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Hi all,
I am switching from Sprint and just ordered a refurbished Skyrocket for $49. I have 30 days to switch to a different phone so what are the chances of the Skyrocket HD or anything else worthy coming out within that period?
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You should be good for a little while.
tomtommy306 said:
You should be good for a little while.
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What do you mean?
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I think he means a new phone shouldn't be coming out in the next 30 days.
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I think he means a new phone shouldn't be coming out in the next 30 days.
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That sucks. When is the Skyrocket HD expected?
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sdc177 said:
That sucks. When is the Skyrocket HD expected?
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there is rumors they canceled it
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Realistically you can't go wrong with a skyrocket. You have 2 devices worth of devs, radio freq. That works on anything but verizon or sprint, which means service can just about be had anywhere, yes maybe no hd display but all the benefits out weigh having hd on a phone
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I just bought a skyrocket and don't live in a LTE area...(planning for it this year) I like the phone alot but I noticed not alot of development going on compared to the sgs2. Skyrocket don't have miui which is a pretty popular rom. Anyway, just wanted to ad that tidbit for what's it worth to whoever.
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gs2 has been our for quite awhile. and this phone is still, contrary to popular belief, quite new, its only been on the market for a few months
sdc177 said:
Hi all,
I am switching from Sprint and just ordered a refurbished Skyrocket for $49. I have 30 days to switch to a different phone so what are the chances of the Skyrocket HD or anything else worthy coming out within that period?
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Get yourself a nexus device. You will spare yourself the software upgrade headaches.
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Get yourself a nexus device. You will spare yourself the software upgrade headaches.
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So which nexus device that is on AT&T or will be on AT&T in the next 30 days are you suggesting? If you have a link that would be even better.
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sdc177 said:
So which nexus device that is on AT&T or will be on AT&T in the next 30 days are you suggesting? If you have a link that would be even better.
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the one he is referring to is a gsm galaxy nexus, which you will have to buy off contract in the 5 hundred dollar range. (atleast that's the only one that can compare to the skyrocket) so unless you have 500 to blow you made the best choice on att right now unless you want the giant note
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Get the note
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the one he is referring to is a gsm galaxy nexus, which you will have to buy off contract in the 5 hundred dollar range. (atleast that's the only one that can compare to the skyrocket) so unless you have 500 to blow you made the best choice on att right now unless you want the giant note
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Oh okay. No LTE if I go that route right?
I am intrigued by the note, just not sure if I want something that big.
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sdc177 said:
Oh okay. No LTE if I go that route right?
I am intrigued by the note, just not sure if I want something that big.
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Yeah the galaxy he is referring to will not have lte. I really want to upgrade to the note for that "****in right this big SOB is my phone" but i'm afraid overall I won't be as happy with it as I am with the skyrocket
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sdc177 said:
Oh okay. No LTE if I go that route right?
I am intrigued by the note, just not sure if I want something that big.
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No LTE yeah, but really wasn't your life chugging fine until now anyways? Realistically, if I got to choose again, I'd take the nexus over the skyrocket. The software pains are absolutely horrible compared to the HSPA pains.
There's always the future software upgrades, nexus will keep you on top of them for at least two revisions, don't expect that from AT&T.
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dobbs3x said:
I just bought a skyrocket and don't live in a LTE area...(planning for it this year) I like the phone alot but I noticed not alot of development going on compared to the sgs2. Skyrocket don't have miui which is a pretty popular rom. Anyway, just wanted to ad that tidbit for what's it worth to whoever.
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MIUI? Hey, we're working on it!
Skyrocket HD isn't coming out anytime soon. So stick with it.
I like it so far. Ended up getting it for $10 refurbished! I may be able to get over the low resolution screen
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$10?? point me in the direction u got it from
Lol me to
I need a new one.
Any suggestions guys. I have a sprint sgs3 that I have no issues with. I see alot of issuse about Lte dropimg and other things I realty want to stick with the sgs3. Any suggestions would be great thanks in advance
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If I may, why is Sprint booting you?
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For purposely roaming i bet
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No I moved to north Carolina and they have no service here. I have no choice but to roam. So they are canceling my contract for excessive roaming.
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Do you have to pay an ETF if they cancel your contract?
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bgolden84 said:
Any suggestions guys. I have a sprint sgs3 that I have no issues with. I see alot of issuse about Lte dropimg and other things I realty want to stick with the sgs3. Any suggestions would be great thanks in advance
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Where are you seeing all these lte issues? Beside even if it is dropping its better than Sprints NO LTE.
I have seen people complaining that it keeps kicking them down to 3g. But you are right the speed difference is huge. And no I don't have to pay an etf. I just have to send then all of my phones. Witch sux I just got the sgs3 two weeks ago
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I am just trying to get a feel for issues if any at all. You know how some people whine and you can't get a good idea on a phone I assume it will be about the same with way better coverage and ddata speeds.
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A lot of the lte drop you may be hearing of comes from the cynogen mods and aokp roms. But Verizon has the most solid lte coverage out there.
Plus like it was stated. I'd rather lte drop but have lte as apposed to no lte and real slow 3g speeds from Sprint
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A lot of the lte drop you may be hearing of comes from the cynogen mods and aokp roms. But Verizon has the most solid lte coverage out there.
Plus like it was stated. I'd rather lte drop but have lte as apposed to no lte and real slow 3g speeds from Sprin
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I'm w you on that. So you guys are having no issues? No complaints?
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Go to the Verizon coverage map and check your area and see what kind of reception you get that's the best way to find out of Verizon is worth it.
JetBlue said:
Go to the Verizon coverage map and check your area and see what kind of reception you get that's the best way to find out of Verizon is worth it.
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Shows solid lte and 3g so we shall c
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bgolden84 said:
I have seen people complaining that it keeps kicking them down to 3g. But you are right the speed difference is huge. And no I don't have to pay an etf. I just have to send then all of my phones. Witch sux I just got the sgs3 two weeks ago
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You should just keep it and pay an ETF. You could easily sell for $500 on eBay to cover a $200 ETF.
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bgolden84 said:
I'm w you on that. So you guys are having no issues? No complaints?
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I'm cynogen 10 running jellybean and I've some 4g drop but that's a known issue.
While on stock all I see is 4g on top here in Phoenix. I don't even know what 3g is anymore
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I'm cynogen 10 running jellybean and I've some 4g drop but that's a known issue.
While on stock all I see is 4g on top here in Phoenix. I don't even know what 3g is anymore
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I am using AOKP Milestone 6, and after tinkering with a couple things, I have a solid 4G connection. No unexplained drops to 3G in a 4G area for me.
And I agree with what's stated above. There is no way you'll want 3G once you get used to 4G.
stock Rom at the moment works best on this phone I would just stay with that till development matures a bit.
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Verizon is a total rip off now. Data is way too expensive.
Good bye HTC Rezound, hello Galaxy S3!
It may be exspensive but for the same plan I have on sprint I can switch. And save 30 bucks a month that's with 4 gigs. Ill never use that Much. With sprint there data is so slow it'ss painfully. That's why its unlimeted. Cause there is nothing to limit lol.
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bgolden84 said:
It may be exspensive but for the same plan I have on sprint I can switch. And save 30 bucks a month that's with 4 gigs. Ill never use that Much. With sprint there data is so slow it'ss painfully. That's why its unlimeted. Cause there is nothing to limit lol.
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Haha "I'll never use that much" just wait til u get on lte...
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vdChild said:
Haha "I'll never use that much" just wait til u get on lte...
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I agree. I use 1 gig in about a week, easily. I definitely wouldn't come to Verizon with their new data plans. You're just asking for a huge bill.
Good bye HTC Rezound, hello Galaxy S3!
Well, Samsung has finally announced the list of phones that will get 4.4 and the S3 is on the list. Now we just wait for Verizon to send it out to us.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/02/18/samsung-confirms-list-of-phones-and-tablets-to-receive-kit-kat-updates-begin-today/
Here's to to hoping for a new exploit and a way to flash custom roms again.
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All of the AOSP roms are on stable versions of 4.4.2 by now. Unless you love VZW bloat go check one of those.
To everyone about to post anything along the lines of "lol touchwiz sux" move along. Most of us know it already.. and for one reason or another we got stuck on 4.3. I know I'm looking forward to 4.4
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Dadud said:
To everyone about to post anything along the lines of "lol touchwiz sux" move along. Most of us know it already.. and for one reason or another we got stuck on 4.3. I know I'm looking forward to 4.4
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I don't like the look of it but my phone runs better on it. I've tried everything but nothing beats Beans 20. Hopefully 4.4 touchwiz will be as stable.
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I'm just hoping some sly samsung dev "accidently" left an exploit to allow custom recoveries
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Don't want it if it is just going to break FoxFi...
I'll believe it when receive it
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End of March if I had to guess
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TokedUp said:
All of the AOSP roms are on stable versions of 4.4.2 by now. Unless you love VZW bloat go check one of those.
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Doesn't help those that took the 4.3 OTA. I agree that 4.4.2 AOSP ROMs are rounding out very nicely. Although TW has the benefit of all the phone's hardware working correctly.
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Doesn't help those that took the 4.3 OTA. I agree that 4.4.2 AOSP ROMs are rounding out very nicely. Although TW has the benefit of all the phone's hardware working correctly.
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Could we keep this thread limited to talking about Verizon and Samsung bring 4.4.2 to the S3 and not arguing about different ROMs. If people want to talk about different roms then they can go to the other threads for that. Thanks!
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All of the AOSP roms are on stable versions of 4.4.2 by now. Unless you love VZW bloat go check one of those.
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Except camera and signal strength tend to be hit and miss on aosp ROMS at least for me anyway.. I highly doubt Verizon will bring us 4.4.2
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It's cool that they made it official.
International first and then the trickle down will happen.
I say August for Verizon.
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Verizon always takes a while to get OTA. But good thing s3 not getting left behind
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If Sprint rolled 4.4.2 out to the S4 already then I would guess Verizon will soon too. Then say another month and Verizon could roll it out for S3 in April or May. That's just my uneducated ghess
Krusej23 said:
Well, Samsung has finally announced the list of phones that will get 4.4 and the S3 is on the list. Now we just wait for Verizon to send it out to us.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/02/18/samsung-confirms-list-of-phones-and-tablets-to-receive-kit-kat-updates-begin-today/
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So, how do we got to know that they have released the list of new phones?
Krishu said:
So, how do we got to know that they have released the list of new phones?
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What?
Just a wild guess but I suspect this will be the LAST upgrade for the S3 which is getting a little long in the tooth now...
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All of the AOSP roms are on stable versions of 4.4.2 by now. Unless you love VZW bloat go check one of those.
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On carbon nighties and it is running pretty smooth except the camera to video issue.
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xs11e said:
Just a wild guess but I suspect this will be the LAST upgrade for the S3 which is getting a little long in the tooth now...
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Your spot on about that man. It will sadly be our last update. But none the less the S3 is a solid phone
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I know the s3 had it but it went away with the s4. I wonder if the s5 will have it. I know you can get simultaneous voice and data over LTE, but can it be done on 3g?
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eyecon82 said:
I know the s3 had it but it went away with the s4. I wonder if the s5 will have it. I know you can get simultaneous voice and data over LTE, but can it be done on 3g?
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You will not be able to talk and surf over 3G or 4G LTE.
The GS5 is a Sprint Spark phone and only has one transmission path and therefore can only either connect to LTE or CDMA never both. Sorry, but it does help for battery life.
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This sucks.
Yep. What a downgrade!
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That stinks. I can use my 4G while on the phone now with my Evo3D and would like to be able to use it while on a call on my next phone and was really thinking about the S5 for my upgrade. What to do now...
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That stinks. I can use my 4G while on the phone now with my Evo3D and would like to be able to use it while on a call on my next phone and was really thinking about the S5 for my upgrade. What to do now...
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It seems all new phones are on this unfortunate track... You won't be able to avoid it.
Triband is supposed to be the future, but they are going backwards
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eyecon82 said:
It seems all new phones are on this unfortunate track... You won't be able to avoid it.
Triband is supposed to be the future, but they are going backwards
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I would imagine until we have voice over LTE that won't come back on spark devices.
Is VoLTE coming with HD voice this summer or does that just step up what it's currently using?
I'm on my phone a lot in the car and while using navigation and streaming music. So if I ever need to re-route or want to change to a playlist I don't have stored, it kind of sucks.
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Talk and LTE 2.5 (spark)
This is the most backwards idea ever. I noticed in the first 5 mins of buying my phone. Highly upset about this! Not that I talk on the phone and use data at the same time a lot, but I would like to have the choice. Something that was not talked about in the weeks after the unveiling of the S5.
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This is the most backwards idea ever. I noticed in the first 5 mins of buying my phone. Highly upset about this! Not that I talk on the phone and use data at the same time a lot, but I would like to have the choice. Something that was not talked about in the weeks after the unveiling of the S5.
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i dont do it either...but when im using bluetooth and on hold, i dont mind playing with the internet....so backwards!!
Most of us have unlimited data on sprint. Google voice integrates well with sprint. So an option would be to set up google voice, and then use a third party app such as phone for google voice. I don't have s5 yet, so can't try it. still on s3.
if anyone wants to try it, then you can report back on how well it works. I have used it overseases using a 3g connection with mixed results. Sometimes worked well, sometimes not.
Hmm with sprint I can't surf the Web at all no data when on a call I understand 3g no data but I was told on spark or lte I can is this true?
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mobgod said:
Hmm with sprint I can't surf the Web at all no data when on a call I understand 3g no data but I was told on spark or lte I can is this true?
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Lte can but spark can't in it's current state .
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Lte can but spark can't in it's current state .
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When on lte still drops connection why? ?
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We have a spark device ....so we are basically sol . Past devices worked with lte. I believe all of sprints new devices will work in this manner. Until spark is updated to to allow this feature.
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We have a spark device ....so we are basically sol . Past devices worked with lte. I believe all of sprints new devices will work in this manner. Until spark is updated to to allow this feature.
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That really sucks might have to go back to the s3
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So, title says it all. Is it possible to buy a factory unlocked note 5 (like say...perhaps from Ebay), root it and then use it on Verizon?
Yea but you might not get 4glte only 3g, why would you do that though when the Verizon note 5 has already been rooted?
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YousKoose said:
Yea but you might not get 4glte only 3g, why would you do that though when the Verizon note 5 has already been rooted?
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Thank you for your quick response. I haven't seen where the Verizon variant has been rooted. Do you have a link?
http://www.iroot.com/how-to-articles/how-to-root-samsung-note-5.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...elopment/finally-root-verizon-note-5-t3368127
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http://www.iroot.com/how-to-articles/how-to-root-samsung-note-5.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...elopment/finally-root-verizon-note-5-t3368127
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iroot doesn't work for Verizon and in the second link it doesn't work for Verizon, either.
Yah your right I didn't fully read through the comments, u can use a T-Mobile for Verizon I did it for the note 4 before it got rooted and worked on Verizon without 4g, but I was getting really fast 3g speeds at least 10/20 mbps, the note 4 is also a great phone that is rooted on verizon
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Yah your right I didn't fully read through the comments, u can use a T-Mobile for Verizon I did it for the note 4 before it got rooted and worked on Verizon without 4g, but I was getting really fast 3g speeds at least 10/20 mbps, the note 4 is also a great phone that is rooted on verizon
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Thnx. I was considering the Note 4 but am quite frustrated with how Verizon is trying to lock us down lately. While I've had Samsung devices for a long time, I'm now thinking about the Nexus 6P...
I would go with nexus for sure or one plus devixe, but the note 4 retail editions have now all been successful in converting to developer editions witch is really dope, it brought life back to my device.
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