When I connect my phone to my MB GL350 via Bluetooth, the phone connects and disconnects about 5 times before the connection stays. This happens with both mine and my wife's GS3's and only in the MB, not the Audi. I did a search and found others complaining of GS3 connectivity issues but nothing like I'm experiencing. I am trying to figure out if this is a weird anomaly between MB and Samsung or if there is an issue with the car or phones. I'm hoping to get ahold of a family members iPhone to see if it has the same issues but for now I want to see if anyone has experienced something similar.
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Works fine in my Bentley
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Spectacular. But seeing as I don't own a Bentley, I don't much care. Hence the reason the thread is addressed to MB drivers.
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Spectacular. But seeing as I don't own a Bentley, I don't much care. Hence the reason the thread is addressed to MB drivers.
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Not the same vehicle but I had the same issue in an infiniti M series... with both my MacBook and my S3
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It always takes a few times to catch but works fine afterward
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I'd suggest to just root your MB and then edit the build.prop to connect BT faster.
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I'd suggest to just root your MB and then edit the build.prop to connect BT faster.
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+1 lmfao. Wish I owned a freaking MB or a Bentley xD I'd root the **** out of it and boost up the heapsize Lol.
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I'd suggest to just root your MB and then edit the build.prop to connect BT faster.
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Lmmfao
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FLBoy1991 said:
Not the same vehicle but I had the same issue in an infiniti M series... with both my MacBook and my S3
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It always takes a few times to catch but works fine afterward
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Right on. I did a search of MB bluetooth connectivity issues and most of the threads that come up pertain to either the SGS3 or SGN2 so it seems its not an issue with the car which was my biggest concern. It's weird, we have an Audi A6 as well and it connects very quickly without ever a hiccup. So it goes...
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I'd suggest to just root your MB and then edit the build.prop to connect BT faster.
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I wish I could. I've looked into hacking it to do other things and there just isn't a lot of literature on doing so. Even if there was, not sure I would go down that road. Hacking $500 phones is way different than hacking $3k computers in $80k cars!
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When I connect my phone to my MB GL350 via Bluetooth, the phone connects and disconnects about 5 times before the connection stays. This happens with both mine and my wife's GS3's and only in the MB, not the Audi. I did a search and found others complaining of GS3 connectivity issues but nothing like I'm experiencing. I am trying to figure out if this is a weird anomaly between MB and Samsung or if there is an issue with the car or phones. I'm hoping to get ahold of a family members iPhone to see if it has the same issues but for now I want to see if anyone has experienced something similar.
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If you've got the command unit, with the bluetooth adapter make sure you have the 3rd generation adapter. My system is a bit different, I've got an eclass, but we don't have the phone system. I've balked at the money to install the equipment to make it work. Just isn't worth it to us.
If your system is the one I think it is, then both the 2nd generation and the 3rd generation adapters should be compatible, however, I've read that the 3rd generation works better and is more reliable with the latest smartphones. Having not had the opportunity to try, all I can do is guess.
Good luck.
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Spectacular. But seeing as I don't own a Bentley, I don't much care. Hence the reason the thread is addressed to MB drivers.
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You should get a Bentley then.
Slow5Ohh said:
You should get a Bentley then.
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Don't really like em, too flashy and too much money for too many days in the shop. Thanks for the recommendation.
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If you've got the command unit, with the bluetooth adapter make sure you have the 3rd generation adapter. My system is a bit different, I've got an eclass, but we don't have the phone system. I've balked at the money to install the equipment to make it work. Just isn't worth it to us.
If your system is the one I think it is, then both the 2nd generation and the 3rd generation adapters should be compatible, however, I've read that the 3rd generation works better and is more reliable with the latest smartphones. Having not had the opportunity to try, all I can do is guess.
Good luck.
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Thanks. It's got phone capabilities built in and I purchased the Media Interface Plus for bluetooth audio streaming. I noticed that if bluetooth is on prior to turning on the car, there is no issue connecting. I'll just do it in this order from here on out. Like I said previously, my biggest concern was that there was something wrong with the bluetooth receiver in the COMAND unit but this seems to be highly unlikely.
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No one believes.. I'm out!
that didn't work for me, it activates it sure, so does doing it the regular way, but entitlement check fails once it tries to reactivate 3g/4g after turning it on. that is when it fails the check
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that didn't work for me, it activates it sure, so does doing it the regular way, but entitlement check fails once it tries to reactivate 3g/4g after turning it on. that is when it fails the check
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Nope, I posted that op from the tethered phone.
Not sure why it didint work for you but it did work for me.
Not working for me on blazers rom
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Nope, I posted that op from the tethered phone.
Not sure why it didint work for you but it did work for me.
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Are you running clean rom 2?
Didn't work for me stock rooted. ..
Suggest to delete this thread. Be quick to refund within your 15 minutes. .I was to late bye bye dollar
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How about if you want tethering, you pay for it and do it legally. Sprint will be seriously cracking down on unauthorized tethering with the new Network Vision network controls.
I read something in the evo lte forum where they insterted a line into the build prop to use the hotspot.
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How about if you want tethering, you pay for it and do it legally. Sprint will be seriously cracking down on unauthorized tethering with the new Network Vision network controls.
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I'd be more than happy to. If there wasn't that absolutely ridiculous 5GB limit. That's unacceptable for me. Give me more options and I'll gladly pay for it.
Hell, I pay Verizon $100 for 22GB and still coming short sometimes.
It didn't work for me, I am using your stock rom Scott.
Didnt work for me either buddy. You must have the Golden Goose-!
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I read something in the evo lte forum where they insterted a line into the build prop to use the hotspot.
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Yeah. Its in ny build prop. Didnt work.
Disable wifitether <false>
Or something to that affect...
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How about if you want tethering, you pay for it and do it legally. Sprint will be seriously cracking down on unauthorized tethering with the new Network Vision network controls.
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I don't use my data that much, maybe about 2GB a month, but I still hate the fact that every company want to charge for tier pricing. But the idea of the company able to charge for the service it doesn't do anything is insane. Sure if you want to let the company do so then go ahead, but then if you can do it yourself, then it become self service and you shouldn't have to pay. This is like they should be able to charge extra a month if you let you friend borrow your phone to make a call or to use 3rd party headset. Majority of people don't actually share the bandwidth with other people but rather to use the data of themself on another device.
Wifi Tether for Root user's doesn't work for anyone? Seems to for me when I set the profile to Samsung Galaxy Nexus CDMA/LTE.
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Wifi Tether for Root user's doesn't work for anyone? Seems to for me when I set the profile to Samsung Galaxy Nexus CDMA/LTE.
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It starts just fine without faults in the log but my computers can't see it.
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It starts just fine without faults in the log but my computers can't see it.
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Hmm, connected with it right now via my Asus Transformer which is where I'm answering this post from.
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Hmm, connected with it right now via my Asus Transformer which is where I'm answering this post from.
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Hmm what version is your WiFi tether app?
And what Setting-Method do you use?
Is your encryption on?
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Hmm what version is your WiFi tether app?
And what Setting-Method do you use?
Is your encryption on?
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3.2-beta2
Device Profile - Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)
Everything else I believe is defaults
Just for testing I do not have encryption on
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3.2-beta2
Device Profile - Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA/LTE)
Everything else I believe is defaults
Just for testing I do not have encryption on
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You must be one with the lucky phone. T just tried it again without encryption and multiple different settings including default and still no workie.
Oh well... enjoy it.
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So a buddy recommended this app because it worked before: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seifsoft.togglepanel
And SURE ENOUGH it activates the built in hot spot! This means its bypassing the entitlement check!
I paid $1.00 and activated used the toggle app to activate hot spot and it connected and I could surf....
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not working for me either. so, possibly some change you made may still be there and could be the key to unlocking tethering.
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Calling all Devs!
Its been a while since I have been on Sprint. A long while... But I think a change to android.policy.jar resolved the issue last time.
-Scott
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If I remember correctly it, at least in previous flavors, has been in services.jar. But a lot of smali needs to take place in order for it to work, again the last time I messed with it though was back in the GB days.
Does anyone have the airave 2.5 working? I tried a lot of tips on other forums without success. My old samsung airave worked great till it malfunctioned.
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Mine was working great till yesterday i had to unplug it for a bit.. whats up with yours?
i could never get mine to work...got tired and sent it back
Did you call them to boost the signal?? I had to do that when i first installed it..
My old samsung airave no problems till it stop working all red lights. It was recently replaced with the new model. Unable to make or receive calls while in range. Did plenty of online research. Going to replace my cable modem tomorrow maybe that will work.
I ran test that show less than 80% quality of service. Everything else was good. My ISP couldn't find any problems.
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My Airave sends my texts 3-4 times sometimes. Any way to stop that?
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My Airave sends my texts 3-4 times sometimes. Any way to stop that?
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Thats a new one on me...
after fighting with sprint and my isp for months, I figured out that my airave's mac id was not programmed into sprints system at all. Finally I got to talk to a network technician within the airave server room. Within 1 hour he got it working. level 1 csr's will almost never setup a trouble ticket, but after fighting with them on multiple occasions, they finally did. If your problem is the mobile light blinking constantly, then this will fix the issue. Good luck getting them to start a trouble ticket.
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My Airave sends my texts 3-4 times sometimes. Any way to stop that?
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when I first bought my gs3, I had a similar issue, I called sprint, they changed my MIN#, never had an issue ever since. They told me MIN# has to be changed when using Airave. Of course, not all level 1 csr's even know what your talking about, much less why it needs to be changed.
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I have the 2.5 and love it. Honestly it's the best one I've ever had, and I've had the first gen and 2 2.0's (both 2.0 were crap). You need to get in touch with their airave service techs to get things straightened out as noted above, but they've been able to solve any issues I've ever had. They even have a separate group email address which will get them to respond literally within minutes unless they're currently swamped. I sent them an email to call me about an issue and within 5 minutes they called me. I'll see if I can find the email addy and I'll post it up if I can.
I will try that. We did the mac id when I connected the airave.
It works for a little bit then I get the unable message.
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Definitely will. I enjoy the samsung airave. I know this one is suppose to be better.
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NoHousePhone said:
I will try that. We did the mac id when I connected the airave.
It works for a little bit then I get the unable message.
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sounds like its not correctly provisioning itself. Doesn't sound like a mac id issue, mine wouldn't work at all. Did you open any ports on your router? Router could be blocking some of the ports required for the airave to communicate with Sprint's servers, or some isps block VOIP ports in an effort to force you to buy their phone service.
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I have an old dlink router 615. It worked fine with my original Samsung airave. I am testing again. I exchanged the cable modem for a newer one. This modem is definitely faster but same quality of service score. According to the 8x8 voip test I can have more than 15 voip connections.
Thinking of getting a new router.
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My 2.5 drops data from 3g to 1x. My calls are not an issue.
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So far so good. The new cable modem seem to do the trick so far. When data is concern. I am usually on wifi. Its quicker and uses less battery.
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I'm at work and my airave works just fine with the same modem. It must have been something with the network.
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Basically I'm curious how do you use your phone to potential I see people with smart phones and they don't use the Internet calendar or anything and I always say man these phones arnt cheap so if your going to buy a smart phone use it integrate it with your life make alarms calendar events browse the net read books do what ever uses your phone to its full potential so now I ask the xda members what more is there to the phone what else can I do to use my phone and get my moneys worth I take pictures listen to music browse the net forums magazines books games calendar svoice so any opinions let me know thanks! :thumbup:
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I regularly use the wifikill app to shut out Apple users from open wifi networks so that more-deserving people can utilize the capabilities of their phones.
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I regularly use the wifikill app to shut out Apple users from open wifi networks so that more-deserving people can utilize the capabilities of their phones.
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Lmao is that real? If so that's kind of hilarious
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Yes it is. I use network spoof for worse. The absolute simplest explanation is me using sftp it's the most hardware intense application gpu excluded it will be years before a cell phone match x86 through put
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Basically I'm curious how do you use your phone to potential I see people with smart phones and they don't use the Internet calendar or anything and I always say man these phones arnt cheap so if your going to buy a smart phone use it integrate it with your life make alarms calendar events browse the net read books do what ever uses your phone to its full potential so now I ask the xda members what more is there to the phone what else can I do to use my phone and get my moneys worth I take pictures listen to music browse the net forums magazines books games calendar svoice so any opinions let me know thanks! :thumbup:
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I try to integrate my phone into my life as much as possible. Calendars, alarm clock, email, bill paying, password keeper, cloud storage, shopping, etc. I agree - why spend all the money on a smartphone and not use it to its fullest potential. Everything you listed seems like what I do with mine. To further see the fullest potential of the phone, I recently rooted it and have flashed 2 - 3 ROMs over the past few weeks. I am really enjoying it. I have never had a rooted phone before, let alone done any rooting myself. This is a first for me. :good:
I recently bought a nice denon audio receiver. (Avr 1713) it has a network connection, and I can control it via Wi-Fi anywhere in the house. I can even stream Pandora and have full control through my phone. Pretty sweet.
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Where can I find that app? The wifikill app
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I try to integrate my phone into my life as much as possible. Calendars, alarm clock, email, bill paying, password keeper, cloud storage, shopping, etc. I agree - why spend all the money on a smartphone and not use it to its fullest potential. Everything you listed seems like what I do with mine. To further see the fullest potential of the phone, I recently rooted it and have flashed 2 - 3 ROMs over the past few weeks. I am really enjoying it. I have never had a rooted phone before, let alone done any rooting myself. This is a first for me. :good:
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Yea rooting your ohone is a ton of fun especially switching roms up I've been rooting and flashing for quite some time I'm actually going to do a prl swap later on since I can't use lte in my area yet ill roam on vzn for faster 3G
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I recently bought a nice denon audio receiver. (Avr 1713) it has a network connection, and I can control it via Wi-Fi anywhere in the house. I can even stream Pandora and have full control through my phone. Pretty sweet.
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I have a okay rca receiver kind of out dated with small cube speakers curious I am aiming to have a ridiculously loud system its 1000 watts do I need to upgrade my receiver or can I buy some big speakers if only speakers what would you recommend I also want a kick ass sub lol I use my gs3 plug it in via line in and pump it to the max also use awesome beats v3 and it's to much bass for my system it vibrates it also smoked once not cool needless to to say that was my last time doing that btw it was the sub that smoked
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Where can I find that app? The wifikill app
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282900
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Yea rooting your ohone is a ton of fun especially switching roms up I've been rooting and flashing for quite some time I'm actually going to do a prl swap later on since I can't use lte in my area yet ill roam on vzn for faster 3G
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Really? How would you do that? I have LTE in my area (not fully yet), but would I still be able to roam on VZW by changing my PRL? Sounds interesting.
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Jamal717 - Never mind on my last message. I remember there is a PRL thread somewhere in the Sprint forum. I will take a look. I didn't want to change this thread from the original topic. Thanks.
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Really? How would you do that? I have LTE in my area (not fully yet), but would I still be able to roam on VZW by changing my PRL? Sounds interesting.
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Jamal717 - Never mind on my last message. I remember there is a PRL thread somewhere in the Sprint forum. I will take a look. I didn't want to change this thread from the original topic. Thanks.
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Fine with me lol but you can find the prl thread in the Android development section also you can not roam on lte only on Verizon 3g not there lte but your lucky how is sprint lte in your area
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I have a okay rca receiver kind of out dated with small cube speakers curious I am aiming to have a ridiculously loud system its 1000 watts do I need to upgrade my receiver or can I buy some big speakers if only speakers what would you recommend I also want a kick ass sub lol I use my gs3 plug it in via line in and pump it to the max also use awesome beats v3 and it's to much bass for my system it vibrates it also smoked once not cool needless to to say that was my last time doing that btw it was the sub that smoked
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Definitely want to upgrade the receiver and speakers. I've been doing a ton of research and ended up with this combo. I got the speakers half off on Newegg during some 2 day deal they had.
Receiver
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1K50FJ7174
I got the receiver as an open box item at Best buy for $315!!! It retails for $450.
Pioneer SPC21 (center)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882117404
Pioneer SPFS51 (L & R)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882117403
Pioneer SPBS21 $100 (rears)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882117405
The receiver is amazing though. Comes with a program called audyssey that uses a mic and several positions to automatically setup each speaker based on your room. The android app (AVR-remote) is free and gives you complete control over the entire system (ie bass, treble, speaker output, sub, etc) I happened to find all these parts for a grand total of $520. Should of retailed for $850. I already have a sweet sub, so didn't have to buy one.
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Great app
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Definitely want to upgrade the receiver and speakers. I've been doing a ton of research and ended up with this combo. I got the speakers half off on Newegg during some 2 day deal they had.
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The receiver is amazing though. Comes with a program called audyssey that uses a mic and several positions to automatically setup each speaker based on your room. The android app (AVR-remote) is free and gives you complete control over the entire system (ie bass, treble, speaker output, sub, etc) I happened to find all these parts for a grand total of $520. Should of retailed for $850. I already have a sweet sub, so didn't have to buy one.
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I have the Denon 3312 myself and love it! Definitely a Denon "fanboy" myself.
So, I got my new phone. Yay.
Now I have this old dinc, gonna root, but who has some good ideas for putting this thing to good non phone use?
Thanks!
Dedicated music player comes to mind. I don't know
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I agree with naut. Get you a theme able custom ROM and pimp the hell out that mp3inc. Throw on some Pandora, some games, and a few good camera apps.
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I agree with naut. Get you a theme able custom ROM and pimp the hell out that mp3inc. Throw on some Pandora, some games, and a few good camera apps.
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I like That. I have aspirations (no motivation) to be a themer and a dedicated device to test on sounds great.
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So, I got my new phone. Yay.
Now I have this old dinc, gonna root, but who has some good ideas for putting this thing to good non phone use?
Thanks!
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You could just send it to me! Haha, some people use it as a VOIP phone in there house. I think an app like GrooveIP will give you that option.
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I like That. I have aspirations (no motivation) to be a themer and a dedicated device to test on sounds great.
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You could just send it to me! Haha, some people use it as a VOIP phone in there house. I think an app like GrooveIP will give you that option.
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I second that. Specifically the send it to me part
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Personally I like having a second phone to quickly and easily show off something cool on the new phone via video. I had a d2g that had a bad esn (I thought I could use it in Europe, but was locked out there too) and I used it a lot for that.
Also I use it when going abroad, as it will work in Europe and the states.
Also, I love using my old phones as alarm clocks. You'd be amazed how many days an old BB Curve will last with all the radios turned off. I'm guessing a Dinc2 would be good that way too.
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Thanks!
Two questions. Could it be a GPS without a data connection?
Also, does anyone know of an app that makes your phone networked attached storage and / or plug it into a hard drive and act as an interface for NAS?
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Thanks!
Two questions. Could it be a GPS without a data connection?
Also, does anyone know of an app that makes your phone networked attached storage and / or plug it into a hard drive and act as an interface for NAS?
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I know GPS will work without data, but if you need to pull up directions for navigation, you need to be on WiFi to download the coordinates. After that if you don't make it re-route it will work. As for the 2nd question.....idk
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Always nice to have a backup phone when the new one breaks and you have to wait for Verizon to send you your new refurb **** phone
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Always nice to have a backup phone when the new one breaks and you have to wait for Verizon to send you your new refurb **** phone
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really on all these ideas. I still have my Eris (though the trackball still scrolls left) as an emergency backup, mp3/Pandora player for in-house and garage (anywhere WiFi reaches), and white noise machine for sleeping baby.
Sometimes wish it didn't have that trackball issue so I could use it more efficiantly, so a fully operational DInc2 laying around would be an awesome thing to have.
What did you end up getting?
Thanks for the advice. I also like the idea of an experimental unit, now that I do not rely on the device daily, I can check out the jellybean rom and try out google now
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really on all these ideas. I still have my Eris (though the trackball still scrolls left) as an emergency backup, mp3/Pandora player for in-house and garage (anywhere WiFi reaches), and white noise machine for sleeping baby.
Sometimes wish it didn't have that trackball issue so I could use it more efficiantly, so a fully operational DInc2 laying around would be an awesome thing to have.
What did you end up getting?
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I remember I used to get the eris trackball to start working by putting a piece of clean white paper on a table and rolling the trackball over it in a rolling motion. Always did the trick
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Triscuit said:
I remember I used to get the eris trackball to start working by putting a piece of clean white paper on a table and rolling the trackball over it in a rolling motion. Always did the trick
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Yea, I used up all the paper in the house. It only lasts for a short while now, but it does work for a little (usually). I even replaced the trackball with a blackberry one. I was thinking about trying just caking the area around the trackball/circuit board with JB weld to prevent flex which I think is causing the intermittent contact issue caused by the location of the charging port in relation to the trackball.
Ah well, either way it is extra and it wont be the end of the workl if I destroy it!
Yay for extras!
I'll be using mine as a paranormal investigation tool. I have a few apps that actually work, unlike ghost radar.
Navigation now that maps has an offline feature!
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nyccharlie said:
I'll be using mine as a paranormal investigation tool. I have a few apps that actually work, unlike ghost radar.
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Is this for real LOL
Pornphone.
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htc/Verizon asks that you place your inc2 on end of barrel of a 12 gauge, insert 3in slug, make it rain incredible flakes. now your inc2 has been officially updated by Verizon
Like someone else mentioned, the phone could be used as a VOIP home phone. All it requires is a Google Voice account and an app called GrooveIP (there's a free version, but the $5 full-featured version is definitely worth the money in my opinion). I also take it with me when I travel, since most airports and lots of hotels offer free WiFi, which allows me to make as many phone calls as I like without running up my minutes. I've been using my Inc2 for this purpose for awhile now, and it's very nice to have. I keep the phone in a dock and also use it for streaming music when I'm home as well as for my alarm clock. Just because the phone isn't activated on a wireless plan shouldn't mean that it can't serve a purpose.
Only other piece of advice; I would steer clear of ICS/JB based Roms if using it as a VOIP phone. I had nothing but trouble with the audio settings on GrooveIP. But the stock Rom, or any GB-based Rom should work fine. I use MROM (which is CM7 based) and it works exactly as expected.
Hi guys, recently lots of S3 owners encouter this scary issue that their S3's motherboards just failed randomly and the phones are dead.Here is the link to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
However, after reading pages, I noticed most cases are in the UK, some in other europe countries, some in asia (india, south east asia). Not sure the US version (and Tmo version specificly) is suffering from this, so I made this thread to gather information about this. I know I am paranoid, but I was hoping my S3 would last at least 2 years til my next upgrade. And now Im living in fear after knowing that thread. My S3 (manufacture date is 06/27/12) is still performing very fine with zero issue since august except the SD card being removed unexpectedly 2 times by the phone itself.
(btw, you can check your manufature date by dial this code: *#12580*369# )
Edit: seems like only international version suffers from this issue.
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Thank you. you all need to get it.
elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
crazexr7 said:
Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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my phone comes with 1 year warranty. But I hate having a phone already opened up for repair.
Anyway, there is 1 case with Tmo US version....
elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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diazf09 said:
Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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Exactly. These phones are too damn expensive for them to keep sticking us consumers on the crap end of the stick when they screw up.
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as much as i hate to say this but if this does happen to mine, this will be the last time I buy from Samsung and might jump ship to Apple where I can take a phone in a get it fixed in time.
Im pretty happy with Samsung, I deal with warranty on a day to day basis in another way but there is an expected amount of devices that go out that a company knows is going to fail at some point and also rely on returns for warranted devices to see what went wrong in production in order to correct it.
The problem is you have "X" amount of people on the forum which is big in consideration to a regular site and "Y" with the same problem and people group in and make the issue bigger than it is. Any company that posts a recall is at the point that OVER 42% of the product with the same failure over the release.
With that said I haven't had one problem with mine that others have reported and after being let down by HTC time and time again I most definitely will buy another Samsung device, so far it's been the best I've had out of the collection of smartphones I have.
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I'm a Samsung convert
No one else has the cyanogen and miui teams working for them
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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monkeypaws said:
Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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it doesnt matter if youre rooted for hardware failure, they still have to warranty it
Its reasons like these I'm always so fearful to remove my warranty subscription. Oh, and because of all my phone hax0ring
Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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ferlogan said:
Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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You dont have to go to the store, call T-Mobile and they will send you one with an RMA, as soon as you get it put the old one in the box and send it out. All they do is check for water damage and put it up for refurbish they don't waste time putting it through testing they test the devices that may have account info on it if you can't power it up to format it before sending it back. They ask you that on the phone.
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So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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Sounds to me like you might have activated something in developers options, go in settings and see if you selected anything that would flash the screen if long processes are in use.
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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Did you enable any traces? That would show depending on what you have checked. I was gonna try enabling a few to see what it does but it's not like it would ruin anything. I'll report back though to see if I can recreate it.
Edit nope that did nothing, hope you figure it out, I never had that happen before.
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havent heard anyone yet seem the us version are better than other version in the world