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You see, I am having this problem where MMS's sent by someone to someone else are coming from my number and I called T-Mobile's G1 Support Dept and they want to sent me an OTA, but they need me to go into my settings and give them the exact firmware version I read there. Problem is I am jailbroken, so I didn't want to give them that, so I said I was on my cell and did not have another phone around I could use to call them back (which was actually true). So I have the following three questions:
1) Is anybody experiencing the same problem as me? Feel free to comment here or in the original post on HoFo.
2) What does the official build description read? I want to give them that one instead when I call back.
3) If I am jailbroken, is it OK to receive OTA's from T-Mobile? Will I even receive them? Will they install successfully? Will my jailbreak break?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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if you changed your phone to use the developer keyset (ie: JF's androidmod + modded rc 30), you should be fine even if they send it to you it wouldn't install because your phone now wants updates signed with the dev keys not the REAL tmob/htc keys...
I doubt it would fix your problem anyway, could somebody be "spoofing" the messages with "your caller id info" there are websites that will do this for txt, mms & even voice calls, that would be my guess.
Every once in a while the sms msg centers will just wig out and do wacky stuff from time to time, I have had messages show up hours and even days after they were sent, somebody the otherday msg'd me saying I had sent them a text, I hadn't (i checked sent msgs folder) so who knows it could have been just an anomolly.
bhang
this occurred shortly after the initial launch of the G1. some suggested wiping the phone, but not sure if that fixed the issue. maybe you could reinstall jf's RC30 and then wipe and then restore your info.... might help?
bhang said:
if you changed your phone to use the developer keyset (ie: JF's androidmod + modded rc 30), you should be fine even if they send it to you it wouldn't install because your phone now wants updates signed with the dev keys not the REAL tmob/htc keys...
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I think that's what I did, so I guess I won't be calling TMo back and I guess I'll have to live with this for now, having people I don't know message me weekly asking, "Who's this?" I just need to make sure I don't send anything compromising if I sent MMS's. *LOL*
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I doubt it would fix your problem anyway, could somebody be "spoofing" the messages with "your caller id info" there are websites that will do this for txt, mms & even voice calls, that would be my guess.
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Not at all. In both cases, the people asking who I was because they received a picture from my number confirmed they know the person who sent it to them and they did nothing special to send those messages, just use the native Messaging application.
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somebody the otherday msg'd me saying I had sent them a text, I hadn't (i checked sent msgs folder) so who knows it could have been just an anomolly.
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This sounds exactly like what I have been experiencing, only I have only seen it happen with MMS's, not SMS's.
korndub said:
this occurred shortly after the initial launch of the G1. some suggested wiping the phone, but not sure if that fixed the issue. maybe you could reinstall jf's RC30 and then wipe and then restore your info.... might help?
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I never saw reports of this before. Guess I missed them. See my response above. I will just wait and see what happens. Most likely, this is TMo screwing up and once enough people complain and TMo realizes the liability they have in their hands, they will move and fix this. Besides, I just saw in one of the threads that we should be able to install Cupcake, so I will explore that or wait for the next jailbreak update.
this was happening to me as well and it happened to be my father's iphone account weird, but yes i get really scared when i send my gf stuff now lol from my gmail account. i grabbed his phone to make sure he didn't see anything and just make sure it addressed to the right person when you send lol
i also input my contact into and when my father texts me (yes he just learned), the sender is my email address....odd
idk how to change it....
hbguy
I insist. 611 from your G1 and complain. T-Mobile needs to get the pressure to move enough resources to address this.
This same thing has been happening to me. I am using an iPhone with SwirlyMMS. I did notice that when people responded to me with a MMS asking me "Who is this?", according to my.t-mobile.com my texts were originating from India or Russia, but were from people's real cell phone numbers in the US. I know this, because one of the numbers in question called me and they were from NYC.
this has happend to my girlfriend a few months back and she has a tmo sidekick 3. Also, about 8 months ago my roomate was getting phone calls from all over the U.S. from people trying to reach other peole after about 10 phone calls i called his phone from mine (tmo wing at the time) and it went to someone else. I then hung up and tried a few minutes later and it went to someone different. He called t-mobile and they said they havnt recieved any other complaints and told him to restart his phone. He did, it did nothing. but over the next few days it seemed to fix itself, of t-mobile had found the problem. But back to the mms, My girlfriend now owns a G1 and just a few days ago i sent her a picture of my dog and it said it came from someone else. we both have G1's mine has root hers does not so i dont think it has anything to do with your phone.
this happened to my wife and I right around x-mas and it only lasted a few days. she relied to a text I sent and it went to NY, 'cause they called back and told us where they were from... and they had t-mobile. It quit after a couple of days and haven't had a problem with it since then.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/android-still-has-horrible-text-messaging-bugs-thatll-get-you-f/
Is this really a widespread problem, or is it more Engadget anti-Android propaganda?
Not sure but I haven't experienced it in almost a year of using several android devices.
I use Handcent, so I have no idea what they're talking about.
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Read the source links.
For the record, I love android. I hate all the anti-android crap going around. But I have experienced this before. One time upon booting up, my contacts were all mixed up with the wrong numbers. It was so weird. My friend became my dads name on there and another friend became my cousins whom I never texted. So when they texted me I saw the names and was like wtf? How do they know about (whatever we were chatting about earlier). Took another reboot and everything was fine. I also experienced the phone clicking on the wrong thread that I pressed, that definitely happens. I've learned to double check who Im texting.
Is this fixed by using a different SMS app then? Apparently it happens with e-mails, too, but only with the default e-mail app.
I have been using an HD2, that dual boots WM 6.5 and Android 2.2 Froyo, never had this problem.
My daughter uses a Behold 2 and sends and receives over 16000 text messages per month, and never a problem like this.
I think it's more hate against Android, since it is starting to get a strong hold of the smartphone market.
I'm also sure it's a lot of user error too.
Google just updated this to critical, so I'm guessing it'll be patched pretty soon.
It happens to me at least twice a week. I actually switched to handcent it was so bad. Thankfully I never had anything truly embarrassing go to the wrong person, but I have had some confusing moment...The worst was when I carried out a long conversations with the wrong person... The problem happens when you click on the new message item in the notification menu without actually opening it up through the messaging app. You see the correct reply thread, and it is only when you press send that you realize it sent to the wrong person. This is very real, but I used to think it was just my phone.
lmao. This is just amusing.
The ONLY time I ever got the bug was when I received a new message, I used the drop down menu bar to view the message, and this was on a beta froyo build. Any time I went through the regular messaging app, everything was fine. Last I read in a forum long ago burried, only time the bug happened was when you used the drop down...
I've used Android since the G1 was released and don't remember ever experiencing this issue. But if it is an issue, then it needs media attention to get Google to fix it as quick as possible. Although, the problem is getting the fix out, since you know, all these carriers and manufacturers take forever to get an OTA out.
Google said:
Hi all,
I want to let everyone know that we are actively investigating this issue, and we hope to have an update soon. Obviously, this is a very difficult to reproduce bug.
Rather than replying "me too", you can star this issue to follow it. Just saying "me too" just obscures the useful information in this bug, and makes it harder to fix. Of course, if you have useful information to add to the bug, such as a system dump or an insightful analysis of the code, feel free to update the bug with your observations.
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So they are now investigating this. I'll be using Handcent on my DHD until they sort it.
tooter1 said:
I have been using an HD2, that dual boots WM 6.5 and Android 2.2 Froyo, never had this problem.
My daughter uses a Behold 2 and sends and receives over 16000 text messages per month, and never a problem like this.
I think it's more hate against Android, since it is starting to get a strong hold of the smartphone market.
I'm also sure it's a lot of user error too.
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16,000? I'm sure most networks in the UK have a 3,000 FUP
Anyway, I haven't experienced this issue in the 18 months I've been using Android
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16,000? I'm sure most networks in the UK have a 3,000 FUP
Anyway, I haven't experienced this issue in the 18 months I've been using Android
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I can believe 16,000. My 17 year old sister has about 10,000 a month. Unlimited texting, ftw.
I've been using Android since the release of the HTC Dream in Canada and I've never ever ever ran into this problem, and most of the ROMs I've ran have been beta or experimental. I'm thinking they're blowing it out of proportion.
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I can believe 16,000. My 17 year old sister has about 10,000 a month. Unlimited texting, ftw.
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When we were on Verizon, one month it was up to 39,000. I was floored. That is when I was like thank goodness for.....Unlimited Texting FTW!
Still no problems like this.
I've never had this problem and Goggle has made a press release and said they are having a hard time replicating it. I think that there could be an error that happens once in a blue moon, but I think most of the time it's just user error.
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I can believe 16,000. My 17 year old sister has about 10,000 a month. Unlimited texting, ftw.
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Oh yeah, I believe it. I'm just curious as to how their fingers haven't worn to the bone yet?
Googles claiming they can't reproduce this internally and they've only upped it's status cause of bad publicity. That's what androidguys claim ...
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Yeah sometimes when I get a message I click on the thing in the drop down menu and it takes me to another thread, but I'm pretty sure the point of clicking that button is just for it to get you to the messaging app. Also sometimes I go to the messaging app and click the top thread and it takes me to a different thread. So this bug is true at times.
I sent my Nexus S to get fixed and when I got it back it was completely different, it was like they left a developers version on it.
I don't want to send it away to fixed again.
I attached some pictures of the software that is on it now (more in the zip), if anyone nows how I could get it back to 2.3.4 like I had before I got it fixed I would be very greatful.
If not than maybe the information could be helpful to someone
sorry if this is in the wrong place but i couldn't find anywhere better to put it
Nesus S GT-I9020A
Model number: Full Android on Crespo
Android version: 2.4
Build number: full_crespo-eng 2.4 GINGERBREAD 142 test-keys
Is this a joke or is this legit?
I would do a nandroid backup and upload it for other Nexus One owners to check out before you wipe ANYTHING.
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i call fake.
Agreed
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Model number: Full Android on Crespo
Compared to mine;
Model number: HTC Sensation Z710e
(Its a DZ running Virtuous Fusion)
So its a terrible fake.
Oh wait! My phone just update to Android 5.4.9! OMFGBUTTONS!
I can...
I can confirm i have a 2.4 device, looks like its a developer phone or something...my friend is a mobilicity dealer, and fresh out of the box we were greeted by a big red and black wallpaper ...its brand new...from the dealer. how do i extract this firmware? or does someone want it?
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it seems alot smooter and quicking in comparison to another nexus s we have with 2.3 on it, my friend said he recieved a batch of 10 and only one of them was like this....
Will this wrk on NEXUS S 4G
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DarknessTM said:
I can confirm i have a 2.4 device, looks like its a developer phone or something...my friend is a mobilicity dealer, and fresh out of the box we were greeted by a big red and black wallpaper ...its brand new...from the dealer. how do i extract this firmware? or does someone want it?
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it seems alot smooter and quicking in comparison to another nexus s we have with 2.3 on it, my friend said he recieved a batch of 10 and only one of them was like this....
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Your photos look a lot more legitimate than the OPs. I'll forward this link to an ACS member and see what he thinks of it.
I think this is fake. I don't think that 2.4 would have the same kernel version as 2.3, but maybe it is a minor update or something.
If this is real do not try to customize/wipe/reset and keep it as is until you can make a full backup.
u could adb shell into it and get some more information from there.
Could they extract the whole thing using Odin?
It's legit, but it's dead old.
2.3.3 is newer.
in all honesty it feels way smoother...i mean absolutly no lag on the home screen with widgets i know you guys feel a bit of lag on the 2.3.3 home screen...if not your lying lol but ...the launcher feels like its Launcher pro...it doesn't do the reel thing..if you know what i mean...yeah i really want to extract this...we boxed it up and didnt even put a sim in it...let me know what to do guys...
+1 On the wallpaper. Actually no, it's a fail.
1) The phone wouldn't even boot if the OS wasn't installed completely not to mention I've never seen an Android phone throw up the 'warning' like that. It just writes it to the log and reboots, crashes, carries on, or doesn't boot at all.
2) It's an obvious wallpaper because the widget sits in front of it. A warning would pop up in front of every other task if that's what Android did (normally it boot loops or crashes).
3) The phone info screen makes no sense. You can also edit the build.prop file to make the info screen say "your_mom_is_hot 5000.00.543.158" and the kernel could say "pot.head 2.35.420".
4) We've seen this sort of thing before. If you're going to fake it - make sure you don't have a bunch of Android geeks around to call you out.
5) If it's really 2.4 (which may not even be the number for the next version) then tell us, what's new? Oh it's smoother? Great, so is CM7 and MIUI. Smoother doesn't cut it, sorry. New features that we don't have are where it's at and are what proves it to us. So do it....
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+1 On the wallpaper. Actually no, it's a fail.
1) The phone wouldn't even boot if the OS wasn't installed completely not to mention I've never seen an Android phone throw up the 'warning' like that. It just writes it to the log and reboots, crashes, carries on, or doesn't boot at all.
2) It's an obvious wallpaper because the widget sits in front of it. A warning would pop up in front of every other task if that's what Android did (normally it boot loops or crashes).
3) The phone info screen makes no sense. You can also edit the build.prop file to make the info screen say "your_mom_is_hot 5000.00.543.158" and the kernel could say "pot.head 2.35.420".
4) We've seen this sort of thing before. If you're going to fake it - make sure you don't have a bunch of Android geeks around to call you out.
5) If it's really 2.4 (which may not even be the number for the next version) then tell us, what's new? Oh it's smoother? Great, so is CM7 and MIUI. Smoother doesn't cut it, sorry. New features that we don't have are where it's at and are what proves it to us. So do it....
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im so digging the love on this thread, i asked if someone would help me extract it so that someone could take a deeper look into the version, if i knew what i was doing, i wouldn't think twice to ask...i would have just posted it...people come to forums for help....not to get bashed on sharing what they think is something new....great help.....lets see if androidme can help.
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im so digging the love on this thread, i asked if someone would help me extract it so that someone could take a deeper look into the version, if i knew what i was doing, i wouldn't think twice to ask...i would have just posted it...people come to forums for help....not to get bashed on sharing what they think is something new....great help.....lets see if androidme can help.
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Please don't base your opinion on one post. I suggested something to help and then had to go to work. Then again, if you're going pose it in a way like you're extorting us or are some picky, middle aged lady at Jcpenney threatening totake her business elsewhere maybe they should help you. A couple people here offered assistance but you're choosing to listen to those who are skeptical. We see a lot of bogus info.
Sent from bat country!
Honestly, it's not worth dumping.
2.4 was GRI05.
If you really must, install ClockworkMod and take a NAND backup.
lol at the jcpenny old lady....
well i'll try to extract it tonight using Odin like you said...i just dont want to muck it up and not have it work anymore...i hope theres more than 1 try.
Google has already announced only version 2.3.5!
So why we are talking about 2.4? It is easy to change you android version in build.prop =)
Hey,
I have exactly the same problem with my nexus s. Not going to bother with photos because people will say they are fake but it looks the same. I took it to get repaired because it was freezing, they didn't repair it but it came back with what I think is a developers/maintenance version of android. It's called 2.4 but it's not a new version. It has lots of developers apps e.g. 'Dev Tools'. It doesn't have Android market though so you can't really access any new apps.
Does anyone know how to get back to 2.3.x so I can just have a normal phone.
I've tried updating to 2.3.x (1, 3 and 4) and it fails every time as it's not really an update. I think I need to do a 'full' install of 2.3.x. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks for your help.
Andy
Hello all,
So a brief intro before i delve into the slight inconvenience I'm experiencing. I came from an HTC HD2 running a custom MIUI rom found here on XDA. It worked fantastically until one day it decided to commit suicide via jumping out of my pocket and falling to the floor while I was on a ladder. Anyways, using that phone when I wanted to send a mms I could select the picture I wanted to send, hit send, and it would switch my data on, send the photo and then turn the data off and when receiving, it would do the same.
Fast forward to now, I bought this wonderful Infuse with it's huge screen and it's stock android and I was all set and excited until I tried sending/receiving picture messages. In order to do so, I have to manually turn on my data every time I want to do either. It's a stock official Gingerbread build via kies and the Samsung website and I'm only running a custom launcher through sslauncher. I've tried go sms pro and handcent sms and it's the same issue.
Is this just an issue with the phone itself? Gingerbread? Will a custom ROM fix the problem or is there another work around?
Thank for your help, it is greatly appreciated.
zachmerrill504 said:
Hello all,
So a brief intro before i delve into the slight inconvenience I'm experiencing. I came from an HTC HD2 running a custom MIUI rom found here on XDA. It worked fantastically until one day it decided to commit suicide via jumping out of my pocket and falling to the floor while I was on a ladder. Anyways, using that phone when I wanted to send a mms I could select the picture I wanted to send, hit send, and it would switch my data on, send the photo and then turn the data off and when receiving, it would do the same.
Fast forward to now, I bought this wonderful Infuse with it's huge screen and it's stock android and I was all set and excited until I tried sending/receiving picture messages. In order to do so, I have to manually turn on my data every time I want to do either. It's a stock official Gingerbread build via kies and the Samsung website and I'm only running a custom launcher through sslauncher. I've tried go sms pro and handcent sms and it's the same issue.
Is this just an issue with the phone itself? Gingerbread? Will a custom ROM fix the problem or is there another work around?
Thank for your help, it is greatly appreciated.
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That's just the way it is...been that way on every rom I've tried...but it probably is possible to modify the system files and what not to auto turn the data on for mms ...something I would not be able to do
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Thanks for the response.
I've noticed also every one I send, the data usage counter im using with zdbox keeps going down. It's a very small amount, .04 mb per picture, or something but if im paying for unlimited messaging that is supposed to include picture messages, why is that counting towards data usage? It's like I can receive the picture but in order to see it I have to use data to download it. kind of sucks
quick thing actually, just talked to an at&t rep and she said while you have to have the data option enable to send/receive, it shouldn't count toward the data usage plan. good news i guess :|
Why not turn it on and leave it on? You need data to get an mms. Its not infuse specific, rom specific, that's the way it is
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joe3681 said:
Why not turn it on and leave it on? You need data to get an mms. Its not infuse specific, rom specific, that's the way it is
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Well I don't need it on all the time, so why drain the battery? I understand you need data to send/recieve mms, what I don't understand is why do I have to go into the settings menu to turn it on if I want to send/recieve every single time (yes I know there are apps and widgets, but that's not the point). Dumbphones could do this without the user having to go through menus to turn on data everytime a picture message comes through, why do I have to with a more advanced smartphone?
In a MIUI rom I had with my old HD2, I didn't have to do this. That's why I was asking.
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Well I don't need it on all the time, so why drain the battery? I understand you need data to send/recieve mms, what I don't understand is why do I have to go into the settings menu to turn it on if I want to send/recieve every single time (yes I know there are apps and widgets, but that's not the point). Dumbphones could do this without the user having to go through menus to turn on data everytime a picture message comes through, why do I have to with a more advanced smartphone?
In a MIUI rom I had with my old HD2, I didn't have to do this. That's why I was asking.
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Why cant i start my car by looking at it. Why do i need a key?!?! Use a widget, not the point? You want a custom rom? You're complaing cause you don't have a rom YOUR way. That's the way it is. If you're THAT paranoid about battery life tell people not to send you mms or maybe Id rethink the switching from a dumb phone to a smart phone.
Suggestions:
1. Suck it up
2. Make you're own rom
3. Use a widget for its intended purpose
4. Get an iphone, use iMessage on wifi
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Why cant i start my car by looking at it. Why do i need a key?!?! Use a widget, not the point? You want a custom rom? You're complaing cause you don't have a rom YOUR way. That's the way it is. If you're THAT paranoid about battery life tell people not to send you mms or maybe Id rethink the switching from a dumb phone to a smart phone.
Suggestions:
1. Suck it up
2. Make you're own rom
3. Use a widget for its intended purpose
4. Get an iphone, use iMessage on wifi Sent from XDA Premium on my Infuse 3.5G
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@Joe3681...you are border line being an [email protected]@, i have noticed your posts in the threads...maybe your bored or maybe you just like it...you have given help and i thx you. But for the most part not....
We have acquired a help one, help all theme in the infuse family threads...sure we joke...but the [email protected]@ like attitudes are Noted, so if do or don't mind, throttle back on it.
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Why cant i start my car by looking at it. Why do i need a key?!?! Use a widget, not the point? You want a custom rom? You're complaing cause you don't have a rom YOUR way. That's the way it is. If you're THAT paranoid about battery life tell people not to send you mms or maybe Id rethink the switching from a dumb phone to a smart phone.
Suggestions:
1. Suck it up
2. Make you're own rom
3. Use a widget for its intended purpose
4. Get an iphone, use iMessage on wifi
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The point is if you make something thats more advanced, more user intuitive and user friendly, why go back and make things more complicated thus being less user friendly than before? I was merely asking a question if there was something I wasn't seeing, or a setting I hadn't enabled yet, or something I was just merely missing because I only just got the phone. I know of other smartphones that have this capability, maybe it's a Samsung thing because the two HTC phones that my parents own don't have this issue. I said it was more of a minor inconvenience than a real problem, but nonetheless it's still there.
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@Joe3681...you are border line being an [email protected]@, i have noticed your posts in the threads...maybe your bored or maybe you just like it...you have given help and i thx you. But for the most part not....
We have acquired a help one, help all theme in the infuse family threads...sure we joke...but the [email protected]@ like attitudes are Noted, so if do or don't mind, throttle back on it.
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Private message material if I've ever seen it.
If I came on here adamant about "Well, I want to make things more difficult" "My old Nokia flip phone did this why doesn't this?!" And basically complaining when the reason for my problem was my stubbornness, the lovely folks here would be the same way!
Really though I think its an attitude that I get used to having at XDA. The infuse section isn't bad but A LOT of the people here are rude, ignorant deuchebags and would much rather ***** at you for asking a question than answer it and be done.
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Private message material if I've ever seen it.
If I came on here adamant about "Well, I want to make things more difficult" "My old Nokia flip phone did this why doesn't this?!" And basically complaining when the reason for my problem was my stubbornness, the lovely folks here would be the same way!
Really though I think its an attitude that I get used to having at XDA. The infuse section isn't bad but A LOT of the people here are rude, ignorant deuchebags and would much rather ***** at you for asking a question than answer it and be done.
Sent from XDA Premium on my Infuse 3.5G
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No it is not pm material but my opinion...and i disagree on your thoughts of people here.
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I got my Atrix 2(MB865) in mail today and i found a folder named "logger" inside the given sdcard, which has some log files dating back to 08 December 2011.I had attached those log files in a zip below. Please can anyone tell me what it is?I find my Atrix 2 screen to be dull in comparison to my Defy. The whites are so yellowish. Anyone think that the screen would be refurbished?(But good on moderate brightness)
And secondly my default lockscreen is different from the one that i saw in many reviews. My android version is 2.3.6 and my system version is 55.28.37.MB865.AsiaRetail.en.03.
And is there any way to open the RTN menu in Atrix 2. I've tried the '#' method and the "activities" widget method, but none of them worked.
Please Help.
Any ideas anyone?
Please can anyone tell me what those log files are? Is there any way to see the com.android.hiddenmenu/com.android.RTN menu?
If it don't look like the ones that are new.. like lock screen and such..its probably been fiddled with IMO
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Post a couple screenshots. Lockscreen and home screen.
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i hav got same logger file with exact date in 2 gb memory card....nothing refurbished .......its all brand new
Thanks for the reply guys!
I am glad to hear from GaganPla that the log file has nothing to do with my Atrix 2 being refurbished.I asked a motorola support guy about the log files and he told me those files are created when they first install android into the phone.
And about the screenshots: I cant take screenshots now because i haven't rooted it yet.The motoblur and the homescreen are same but the lockscreen is different from the ones that i saw in many reviews.I got these images from the internet and they are close to what iam saying. The image "images.jpg" is what i saw in many reviews, and the image "Screenshot2.jpg"(The clock is center aligned in this image, but in mine it is left aligned) is the one that came with the phone.
Those screenshots are not mine.
Screenshot2.jpg : From Prasanna V L: PVL-StockPlus
images.jpg : From google search
That's the new lockscreen that got pushed out to SEARET and (I think) MEARET phones a little while back via an ota update.
Oh..... thank you so much for your reply..
So all Atrix 2 now has the different lockscreen.
I am kinda relieved now....
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Where did you buy your phone? If it is from a trusted seller, they would say if it was refurbished.
I bought my Atrix 2 from an online store here in India called "Flipkart". I talked to them many times but they told me that they would never fiddle with the box, and if mine happens to be refurbished then it is Motorola's fault. The customer support for Moto in India is the WORST.When i asked them if my phone was "REFURBISHED" they filed a support ticket saying "customer wants to know if his phone is REFURNISHED". And they replied to me saying that "all information about REFURNISHING can be found in the Motorola website, thank you for contacting customer support" and they close the thread. So i gave up and thought that i could find it here... So anyone knows how can i find the refurbished status of my phone like RTN menu? Anyone?
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You probably aren't ever going to be 100% sure, especially since you seem to be convinced of it already.
The "Logger" folders etc. frequently are put in place during an initial system install. Your desktop or laptop has several of them, unless you have someone who cares enough installing your system to remove them for you. Most don't.
The "lock screen difference" that you noted is simply the updated lock screen that it seems like everyone but AT&T customers got. You're essentially upset that your phone is more up-to-date than mine.
What other reasons do you have to believe that you have a refurbished phone? That your screen doesn't appear to be quite like you expected? No dice there.
If you're really wanting to get into that RTN menu, I believe that the Romulus/Remus roms have them unlocked in them. Restore one of those and check through that.
Thank you very much for your reply RowanOak. Ya i am now convinced that my phone is not refurbished. I initially got the doubt because of those log files.
But just for the sake of conformation, i am going to try the rom you suggested. Thank you so much for your help
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