So....who else here doesn't feel comfortable with anyone else holding their device?
Like when someone asks to use your phone, or when a friend sees you playing a cool game and he says, oh can i see? And when you say no, you get that "why don't you trust me look?"
I go to a friends house, and they have a son who always was able to use his dads evo to play games, so when I go over to his house, he wants to touch and play with my phone, but I don't let him lol. But his mom was like, oh he won't drop it! and seemed to get a little offended by this.
It's not that I don't trust anyone with my phone, it's just that I don't trust anyone with my phone.
So, that about sums it up. This phone is my baby, and I just don't trust anyone else to hold it!
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OMG, that is so me!
When I show someone a pic of my kids or something, and they reach for the phone, I instinctively pull it away. No one touches my Evo! no one! lol
I do this to plus in my hood u don't let anyone touch your stuff.
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I do this!! Lol. My EVO is my baby. I rarely even let my girlfriend touch my phone. Lol. Leggo my EVO!!
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I feel the same way lol and if I let someone touch my phone it's only for a minute or two haha. People are nosy,they try to read your text messages and look at your pictures etc.
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I feel the same way lol and if I let someone touch my phone it's only for a minute or two haha. People are nosy,they try to read your text messages and look at your pictures etc.
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LOL. People are always trying to find something.
I'm always afraid that they will drop it or something, then just say something like, oh im sorry, you have insurance right?..I mean I don't even feel comfortable with them touching it! It's my baby and no one touches my baby
Lego my evo, lol nice.
If you think about it, touch screen phones are great germ carriers. The last thing I want is someone using my phone after they just came out of the bathroom, neglecting to wash their hands.
EVO | Swagged Out Stock Rom
I just don't wanna be showing pics and they hit back accidentally and see the gallery of naked chics I get sent to me by my honeys
I had to get an Evo for the wife, so she wouldn't touch mine!
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i love showing off my rooted evo to other evo owners who dont kno how to root lol, but once they see how awesome it is, they wanna get their hands on it, and its a no no for me, i don't like them playing around with it haha
I agree with all the above reasons and will add another, every time i let another Evo owner hold mine it always ends up in "aw man that's awesome......can you do mine like that"! HAHA
i dont have a problem with friends holding my phone because i dont have friends that lack basic motor skills such as holding a small inanimate object.
seriously? get a life... if you're that worried about your phone then get insurance or wrap it in bubble wrap.
I guess it depends on the person if they only have experience in a feature phone I will dial the number and hand it to them if they're into rooting and hacking and etc I give them a little freedom because the first thing I do when handed a phone is start looking at what they are running and what kind if set up they have goin on and for those who like to look at your photos and texts don't let them in your bathroom cause you know they are looking in your medicine cabnet
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I let someone hold my evo once. A five year old girl my sister babysits was over and she wanted to take a picture of a butterfly outside. feeling like a nice guy i let her. she threw it back to me while my back was turned and it shattered the screen. NEVER AGAIN!!
Omg, i am so like this too. I will reluctantly let some people have it, but i do my best not to. and when i do let people have it, i am so nervous while they have it. It might be partly withdrawal symptoms as well LOL.
Doesn't help that most my friends are completely ignorant of tech, and some have ability to break anything the touch. so i am even more D: when they want to see it for something x-x;;;
As someone else said, and the inevitable OMGs CAN YOU DO THAT TO MINE???? x-x
Nah I love showing off my rooted Evo, especially to iPhone users lol. I'm not too worried about it because I'm rocking the otterbox defender series
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I am with a particular friend of mine. He's dropped it twice and the GPS seems to magically stop working every time he picks it up in the car....
If its a friend or relative who is a adult (no slobbering babies) and they want to check something out, then I could care less.
You all are just way too uptight. *rolls eyes
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I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
gunnyman said:
I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
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Hey, we won't tell anyone if it happens to fall in-front of that truck tire...
What don't you like about the Moment? I've heard good things...with exception to the horrible placement of the space bar on the physical keyboard.
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I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
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Please, Please, Please make a thread about how you want to purposely brick your moment so you can make the switch.
I love love love! watching the brick police come in and throw hissy fit temper tantrums claiming you're ruining modern society by making false phone insurance claims.
When man has bricked the last cell phone only then will we realize we cannot eat refurbs
Well, if you decide to break it, please think up something creative and video it for us to see. Do something cool like the guy who got angry at his lawn mower and shot it in public with a shotgun. Please
I just my hero in February and I want to get the Evo. My phone is prestine I have the invisible shield on it and the otter box shield on it and its rooted also running the 2.08 Damagecontrol Rom. What would be a good price to sale it for. I was offered 85.00. I feel that's to low.
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I hear thermite bricks phone pretty easily.
My main problem with the moment is this: Radom Airplane mode and EVDO lockups for no apparent reason. Only way to fix is to reboot the phone. Other than that the thing ways a freakin ton. I like the keyboard and the AMOLED screen though. Also, I miss you guys and installing a new ROM or theme every day
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My main problem with the moment is this: Radom Airplane mode and EVDO lockups for no apparent reason. Only way to fix is to reboot the phone. Other than that the thing ways a freakin ton. I like the keyboard and the AMOLED screen though. Also, I miss you guys and installing a new ROM or theme every day
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yeah my buddy just got the moment the other day, had it for less than a day and it was stuck in airplane mode lol if you have insurance then just tell them you lost it???
Gunny, do you not have 30 days to return it?
(rant)this is why I posted a straight trade for my hero from that buggy ass hardware in the moment...some sucker took the bait and did a trade for that pos..
been loving my hero ever since..things to hate about the moment..no matter what rooted rom you use that phone always locks up into airplane mode or random reboots..samsung should be ashamed of that phone they put the android name on
if you blow the phone up or anything make sure you youtube it and post a link..my buddy is going to make a video of what a moment looks like after getting blown up by a 50 caliber round by his service spier riffle at 300 meters....it will be an epic video lol.well when he gets back state side...almost makes me want to buy another moment just to annihilate one...that phone pissed me off so bad...(/end rant)
I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
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Gunny, do you not have 30 days to return it?
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since it was a replacement, I don't know. I'm ching into my options today.
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my buddy is going to make a video of what a moment looks like after getting blown up by a 50 caliber round by his service spier riffle at 300 meters....it will be an epic video lol
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There will be nothing left to video. I wonder if the tiny bits and pieces will even be identifiable as a Samsung Moment..
Hell they been doing trades on Craigslist for those for the last couple months if you lived near I'd give you my girlfriends. Don't know why but she wants one. Good luck.
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Hell yes it does
The Moment really sucks. Check the Sprint community forums at their official website, there's a known issue with the Moment experiencing fake-airplane/CDMA modem lock ups. The only way to get the connection back when it happens is to shut the phone down and turn it back on. I went through six Moments. The last time I swapped it, I just hung out at the bookstore next door until the data connection would break, then take it back over there so they could vainly try to fix it, then replace it with another Moment; rinse and repeat until they finally agreed to give me a Hero like I asked when I first walked into the store. When I went in last time, they said that if I had came in in May, and not June (the third in this case), they could've swapped it then with the hero (said something about swapping for a different device if there are so many swaps within a 6 month period). PITFA.
Anyway, I have my Hero now, and it works wonderfully, and has way better battery life than the moment. -AND- multitouch works on the Hero, which it won't on the Moment, even with the 2.1 update... I'm never buying Samsung ever again.
yeah you should definitely just go back to the Hero
Found someone who wants to trade back to the Hero for me
Found someone who wants to trade back to the Hero for me
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if you blow the phone up or anything make sure you youtube it and post a link..my buddy is going to make a video of what a moment looks like after getting blown up by a 50 caliber round by his service spier riffle at 300 meters....it will be an epic video lol.well when he gets back state side.
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only 300 meters? better be open sights
Excuse my typing below but its 4:15AM...I've been drinking..
So I went out with a few "car forum" buddies out today. We decided to head to local bowling alley which honestly ****ing hate. So we're playing there and I decide to leave my phone at a chair in the area we're in. So I see an old ex co-worker, he's 2 buddies and some girl. I say what's up, etc. After they dip...within a minute I'm looking for my phone and I'm like ****...looking everywhere..nothing. I don't forget my phone ever so I know I left it on the chair next to my friend's keys, etc. So I tell my buddy to go outside with me cause I just had a feeling that one of these guys might've taken them.... So as I'm walking outside they look over and I call my ex co-worker over to ask him if he's seen my phone which looks like an iPhone (Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S..lol). And he's like nah man sorry. At the same time I notice one of his friends step over a few feet and get next to some beige looking Crown Vic and acts like he's looking at the tire...I paid no attention to that. And I'm thinking to myself..damn I left the phone on vibrate. But then I remembered I purchased an app called "Where's my droid" and set special "words" that if I text it it can switch off vibrate and turn the ringer to the highest volume and even turn on the GPS so I can track it. So I text it with my friend's phone. Within 30 seconds I hear the phone ringing....I'm looking and looking...and I see it at the Crown Vics rear passenger tire. Then one of them which wasn't the one starts to get all defensive...."That isn't my car"...."I drive that car there"....and at the same time Im telling him that I don't think the Vibrant grew legs and walked over by this tire. He's buddy was the one who stole it. My ex coworker and his girl were in shock that their 2 friends just did that ****. Before even a fight could break out in the parking lot my buddy calm me down.
In this stories current state...its pretty much the worst.story.evar.
I cant wait to read the sobered up version. Glad you took drunken notes. Kinda fun to read.
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shoulda ripped him a new one.
Finish Him
People these days. Why let your buddy talk you out of a fight. My screen name says it all. Smash punks. You let him get away with it, he will try again. I'd kill that fool.
A clever ploy for an advertisement! Glad you got your phone back mate
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zaduma said:
Finish Him
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Lol...time for some Mortal Kombat!
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zaduma said:
Finish Him
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I'll admit I laughed out loud at this comment. Ouch, just noticed I spelled thief incorrectly in the title block.
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I'll admit I laughed out loud at this comment. Ouch, just noticed I spelled thief incorrectly in the title block.
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Haha, good to know. Anyways please don't change your story now that you're awake and sober. It is a - mazing.
I put that app on every android I get to play with. It works very well. I guess Latitude would be just as effective, well maybe not.
10/10 this thread rules. Would read again
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Excuse my typing below but its 4:15AM...I've been drinking..
So I went out with a few "car forum" buddies out today. We decided to head to local bowling alley which honestly ****ing hate. So we're playing there and I decide to leave my phone at a chair in the area we're in. So I see an old ex co-worker, he's 2 buddies and some girl. I say what's up, etc. After they dip...within a minute I'm looking for my phone and I'm like ****...looking everywhere..nothing. I don't forget my phone ever so I know I left it on the chair next to my friend's keys, etc. So I tell my buddy to go outside with me cause I just had a feeling that one of these guys might've taken them.... So as I'm walking outside they look over and I call my ex co-worker over to ask him if he's seen my phone which looks like an iPhone (Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S..lol). And he's like nah man sorry. At the same time I notice one of his friends step over a few feet and get next to some beige looking Crown Vic and acts like he's looking at the tire...I paid no attention to that. And I'm thinking to myself..damn I left the phone on vibrate. But then I remembered I purchased an app called "Where's my droid" and set special "words" that if I text it it can switch off vibrate and turn the ringer to the highest volume and even turn on the GPS so I can track it. So I text it with my friend's phone. Within 30 seconds I hear the phone ringing....I'm looking and looking...and I see it at the Crown Vics rear passenger tire. Then one of them which wasn't the one starts to get all defensive...."That isn't my car"...."I drive that car there"....and at the same time Im telling him that I don't think the Vibrant grew legs and walked over by this tire. He's buddy was the one who stole it. My ex coworker and his girl were in shock that their 2 friends just did that ****. Before even a fight could break out in the parking lot my buddy calm me down.
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So this is the clean-n-sober version...? Whew....
Lookout is free & does the find my phone gig.
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down8 said:
So this is the clean-n-sober version...? Whew....
Lookout is free & does the find my phone gig.
-bZj
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I've never tried Where's My Droid..I have Lookout but I also have another app called SMS Commander that does the same thing and a lot more. You can silence it, set it to loud or vibrate too. You can send it a command to forward all the texts going to it to another phone. You can get the location of your phone. You can set it on Spy Mode and it will fwd SMS messages to whatever number you want, tell you phone #'s that call your phone and even send you GPS location of your phone when the call was answered or placed. You can even send it a command to send someone a text message and it will look like it came from your phone. This app works great. I've had it since my G1 days..I installed it on my Nexus, my MyTouch Slide and my Vibrant.
smashpunks said:
People these days. Why let your buddy talk you out of a fight. My screen name says it all. Smash punks. You let him get away with it, he will try again. I'd kill that fool.
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Bit much but I understand. I do agree that the OP should have beat the **** out of him. It is true they will do it again.
So you didn't do anything? Let the dude put your phone behind a tire and thats it? 500 bucks?
Smash people yo
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Bit much but I understand. I do agree that the OP should have beat the **** out of him. It is true they will do it again.
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Didn't really mean kill, but I would have totally cleaned his clock... I can't believe people wouldn't do that out of natural reaction. Dude jacked him and he just took phone back..... wow. No wonder people do **** like that..
Good think he didn't need his GPS to find it, it would have sent him to another city with the system wonderful GPS.lol
and what would happen if one just did a hard reset on the phone? or switched it off? lol
...because everybody knows violence solves any problem.
Is this forum full of cavemen or what (no offense Geico dude)? Maybe the real learning moment here is to not set down a $500 phone and walk away. Definitely a good read, and I think you've convinced me to install one of these apps, because you never know.
And to the Neanderthals with all the great advice above, for the love of humanity, please don't procreate.
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...because everybody knows violence solves any problem.
Is this forum full of cavemen or what (no offense Geico dude)? Maybe the real learning moment here is to not set down a $500 phone and walk away. Definitely a good read, and I think you've convinced me to install one of these apps, because you never know.
And to the Neanderthals with all the great advice above, for the love of humanity, please don't procreate.
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Yea I agree, fight the urges that make you a human because some of us can't taken a whoopin.
Instead, pull your XD40 out of it's holster and ... Oh right.
On a serious note: Sometimes violence is the answer. Don't just eat everything mommy feeds you.
Yeah I mean I woulda fought him, dude tried to **** you over, but I mean shady people like that should go to jail for a night atleast if people weren't gonna let y'all fight
well guys i always wondered when it was going to happen and tonight was the night. on my way home tonight i was looking for my phone to call my fiancee to see if she wanted me to pick her up anything to eat. i reached for my looked down to find the power button to turn the mofo on looked up and i was facing a curb. i hit the brakes and cut hard left spun out and started swerving right my whole left side met the curb and needless to say my car is completely ****ed!! luckily my friend owns a body shop and was able to get a tow truck out to my car asap b4 any cops showed up. unfortunately im looking at about 2 thousand bones in repairs. so.... well just be careful things happen so fast and i really am lucky that this was all that happend. my car is tiny and could have been much worse. call me stupid if you want cause its true so just take care and dont use ur phone when your driving no matter how good of a driver you think you are.
Great advice. Good to hear u didn't get hurt.
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Well said, friend. Glad you're ok!
Ouch. Glad you're unharmed. Also count your blessings since $2000 is somewhat more manageable than when there are cops and other parties are involved.
Glad to hear you're okay. Even though $2000 is a lot of money, it's nothing compared to your own safety and well being.
And don't try to use your phone while driving again.
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bluetooth is a must for in the car? CHECK!
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well guys i always wondered when it was going to happen and tonight was the night. on my way home tonight i was looking for my phone to call my fiancee to see if she wanted me to pick her up anything to eat. i reached for my looked down to find the power button to turn the mofo on looked up and i was facing a curb. i hit the brakes and cut hard left spun out and started swerving right my whole left side met the curb and needless to say my car is completely ****ed!! luckily my friend owns a body shop and was able to get a tow truck out to my car asap b4 any cops showed up. unfortunately im looking at about 2 thousand bones in repairs. so.... well just be careful things happen so fast and i really am lucky that this was all that happend. my car is tiny and could have been much worse. call me stupid if you want cause its true so just take care and dont use ur phone when your driving no matter how good of a driver you think you are.
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Thank God your phone is OK!
Glad to hear you and your EVO are safe!
Rally187 said:
well guys i always wondered when it was going to happen and tonight was the night. on my way home tonight i was looking for my phone to call my fiancee to see if she wanted me to pick her up anything to eat. i reached for my looked down to find the power button to turn the mofo on looked up and i was facing a curb. i hit the brakes and cut hard left spun out and started swerving right my whole left side met the curb and needless to say my car is completely ****ed!! luckily my friend owns a body shop and was able to get a tow truck out to my car asap b4 any cops showed up. unfortunately im looking at about 2 thousand bones in repairs. so.... well just be careful things happen so fast and i really am lucky that this was all that happend. my car is tiny and could have been much worse. call me stupid if you want cause its true so just take care and dont use ur phone when your driving no matter how good of a driver you think you are.
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I'm an excellent driver...
At least you didn't damage your EVO.
I always strap my EVO in the back in the baby seat and put a crash helmet over it just in case.
If it was an iPhone you would have died.
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If it was an iPhone you would have died.
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Hahaha!!! yea if i had an iphone i would have just drove myself into a wall. but on a bad note i had to go to the doctor later that night cause my vision kept getting blurry found out i had a mild concussion again could have been worse but damn what a headache!!
Check out vlingo inCar. . . Glad you're okay.
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Glad to hear you're ok man.
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bluetooth is a must for in the car? CHECK!
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Eyes-free on Android is a bad joke. Just be careful.
Wow, glad your evo is ok, ,, lol I'm a cop and I play with my evo while driving all the time especially at work. After hearing your story that might change.
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My phone is seated on the car air vent, also doing anything on your phone while the car is in motion is pretty dumb, if I must make a phone call I wait for a red light , or use Google voice action do dial.
I keep mine in a windshield mounted dock. That makes glancing between the phone and the road really quick. Even then I still won't mess with it unless I'm stopped or on a straight section of road with no traffic.
So I sold my original vibrant which was in pristine condition and had the box and all accessories to my sister in law for $150.00 plus her upgrade so I could get the Nexus S for $199.99 from best buy. She was happy to do it since she knows how much I love android and she wanted a Vibrant anyway. I love my Nexus S, but I was missing my vibrant and all the cool development with eugene's deadhorse kernel being compatible with the I9000 roms, the release of Krylons Bionix Frost, source code, etc. Which all happened within a week of me getting rid of the vibrant. So, I kept my eyes peeled on craigslist for a good used Vibrant. Bare in mind this is more of a toy for me than a phone.
So Friday I see an add for a Vibrant for $100.00 so I send the number a text inquiring about it and they say "The phone is in great condition, nothing wrong with it." I tried to low ball them and scared them away. So Saturday I text from my wifes phone as a different person. LOL. So I offer $80.00, they say yes, can you meet me in Rose Hill (a little hick suburb right outside the city). So I say "sure, be there in 45 minutes. I'm leaving now." We meet up, she comes over to my car and says she just reset the phone and hands it to me. She's a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl. It's booting up so I wait for it to actually boot while I look over the physical condition of the phone. It's in good shape. The phone boots, I unlock the screen, click around on the screen a bit, hey it works. Cool. I give her the eighty bucks and roll out. While driving I get the phone out and immediately realize the capacitive buttons don't work. All four will light up, but no response or vibration. "****!". I reboot...nothing. So I text her "Um, why do the buttons not work on this pone?" She immediately gets defensive "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? IT WORKED FINE FOR ME? BLAH BLAH BLAH." So I just reply "weird". I know she knew what was wrong with it. I open the back to check the water exposure indicators. The phone is ok and doesn't appear to have been in water (Haven't actually taken it apart yet). The battery indicator is red though. "Well, ****, she ****ed me" I think to myself. I figure I can at least get my money out of it for parts or even use an app like Button Savior which I have on my Nook Color to replace the capacitive keys.
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
So this is the text I just sent her. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I fixed the issue with the buttons. Just had to reinstall the stock firmware. Took about five minutes. Thanks again for the phone. Oh and BTW, just so you know, resetting the phone does not format the internal SD card. All your pictures and videos are still on the phone. Thanks again"
She has tons of Myspace style pics of herself on the phone including her with her bare ass, in her underwear, and bathing suit. LOL.
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So I sold my original vibrant which was in pristine condition and had the box and all accessories to my sister in law for $150.00 plus her upgrade so I could get the Nexus S for $199.99 from best buy. She was happy to do it since she knows how much I love android and she wanted a Vibrant anyway. I love my Nexus S, but I was missing my vibrant and all the cool development with eugene's deadhorse kernel being compatible with the I9000 roms, the release of Krylons Bionix Frost, source code, etc. Which all happened within a week of me getting rid of the vibrant. So, I kept my eyes peeled on craigslist for a good used Vibrant. Bare in mind this is more of a toy for me than a phone.
So Friday I see an add for a Vibrant for $100.00 so I send the number a text inquiring about it and they say "The phone is in great condition, nothing wrong with it." I tried to low ball them and scared them away. So Saturday I text from my wifes phone as a different person. LOL. So I offer $80.00, they say yes, can you meet me in Rose Hill (a little hick suburb right outside the city). So I say "sure, be there in 45 minutes. I'm leaving now." We meet up, she comes over to my car and says she just reset the phone and hands it to me. She's a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl. It's booting up so I wait for it to actually boot while I look over the physical condition of the phone. It's in good shape. The phone boots, I unlock the screen, click around on the screen a bit, hey it works. Cool. I give her the eighty bucks and roll out. While driving I get the phone out and immediately realize the capacitive buttons don't work. All four will light up, but no response or vibration. "****!". I reboot...nothing. So I text her "Um, why do the buttons not work on this pone?" She immediately gets defensive "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? IT WORKED FINE FOR ME? BLAH BLAH BLAH." So I just reply "weird". I know she knew what was wrong with it. I open the back to check the water exposure indicators. The phone is ok and doesn't appear to have been in water (Haven't actually taken it apart yet). The battery indicator is red though. "Well, ****, she ****ed me" I think to myself. I figure I can at least get my money out of it for parts or even use an app like Button Savior which I have on my Nook Color to replace the capacitive keys.
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
So this is the text I just sent her. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I fixed the issue with the buttons. Just had to reinstall the stock firmware. Took about five minutes. Thanks again for the phone. Oh and BTW, just so you know, resetting the phone does not format the internal SD card. All your pictures and videos are still on the phone. Thanks again"
She has tons of Myspace style pics of herself on the phone including her with her bare ass, in her underwear, and bathing suit. LOL.
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hahahhaha!
What a ***** lol.
Anyways, i'm hoping you delete those pictures... i mean i wouldn't want pictures of "a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl" on my phone.
**** load of profit for you there.
Plus one for you dude!
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hahahhaha!
What a ***** lol.
Anyways, i'm hoping you delete those pictures... i mean i wouldn't want pictures of "a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl" on my phone.
**** load of profit for you there.
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I hear that, Bro. They're already gone, but she doesn't need to know that. She deserves the embarrassment. She could have and should have been honest about what was wrong with it and she could have probably still sold it for what she was asking.
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So I sold my original vibrant which was in pristine condition and had the box and all accessories to my sister in law for $150.00 plus her upgrade so I could get the Nexus S for $199.99 from best buy. She was happy to do it since she knows how much I love android and she wanted a Vibrant anyway. I love my Nexus S, but I was missing my vibrant and all the cool development with eugene's deadhorse kernel being compatible with the I9000 roms, the release of Krylons Bionix Frost, source code, etc. Which all happened within a week of me getting rid of the vibrant. So, I kept my eyes peeled on craigslist for a good used Vibrant. Bare in mind this is more of a toy for me than a phone.
So Friday I see an add for a Vibrant for $100.00 so I send the number a text inquiring about it and they say "The phone is in great condition, nothing wrong with it." I tried to low ball them and scared them away. So Saturday I text from my wifes phone as a different person. LOL. So I offer $80.00, they say yes, can you meet me in Rose Hill (a little hick suburb right outside the city). So I say "sure, be there in 45 minutes. I'm leaving now." We meet up, she comes over to my car and says she just reset the phone and hands it to me. She's a young, typical, overweight, suburbanite girl. It's booting up so I wait for it to actually boot while I look over the physical condition of the phone. It's in good shape. The phone boots, I unlock the screen, click around on the screen a bit, hey it works. Cool. I give her the eighty bucks and roll out. While driving I get the phone out and immediately realize the capacitive buttons don't work. All four will light up, but no response or vibration. "****!". I reboot...nothing. So I text her "Um, why do the buttons not work on this pone?" She immediately gets defensive "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? IT WORKED FINE FOR ME? BLAH BLAH BLAH." So I just reply "weird". I know she knew what was wrong with it. I open the back to check the water exposure indicators. The phone is ok and doesn't appear to have been in water (Haven't actually taken it apart yet). The battery indicator is red though. "Well, ****, she ****ed me" I think to myself. I figure I can at least get my money out of it for parts or even use an app like Button Savior which I have on my Nook Color to replace the capacitive keys.
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
So this is the text I just sent her. "Hey, just wanted to let you know I fixed the issue with the buttons. Just had to reinstall the stock firmware. Took about five minutes. Thanks again for the phone. Oh and BTW, just so you know, resetting the phone does not format the internal SD card. All your pictures and videos are still on the phone. Thanks again"
She has tons of Myspace style pics of herself on the phone including her with her bare ass, in her underwear, and bathing suit. LOL.
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HAHA what a win. Lesson here today kids....... Be a douche, get exposed.
Is camera working as well?
If it does then 80bucks for vibrant...that's like 100- 150 profit!
eunkipark92 said:
Is camera working as well?
If it does then 80bucks for vibrant...that's like 100- 150 profit!
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Yeah, man, camera and video camera work perfect. both speakers, mic, line out port, everything that you'd think would be damaged if the phone was exposed to water works. The only thing that's acting up is when the internal SD card is mounted to the PC it will randomly unmout then remount itself sometimes. I'm gonna reformat the internal SD, and flash a new rom and see if that helps takes care of that.
Now That's a funny story.......... Ugh! the only trumatic part of the story is seeing pixs of her big nasty Butt...............
damn $80?? i wish i find a deal like that for CM7.
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Man good buy on that...i got a deal too for 120 bucks and only problem was the guy forgot the puzzle lock pattern. Lol. And yeah same here crazy nasty pictures. Hahahaha..deleted it right away...
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Where them pictures
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Knowledge is power :-d
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christpuncher said:
Where them pictures
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I lol'd.
Good buy man.
Sucks that people don't just search around read.
I'm pretty sure half the things people sell cause they're 'messed up,' are easy fixes, they just don't bother searching enough/trying things.
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I lol'd.
Good buy man.
Sucks that people don't just search around read.
I'm pretty sure half the things people sell cause they're 'messed up,' are easy fixes, they just don't bother searching enough/trying things.
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You're totally right about that, man. A good friend of mine owns a few Cell phone stores around town. They are pretty much the most reliable place in town for physical and software repairs, Jailbreaking iphones, rooting androids, etc. You wouldn't believe the deals they get on phones because people think their devices are ruined. Funny thing is, most of the time it's people trying to be sneaky and thinking they are getting one over on the store. LOL.
The funny thing about my situation is if she would have just been honest about the condition of the phone she more than likely could have sold the phone for parts for what she was asking.
EDIT: Just realized I already said the bit about being able to sell it for parts previously in the thread. Whoops.
Oh, and I fixed the SD mounting issue. Phone is now perfect.
Alkaloid said:
So the wife and I have a dinner and movie date and we have to head out immediately after i get home from making the buy so I can't really mess with it right away. We get home around midnight, I connect the device to the computer, put it in download mode, flash Stock JFD via Odin, it reboots, and voila the keys now work. I'm stoked.
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So instead of enjoying the evening with your wife, you go straight to the computer to mess with your phone? Missed opportunity, methinks. But otherwise, nice deal! You can probably sell that for at least double what you paid for it.
Didn't interfere with time with my wife at all. Took me five minutes. Literally. That was all I was going to try last night too. I figured I'd try flashing via Odin to see if that would fix it and if it didn't I'd mess with it more in the morning. Mission complete before the wife even knew I had sat down at the computer.
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I had somewhat of the same situation but when I bought a mytouch slide. Slides go for around 150 to 200 bucks on CL. I had some chick selling a red one for 80 bucks. Supposedly the only thing wrong was the back case had glue on it??? So I do the meet up thing and check it out. The screen is flawless and the back is pretty messed up. No biggie. It turns on and everything seems good. So off I go with the phone. Well she takes off almost instantly, which seemed odd. And I take a look at in sitting in the truck for a second and set it in the cupholder and it turns off. I thought maybe just the screen shut off. Nope. You couldn't even open the KB without the phone shutting off.
So long story short... I get home and take it completely apart and one of the battery contacts had glue on it. Again, I have no idea why. So I scrape the glue off the contact and BOOM. Works like a champ. And 10 bucks for a new back plate on amazon and its practically brand new.
I got the slide just as a backup for my vibrant and to have another phone to play around with.
Just thought I would share.
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I had somewhat of the same situation but when I bought a mytouch slide. Slides go for around 150 to 200 bucks on CL. I had some chick selling a red one for 80 bucks. Supposedly the only thing wrong was the back case had glue on it??? So I do the meet up thing and check it out. The screen is flawless and the back is pretty messed up. No biggie. It turns on and everything seems good. So off I go with the phone. Well she takes off almost instantly, which seemed odd. And I take a look at in sitting in the truck for a second and set it in the cupholder and it turns off. I thought maybe just the screen shut off. Nope. You couldn't even open the KB without the phone shutting off.
So long story short... I get home and take it completely apart and one of the battery contacts had glue on it. Again, I have no idea why. So I scrape the glue off the contact and BOOM. Works like a champ. And 10 bucks for a new back plate on amazon and its practically brand new.
I got the slide just as a backup for my vibrant and to have another phone to play around with.
Just thought I would share.
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Nice one, man. I don't know why people feel it necessary to pass their own ****-ups onto others. I feel like here I am, a guy who works hard for his money so he can support his family and here's this little brat that probably has her parents hand her everything. Did she really need my eighty bucks that bad? Honestly if the phone would have been broken and she pulled that **** on me ten years ago it wouldn't have ended well for her. Not to sound like some kind of macho jerk, but it's the truth.
Heh, reminds me of the G1 I bought from a pawn shop. They didn't even bother doing a factory reset on it, I powered it up and some ****ty rap music started playing, and a bunch of "Text not sent" notifications popped up. Still had all the ugly broad's texts, calls, contacts, pics, music, etc.
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Nice one, man. I don't know why people feel it necessary to pass their own ****-ups onto others. I feel like here I am, a guy who works hard for his money so he can support his family and here's this little brat that probably has her parents hand her everything. Did she really need my eighty bucks that bad? Honestly if the phone would have been broken and she pulled that **** on me ten years ago it wouldn't have ended well for her. Not to sound like some kind of macho jerk, but it's the truth.
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Yeah man. I hear you on that. I was pretty furious on the drive home but wanted to make sure I wasn't jumping the gun. So I got home checked it out and got it back to normal and wasn't pissed anymore. But had the phone turned out totally screwed, it would of been another story.
She will get hers, though. Karma is a [email protected]
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So to anyone who modded their vibrants to have ffc, do you use it daily or just use it for show and tell everyone you have a ffc and they don't? Lol I just wanna know cause even in public I don't ever see anyone, not even facetime for iPhone, uses it. Not at home or anywhere else.
Honestly in the 5 months I've had it I have never used it. No one wants to video chat and no one has a FFC I guess I just have it because I can you know what I mean. I like to mod as much as I can
I use mine to check to see if I have boogers mainly. I used the ffc the first night I installed it with a video call on oovoo just to test it. Other than that, it's mainly a mirror for me for the boogie check. Hard finding friends with a ffc to use it with while I'm out. And when I get home, I just use my laptop.
Iphone users can't unless connected to wifi. And if you did see them use it, it would just be another congratulatory circle jerk.
As for me, I use it often. Nothing like flashing my junk on screen in the middle of a call.
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Iphone users can't unless connected to wifi. And if you did see them use it, it would just be another congratulatory circle jerk.
As for me, I use it often. Nothing like flashing my junk on screen in the middle of a call.
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Now this is funny
I don't know about daily, but I will say I use mine weekly. Tango ftw
Beware of angry gingerbread
I do alot, talk to my wife quite a bit on it
I am also in the camp of "I mod because I can." My wife also has the latest iPod, so I call her on it every once in a while for kicks.
Weekly opposed to daily, I suppose. I'm making it more of a habit to video chat friends and family I haven't seen in some time. It's always fun to show off to friends who even have the Vibrant, but of course not the FFC.
Haha, sadly I have done the same. :-[
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Honestly mine broke from using it so much.
I like to do random video chats and just play with my junk on it... i was finding myself touching myself too many times a day so i had to remove the camera.
Cheers
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Lol not even kidding, I only installed it because the sgs4g had one, and I didn't want to get that "Oh your phone is old" feeling.
Just used it this morning in the shower. Oh yeaua
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I'm expecting to get my FFC mod in the next few days. Don't know if I'm going to use it or not, but just want to have it.
In the month I have had mine I have used it twice. I like to mode too and i think that is the main reason I did it, and to shut my friends up that have EVO's...lol
I don't even use my rfc daily
I think its more along the lines of "something thats nice to have and may use once in a while." I mean, its not like its a hefty investment and you're allowing your Vibrant to do something its capable of.
I’m wondering the same thing. I’m considering adding an FFC and would like some input from the community. For those with an FFC, is it worth the time, money and effort? Is it simply a “nice to have” or do you find it practical being used regularly?
I thank you in advance for your comments.
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Lol not even kidding, I only installed it because the sgs4g had one, and I didn't want to get that "Oh your phone is old" feeling.
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Same here, haha.. I was around when it first was found out.. got one after almost a month... I have used it one time and that was just to make sure it worked, haha.
Danielpc said:
I’m wondering the same thing. I’m considering adding an FFC and would like some input from the community. For those with an FFC, is it worth the time, money and effort? Is it simply a “nice to have” or do you find it practical being used regularly?
I thank you in advance for your comments.
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It totally is one of the have it if for some reason I ever need it type things.
I use it to shut up iphone 4 users.
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