductible and get a new epic. I decide to try to wait 5 months for my upgrade, will sprint take this back as a trade-in with it damaged?
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
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1. You can text from a PC using Zipwhip via Sprint. http://sprint.zipwhip.com
2. I like GV. No cons from my perspective. I like being able to text and listen to voice mails online. The spam filter also cut down on the occasional telemarketing calls.
3. Not sure. Never utilized the trade-in program. The trade-in amounts I've been quoted were pitiful. You'll get more cash by selling your old phones on eBay.
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Thanks
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AOHell anyone?

OK I read a lot on XDA and flash roms here and there, but never really post... but I ran into something maybe only you guys would understand, somehow I ended up at AOHELL's wiki page.
WHO REMEMBERS AOHell!?

You've got mail...
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Cinco de mayo drunkposting starting a little early today?

AOL, robbing old and stupid people blind since the beginning of the internet.
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Guys, he's not taking about aol... Hes talking about AOHell... Its two different things
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I remember calling to get white listed so I could run those bots to send out umm "files". Thinking about it aol had 1 gig of email space years before gmail.

i used the punter feature many, many times.... lol
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Imaginos said:
Cinco de mayo drunkposting starting a little early today?
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Was it that obvious???
boy do i have a headache today.

AOHell no!
Sorry, had to.

lol I remember the hot ice punter and skitzo's ( i think thats how it was spelled) account creator that used the credit card algorithm to make fake accounts that last 24 -72 hours.

Scary thing is there are still people using AOL as an ISP. I wonder what version they are up to? I snicker whenever I hear someone that still uses an AOL email account.

oscarthegrouch said:
Scary thing is there are still people using AOL as an ISP. I wonder what version they are up to? I snicker whenever I hear someone that still uses an AOL email account.
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Same here. Back when I had my Evo, someone posted a thread about configuring their AOL account with the default mail client. I asked why because gmail is so much better, plus these are Google phones, so it kinda defeats the purpose, at least for me.
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oscarthegrouch said:
Scary thing is there are still people using AOL as an ISP. I wonder what version they are up to? I snicker whenever I hear someone that still uses an AOL email account.
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I remember when AOL high speed came out. The box said, $24.99 a month, prerequisites are you must have a high speed internet connection. Yes, of course, I love paying double the price just for a stupid ass email account.....
So, now to the question at hand, I do jot remember AOHell. It was probably out around the time I was smoking dope everyday. Who knew I would work in computers when I thought I was going to be a technology hating hippy?
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If we're goin there, remember the cookie monster virus? Little creative at least...
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I remember the I love you virus. The media was saying they know who it was and where they are. If you opened the .vbs file in a text editor it said the kid's country, nickname and email. Lol, that's some good detective work there **** Tracy!

I remember aohell. was it not created by my good friend chronos?
haven't spoken to him in so long!
anyone heard of twilight x punter? that was mine. and I had another... can't remember the damn name anymore.. will have to look for my old vb3 and vb5 files!

im0rtalz said:
I remember calling to get white listed so I could run those bots to send out umm "files". Thinking about it aol had 1 gig of email space years before gmail.
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that transferred instantly and reliably.
AOL email was the preferred warez courier platform for a while because of that.

Oh how I do not miss my 28.8k modem, downloading one song (which i got from badboyz not sure if you guys remember them) would take like 55 minutes.

sharky481232 said:
Oh how I do not miss my 28.8k modem, downloading one song (which i got from badboyz not sure if you guys remember them) would take like 55 minutes.
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I had a dedicated line run into a computer that was also a router (LRP floppy FTW). My entire house had internet in '98, 5 computers total. Sure, a shared 56k (or 33.6k, or 28.8k, or whateverK) line wasn't a speed demon...but...we could queue up tons of stuff and just let it come in. Each computer had gigs and gigs of music on it from Napster, all saved on the server.

daneurysm said:
I had a dedicated line run into a computer that was also a router (LRP floppy FTW). My entire house had internet in '98, 5 computers total. Sure, a shared 56k (or 33.6k, or 28.8k, or whateverK) line wasn't a speed demon...but...we could queue up tons of stuff and just let it come in. Each computer had gigs and gigs of music on it from Napster, all saved on the server.
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And then came v90. Lol... think of this, compared to that we all have T1 lines in our houses and some of our cell phones. I was styling the star tac. What ya know bout that
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GALAXY S2 GETS multiview before tmo note 2? Wtf....

http://m.latinospost.com/articles/7947/20121208/samsung-galaxy-s2-jelly-bean-update-brings.htm
Wtf?
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Bull****

i knew i was signing up for this crap when i bought this phone
samsung usually treats their customer like crap by not giving out updates when theyre suppose to be given out..
that was the case for sgh t989, that is the case for us, on sgh t889

It's tmobile not samsung, seems like people have to say this everyday
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I really, really think its gots nothing to do with Samsung, and everything with TMo. The international S3, Note 2 (note 1?), the Verizon note 2, the sprint note 2 and now the S2 have all got it, or about to get it.
TMobile? Not a word.

Yes it is tmobile its not samsung. I just find it amazing that we cant get an update period and all these old phones are getting it...I mean its just backwards. I understand that it takes time for tmobile to port over updates and what not...but this is stupid.
I mean the note 2 is where multiview CAME from and we dont have it ON OUR NOTE 2'S
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This is getting completely stupid and I'm generally a patient person. I'd still be patient but for the fact that the other carriers have released multiple OTA's while T-Mo can't manage to pump even one out. Hell, it would be cool it they even leaked it so we could unofficially beta if we so desired.

I contacted T-Mo's support on Twitter, and they responded with something like "we are working closely with Samsung, etc and stay tuned."
I reminded them it's not Samsung that's the delay - it's T-Mobile. They conveniently didn't respond.
I'm new to T-Mo and don't like the way things are going so far. WTF is their delay??

ericshmerick said:
I contacted T-Mo's support on Twitter, and they responded with something like "we are working closely with Samsung, etc and stay tuned."
I reminded them it's not Samsung that's the delay - it's T-Mobile. They conveniently didn't respond.
I'm new to T-Mo and don't like the way things are going so far. WTF is their delay??
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prolly working hard to integrate carrier iq so they can spy on us

AznDud333 said:
prolly working hard to integrate carrier iq so they can spy on us
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Enough of the carrieriq conspiracy theories... seriously, you can just disable it.
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achusaysblessyou said:
Enough of the carrieriq conspiracy theories... seriously, you can just disable it.
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Cospiracy theory ? Watch this video bro. Iq agent queried https which is supposed to be encrypted and was successful and also reported a text the guy sent in plain text on the report which T-mobile said they don't do . And *I* can't disable it because im not rooted. So it is a definite concern for me. Serious watch this . Dude runs a real time log cat and CarrierIQ runs code for every button pushed as well as each number dialed on the dial pad . This is even more than *I* thought it did. Scary stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T17XQI_AYNo#!

Some_dude36 said:
Cospiracy theory ? Watch this video bro. Iq agent queried https which is supposed to be encrypted and was successful and also reported a text the guy sent in plain text on the report which T-mobile said they don't do . And *I* can't disable it because im not rooted. So it is a definite concern for me. Serious watch this . Dude runs a real time log cat and CarrierIQ runs code for every button pushed as well as each number dialed on the dial pad . This is even more than *I* thought it did. Scary stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T17XQI_AYNo#!
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Just go to settings > Back up and reset > Collect diagnostics and uncheck "allow diagnostics"
Taken from CIQ thread in the Q&A section.
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Not nearly as bad as Verizon and Motorola..... Had a Bionic that took a year to get ICS and had a bootloader with military grade encryption.

_Dennis_ said:
Just go to settings > Back up and reset > Collect diagnostics and uncheck "allow diagnostics"
Taken from CIQ thread in the Q&A section.
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They can actually cut this back on when you clearly unchecked it. Don't know if it was because of reboot or they saw it when I was arguing about my bill.
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Some_dude36 said:
Cospiracy theory ? Watch this video bro. Iq agent queried https which is supposed to be encrypted and was successful and also reported a text the guy sent in plain text on the report which T-mobile said they don't do . And *I* can't disable it because im not rooted. So it is a definite concern for me. Serious watch this . Dude runs a real time log cat and CarrierIQ runs code for every button pushed as well as each number dialed on the dial pad . This is even more than *I* thought it did. Scary stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T17XQI_AYNo#!
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1) you should be scared if you are doing something that you aren't supposed to be doing
2) They really can't use any personal information (that's against their privacy policy and if someone did find out, they'd get the **** sued out of them, especially in this litigation-happy country).
3) You can turn it off... which, if you did a simple search on these forums has been posted at least 5 times by now (I've personally seen at least 3 posts about it)
4) The video you posted is by the original "discoverer" of CarrierIQ. The software itself is programmable, meaning we don't know exactly what T-Mobile is collecting, many phone simply have it to note mundane things like signal strength, etc. Also, here's an article on the guy who blew the whistle:
http://www.dailytech.com/Carrier+IQ...hart+Works+for+Tracking+Firm/article23511.htm
As many have known for a while now (it's been almost a year, and no one has died). It's hype and poor implementation by HTC (which has also been discussed on previous "OMG CARRIERIQ" threads).
I'm just tired of the sensationalism that surrounds CarrierIQ.
diego1985 said:
They can actually cut this back on when you clearly unchecked it. Don't know if it was because of reboot or they saw it when I was arguing about my bill.
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Hmm, interesting, mine's still checked off, since the day I bought the phone (10/29). I don't think T-Mobile has the power to be able to re-toggle a switch that a user explicitly un-toggled... not to mention this is one phone that has it, imagine having to code that up for all phones and adding it to their system, etc. Even if they did, the information they collect really has nothing to do with you and you should have no worries unless you're doing something "illegal" like tethering your laptop without a hotspot plan, although that's probably caught by their backend servers sniffing your packets using pattern recognition software which is the same software that Google uses to direct ads to you on gmail based on your e-mail contents, but I don't hear many people complaining about that... maybe because it's "free"... (Go here to see the real "price" of Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb, it's google's ad preference manager which tells you who Google things you are and what you're interested in, so they can sell that info to advertisers)

Ok my issue with lack of updates is lack of communication. T-Mobile clearly has an agenda for when it plans to release the update. Perhaps one big update turning on LTE, 4.2, etc some have speculated, but to reply something so generic is what's annoying. Finally people this is America's, hell this is planet earth. Do you REALLY think carrier iq is preventing companies and government from seeing or doing anything that they choose? Please don't be so comfortable in your false safety nets.......Lol at removing and disabling carrier iq lol trust if they need to know something, record audio, take pictures from your phone without your knowledge it's been done
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I think they are talking about the internatinal s2 and s3 in that article. From what I heard and I could be wrong the international note 2 already has the multiwindow thats how we got it ported over. Everything over here in the good old U.S. of A ( land of the free home of the brave) bulcrap always comes way after the rest of the world. If google went with samsung for there newestr nexus device I would have went that way but I just cant do lg. My first android phoine was the g2x and I lucked out and got one of the good ones but with all the problems and lack of support by LG and tmo left a bad tast in my mouth. BUt I really with samsung would make a AOSP note 2 like the g2x but it will never happen.
The flip side of this is we have some real kick ass devs in the tmo fourm alone and I am sure that the rest of the carriers have them too a phone like this is bound to attact the best of the best. If you look in the dev only sub fourm we have some eleite recongnized devs working together now. So with that and the fact that all the different varents are so close in similarity we will have some real good stuff. Dont worry about what tmo and samsung does we will do what we always do which is do it ourselves. Or i should say the devs will do it themselves people like me will support them in any way possible.
\peace

I spoke to a representative from Samsung today, and a rep from Korea. They said we should be getting the multi window update very very soon. Basically waiting for tmobile to shoot out the OTA.
Check your phones over the next week or so, because it should start coming out.
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bipoler said:
Ok my issue with lack of updates is lack of communication. T-Mobile clearly has an agenda for when it plans to release the update. Perhaps one big update turning on LTE, 4.2, etc some have speculated, but to reply something so generic is what's annoying. Finally people this is America's, hell this is planet earth. Do you REALLY think carrier iq is preventing companies and government from seeing or doing anything that they choose? Please don't be so comfortable in your false safety nets.......Lol at removing and disabling carrier iq lol trust if they need to know something, record audio, take pictures from your phone without your knowledge it's been done
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I understand your point ' it means international phones'
But.man please...we dont even have it and other OLD phones are getting it. Its just backwards.
I mean I dont give a left foot about it because IVE had multiview for about a month. Its just the fact of the matter is its messed up
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You guys need to read about an agency called the NSA.
I've got news for you. All of you are being monitored. Every single phone call and text message is analyzed by them and there's not a thing you can do about it.
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Switched from ios to android

Just got my note 3 on Monday. Had an iPhone 4s before. Now it seems some ppl that used iMessage that try to text me it won't let them text me it just says I'm still connected to iMessage but doesn't go through. I have turned off iMessage on my iPhone already and that hasn't worked. Any suggestions?
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dude same thing happened to me... i called apple support and they put me in touch with some higher level technician... he was the only one that could fix it, it took about 3 days and a few calls to finally figure it out.

disaznguy817 said:
Just got my note 3 on Monday. Had an iPhone 4s before. Now it seems some ppl that used iMessage that try to text me it won't let them text me it just says I'm still connected to iMessage but doesn't go through. I have turned off iMessage on my iPhone already and that hasn't worked. Any suggestions?
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Make sure your friends have a phone number for you in their contacts first. Second tell your friend in imessage to click the red error icon and tell it to send as sms. Then future messages should go as sms.

Yeah I tried that with my sisters iPhone but I don't really want to tell all my friends with an iPhone to do that thought there would be an easier way. Thanks though.
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It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.

Go to iCloud.com and remove your phone from find my iPhone. Then on your iPhone turn off/delete your iCloud account. Also turn off iMessage and FaceTime. I had this issue as well and doing the following helped me solve it.
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Thanks guys will do that as soon as I get to a computer.
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Anthony820 said:
It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
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To most iPhone users that's considered a high level technician lol.
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Anthony820 said:
It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
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I deleted my number from my iTunes and online and still no dice. So I had to call Apple because none of that crap was working. This ain't my first rodeo buddy
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Here is how to fix it:
I hope you still have the iPhone. Take the sim card from your phone and place it back to your iPhone.
Go to settings, messages, then switch off imessage.
The reason why you need the sim card is because without it, under send and receive, your phone number is still activated but grayed out.
Once that is done, you can place your sim card back to your Note 3.
Have one of your iPhone friends try to text you to test it out.

Pedro2NR said:
hope you still have the iPhone. Take the sim card from your phone and place it back to your iPhone.
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The reason why you need the sim card is because without it, under send and receive, your phone number is still activated but grayed out.
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Why would he be using the SIM from the IPhone in his N3? The N3 would have its own SIM which has ISIS support in it.

I never said his iPhone sim. One needs the current sim card that has the phone number activated to it to go to the iPhone to be able to fully disable iMessage.
iMessage still has his phone number linked to the phone, sim card or not. One needs to turn it off.

XxLostSoulxX said:
To most iPhone users that's considered a high level technician lol.
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lmao.. HILARIOUS:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Anthony820 said:
It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
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bahahah
high level technician. I bet they googled it too

Apple genius. BTW, op. Congratulations on upgrading to a real operating system.
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Lol the 4s was temporary since my note 2 was damaged so I completely agree hah
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Cannot receive text messages from iPhone users using iMessage.

First thing you need to know is that I've never owned an Apple device. I've been having this issue ever since Apple upgraded to iOS 6 & 7. My girlfriend and some of my friends are iPhone users, and sometimes they send me messages but I receive them late or even never receive them at all. Sometimes I get their text that got mixed with a text that they sent sometime before (even from convos that are days or weeks old) in the SAME message (WTF?). I event get spammed by the same message 5+ times, example http://i.imgur.com/ij8GtPu.jpg which is annoying and ridiculous!
Ive searched the web and did not find a single solution, only thousands of people complaining with no fix. The only solution to this is to use another chat app with the other person, which is really hard to convince someone to do that. Especially Apple fanboys and fangirls like my GF. I suggested Whatsapp or Hangouts and even suggested her to disable iMessage (there's a feature that lets you disable the iMessage feature so the iMessage app only sends SMS to the users) which my GF denied also. -_-
TLDR: I don't get texts and people wait for me to respond and think that I'm ignoring them or I get spammed. How to fix pls?
Edit #1: I've never been an Apple user so "disconnecting" my number from iMessage by sending a "STOP" text to 48369 probably wont help. BUT I did try it today and we'll see if that works lol...
Edit #2: Oh the irony... http://i.imgur.com/7gmUN54.png
Edit #3: My phone is stock. Never did any modding.

IMO, not much can be done on Android side but I remember reading a great article about this issue.
http://readwrite.com/2014/05/23/apple-imessage-for-android
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If you haven't used iPhone still try this.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

.Ryker said:
If you haven't used iPhone still try this.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
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Yeah that doesn't work. I don't receive a text with the code unfortunately.
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Khalil_y said:
Yeah that doesn't work. I don't receive a text with the code unfortunately.
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Thats bizarre. How long have you had the phone number you have got now?

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Thats bizarre. How long have you had the phone number you have got now?
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I've had it since early 2011, so almost 5 years. It was a new T-Mobile number too, I got to pick the last four digits.

Khalil_y said:
I've had it since early 2011, so almost 5 years. It was a new T-Mobile number too, I got to pick the last four digits.
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I would maybe call Apple support. Even though you don't have an apple device it seems their system thinks that your number is register for imessage.