big_tiny wrote:
billd104 wrote:Anyone else read this? What?!?! Unlocking new cell phones to become illegal on Saturday Seems like it's coming at you from all angles now. Can't get a update and can't unlock.
Note the article date: January 25. and yes, it it now illegal to (carrier) unlock your phone.
There was a petition to the Whitehouse with more than 112 thousand signatures to reverse this. (don't hold your breath.)
I linked to that article from another and didn't catch the date. 
Well, let's see. If this is so, Sense 5 should be in "certification" at AT&T until, oh, I wanna say, maybe the year 2021? Perhaps they're waiting for this thread to remain quiet for 24 hours before releasing Jelly Bean. They certainly wouldn't want to "empower" their customers by releasing it after all these comments. We might get big heads. So, lets try some reverse psychology! Nobody say nothing for 24 hours and see what happens! 
billd104 wrote:
big_tiny wrote:
billd104 wrote:Anyone else read this? What?!?! Unlocking new cell phones to become illegal on Saturday Seems like it's coming at you from all angles now. Can't get a update and can't unlock.
Note the article date: January 25. and yes, it it now illegal to (carrier) unlock your phone.
There was a petition to the Whitehouse with more than 112 thousand signatures to reverse this. (don't hold your breath.)
I linked to that article from another and didn't catch the date.
This is actually the article I was trying to link. Seems to mee if the 
quesmhidik wrote:
dtarint wrote:So If I want my phone to last for more than a few hours, I should root it. But by doing so, I am voiding the warranty? Correct? I'm out of contract anyway, we shall see if I bother signing a new one, but I might just get the newest Nexus after this..
True, rooting your phone WILL void your warranty. That means they will not honor your warranty if they FIND OUT that you rooted your phone.
On a completely unrelated topic. Say I had my own, valid and approved, copy of the update that at&t had prepared, and before I updated my phone to it, i backed it up to the state it is in before I updated. Then if something happened and i had to restore said back up, it seems that at&t would never know i installed this supposed update. Come to think of it, I guess that would apply to any rom you put on the phone, but you should not put that OTHER rom on there, because even though they would not you had done that after having restored the backup, it would void your warranty (given that you confessed to using the rom they didn't know you had installed)
So you should definitely NOT go the tempting, and extremely easy and proven, route of backing up your pre update phone and installing Viper XL by team Venom which seems to get nothing but praise from the others here. You should be patient and wait for the promised update which I sure will not only be available soon, but just as good as Viper XL by Team Venom. Because I would hate the frustration of this forum to build to the point that it became a page of helpful tips for people to root their phone.
Keep up the good work AT&T!
1. You're hilarious.
2. I'm so scared. I don't want to brick it. You just wanna remotely access my desktop? =D
3. I submitted to BBB. I feel so unloved by AT&T. This past month celebrated my 8th year of having a cell phone, which has been through them/Cingular. 9 phones later (for only me) and 7 lines (smartphones) currently in service, and I can't even get a straight answer.
gsleon3 wrote:Well, many of you won't even recognize my name any longer as I haven't posted in nearly two weeks. Frankly, that is because I don't care about AT&T or the HTC One X anymore. I went out & paid cash money for a qudband international LTE Samsung Galaxy Note 2 & cancelled my AT&T account, along with the three lines my family uses. They tried to charge me a cancellation fee, stating that I had extended my contract, which was a lie, they extended it after it had lapsed & I was essentially going month to month. You see, I pay unsubsidized dollars for my devices, including the S3 & One X I had, along with my family phones. They eventually saw this & relented.
Furthermore, I am so upset with AT&T that today my two partners met with me today & we had the Verizon sales guy in to talk plans & numbers. Verizon for business is getting more competitive finally. We are changing at the end of March no matter what, either moving to Verizon, which is what one of my partners wants to do, the other is undecided as I suggested that we institute BYOD or give employees the option of buying, or we will possibly subsidize their BYOD devices using unlocked Quadband world phones. With number portability, it now allows us the option to really make smarter decisions. Whether we use Straight Talk or allow employees to find the best deal on any GSM provider, it will be saving us headaches, money & most of all, it will cost AT&T something, which is all I can hope to do at this point, inflict whatever financial pain I can in a legal manner. Those alongside my 3 home lines will total 57 lines AT&T will have lost as a direct result of their horrible customer service. Further, I have also dumped AT&T U-Verse for internet & TV. I am having the cable guy out Monday for internet & my TV dollars will now go to Amazon, NetFlix, Hulu.
As one of the owners of the bandwidth, all Americans are, I am going to do whatever I can, start petitions, talk to politicians, write letters, make calls & write posts, demanding competition & putting an end to long term leases of bandwidth. These companies have been allowed to create monopolies & they have become complacent as a result of not having to truly compete. We pay roughly 50% more for internet & cellular data service in the US as compared to Europe because there is no true competition. AT&T doesn't have to earn their bandwidth leases, they just grease the wheels of bureaucracy with lobbyist & campaign donations & do what they like with our public bandwidth. AT&T overcharges us for the use of publicly owned airwaves, yes they own some of the infrastructure, but some of it was from public funding as well & without our part, they could not operate. It took Android laying with the devil to finally take off, but we are paying for it now & this is why Google tried like crazy to get this thing going without carrier involvement. The price paid for quicker distribution is too high & it hurts everyone involved, aside from the AT&T execs who take home millions in bonuses regardless of how poorly the company is regarded by consumers. It is hard to vote with your wallet in a rigged market, but I am going to do my darnedest to keep my dollars out of AT&T shareholders hands & I encourage you all to do the same. Blog, write letters & call your congressional representatives & senators. Write the president & comment on the "we the people" website. Complain to the FCC & anyone else you can find that may listen. We need more competition & we need to end extended term bandwidth leases. If companies want to use public resources, then they need to earn that right every few years.
Good luck to those of you that stay here with AT&T.
jamileh ...Good luck to you too. You know the first time we spoke it was about a contest, where I won a device for a friend who's daughter was fighting stage 4 cancer. That was cool, aside from getting the W2-G, adding to my already high tax burden. But that's what I get for entering someone else into a drawing. If I were you, I would offer your services to Straight Talk or MetroPCS. Some up & coming company that you can help forge in the manner we all would like to be treated. Don't waste your time with AT&T. I can see it now, the year 2018, MetroPCS is the largest US carrier with the highest satisfaction rating in North America & Jamileh, Executive Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations, for MetorPCS. At the very least, find yourself a lifeboat Rose, the Titanic is sinking.
What would old "Ma Bell" think of this right about now? The ghost of times gone by...
