I was given a Motorola Droid X from a co-worker to replace my original Motorola Droid and when I went to activate it on PagePlus their system told me the ESN isn't clear! That sucks but it was free so I thought I would just use it as a game and music player. It has been reset by my co-worker so it is at an activation screen and won't let me get past it, it is saying I must activate it. I hit activate, it calls some place and asks what the number is for the phone, I don't have one. How do I get rid of this so I can just use it as an android device and not a phone?
Ok found out I can click all corners to get out of that. Is there anyway to use this as a phone? If not what can I do to make it the best media device?
Google voice might be an option... But only when on WiFi since you won't have cell service
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Should i root it to make it a better Android device? What is the best ROM for it?
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I can not find the app I want. Is there a way to lock out everything except contacts and phone calls? Or a way one of the ROMS can be made to do this. I only use cell phones, no landline. I do not want kids playing/texting when not allowed.
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I don't think that's possible. I could be wrong though.
There is. Just get them a dumb phone. But there is nothing that will work 100% as a simple reset will remove anything you do. No apps have been made to make a smartphone not use anything. Well I guess you could get an app locker and then set up a password for each and every single app on the phone and that would make it so a password had to be entered every time the app was used. Other then that yeah get them a normal phone and call it good. To be honest that's what I did. Kids have no need for a smartphone and are not mature enough to only use it when they are supposed to. The temptation is to great to show it off to freinds and what not.
That's what I thought. I was just trying to utilize what I have.
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That's what I thought. I was just trying to utilize what I have.
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Well you could kill the data by messing up the apns or get an app that will kill the apns at the right times. But nothing that will stop the apps from loading. I know how you feel though. Gave my boys my old tilt2 and fuse and after a few calls from school decided it had to go lol
is it possible to entirely disable the dialer on my rooted Inspire. I am looking for a way to remove it or disable it so I can let my kids play games on it without fear of them dialing 911/Emergency.
The phone is deactivated, but makes a nice, though small, wifi tablet. My kids enjoy playing games on it, I just always have a fear of them dialing the Emergency number.
If this should be in my ROM section, please let me know, though i think this is more generalized than that.
Thanks
Dialer shows up in Titanium Backup. AFAIK you need the Pro version to freeze apps. I don't have Pro. You could make a nandroid and uninstall the dialer (or just freeze it if you have Pro).
Oh, Q & A is probably the best place for a question. That's how I understand it anyway.
Disclaimer: This is not advice. It is just something that fell from between my ears.
My son is 18 months old and plays mainly angry birds I just put both tablet and phone on airplane mode. Go to wireless networks should be there or pull down the notification bar n hit the airplane.
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drag the dialer off your launcher screens too would work for simple route
Could download an app to set a password for it too.
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Could download an app to set a password for it too.
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Name of app can't find it .. to use when my son wants to push the airplane button
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Thank you all.. Just froze it in TB. Worked like a charm. Should have thought of that, just trying to make it more difficult than it had to be, I guess.
Thanks again..
While my one x is charging, wanted to see if I can find workarounds till root is available for a few things:
Battery percent on status bar (something nice looking but lightweight)
No search button, including assigning long press to an app.
Notification toggles
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Sure would like to restore some of my app data.. Especially for the few games I have.
Any good and battery friendly lock screen replacement? Last I heard widget locker still wasn't ics compatible.
Any way to block ads on an unrooted phone lol?
Anyone get Google voice working?
Sure was spoiled having root during my entire prior android experience. I've went ahead and got this assuming we'll have root in the not so distant future. Just trying to get by till then. I have a hard time seeing myself with anything else but a htc phone but I'll switch to the s3 if nothing changes by the time its released.. Grr.. sure don't want to.
Ty so much for any help I can get.
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Anybody?
As far as Google voice is concerned, still can't get it to take. It changed two of my forwarding numbers but won't switch my voicemail in settings, nor does my call history include my google voice mails.
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As far as google voice, I set it up on the phone and it would not work correctly, so I logged in on the pc and went to settings and it gave me a code to type into the phone and it works now, but in the voicemail settings on the phone it still says my carrier but under call forwarding it has my gv number
I think I had to deactivate it then reactivate it
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While my one x is charging, wanted to see if I can find workarounds till root is available for a few things:
Battery percent on status bar (something nice looking but lightweight) - requires root to modify neccessary files
No search button, including assigning long press to an app. - second half requires editing locked files, needs root
Notification toggles - someone made a thread about an app that will do this
Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Sure would like to restore some of my app data.. Especially for the few games I have. - Most app data can be restored to /sdcard/Android/
Any good and battery friendly lock screen replacement? Last I heard widget locker still wasn't ics compatible.
Any way to block ads on an unrooted phone lol? - hosts file in /system/etc requires root to edit
Anyone get Google voice working? - Did you enable your device via the google site?
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hopefully that helps sooth your mind a little.
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Anybody?
As far as Google voice is concerned, still can't get it to take. It changed two of my forwarding numbers but won't switch my voicemail in settings, nor does my call history include my google voice mails.
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I had this problem... And for now I called up att and had them change my voice mail number to my Google voice number now when people call me it goes to Google voice and although the settings on the phone don't show it the voice app does work
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I had this problem... And for now I called up att and had them change my voice mail number to my Google voice number now when people call me it goes to Google voice and although the settings on the phone don't show it the voice app does work
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I previously used google voice with my inspire. Just seems that some people haven't had issues while some have. Just wondering why
was wondering about the GoogVoice issue as well. dude... i cannot freaking wait until we get this thing rooted. so many problems on the software side. it's pretty horrendous imo. there's quite a lot i'd like to tweak.
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Using nova, and even in a lot of other apps, missing the menu button. Any suggestions or is anyone else having this issue?
Have you tried Apex? Has the menu button and looks very similar to the Sense 4.0 launcher.
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Hope this helps.
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Hope this helps.
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Yes, I've used Apex before. Nova (for me at least on the Inspire) just seemed to be smoother (and I had already paid for the prime version). I might give apex another shot on this phone.
There is a Google Voice thread on this forum. It worked for me. You have to log in on the computer and use a number. After that it works like a charm regardless of what the VM settings on the phone say.
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Yeah I made a thread about the notification toggles. Its a pretty nice little app.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639696
You can even put your most used apps in the drop down if you want.
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Yeah I made a thread about the notification toggles. Its a pretty nice little app.
Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639696
You can even put your most used apps in the drop down if you want.
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I'm using that. Pretty nice and does what I wanted. Hate running an extra app though but not much choice right now.
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I'm using that. Pretty nice and does what I wanted. Hate running an extra app though but not much choice right now.
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Yeah it kind of stinks having to run another app but it is very customizable which is very nice. You can even make more than one toggle bar if you want to.
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Does anyone have a way to get Google Wallet on this device? I've tried downloading a modified .apk, moving ot to the /system/apps folder and rewriting the permissions, but I always get an "Application Not Installed" error with no explanation as to why. I'm rooted and willing to go to a new ROM if necessary.
I thought this phone was supposed to have Google wallet
It has nfc chip
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I thought this phone was supposed to have Google wallet
It has nfc chip
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Unfortunately Wallet isn't included with it and it's "not compatible" according to the Play Store. It Is, though, Isis Ready, not that I would use the carrier product over Google's.
Do not quote me, but the Moto website mentioned wallet with JB...
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Anyone tried editing build.prop to Galaxy Nexus?
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Anyone tried editing build.prop to Galaxy Nexus?
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i tried and it didn't work.......even tried modifying it to look like a sprint phone (most notably the galaxy s3 since i know that build.prop edit works on my s3) and that didn't work either
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i tried and it didn't work.......even tried modifying it to look like a sprint phone (most notably the galaxy s3 since i know that build.prop edit works on my s3) and that didn't work either
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I tried to edit the build.prop for the RAZR HD to look like a Gsm gnex, but it didn't work. I'm not sure if I did it right though, but I probably did it wrong, so that would explain why. What would I have to do to change it to look like a gnex?
Nothing has worked so far, so I can't help lol, was just inputting my trials as to what I did to try to get it to work...only other idea I can think of off the top of my head is to install a modified apk file of Google wallet but can't even guarantee that will work because someone already said they tried and it didn't work for them
Beamed via NFC through the local store to the internet from my SGS3.
Anyone have any luck yet?
Well this is disappointing...I'm considering upgrading to this phone and I'd want to use ALL of the NFC capabilities.
I'd really like to see a work-around for this!
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Well this is disappointing...I'm considering upgrading to this phone and I'd want to use ALL of the NFC capabilities.
I'd really like to see a work-around for this!
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Be patient. NFC implementation is still pretty immature. You'll find more uses for it by the end of next year.
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I would love to use Google Wallet on my phone. I used it on my Nexus 7 but I feel too silly holding up my tablet to a terminal... If anyone can help I would be very appreciated.
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What about the XT925 (the GSM version)...has anyone managed to get Google Wallet working on that? It's actually very easy to use in my town and I'd love to be able to do it again.
Any updates on this?
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What about the XT925 (the GSM version)...has anyone managed to get Google Wallet working on that? It's actually very easy to use in my town and I'd love to be able to do it again.
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Would like to know this too please!
I will have a spare HD after this weekend and will be willing to test ideas on a rooted 4.1 HD
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From what I remember it is nearly impossible right now. There are old threads about it but something about google digitally encoding the app to a certain phone or something
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Even the new apks?
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I DL and installed Google wallet apk 1.1 r57v5
Side loaded it and the install went thru
I have and NFC sim and Isis installed on my RAZR HD w/o root
It will install with this apk version, but it won't work. At app launch I get an error about it not being approved for my country or device / carrier. This is very similar to the error I got when try to open Isis before getting the NFC sim.
I'm very new to this but I'm hoping I've stumbled on something someone who has a more technical understanding of this issue can build on.
Google Wallet want the secure element in the phone not on the SIM. VZW won't give anybody access to the secure element in the phone.
So unless Motorola writes software that talks to a secure element that is on a SIM, forget it.
Hey all just got a g5. After the s5's screen I got two and a half weeks ago went out. Also desperately waiting for root, but anyways getting off topic. I love the phone more than I liked my g3 (So I know a pretty good deal, or not lol). Here's my question. I bought a pair of the lg tone pros. I want to use voice commands to switch artists, as well as make calls when the phone is locked. So I used the google app to change artists. Only problem is after the phone is locked it will switch artists maybe twice before it stops(using voice commands). I unlock the phone,and it'll work again. I have ok google enabled from any screen as well as trusted voice. (I turn them off when I'm not listening to music/in the car.)
The apps I'm using.
Greenify: turned off aggressive doze (thought that might be the problem.)
Phonogragh: for music.
Google app: for voice commands.
Thanks for any help. This is really the 1st time I've used vc on android. Also if this is a google app specific promblem. Anyone have any better recommendations?
If you need anymore info just let me know. Thanks again.
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