Verizon has narrowed down what caused the LTE outage and is fixing it - Thunderbolt General

Thats about it... per their twitter account.

That's embarrassing.

Bobman54 said:
That's embarrassing.
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+1 definitely is... they could've had the decency to let users know that their service(s) were down ... this caused massive confusion :T

And they're not gonna tell us what the problem was?

Sounds like another sony. Atleast it didnt take nearly a week.
posted with my thunderbolt w/ 1x -_-

unlisted said:
Sounds like another sony. Atleast it didnt take nearly a week.
posted with my thunderbolt w/ 1x -_-
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lol im using the same thing for my sig while texting

j1k said:
+1 definitely is... they could've had the decency to let users know that their service(s) were down ... this caused massive confusion :T
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Funny thing is probably most of the confusion was with people who had rooted or flashed roms (at least that was my situation). Cause I've read a lot about people restoring old backups and other roms because they saw they were on 1x.

Bobman54 said:
Funny thing is probably most of the confusion was with people who had rooted or flashed roms (at least that was my situation). Cause I've read a lot about people restoring old backups and other roms because they saw they were on 1x.
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Yea, that happened to me too.. I had just flashed a new ROM earlier when I noticed it was happening.. wasn't sure what was going on so I called Verizon and didn't tell them I had flashed the ROM when they told me about the outage.

SDracis said:
Yea, that happened to me too.. I had just flashed a new ROM earlier when I noticed it was happening.. wasn't sure what was going on so I called Verizon and didn't tell them I had flashed the ROM when they told me about the outage.
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Good call. I almost did a restore then saw the news. Still might do a restore though because I'm using the CM7 pre-alpha and there is a terrible mic echo in calls.

did anyone check to make sure the towers are plugged in?
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I am pretty happy with the Virus Airborne ROM.. Flashed that this morning, also put adrynalyne kernel on it earlier for an overclock.. now just need the network back up so I can fully enjoy it..

wrb123 said:
did anyone check to make sure the towers are plugged in?
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That guy running around on the rooftops plugging stuff in before the lightning strikes must have tripped an unplugged something.

bobman54 said:
that guy running around on the rooftops plugging stuff in before the lightning strikes must have tripped an unplugged something.
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1.21 gigawatts!

1. Unplug tower.
2. Wait 60 seconds.
3. Plug tower back in.
The router method works for several things in life, such as: routers, phone towers, cathode ray tubes, personal air conditioning units, churches, RROD'd 360s, and routers.

4G back up here in Phoenix, AZ. As of the last 10 minutes. Woo hoo! Was at 1x all day.

iamsupreme said:
4G back up here in Phoenix, AZ. As of the last 10 minutes. Woo hoo! Was at 1x all day.
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I just tried it here in Newport Beach CA, 4G is still down... still 1x... switching back to 3G.

iamsupreme said:
4G back up here in Phoenix, AZ. As of the last 10 minutes. Woo hoo! Was at 1x all day.
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Can not confirm 4G back up in Phoenix. Just rebooted and still on 1x.

Still only 1x in Milwaukee
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RossLH said:
1. Unplug tower.
2. Wait 60 seconds.
3. Plug tower back in.
The router method works for several things in life, such as: routers, phone towers, cathode ray tubes, personal air conditioning units, churches, RROD'd 360s, and routers.
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LOL! Please explain the Churches part...haha.

McLabia said:
LOL! Please explain the Churches part...haha.
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Churches are the place of worship for the Catholic and Christian religions.
Fun fact: churches float. Similar to very small rocks.

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[Q] 4G in Huntsville, AL

I noticed on yesterday about 5pm, my Tbolt switched over to 4G for about an hour then went back to 3G I was getting around 15MB down and 3MB up testing it with various speed test. I also tested it with the Netflix app and in less that 5 seconds, the movie was streaming. Anybody else notice this in this HSV area?
Hey Huntsville buddy, I haven't had 4g turned on but you can be for damn sure I will right now. I'll post back if I see anything.
Braggo said:
Hey Huntsville buddy, I haven't had 4g turned on but you can be for damn sure I will right now. I'll post back if I see anything.
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Alrighty....Just trying to spread some GOOD news for a change. Be sure to post again if I happen to get another glimpse of the "White Unicorn". LOL!!!
Dang I must have missed it. I guess you have to be looking at your phone at the right time. Although I live in Madison, but 4G should get to me right? But since I work in Huntsville maybe I will be able to at least enjoy 4G during the work hours.
I noticed it yesterday too. I guess they were doing some testing. My guess is perhaps they'll turn it on next week... Thursday? Regardless, at least we know they have 4G towers up in HSV. Now just a question of when they will turn it on permanently.
Character Zero said:
Dang I must have missed it. I guess you have to be looking at your phone at the right time. Although I live in Madison, but 4G should get to me right? But since I work in Huntsville maybe I will be able to at least enjoy 4G during the work hours.
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I live in Huntsville but it's basically Madison and also work in Madison. From what I understand it should extend out here also. I know that Montgomery's 4g supposedly extends to Troy and some other cities so there should be no way we don't see 4g in Madison also.
Eurasianman said:
I noticed it yesterday too. I guess they were doing some testing. My guess is perhaps they'll turn it on next week... Thursday? Regardless, at least we know they have 4G towers up in HSV. Now just a question of when they will turn it on permanently.
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There hasn't been a press release so who knows when it goes live for real. I think I have my 4G off last night, I hope they flip the switch for a little bit this weekend.
Braggo said:
I live in Huntsville but it's basically Madison and also work in Madison. From what I understand it should extend out here also. I know that Montgomery's 4g supposedly extends to Troy and some other cities so there should be no way we don't see 4g in Madison also.
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Yeah I stopped by the VZW store on Uni dr. when I saw this yesterday and the REP said that once its turned on permenantly for this area, it will strech past Decatur. Im hoping this is the case since I live in Madison as well. He wouldn't give me a definiate time frame but he said it should be by the end of June.
mademan420 said:
Yeah I stopped by the VZW store on Uni dr. when I saw this yesterday and the REP said that once its turned on permenantly for this area, it will strech past Decatur. Im hoping this is the case since I live in Madison as well. He wouldn't give me a definiate time frame but he said it should be by the end of June.
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By the end of June would be amazing. When I bought my Thunderbolt I honestly was thinking Fall at the earliest.
Man I'm surprised Huntsville doesn't have 4g yet. They turned it on here in mobile last week
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abn75 said:
Man I'm surprised Huntsville doesn't have 4g yet. They turned it on here in mobile last week
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You know....I was thinking the exact same thing. Then I remembered that BHAM doesnt have it yet either. It seems like(at least in AL) that VZW in turning on 4G in reverse order rather than going from largest to smallest of bigger cities.
Yeah it does seem of how the bigger cities don't yet have it while we do. I'm not complaining mind you
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I didn't notice 4g, but I'm on CM7 so who knows if I would have seen it. While I want 4g my battery wants it more.
greenfday6 said:
I didn't notice 4g, but I'm on CM7 so who knows if I would have seen it. While I want 4g my battery wants it more.
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So how's CM7? Been thinking about jumping the broom but with 4G so close, I want to be able to use it when its available.
I was on 4g on 565 at about 6:45 today. Did a quick speed check before I lost it, 6444kbps down 13542kbps up.
mademan420 said:
So how's CM7? Been thinking about jumping the broom but with 4G so close, I want to be able to use it when its available.
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Battery life is still pretty bad, but over everything is working. Even got 4g today as you can see from my post above.
I thought I read a while back where I65 an us hwy 31 was supposed to get 4G coverage. If so, that would pretty much cover Cullman city. where I live. Any else heard this?
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Yes Huntsville, AL will be getting 4G in about 30-45 days. So will decatur. Mobile and Montgomery already have it turned on. They have been testing the network in the are. My TB has been switching back and forth from 3-4g. I have customers come in the store asking this all week. It just around the corner!!!
Dang I keep missing the temporary 4G. Oh well I will be driving though Nashville soon, so I will get at for a little bit.
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Yes Huntsville, AL will be getting 4G in about 30-45 days. So will decatur. Mobile and Montgomery already have it turned on. They have been testing the network in the are. My TB has been switching back and forth from 3-4g. I have customers come in the store asking this all week. It just around the corner!!!
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WOOT WOOT!!!
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no 4g love?

Had this phone about a week. Rooted with coredroid rom. I'm doing regular speed tests and im getting 1.2-2 mbps on average. Tonight i tried the 2nd apn and after a while i hit around 3. Am i missing something? Is att that lame? I'm coming from a captivate and i was getting those kind of speeds on it. I live in the philadelphia area so its not like i'm out in the woods.
thanks
gpzjack said:
Tonight i tried the 2nd apn and after a while i hit around 3. Am i missing something? Is att that lame?
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In one word: yes. Some people can get 6-8. Normal is 2-3 for me, sometimes 4-6 really late at night.
henrybravo said:
In one word: yes. Some people can get 6-8. Normal is 2-3 for me, sometimes 4-6 really late at night.
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and people are supposed to rush out and upgrade phones for this? FAIL
I do love the phone.
On the upside the GPS actually works haha I also came from the Captivate.
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[Q] Is there a way to recalibrate signal strength?

After rooting with Infused it is showing 3/4 sometimes 4/4 bars in my apt and I know for a fact that I have next to no service depending where i am and always had 0 or 1 bar before rooting. Now it shows almost full but will not send/receive texts. I used to be able to send texts if I sat it on the end of the couch but now I don't even get that.
I know you have to calibrate the battery after installing a rom but do you have to do something similar with the signal strength as well? Mine is way off.
theres no calibration for signal strength.
The Jack of Clubs said:
theres no calibration for signal strength.
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Figured...didn't know if it was a software misreading from Infused rom...just installed Bionix. Will see how that goes.
Reboot?
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jayson94538 said:
Reboot?
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tried that. Installed Bionix and does same thing. I've gone into recovery and wiped the dalvick and reg cache also.
Do other phones have no signal in your home. It is possible a tower went online.
JeremyE77 said:
Do other phones have no signal in your home. It is possible a tower went online.
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Yes they do. AT&T doesn't get that great of service in my place. The Infuse does seem worse than my iphone as far as reception I just need to move. Weird thing is that this phone will show full bars but can't even send a text. Knowing my signal strength before installing a rom I know it was always at 1 or no bars depending where it was in my apt.
Fee454 said:
Yes they do. AT&T doesn't get that great of service in my place. The Infuse does seem worse than my iphone as far as reception I just need to move. Weird thing is that this phone will show full bars but can't even send a text. Knowing my signal strength before installing a rom I know it was always at 1 or no bars depending where it was in my apt.
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Try returning to stock. Really sounds like a tower went online for you.
As to not being able to send a text - I stopped being able to send texts a few days ago, but I can't send anything from no less than 3 different phones using my SIM.
Can you call out or use data?
I can but I have to be in a perfect spot. I just picked up an AT&T 3g micro cell tower. Supposed to give me 5 bars in the house. Where I am is really a dead spot for ATT. I'm out right now and the phone is working great out side of that area.
My wife has an iphone 4 and gets better service but still only one bar for her. infuse antenna must be a little weaker maybe.
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Gtg posted a thread about modems. Try that. People have posted about useing different modems and getting better signals
Big dog Infuse I997 running Infused 1.5.3, Defused 1.5
bignate78 said:
Gtg posted a thread about modems. Try that. People have posted about useing different modems and getting better signals
Big dog Infuse I997 running Infused 1.5.3, Defused 1.5
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Sorry, I am not sure I understand what you mean. I am talking about the cell signal strength itself not the wifi signal.
Fee454 said:
Sorry, I am not sure I understand what you mean. I am talking about the cell signal strength itself not the wifi signal.
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Thread-
[Modem] infusion 4g shipped modem collection.
Dev- Gtg
Go look at the thread and read through it!!!!! I wouldnt post if I didn't know what I'm saying!!
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Fee454 said:
Sorry, I am not sure I understand what you mean. I am talking about the cell signal strength itself not the wifi signal.
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Nate is right. The thread is for changing the radio. But we only have 2 different radios. Try the other one and see if you receive a better signal.
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jayson94538 said:
Nate is right. The thread is for changing the radio. But we only have 2 different radios. Try the other one and see if you receive a better signal.
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Oh ok. I'm completely new to android...I've had an Iphone since they came out so being the idiot I am I was thinking modem as in actual internet modem. Cool...I will check that out.
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I can but I have to be in a perfect spot. I just picked up an AT&T 3g micro cell tower. Supposed to give me 5 bars in the house. Where I am is really a dead spot for ATT. I'm out right now and the phone is working great out side of that area.
My wife has an iphone 4 and gets better service but still only one bar for her. infuse antenna must be a little weaker maybe.
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I've heard a lot of bad things about microcells. A properly installed Wilson amp, on the other hand, is awesome. They're a bit difficult to install properly though...
Entropy512 said:
I've heard a lot of bad things about microcells. A properly installed Wilson amp, on the other hand, is awesome. They're a bit difficult to install properly though...
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Just got it activated...so far my phone is working great..full bars...but of course i'll have to use it for a while to see how reliable it is.
So far half the texts I'm sending instantly fail and only one mms txt actually went thru using the microcell
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Entropy512 said:
I've heard a lot of bad things about microcells. A properly installed Wilson amp, on the other hand, is awesome. They're a bit difficult to install properly though...
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You seem to have heard right so far. Thing is acting like complete garbage. I can not send a picture message to save my life.

Turned on LTE in Ohio....

And holy cow. I have TimeWarner Wideband at home and LTE puts it to shame.
I thank myself every time i use my phone now that I got the Skyrocket over the regular GS2.
Holy speed batman.
Side note- Tethering... I had an iphone and about 6 months ago I got yelled at for tethering, threatening to turn off my unlimited data and put me on a tethering plan. Havnt done it since. I want to try it again... Is tethering on Android any different than on the iphone? I guess they were easily able to tell on the iphone, but is it the same case on android?? I drives me crazy I cant use my internet to the fullest extent! haha.
Thanks!
Where in Ohio? Cleveland?
Yea where at
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Side note- Tethering... I had an iphone and about 6 months ago I got yelled at for tethering, threatening to turn off my unlimited data and put me on a tethering plan. Havnt done it since. I want to try it again... Is tethering on Android any different than on the iphone? I guess they were easily able to tell on the iphone, but is it the same case on android?? I drives me crazy I cant use my internet to the fullest extent! haha.
Thanks!
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BTW, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that you can tether if you are rooted. From what I was reading it seemed that the people that were doing this were not being charged by AT&T. Although I only read a few posts and don't know the details.
I'm sure someone here can clarify further.
Ive Seen it in Stow, Akron, and Canton.
Sooo fast
Ah, can't wait for it to get around Cincinnati.
Yeah about month ago i saw in chapel hill area and tried to do few quick speed test inside a building and speeds were just ok. I think AT&T is building it first in akron and then cleveland. Bc still have to see LTE show up on phone in cleveland area.
shezi01 said:
Yeah about month ago i saw in chapel hill area and tried to do few quick speed test inside a building and speeds were just ok. I think AT&T is building it first in akron and then cleveland. Bc still have to see LTE show up on phone in cleveland area.
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You saw it in chapel hill a month ago?! Where have i been?? haha. It musta been the rom I was on, went to SKY ICS yesterday and whammy, it was there. I hit 50 down and 10 up this morning turning onto Everhard road off of rt77
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You saw it in chapel hill a month ago?! Where have i been?? haha. It musta been the rom I was on, went to SKY ICS yesterday and whammy, it was there. I hit 50 down and 10 up this morning turning onto Everhard road off of rt77
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Hehe
R4INS said:
Hehe
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I thought we were grown ups here!!!
(kidding, i giggled too when i first saw it!)
teeg07 said:
I thought we were grown ups here!!!
(kidding, i giggled too when i first saw it!)
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Haha not even close.
U you should see me on call of duty when someone yells "finish that guy off" or "grab my package".
And I'm 27... lol
ICS Radio
teeg07 said:
You saw it in chapel hill a month ago?! Where have i been?? haha. It musta been the rom I was on, went to SKY ICS yesterday and whammy, it was there. I hit 50 down and 10 up this morning turning onto Everhard road off of rt77
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What radio are you using with SKY ICS? I'm using Seanz ICS in SE Florida where I was getting LTE with stock GB. I'm not getting LTE with this ROM and I know it has to do with the radio. I need to flash a modem and don't know which one to flash!
teeg07 said:
And holy cow. I have TimeWarner Wideband at home and LTE puts it to shame.
I thank myself every time i use my phone now that I got the Skyrocket over the regular GS2.
Holy speed batman.
Side note- Tethering... I had an iphone and about 6 months ago I got yelled at for tethering, threatening to turn off my unlimited data and put me on a tethering plan. Havnt done it since. I want to try it again... Is tethering on Android any different than on the iphone? I guess they were easily able to tell on the iphone, but is it the same case on android?? I drives me crazy I cant use my internet to the fullest extent! haha.
Thanks!
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in regards to tethering, they can tell. When you tether they can tell by looking at the data packets. I'm not sure about the specifics, but the type of data packets or the signature or something changes so they can tell.
That's how they could tell with the iPhones, I'm sure its the same thing regardless of which phone you have because its more of a network thing.
I tether, with my old iPhone and this phone. But I'm not a heavy user (almost never even get close to 1gb of data). Never been yelled at.
If you do get called out on it, just play dumb. Just be like oh I didn't know I was doing that. I run Ubuntu from my phone, that might be it. You know, stuff that the representative won't know how to deal with / can't deal with it.
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daviebeach said:
What radio are you using with SKY ICS? I'm using Seanz ICS in SE Florida where I was getting LTE with stock GB. I'm not getting LTE with this ROM and I know it has to do with the radio. I need to flash a modem and don't know which one to flash!
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Im on UCLC5 from the note. Actually had that installed before i installed SKY ICS and it stuck. I've had no problems with it.
Shadeslayers said:
in regards to tethering, they can tell. When you tether they can tell by looking at the data packets. I'm not sure about the specifics, but the type of data packets or the signature or something changes so they can tell.
That's how they could tell with the iPhones, I'm sure its the same thing regardless of which phone you have because its more of a network thing.
I tether, with my old iPhone and this phone. But I'm not a heavy user (almost never even get close to 1gb of data). Never been yelled at.
If you do get called out on it, just play dumb. Just be like oh I didn't know I was doing that. I run Ubuntu from my phone, that might be it. You know, stuff that the representative won't know how to deal with / can't deal with it.
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I was afraid that was going to be the answer. maybe i'll give it a few more months before i try.

Random oddness

Okay, so tell me how this happened. I had been working on my SII, flashed a Tmobile Rom earlier and had left the phone sitting next to my daily driver (Pantech Flex) on the desk while I ran a few errands. I came back 30 minutes later and the SII had somehow managed to have the exact same non-stock wallpaper image on the screen as the Pantech. No one else but the dog around. My first thought was some kind of funky NFC stuff going on between the two phones ... Android sex or something. Things that make ya go hmm.
Aimless Rambler said:
Okay, so tell me how this happened. I had been working on my SII, flashed a Tmobile Rom earlier and had left the phone sitting next to my daily driver (Pantech Flex) on the desk while I ran a few errands. I came back 30 minutes later and the SII had somehow managed to have the exact same non-stock wallpaper image on the screen as the Pantech. No one else but the dog around. My first thought was some kind of funky NFC stuff going on between the two phones ... Android sex or something. Things that make ya go hmm.
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Did you restore from your Google account? If so, it restored your wall you had linked to your account from the other phone. Mystery solved
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bps119 said:
Did you restore from your Google account? If so, it restored your wall you had linked to your account from the other phone. Mystery solved
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The funky android sex story sounded better. But your story is more believable:thumbup:
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I don't know, Andy's a dude, and dude on dude just doesn't sound appealing to me... Not that there's anything wrong with that
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bps119 said:
I don't know, Andy's a dude, and dude on dude just doesn't sound appealing to me... Not that there's anything wrong with that
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Ha! Yeah I wore gloves when I picked em up. Poor Pantech, it'll probably never be the same. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Haha! Also, I hadn't signed into Google yet, no syncing going on. I've been testing radios (upload/download speeds shooting for proper 4G loads) and not bothering with Google bidness. I'll leave em alone tonight and see if it happens again. Maybe light a candle and put on some Lionel Richie. Ya know, in order to replicate the mysteriousness. All in the name of gizmo science. :laugh:
Hahaha, this is great! Do you think they can reproduce? Maybe you'll get a brand new phone in a couple of months.(?)
Brought to you by time and relative dimensions in space.
(9 months later) you hear your phone screaming in another room and you ealk in there and you see the pantech give birth to a hybrid Samtech with super high specs. Lol
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