Smartphones

Holy shit, peeps on CL still paying $500-600 for an iPhone 5s 32gb. Cheaper than what you would have to buy one for off-contract, so I guess that's where the price comes from but I was surprised it wasn't closer to $400.

Now I can't stop thinking about swapping back to Android and picking up a fancy Note 3

My wife's 16GB iPhone 4 sold for $200 even, so I'm not surprised.

more iPhone 6 rumors:iPhone 6 specs detailed in new leak: Larger displays, launch date | BGR

also saw this which I didn't know about:iPhone 6, Galaxy S5 price discount already offered by Best Buy | BGR

I think there is sense in the size of the iPhone and their iPad's.

I have the 5s, and a 4" screen. So a 7" tablet is a great size upgrade. 10" gets even bigger, but 4 to 7 works great imo. With 4.8" , the 7" size seems more eh. Not that big of an upgrade, and I feel not as necessary. Just a guess, but I bet iPad Air sales go up a bit after the screen size increase on the iPhone 6.

So for me, while the 4" screen took some getting used too, it works out well, and I feel I appreciate my Nexus 7 more because of it.

Part of what's stopping me right now from going with a Note 3. I don't want to make my tablet useless.

With a note I don't see any value in the 7 inch tablets. The note is about the perfect size for both.

gogusrl_sl said:

Odin. Just download the stock rom for your model and flash everything with odin. No bootmanagers or other shit needed.


How to downgrade Galaxy S3 back to Android 4.1.2: tutorial [Update] - AndroidPIT

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All of the roms/tar keep saying invalid in odin, if I was able to boot into CWM I would be fine but its not. fuck shit ass

BrutulTM_sl said:

What's the problem? You just want to return the phone for a warranty replacement and you don't want them to know you fucked with the OS? Couldn't you just smash the screen and say that was why you were returning it?

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No I just need to insall Gapps pretty much but its not letting me boot into CWM or boot into CWM recovery to put it on the phone. Also sprint variants run knox and are different

Crone_sl said:

Anyone played the add a line trick recently with Verizon to get a new phone at contract price?

Add a line, get new phone (Note 3) at discounted price. Switch phone to main line, and drop the added line a month later. Does that still work as a way to get around having to pay full price for phones?

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I am on verizon and I have messed with this on verizon and sprint- the problem is this... ETF's have gone up to 350 on verizon, back when it was 250 it was not so bad- but they upped it a year or so ago. Also you generally have to wait an entire month before you can cancell the line- this may have changed when they revamped their return policy- they all used to have 30day returns so you could not cancell during the return time- you just returned it...now that, that is usualy 14days there may be some play there- either way your going to pay for 1/2 a month or a month of service- at about 35-40 bucks for that line...also if you do not get the activation fee waived that is another 35 or so bucks. So your going to pay lets say, 1 month, activation and an ETF of 23/24 (you did do 1 month of the contract and its prorated-lets say 335 so thats 405 + the contract price of the phone- new ones usually 200- so thats 605...is that better than outright buying?

xadion_sl said:

I am on verizon and I have messed with this on verizon and sprint- the problem is this... ETF's have gone up to 350 on verizon, back when it was 250 it was not so bad- but they upped it a year or so ago. Also you generally have to wait an entire month before you can cancell the line- this may have changed when they revamped their return policy- they all used to have 30day returns so you could not cancell during the return time- you just returned it...now that, that is usualy 14days there may be some play there- either way your going to pay for 1/2 a month or a month of service- at about 35-40 bucks for that line...also if you do not get the activation fee waived that is another 35 or so bucks. So your going to pay lets say, 1 month, activation and an ETF of 23/24 (you did do 1 month of the contract and its prorated-lets say 335 so thats 405 + the contract price of the phone- new ones usually 200- so thats 605...is that better than outright buying?

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Ya, I had a derp derp moment and forgot that each line had it's own contract. If I were to make the switch, I could sell my iPhone for 500-600 still, and that would offset the cost of the new phone. Although it still blows me away we pay so much for new phones. Shit.

But instead of doing it all I jailbroke my iPhone, which is damn easier than rooting an Android device, and now I pretty much can do what I want. Almost. Android is still better.

Eyashusa_sl said:

My wife's 16GB iPhone 4 sold for $200 even, so I'm not surprised.

more iPhone 6 rumors:iPhone 6 specs detailed in new leak: Larger displays, launch date | BGR

also saw this which I didn't know about:iPhone 6, Galaxy S5 price discount already offered by Best Buy | BGR

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Thanks of the heads-up signed up for it for Mar/Apr

Has anyone ever lost control over their phone, like someone else was accessing it?

A little background, my phone is new came with android 4.1 vanilla which I upgraded to 4.2 when I got it.

I've only downloaded half a dozen apps all from google play, my device is not rooted, the apps all common.

was walking through the mall (happened to be the mall where I picked up the AT&T SIM) and my phone started vibrating, I figured someone was calling me so I took it out and saw some PDF file ("insurance" something or other downloaded to my phone), then my GUI screen started randomly jumping to different apps and clicking around.... I got it into the settings menu and turned off WIFI (even though it wasn't connected to a network, or shouldn't have been) but the phone was still freaking out like someone had intercepted my band...my Blue tooth was off, NFC was on which I was able to turn off. my screen was still freaking out, I kept trying to turn it off but every time I tried to toggle it off it swapped off to a different screen so I had to leave the area and I finally regained control of the device, which makes me think it was a localized perimeter signal from Bluetooth which I hear is flaky or NFC, which I know nothing about

My thoughts are that my band was intercepted by someone else working on their phone (oblivious to what happened)...the way the phone was jumping around didn't lead me to believe their was any obvious design to what was being accessed on my phone but after turning it on I decided to do a factory reset...which doesn't really make me feel confident that I've resolved the issue.

Any ideas on how I was compromised? Bluetooth? WIFI? NFC? 4G LTE?

I would definitely do a phone wipe just in case if I was you.

The Ancient_sl said:

I would definitely do a phone wipe just in case if I was you.

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Yea after I regained control I turned it off got a good distance away turned it back on and did a factory reset not sure what else to do my blue tooth is off and set to not be visible NFC is off but I don't want to have to be turning WiFi on and off constantly.

Anyway if anyone is interested in the Sony xperia ultra z my only complaints are the battery life isnt that high and not replaceable, camera is meh with no flash. Otherwise its sophisticated and sleek, very light high quality ample screen size (pretty sure its the biggest screen on the market that doesn't qualify as a tablet) very high quality resolution, snappy response and I have android vanilla with none of the excess. Not cheap but no need for a contract if you buy it yourself. Of course you know what you're getting into with a screen This size this isn't for hipsters with tight jeans, they fit in my 5.11 pants fine. Though my hoodie has a preferable inside pocket.