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Trading my wifes s3 to iphone 4s need input?

Hey all just to be clear first off this is not a discussing to bash me or my wife for her wanting to go to an iphone. She has decided it I have a trade set up with someone for a 32gig s4 and its done so please no bashing me or her lol!!!
Anyway! Her phone has synergy 1.3/lmo kernel 12-2. We are meeting the person at a verizon store so we can swap and activate the phones in confidence. I want to return hers to stock. I have the stock bloated zip downloaded and will do it via odin. My question is should I worry about the flash counter taking it to the verizon store to do this swap? They can't deny me a swap for it being flashed can they? Just reload stock ics and go with it?

They can't see the flash counter. Unless they go into download mode to look for itm . It won't b a problem The swap take two minutes . Youre all good!
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They can't see the flash counter. Unless they go into download mode to look for itm . It won't b a problem The swap take two minutes . Youre all good!
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Excellent I will not worry about it then. Thank You!

jws86 said:
Hey all just to be clear first off this is not a discussing to bash me or my wife for her wanting to go to an iphone. She has decided it I have a trade set up with someone for a 32gig s4 and its done so please no bashing me or her lol!!!
Anyway! Her phone has synergy 1.3/lmo kernel 12-2. We are meeting the person at a verizon store so we can swap and activate the phones in confidence. I want to return hers to stock. I have the stock bloated zip downloaded and will do it via odin. My question is should I worry about the flash counter taking it to the verizon store to do this swap? They can't deny me a swap for it being flashed can they? Just reload stock ics and go with it?
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You know I'm biting my tounge.
Anyway, you can also look up the free triangle away on XDA. It costs 2 bucks on Play Store, but XDA members can get it for nothing. That will erase the flash counter to zero.

&roid said:
You know I'm biting my tounge.
Anyway, you can also look up the free triangle away on XDA. It costs 2 bucks on Play Store, but XDA members can get it for nothing. That will erase the flash counter to zero.
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this is true also...
the people in verizon just want to get a sim into the phone to get you out of there.
if you arent buying something they just want you out so the can get back to selling

Yep not gonna worry about it. On another note I just tried going back to stock on her phone via odin. Downloaded one of the stock fully bloated ics roms...followed the directions and the odin never said pass/reset. It just sat there after it took 2mins 37 secs. I battery pulled unplugged and rebooted to recovery and it rebooted to cwm recovery. I reboot phone from there and it booted back to synergy and the kernel. any suggestions? Just try again? I dont want to brick this damn thing trying to trade it tomorrow lol

I'm sorry but I'm not biting my tongue. That is a horrible trade....you're giving up the latest technology for a phone that's almost a year old and only has 3G speeds. What your wife should do is throw the S3 up for sale on ebay for $500 now, use another phone for a few months and then buy the iphone 5 when it comes out in November.

jws86 said:
Yep not gonna worry about it. On another note I just tried going back to stock on her phone via odin. Downloaded one of the stock fully bloated ics roms...followed the directions and the odin never said pass/reset. It just sat there after it took 2mins 37 secs. I battery pulled unplugged and rebooted to recovery and it rebooted to cwm recovery. I reboot phone from there and it booted back to synergy and the kernel. any suggestions? Just try again? I dont want to brick this damn thing trying to trade it tomorrow lol
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Yeah, it didn't upload the ROM to the phone correctly. Make sure you're using 3.07 Odin also to flash the full .tar file and you're putting in the PDA slot in Odin.

jasondhsd said:
I'm sorry but I'm not biting my tongue. That is a horrible trade....you're giving up the latest technology for a phone that's almost a year old and only has 3G speeds. What your wife should do is throw the S3 up for sale on ebay for $500 now, use another phone for a few months and then buy the iphone 5 when it comes out in November.
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Its really none of your business.

Try switching usb ports also, my front ones are kind of flaky with odin, as are my rear usb3 ones...the back usb2 however works fantastic and has never given me a problem. Just remember some people it takes 1 minute flat, and others it takes 10 minutes.

I finally got it thanks guys

I've been using Odin 1.85. The 3 version has been fishy for me. Also. If you have root 66 or something just use it. An apple person isn't going to check or know anything about 1 icon that says superuser. Also restart your computer. It helps sometimes
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they normally in that case dont check the download triangle

Being nice here, but has she used the smaller screen on the iphone extensively?
After setting my wife is with an HTC inspire she thought she wanted an iphone 4s too until she used one in store and decided the screen is too small.
Point is, she's making a huge downgrade. Maybe have her use it for 10 minutes in store before the person getting the s3 makes off like a bandit
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stevenjcampbell said:
Being nice here, but has she used the smaller screen on the iphone extensively?
After setting my wife is with an HTC inspire she thought she wanted an iphone 4s too until she used one in store and decided the screen is too small.
Point is, she's making a huge downgrade. Maybe have her use it for 10 minutes in store before the person getting the s3 makes off like a bandit
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If his wife wants a iphone, then so be it...Im pretty sure the op understands quite well its a downgrade, but remember we talking about the wife here. Sometimes you have a better chance to get struck by lightning than convincing them of anything!

To each their own. I showed my wife the iPhone (coming from a dinc) and the Nexus and she went straight for the Nexus. It's all user preference. No need to bash.
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My wife, the iphone fangirl to the bone, hated the Nexus and Razr Maxx and spent less than 5 mins to come up with that conclusion. Then while she's waiting for the iPhone 4S replacement from verizon, she saw the S3 from their store and was won over instantly. We're both using the same phone and while i cried over losing the Note when we switched carrier, this is truly the one that resembles it the closest. To each his/her own but this phone makes iphone lovers drool.
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My input. Jailbreak that s*** and rob the app store for all they got
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Remember guys, Happy wife happy life.
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iPhones are smart phones on easy mode, the way my GF handles technology, I'd prefer she has one as well
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Has there been an MTP fix for Mac?

Is the no mpt for pissing anyone else off, because i'm at the point where i'm ready to sell, please don't link me to those crappy .sh files they work but they're annoying and don't access the internal portion

Idk what you're asking but you should use "Airdroid" in the Play Store for wireless file transfers from computer to GSIII.
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To anyone who doesn't know:
The GS3 doesn't communicate with a Mac out of the box (And it is a royal pain in the a). You need a special program from Google called Android File Transfer.
To the OP: no, there's no fix, at least that I know of, and trust me I've looked... And it sucks. Everyone always suggests these programs from the play store, but they all SUCK!!
Android File Transfer was amazing, when it worked. All we can really hope for is a fix from either Google or Samsung to make it work again.
Samsung has a program called kies, which still sucks but is OK for syncing music...
Personally I've resorted to boot camp. Whenever I need to sync something I just boot up windows on my Mac.
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google
google samsung sg3 easy ums fix, you will be able to mount external sd card easily not internal , it will look like another drive. works with my mid 2011 macbook air with snow mountain lion.
as for the internal portion , your only choice is airdroid. it does every thing, delete , upload , etc... airdroid does nto require active tethering, passive is just fine. I personally use airdroid a lot.
P.s. root required for ums fix ( like every android phone , without root , the phone is as useless as an iphone )

1st off, MAJOR Thanks To all that replied.
2nd I tried all those "App's" and "Fixes"
I've been trying to communicate with the devs they haven't really said anything,
Everything worked on Touchshiz.
I'm really thinking bout selling the device.

ericerk said:
1st off, MAJOR Thanks To all that replied.
2nd I tried all those "App's" and "Fixes"
I've been trying to communicate with the devs they haven't really said anything,
Everything worked on Touchshiz.
I'm really thinking bout selling the device.
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I thought about selling mine, I bought an iPhone 5 because of the fact that the GS3 sucks with a Mac, but I decided that there are things I like about the GS3 & Android so I just have both phones. I have 2 lines so why not.
iPhone is not useless either, as a previous poster mentioned.
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josh995 said:
I thought about selling mine, I bought an iPhone 5 because of the fact that the GS3 sucks with a Mac, but I decided that there are things I like about the GS3 & Android so I just have both phones. I have 2 lines so why not.
iPhone is not useless either, as a previous poster mentioned.
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I thought about an iPhone 5 But i just love the modablitiy of android, so now i'm thinking of buying the new nexus

ericerk said:
I thought about an iPhone 5 But i just love the modablitiy of android, so now i'm thinking of buying the new nexus
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See but the bad thing is...is the new nexus going to play well with Mac?
Idk if the new nexus is going to have the same storage system as the GS3. I'm not too techy with the internals so not sure how it all works...
And don't forget...a jail broken iPhone is just as amazing as a rooted Android. I personally love both, it's a curse cause I always want the newest iPhone & greatest Android phone... every year........haha
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What is wrong with Android File Transfer? I don't think I've updated it since I had my Galaxy Nexus early this year, but I've been using it since I picked up my GS3 a week ago and it works just fine for both internal storage and the SD card...

Polymira said:
What is wrong with Android File Transfer? I don't think I've updated it since I had my Galaxy Nexus early this year, but I've been using it since I picked up my GS3 a week ago and it works just fine for both internal storage and the SD card...
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It used to work for me. Then I OTA'd and bam.
What rom are you on? The vralg7 (or whatever it was called)(4.0.4?) OTA made Android File Transfer not work with GS3 anymore.
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yeah all these f'ing OTA updates did for me was make my phone black screen of death CRASH all the time requiring battery pull, break Android File Transfer to my Mac, and make my phone run hotter. Which is probably because of that stupid Verizon remote "assistance" crap bloat they put in so they can probably record everything we are doing.
Verizon screws everything up. Wish another carrier had as good of LTE. I am probably going to exchange this for Note II because of these problems. I expect VZ to pay for it or most of it.

Unless Google goes back on their work, the MTP standard will continue. I see it as unlikely for connectivity to Macs to improve for ICS+ phones until Google provides a better tool.
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Android File Transfer works fine for me (I'm on the HE ota, on an older mac if that matters).
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Polymira said:
What is wrong with Android File Transfer? I don't think I've updated it since I had my Galaxy Nexus early this year, but I've been using it since I picked up my GS3 a week ago and it works just fine for both internal storage and the SD card...
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What I've been running into on Apple's Support Forums is that AFT seems to work best only up to 10.6, some have had success with 10.7 and most are reporting absolute failure with Mountain Lion. I'd use AirDroid but my MacPro doesn't have a WiFi antennae, unless it can go through my router somehow as Kies Air does?

Has there been any progress on this?

[Q] Some advice

Hi all,
My daughter's Infuse 4g was having issues (wouldn't turn on, and if it did, wouldn't stay on) while she was at college. She took it to the AT&T store and they told her she needed a new phone. We purchased one, but when she got her Infuse 4g home, I was able to get it working again.
Anyway, now I have an Infuse. We have four kids so from time to time we need a 'backup' phone. This would make a good backup phone. It is completely stock and unrooted.
I'm debating on trying to get CM11 on it. I see there is an unofficial release. However, I know nothing about the history of the Infuse, how easy it is to brick, how easy it is to unbrick etc.
So, should I just leave this phone "as is" or work to get CM 11 on it? I'm currently reading through some of the forum threads, but if there are issues putting roms on this phone, it would be nice to know before I put a lot of time in on it.
Any opinions?
Thanks!!!

It's almost impossible to hard brick
99 percent of time you can recover It through Odin. Just follow the steps and you will be fine
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
It's almost impossible to hard brick
99 percent of time you can recover It through Odin. Just follow the steps and you will be fine
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Thanks! Guess I'll have to pick up a micro to mini sim adapter...my Nexus 4 uses the smaller sims. Thanks again!

dmullens said:
Thanks! Guess I'll have to pick up a micro to mini sim adapter...my Nexus 4 uses the smaller sims. Thanks again!
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Nah I used a mini. Just have to get it in right position for it to read
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
Nah I used a mini. Just have to get it in right position for it to read
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Is there any chance that getting the positioning wrong could hose the sim card? I've used this method before in a different phone, but I was always concerned that if it shifted it could mess up the SIM.

dmullens said:
Is there any chance that getting the positioning wrong could hose the sim card? I've used this method before in a different phone, but I was always concerned that if it shifted it could mess up the SIM.
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I never had problems for 2 years
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dmullens said:
Hi all,
My daughter's Infuse 4g was having issues (wouldn't turn on, and if it did, wouldn't stay on) while she was at college. She took it to the AT&T store and they told her she needed a new phone. We purchased one, but when she got her Infuse 4g home, I was able to get it working again.
Anyway, now I have an Infuse. We have four kids so from time to time we need a 'backup' phone. This would make a good backup phone. It is completely stock and unrooted.
I'm debating on trying to get CM11 on it. I see there is an unofficial release. However, I know nothing about the history of the Infuse, how easy it is to brick, how easy it is to unbrick etc.
So, should I just leave this phone "as is" or work to get CM 11 on it? I'm currently reading through some of the forum threads, but if there are issues putting roms on this phone, it would be nice to know before I put a lot of time in on it.
Any opinions?
Thanks!!!
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It's actually easy to "brick" the Infuse, all you do is break the USB charging port, I have a lot of experience with Galaxy S devices and they all have poor USB port durability especially when it come to water damage, so that's one thing to watch out.
Personally, I recommend using CM9 on the Infuse. CM11 roms to me are still buggy and the performance isn't very good. Beanstalk rom does a pretty good job, but for now there are still slow down issues and poor Webkit performance. So far I get very good stability and performance with CM9.
Here is a guide I wrote on root, flash and restore the Infuse, it's pretty easy: http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...m-recovery-kitkat-factory-restore-infuse.html
You can sim unlock this device too which is easy also: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081072

Sprint Galaxy Note 5 Thread

I had to fight with UPS today for 2 hours, but I got my Galaxy Note 5. In short, I'm glad I got it. I'm sure, like always, each carrier will have their differences, but this is one SLICK SEXY phone.
Out the box I had 25%, I burned through it just doing app updates and setting up my information on the phone and then I tried the Wireless Charging...Guys, it's good! Like really good! I don't even have the Fast Wireless Charging dock. I have the Samsung Galaxy Mini Wireless Charging Pad and that finished up in just over 2 hours, so that Fast Wireless Charger is going to charge as fast as the end of a Prom date. Don't prejudge the phone over what you heard. Use it.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Guess u don't use much storage, that's why u don't have a problem with it. And of course you're going to notice a decent bump in performance coming from a note 3. I've warned everyone I know to not upgrade to the 5 and either get a note 4, or don't drop their 4 cause of Samsung pulling them.

I had to fight with ups as well. Somehow ups got my address wrong... It was either ups or Sprint. Either way I have it.
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Do you get simultaneous voice and data (without wifi) or is it crippled like the note 4?

gtr2009 said:
Do you get simultaneous voice and data (without wifi) or is it crippled like the note 4?
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Is what i want to know as well

gtr2009 said:
Do you get simultaneous voice and data (without wifi) or is it crippled like the note 4?
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No VoLTE, Ive had the phone for 3 days and it doesn't work.

gtr2009 said:
Do you get simultaneous voice and data (without wifi) or is it crippled like the note 4?
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Is what i want to know as well
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Sprint doesn't have VoLTE yet into their network.

ryanalan82 said:
Guess u don't use much storage, that's why u don't have a problem with it. And of course you're going to notice a decent bump in performance coming from a note 3. I've warned everyone I know to not upgrade to the 5 and either get a note 4, or don't drop their 4 cause of Samsung pulling them.
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i use tons of storage... i carry at least 8TB of hard drives everyday. i just don't install many apps and music is all cloud based now for me. movies are kept on a segate wifi drive, i always have a otg adapter and flash ready, but most of the time i just stream netflix/amazon. the majority of my internal storage on my devices are now roms or flashing related crap.
because of the number of devices i have i find it easier to do it the way i do rather than have redundant info on multiple devices - still happens sometimes and i forget which tablet/phone has a certain movie or song... still can find my damn Fried Chicken from Beatnuts!
i started not using an external sd when i got my s4, just as a test, and it worked out for me. so getting an n6 and n9 wasn't too much trouble as i knew what to expect.
though i do think the removal of the SD slot isn't b/c they studied that most people don't use it, but rather that people are suckers and will toss an extra $100 for 32GB.

madsquabbles said:
though i do think the removal of the SD slot isn't b/c they studied that most people don't use it, but rather that people are suckers and will toss an extra $100 for 32GB.
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Totally agree with this. Iphone suckers have been dealing with this the whole time. I've only have known like 2 iPhone users that would pay all that money for a 128 gb iPhone. Most got the 16 or 32 gb versions and became very limited on what they put on their phone.

just got my order in. not time to play with it yet. damn, i forgot that samsung switched to 16:9 ratio. makes this thing less massive than i thought (huge negative for me). it's the same width as the note 2 but ~3/16 taller.

yellowman82 said:
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The funny thing is that i could do this with my note 3. My daughters had motorola Photon and the other had an Evo LTE and both of those phones could do it. So im not sure how Sprint claims that their network doesnt support it when it clearly can

bignibb said:
The funny thing is that i could do this with my note 3. My daughters had motorola Photon and the other had an Evo LTE and both of those phones could do it. So im not sure how Sprint claims that their network doesnt support it when it clearly can
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Bingo! The N3 had the dual antenna...

jauger said:
Bingo! The N3 had the dual antenna...
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Tri-band phones are not supported for talk/talk at same time. Sprint Spark did this

Sprint can't even get the listing of the processor correct.
Just went to the sprint store to look at it. Here's the sign showing the specs.
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yellowman82 said:
Sprint doesn't have VoLTE yet into their network.
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Wasn't asking about volte as that is not phone related at this time. Was asking if the phone itself was capable, as in dual radios.
Guess I'll stay on my note for the foreseeable future. Samsung and Sprint both going backwards. Sucks.

How to root?
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How are the radio and antenna. Are you picking up better signal
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rialsi6 said:
How are the radio and antenna. Are you picking up better signal
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This is actually something I would like to know as well. Thought about picking up one of these as well as a S6+

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How are the radio and antenna. Are you picking up better signal
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I now get lte in my basement which I didn't get on my note 3, so I would say yes for me at least. I can stream videos and watch YouTube in my room now finally. I'm very happy with this device. I just had to put all of my music on Google play store and put my pictures on one drive and I now have plenty of free storage space and am not at all worried about no SD card at this point. I did get the 64gb
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That shouldn't be up, stores were directed to take that sign down.
rbaucom said:
Sprint can't even get the listing of the processor correct.
Just went to the sprint store to look at it. Here's the sign showing the specs.
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Verizon Galaxy Note 5 on Project Fi

In case anyone is wondering, the Verizon Galaxy note 5 is fully functional on Project Fi. I have a V note 5 and a Nexus 5X I swapped sims, and with the edition of an APN change the Note 5 worked perfectly. Even pulling twice the download speeds of the Nexus 5. Strangely enough.

gwe8613 said:
In case anyone is wondering, the Verizon Galaxy note 5 is fully functional on Project Fi. I have a V note 5 and a Nexus 5X I swapped sims, and with the edition of an APN change the Note 5 worked perfectly. Even pulling twice the download speeds of the Nexus 5. Strangely enough.
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What changes did you make?
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How's the network speed compare to Verizon's 4G?

gwe8613 said:
In case anyone is wondering, the Verizon Galaxy note 5 is fully functional on Project Fi. I have a V note 5 and a Nexus 5X I swapped sims, and with the edition of an APN change the Note 5 worked perfectly. Even pulling twice the download speeds of the Nexus 5. Strangely enough.
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That sounds great. Thanks for letting us know! Now to get passed all these invite shenanigans.
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What apn changes did you have to make?
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Can we get a rundown of the changes needed to get going on Fi?

What was the point of starting this thread if you're not going to go into detail about the changes you made to get it to work?? I can't stand people who post this crap but leave out key information. Then multiple people ask what needs to be done and what do ya know - no freaking response. I'm positive you're not the only source for this information, I'm just trying to make a point.
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gwe8613 said:
In case anyone is wondering, the Verizon Galaxy note 5 is fully functional on Project Fi. I have a V note 5 and a Nexus 5X I swapped sims, and with the edition of an APN change the Note 5 worked perfectly. Even pulling twice the download speeds of the Nexus 5. Strangely enough.
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Seriously, what's the APN change that was made?

Nickyro23 said:
What was the point of starting this thread if you're not going to go into detail about the changes you made to get it to work?? I can't stand people who post this crap but leave out key information. Then multiple people ask what needs to be done and what do ya know - no freaking response. I'm positive you're not the only source for this information, I'm just trying to make a point.
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Agree...only been over nine months and no response from original poster, notice that poster is up to (2) two posts.