So here is the story. I bought a phone on craigslist to keep my unlimited data with Verizon. I called and checked the esn and it was clean.I go to activate the phone after I purchase and the demo mode keeps coming on every few minutes. Is there anyway to take it off???????????
Seems like you bought a store version. Have you don't a factory reset? Demo mode is an app. I believe the store crew has to login to it.
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I tried a reset and it didn't work it pops back up. I tried disabling and uninstalling app and it reappears
only lets me charge to 40 percent too
Sounds like a defective unit. If you have insurance have it replaced even if you didn't buy it from them assurion will replace it.
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Did you ever resolve this George?
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Fstall303 said:
So here is the story. I bought a phone on craigslist to keep my unlimited data with Verizon. I called and checked the esn and it was clean.I go to activate the phone after I purchase and the demo mode keeps coming on every few minutes. Is there anyway to take it off???????????
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you can disable Demo Mode by using a Launcher like Apex. Hold home screen for two seconds then select Shortcuts. Now select Activities then scroll down to Demo mode, expand then select ".DemoModeActivity"
From there an icon will be placed upon your home screen. Touch it and follow the prompts.
For Motorola Droid devices, the password to wipe the device after it being set in Demo mode is " demomodeexit ".
Hope this helps someone.
Couldn't you root the device and use an app such as Titanium Back Up to remove the Demo Mode application? I always delete it when I debloat my Ultta
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exnizzle said:
For Motorola Droid devices, the password to wipe the device after it being set in Demo mode is " demomodeexit ".
Hope this helps someone.
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this worked for me. thank you
What do you do if that doesn't work I followed the procedure for the droid razr m put in the pw and it still loaded the demo mode
remove demo mode
yellowchilli said:
this worked for me. thank you
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for droid maxx where do u type in demomodeexit? thnx!
jordla1 said:
for droid maxx where do u type in demomodeexit? thnx!
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attempt a factory data reset i think
Have you tried to boot into fastboot mode then enter normal power up? I entered demo mode after I accidentally cleared my phone in twrp recovery...
demo mode exit
yellowchilli said:
this worked for me. thank you
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how can i proced??:crying::crying::crying:
Pls where do one use the password is it on Verizon app or settings
"demomodeexit" worked for me.
Cheers
This worked for me. ended up with the same issue but such a simple password made it all go away. thank you.
exnizzle said:
For Motorola Droid devices, the password to wipe the device after it being set in Demo mode is " demomodeexit ".
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demomodeexit
Where do i enter this codeconfused:
Many Thanks
exnizzle said:
For Motorola Droid devices, the password to wipe the device after it being set in Demo mode is " demomodeexit ".
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This has worked for on Verizons XT1650-01, many thanks.
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So i tried this app called easy battery saver as an alternative to juice defender, and as soon as i enabled it, the app nuked my data connection. I've tried disabling it and uninstalling it but nothing works.
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Reflash modem
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My Droid Charge/Verizon also had data connection nuked by "easy battery saver" app. There are quite a few postings on various forums of other unfortunates, mostly Droid Charge, but a few LG.
My phone isn't rooted and I don't know how to flash the modem.
Is there anything simpler that can be done? I would prefer not to have to factory reset as the backup apps don't save app settings etc. on non-rooted phones.
Help anyone?
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Reflash modem
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This didn't work
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JihadSquad said:
This didn't work
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I think you're boned.
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I think you're boned.
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A factory reset brought my data back, so i took the opportunity to install tweakstock. I guess it was a plus in the end.
I think we should all report the app for causing such damage to the phone with no warning whatsoever and no solution. It must suck to have to reset a stock phone.
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Expecting that I need to do a factory I bought MyBackup Pro and did a full backup but it seems that without root access the app settings are not saved. Since I didn't relish having to do rooting or factory reset I thought I would give the app developers a chance to do the right thing.
The response has been a series of generic emails pointing me at a new version of the app that do not fix my problem. I am guessing that it simply copies the (dysfunctional) APN it finds on first launch then its reset function simply writes this still dysfunctional setting back. Can't they just provide a simple appto write the correct Verizon APN?
I am not generally a ranting type but it is frustrating that there is no further recourse than just to advertise the serious bug and poor response to this forum. I posted a query also on Charge Forums, is there another good place to post a warning? Or am I just wasting my time?
Oh, and naturally my iPhone friends say "I told you so" just to rub salt in the wound!
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Expecting that I need to do a factory I bought MyBackup Pro and did a full backup but it seems that without root access the app settings are not saved. Since I didn't relish having to do rooting or factory reset I thought I would give the app developers a chance to do the right thing.
The response has been a series of generic emails pointing me at a new version of the app that do not fix my problem. I am guessing that it simply copies the (dysfunctional) APN it finds on first launch then its reset function simply writes this still dysfunctional setting back. Can't they just provide a simple appto write the correct Verizon APN?
I am not generally a ranting type but it is frustrating that there is no further recourse than just to advertise the serious bug and poor response to this forum. I posted a query also on Charge Forums, is there another good place to post a warning? Or am I just wasting my time?
Oh, and naturally my iPhone friends say "I told you so" just to rub salt in the wound!
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I would have preferred it if they outright blacklisted the charge from downloading the app, as well as any phone it also breaks.
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Pretty sure its broken my data too, it keeps jumping on and off all day. Will check with my operator that there aren't issues in my area but it was fine over the weekend.
Dug this up from a different forum. Works for sure.
1) Install app called "any cut" on wifi, it allows you to create any shortcut.
2) In the app go to new shortcut > activities> APNs
3) Create shortcut to access APNs (I guess default APN manager) and restore settings. Voila!
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So this morning I go to use my phone and there's no network, no SMS or any phone calls working at all. Wifi and the phone itself work great. Rebooted numurous times, factory reset, even flashed the fxz, so at that point i took it to AT&T thinking it might be a bad sim but its fine. AT&T guy had no clue what was wrong. I'm looking for help here, and sorry if this had been posted elsewhere I can't find it, I just don't wanna up with a refurbished phone.
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It sounds like a hardware issue to me. Flashing the fxz would've fixed any software issues.
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Did you make sure data was enabled? I dunno...just a quick thought...
Sounds like refurbished phone time. Here's two questions. I'm under my one year which covers the refurbished warranty through AT&T, but I pay for best buy insurance. If I use AT&T will that void my best buy warrenty because the IMEI number won't match my best buy receipt? So its either AT&T and get a refurbished device or best buy and I could possibly wait a month to get my phone back??
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Did you make sure data was enabled? I dunno...just a quick thought...
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LoL. Yup data was on. I got no SMS, as well as no 4G
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Sounds like refurbished phone time. Here's two questions. I'm under my one year which covers the refurbished warranty through AT&T, but I pay for best buy insurance. If I use AT&T will that void my best buy warrenty because the IMEI number won't match my best buy receipt? So its either AT&T and get a refurbished device or best buy and I could possibly wait a month to get my phone back??
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I dont think u get your phone back from best buy last phone i got was refurbished not the one i gave them
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chrisn91 said:
I dont think u get your phone back from best buy last phone i got was refurbished not the one i gave them
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So I might as well do best buy then since I'm covered as long as I'm paying em that ten bucks every month, and not do AT&T and screw up my BB warrenty
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Hey anybody know how to get the phone into engineering mode on the dialer so I could possibly mess around with a few things?
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Jce9182 said:
Hey anybody know how to get the phone into engineering mode on the dialer so I could possibly mess around with a few things?
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Anycut from the market
Then click
Create new
Activity
Testing
And click the link on the webtop
In response to the OP, you might try to bring the adapter up or reset it. It's a long shot, but I've seen it bring up a seemly dead adapter.
Code:
adb shell
ifconfig
See if it shows your wireless adapter (tiwlan0), if it does, try to bring the adapter down then back up again.
Code:
ifconfig tiwlan0 down
ifconfig tiwlan0 up
Toggle airplane mode or reboot, and hopefully your adapter is back to normal.
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In response to the OP, you might try to bring the adapter up or reset it. It's a long shot, but I've seen it bring up a seemly dead adapter.
Code:
adb shell
ifconfig
See if it shows your wireless adapter (tiwlan0), if it does, try to bring the adapter down then back up again.
Code:
ifconfig tiwlan0 down
ifconfig tiwlan0 up
Toggle airplane mode or reboot, and hopefully your adapter is back to normal.
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Ill give it a shot tomorrow. Ill let ya know how it goes
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41rw4lk said:
In response to the OP, you might try to bring the adapter up or reset it. It's a long shot, but I've seen it bring up a seemly dead adapter.
Code:
adb shell
ifconfig
See if it shows your wireless adapter (tiwlan0), if it does, try to bring the adapter down then back up again.
Code:
ifconfig tiwlan0 down
ifconfig tiwlan0 up
Toggle airplane mode or reboot, and hopefully your adapter is back to normal.
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Interesting idea...
Jce9182 said:
Ill give it a shot tomorrow. Ill let ya know how it goes
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any update?
I was always lost my signal every hour,then i put aluminium foil in the backdoor and set to 3g only,and it's better.
Now i rarely lost my signal,but still drop from 4 to 2 bar.
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any update?
I was always lost my signal every hour,then i put aluminium foil in the backdoor and set to 3g only,and it's better.
Now i rarely lost my signal,but still drop from 4 to 2 bar.
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Nothing yet. On the phone with AT&T now. They say its a software glitch...
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After talking to 3 different Chinese people with the fake a$$ American accents, I got a phone on the way. Definitely a hardware issue
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Got my new phone finally. Came with 2.3.6 pre-installed. I ended up losing my smsc #. Everything worked but text. Had to get the smsc from AT&T now everything's great other then the phone is acting somewhat weird at times. FC's and a little freezing here and there. It booted directly up. I didn't have to wait for it to install the OS. I'm thinking flashing the fxz might fix whatever is going on. I cleared the dalvik cache, data and cache but no luck. Any input would be appreciated. Thanx
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Try fixing permissions.
The End.
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Try fixing permissions.
The End.
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Ill give it a try. Much appreciated. Might just do the fxz anyway so I can start officially fresh and get a stock deodexed on it
Now the stupid thing won't send or recieve MMS. it just hangs and eventually tells me to re-try. Anybody know a fix for this?
MMS is most likely an APN issue, double check your apns or have your provider give you the proper settings. Could be an issue with the mms.apk, but I wouldn't consider it until I was certain my apns were correct. I know MMS won't send over wifi, so everything points to apn. I hope that helps.
Always got a connection error since day01
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Works fine for me. Go into Applications and clear cache etc.
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Works fine for me. Go into Applications and clear cache etc.
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It's been always working for me, except occasional issues specifically related to CM10. (Netflix tends to be the worst-case stress test for AOSP firmwares.)
There was one case where it would just crash on startup - clearing data fixed that.
Mine is working, even after accidentily updating. From what i've read, i won't update on my sgs3 because it takes away LTE/4G viewing and you can now only view in wifi mode. If this is incorrect please someone correct me.
It used to work very well, however lately I can open the app, search for the show i wanna watch, but when I touch it to select it, it just sits there, doing nothing. The app doesn't freeze, as I can back out of the search, but it just doesn't let me load the seasons/episodes.
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ngocdao said:
Always got a connection error since day01
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Has always worked well here. Haven't needed to clear cache either....yet? lol
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It used to work very well, however lately I can open the app, search for the show i wanna watch, but when I touch it to select it, it just sits there, doing nothing. The app doesn't freeze, as I can back out of the search, but it just doesn't let me load the seasons/episodes.
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I actually had this happen on my gray version. I quit the application (force close if i had to) and restarted. When netflix started it would be in portrait mode, but then it would play in landscape
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Cache cleaned, removed and reinstalled updates, nothing helps. It was fine until the 9/6 update. Great.
Mine works fine too... maybe its time to factory reset if the problem persist and hope it fixes it.
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Mine works fine too... maybe its time to factory reset if the problem persist and hope it fixes it.
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Thanks, but no. I'd rather live without search until they do the next update.
Hi guys,
I totally forgot about "Delete Data" option ... relogged in and everything works lovely! thanks.
sledgie said:
Mine is working, even after accidentily updating. From what i've read, i won't update on my sgs3 because it takes away LTE/4G viewing and you can now only view in wifi mode. If this is incorrect please someone correct me.
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open Netflix after the update, and go into settings to uncheck the option for "Wifi only"
Oddly enough, Netflix won't let me search/watch sons of anarchy. Every other search seems fine. Not sure what that's about...
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Just used foxfi a moment ago and it's now working perfectly for us unlimited data users that are left!
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ballisticevo said:
Just used foxfi a moment ago and it's now working perfectly for us unlimited data users that are left!
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Where can I found new version? Because from play market it still ask me update to new version. But I don't know where I can find
It was on the play store... I also purchased the full version key.
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got the update as well - wifi tether up and running... (I'm actually on it right now to test and make this post).
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got the update as well - wifi tether up and running... (I'm actually on it right now to test and make this post).
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I hate the pin or password lock but its worth it to have tether back
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It was on the play store... I also purchased the full version key.
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Probible that's why. My version is free. But when I try to turn on wifi it sad me update but i dont know where this update?
Should just be the key it's not a full other app.
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I hate the pin or password lock but its worth it to have tether back
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I might have to go back and forth on this - I got really used to the finger print log in. I got to the point where I could mount the phone on the dash of the car and unlock it without taking my eyes off the road.
It is worth it though - I don't normally use WiFi tether everyday - so switching back and forth will be fine with me.
I think they just somehow found a way to work around the VZ subscription check and turn on the WiFi Tether anyways. I have a feeling there will be an update to plug that hole at some point.
Indeed... if you don't accept the update all should be well lol. Appears to me to us the VPN to bypass the service check.
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BTW if you remove the foxfi credentials from security you can return to your normal lock screen until the next time you need foxfi.
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ballisticevo said:
BTW if you remove the foxfi credentials from security you can return to your normal lock screen until the next time you need foxfi.
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There is a workaround for this. Read the app description at play store. The idea basically is to setup a pattern, nota pin, as screen lock security and to fail entering the pattern 5-10 times, then just say ok to forget pattern and then it is necessary to enter your Google password to unlock your device. Such a way you'll keep the security certificate with no lock screen pin.
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i dont think that work around is working. Can only choose between pin and password. No pattern option. I have also cleared credentials and it does the same thing. Annoying, i likley wouldnt have paid the 7.95 for the app had i known this silliness. Granted its nice to see it working without root on the new s5, but its a little more than annoying. Perhaps the developer can fix this so what is in the app description actually works like they say for the s5. or others.
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It was on the play store... I also purchased the full version key.
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Can you post here direct Google play link ?
How many price it will be for full beta ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi
$7.95 for Full Version, Free to try.
As others have stated, it works on the S5 but you need to turn on the lock screen setting.
Also after you launch Foxfi you have to turn on your Verizon mobile hotspot.
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Can you post here direct Google play link ?
How many price it will be for full beta ?
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motumbo said:
There is a workaround for this. Read the app description at play store. The idea basically is to setup a pattern, nota pin, as screen lock security and to fail entering the pattern 5-10 times, then just say ok to forget pattern and then it is necessary to enter your Google password to unlock your device. Such a way you'll keep the security certificate with no lock screen pin.
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It won't allow a pattern unlock do so that bypass won't work. However simply deleting the certificate and changing it back over does.
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ballisticevo said:
I hate the pin or password lock but its worth it to have tether back
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Agreed!
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Indeed... if you don't accept the update all should be well lol. Appears to me to us the VPN to bypass the service check.
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Yes
Guadalupeohara said:
Can you post here direct Google play link ?
How many price it will be for full beta ?
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$7.95 for Key to Unlock App fully.
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi
Key: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi.key
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It won't allow a pattern unlock do so that bypass won't work. However simply deleting the certificate and changing it back over does.
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Is that the Certificate that it takes you to when your phone is restarted and it says 'a Third Party App may be monitoring you?
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Indeed... if you don't accept the update all should be well lol. Appears to me to us the VPN to bypass the service check.
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I absent-mindedly accepted the Security Update a little bit back, and FoxFi still works for me just fine.
yes that is the certificate.
After you turn on the Verizon moble hotspot will it say "Checking subscription"?
Mine has been doing that and I wanted to know if it is suppose to or if I'm doing something wrong.
JokerNut said:
After you turn on the Verizon moble hotspot will it say "Checking subscription"?
Mine has been doing that and I wanted to know if it is suppose to or if I'm doing something wrong.
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You need to activate the FoxFi hotspot first and then it will prompt you to turn on the Samsung hotspot. Needs to be in that order as its basically creating a trusted VPN tunnel.
The Smart Manager app is really helpful and original by Samsung. Why would the stupid Verizon remove it? It's damn stupid, foolish and selfish of Verizon. Fortunately I can always use the Greenify app,though.
I'm sure you could download the apk as long as its on another note 5 version.
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I think the app is actually installed in our system. Looking in priv-app the is a SmartManager-Provider apk, but there is a good chance that there is a csc line that is not allowing the app to load.
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I think the app is actually installed in our system. Looking in priv-app the is a SmartManager-Provider apk, but there is a good chance that there is a csc line that is not allowing the app to load.
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Yeah, I think your analysis makes great sense. Shame on you ,Verizon. Shame on your weakness in front of Verizon, Samsung!
pimpmaneaton said:
I think the app is actually installed in our system. Looking in priv-app the is a SmartManager-Provider apk, but there is a good chance that there is a csc line that is not allowing the app to load.
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So is there no way to fix that without root?
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So is there no way to fix that without root?
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Not that I have found yet. To edit the csc file we need root, I did find another thread that had the smart manager apk and tried to install it but I would not. It needs to be a system apk.
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Yeah, I think your analysis makes great sense. Shame on you ,Verizon. Shame on your weakness in front of Verizon, Samsung!
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Unfortunately from what I have seen is Verizon and AT&T decided against it because they want their apps instead..... Like the data control Verizon wants you to use family base... Which works well granted but also is an added feature on the account
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I found a semi solution, let me know if it works for you...
Download es file explorer, then download the task manager add on. - Has an option to quickly clear ram with a touch of a button.
Next option and closer to System manager...I recommend this one..
Download all in one gestures set either your app or back key with long press and select kill app.
Once set, go back to home screen, long press whatever button you setup, you should see a ram manager popup and hit boost.
Viola.
ars0n said:
I found a semi solution, let me know if it works for you...
Download es file explorer, then download the task manager add on. - Has an option to quickly clear ram with a touch of a button.
Next option and closer to System manager...I recommend this one..
Download all in one gestures set either your app or back key with long press and select kill app.
Once set, go back to home screen, long press whatever button you setup, you should see a ram manager popup and hit boost.
Viola.
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Thanks for your reply. Actually ram is not a problem here. Note 5 has 4G ram after all. I'm using Greenify's unroot mode and everything has been working fine for me so far.
Jacob11701 said:
Unfortunately from what I have seen is Verizon and AT&T decided against it because they want their apps instead..... Like the data control Verizon wants you to use family base... Which works well granted but also is an added feature on the account
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Thanks for the relevant information. By the way, I'm really curious about how Verizon is gonna deal with Andriod 6.0's strict authority management.
They have to accept it. Google runs most phones we sell. ? I personally can't wait
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