Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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Had to wait a whole fucking month for headphones that I ordered even though it said 7 days on the site.
Fuck you and your delays.
My mouse was supposed to arrive today, I'm guessing that means Ebuyer uses Valve Time.
It's worse when it doesn't even arrive, a.k.a. lost somewhere and you wasted time waiting it to ship, then you have to wait for it to ship again.
Did you at least get your money back?
[editline]29th April 2014[/editline]
Or a free resend?
My order through Corsair is still processing and I placed the order just over 5 weeks ago.
I remember when I ordered something last year on eBay and the package got lost. I was in contact with the seller and he sent a new one free of charge and was super helpful in trying to locate the original package.
The original package arrived over a month after the second package, covered in stamps and stickers from pretty much every postal office in Europe and a few in China. Stupid package could've at least send me a postcard from France, jeez.
What is a good battery that lasts longer then the stock battery for a Samsung Galaxy S3 that is locked with Bell?
I have a quick question.
My old phone (htc rhyme) came with an bluetooth dock which I barrely used for some reason. Now my current phone is the Note 2 and I would love to use the dock with it. My old phone has all the bluetooth stuff saved on it and I thought maybe you could transfer that stuff to my current phone and use the dock with it instead. Would it be possible to do that?
Both phones are rooted so I can do pretty much everything I want with them.
[editline]29th April 2014[/editline]
I feel like I should ask this question on XDA instead.
[QUOTE=Plaster;44678582]I have a quick question.
My old phone (htc rhyme) came with an bluetooth dock which I barrely used for some reason. Now my current phone is the Note 2 and I would love to use the dock with it. My old phone has all the bluetooth stuff saved on it and I thought maybe you could transfer that stuff to my current phone and use the dock with it instead. Would it be possible to do that?
Both phones are rooted so I can do pretty much everything I want with them.
[editline]29th April 2014[/editline]
I feel like I should ask this question on XDA instead.[/QUOTE]
Search the android filesystem from the root directory for the word bluetooth, it's sure to be somewhere in there
[QUOTE=garychencool;44677081]I can actually get the Mi Charger for around $30 with free shipping (to Canada).
Or less..
[url]http://www.aliexpress.com/item/original-xiaomi-power-bank-10400mAh-High-quality-xiaomi-10400-portable-xiaomi-powerbank-Charger-for-xiaomi-hongmi/1731221849.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Well fuck me, just 13 euros (18usd)? I'll take one even if it turns out shit.
[QUOTE=nutcake;44678031]Did you at least get your money back?
[editline]29th April 2014[/editline]
Or a free resend?[/QUOTE]
I've had some things like cases, screen protectors and cables never arrive to my door so I poke the seller and they first say sorry and then offer
-resend (same shipping method unless you want to pay for the tracking, etc.)
-full refund
I've mainly dealt with eBay sellers and overall they are pretty good.
There was one case where I bought an adapter for something and it was defective and the wrong color, they said they will send me a second one as a replacement. The replacement never arrived. I still got a large chunk of the refund but I kinda wished I requested a larger/full refund on PayPal. They sent the refund last minute.
If you don't like part of the product, they usually offer a partial refund to keep you happy. Those cheap screen protectors are not that great? Here, have a partial or full refund. It's worth the loss for them just so they can get positive feedback on eBay. Which is kinda why every seller seems to have near 100% positive feedback. Or so you are more lilkely to buy more stuff from the same seller but different product.
I've also receieved stuff that was damaged or defective so they usually just resend you one or refund you. Litterally no point in sending it back if it's a $2 case where it would cost you $30 to ship something back to China or Hong Kong.
In general, I've received the majority of crap I order off eBay. Screen protectors have arrived in letter envelopes. Like the ones for post cards. Cases, cables usually arrived in bubble envelopes wrapped in more bubble wrap. I've never had a case where I got a refund or resend for something that didn't arrive but arrives some time after. It's just some things never arrive.
It's worth saving the money if you're willing to wait a month for it or have the possibility of it never arriving. The quickest the free shipping from China or Hong Kong has ever arrived all the way to Toronto is 2 weeks. Longest? A day before the end of the arrival range.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44678867]Search the android filesystem from the root directory for the word bluetooth, it's sure to be somewhere in there[/QUOTE]
The way the htc phone stores bluetooth data is way different from the way my Samsung does. Is there nothing that can make the process easier? I'm going to try and add a new device in the list and see if it works. I really hope it doesn't break my phone again.
[QUOTE=iCole;44679033]Well fuck me, just 13 euros (18usd)? I'll take one even if it turns out shit.[/QUOTE]
AliExpress has a similar kind of Buyer Protection as eBay
[URL]http://www.aliexpress.com/buyerprotection/index.html[/URL]
It's also a good idea to look at what each seller accepts. The one I linked for $17.50 doesn't accept PayPal but it accepts Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, Bank Transfers and some others. The AliExpress Buyer Protection doesn't seem to be covered under it but you can always file a dispute on PayPal if the seller accepts PayPal. The seller might not accept PayPal.
I haven't tried AliExpress yet, nor do I know anyone who has.
If anyone wanted an LG G2.
[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Je31j3VPMH0/U2Cxg76kI2I/AAAAAAAACes/-0Du1HQyB1k/s0/2014-04-30_09-17-04.png[/img]
Ebuyer has it on daily sale.
Goramit, I'm tempted to sell the Nexus 5 and buy a Z2 but that'd be stupid and I got it for a birthday/christmas present :smithicide:
as a person who constantly sold and traded his phones all the fucking time let me tell you that having a backup phone is a good idea
for weeks at a time i would have to walk with a nokia 1209 with fucking arabic letters on it that i got on a trip to uae as that was the only spare phone i had
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;44683792]If anyone wanted an LG G2.
[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Je31j3VPMH0/U2Cxg76kI2I/AAAAAAAACes/-0Du1HQyB1k/s0/2014-04-30_09-17-04.png[/img]
Ebuyer has it on daily sale.[/QUOTE]
The 32GB version has been that price for a while.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;44684871]as a person who constantly sold and traded his phones all the fucking time let me tell you that having a backup phone is a good idea
for weeks at a time i would have to walk with a nokia 1209 with fucking arabic letters on it that i got on a trip to uae as that was the only spare phone i had[/QUOTE]
Heh, I've a ZTE Blade, muh furst smutphon.
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
Oh and a 3310.
[QUOTE=imadaman;44685044]Heh, I've a ZTE Blade, muh furst smutphon.
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
Oh and a 3310.[/QUOTE]
I had the ZTE Blade, ordered the S3. As I was walking home the day it was being delivered, I missed when I tried putting the ZTE Blade in my pocket and it fell on the floor and the screen smashed.
[QUOTE=garychencool;44679813]AliExpress has a similar kind of Buyer Protection as eBay
[URL]http://www.aliexpress.com/buyerprotection/index.html[/URL]
It's also a good idea to look at what each seller accepts. The one I linked for $17.50 doesn't accept PayPal but it accepts Visa, MasterCard, Western Union, Bank Transfers and some others. The AliExpress Buyer Protection doesn't seem to be covered under it but you can always file a dispute on PayPal if the seller accepts PayPal. The seller might not accept PayPal.
I haven't tried AliExpress yet, nor do I know anyone who has.[/QUOTE]
I know enough people who have experience with AliExpress, I just completely forgot that place doesn't sell only knockoffs and didn't even consider looking for the powerbank there.
Anyway, ordered and paid, we'll see what it's like.
[QUOTE=iCole;44685356]I know enough people who have experience with AliExpress, I just completely forgot that place doesn't sell only knockoffs and didn't even consider looking for the powerbank there.
Anyway, ordered and paid, we'll see what it's like.[/QUOTE]
If they accepted PayPal with the AliExpress Buyer Protection I'd jump onto it, but then again, PayPal Buyer Protection works too. Just gotta contact the seller if they will accept it or not.
I'll see if I can get my friends from HK to find one for $12 and bring it to Toronto whenever they come to visit.
After a few hours of searching my phone for things that has to do with bluetooth I found two files that have something to do with the pairing list. The files are bt_config.xml and and backup called bt_config.old in the folder /data/misc/bluedroid
I found out that I already had a bluetooth speaker paired which I tried out in a store once and I pretty much just replaced the things like name, type of device, the key and so on.
After replacing the files I've double checked if everything was copied right. But after I look at the list it still has the old name of the speakers in there. I've tried restarting the phone to see if it didn't load the old list but nope it still somehow loaded the old list and even replaced it with the original pairing list.
So does anyone know if android stores the pairing list somewhere else? I'm about to try the /data/misc/bluetooth folder out but it was empty at first so I doubt that it would work.
[editline]30th April 2014[/editline]
As expected it didn't work.
Anyone else think Hangouts would have an even larger appeal if it was automatically used between Android users instead of needing to add people on Google+ first? I'd love to see it act like iMessage does.
[QUOTE=Banana Lord.;44688011]Anyone else think Hangouts would have an even larger appeal if it was automatically used between Android users instead of needing to add people on Google+ first? I'd love to see it act like iMessage does.[/QUOTE]
If they are your contact on Gmail, or if you have their Gmail address, you can message them. You don't even need to use Google+ or add them to your circles.
[QUOTE=garychencool;44688189]If they are your contact on Gmail, or if you have their Gmail address, you can message them. You don't even need to use Google+ or add them to your circles.[/QUOTE]
I don't have a gmail, my Google Account is hooked up to my Outlook.
In other news, this thing arrived.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/KurBbX7.jpg[/t]
Well, I ran into a problem trying to install KitKat on my brother's phone (he asked me to install it because Gingerbread OS was running real slow), but when booting the stock Android recovery, I get these errors:
[T]http://i.imgur.com/b2GzrLT.jpg[/T]
What should I try to get the partitions correctly again? Due to this error I can't wipe the cache or anything. I also tried to flash a new recovery using Odin, but it seems like my computer doesn't detect it at all while running download mode.
So I'm massively enjoying AOSPA 4.3b1 on my Moto G right now. (from aospa-legacy)
The new features are sweet. Hover is [I]really[/I] nice, PIE is slick as hell (but I won't use it much), and Peek is neat.
Plus, it's fast as [B]fuck[/B]. It feels slightly faster than the stock ROM, even...and I'm using Dalvik.
[QUOTE=Banana Lord.;44688285]I don't have a gmail, my Google Account is hooked up to my Outlook.[/QUOTE]
In that case yeah, the only real way is through G+ unless you can add people using other email domain names.
Is ART safe to use for the average user?
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