Thread: Any Cellphone Geeks?

I would think it'd be cheaper to get a Galaxy SII from AT&T with your renewal rather than get a free phone you won't use and buy the Samsung for full price on Amazon. You should be able to keep your same data plan. Maybe I'm missing something.

Originally Posted by ZoopityDoopity

XDA-Developers.com
Seriously, go there and if it is possible with your phone it will be there. All roots, cracks, etc COME from those boards and I prefer to get everything from the source with full documentation and a pretty helpful community. Its where I go to get information about the various phones I've rooted, custom flashed, updated, OC/UC's etc. I learned how to do all that via that site.

ya... but i don't know if it works with newer versions of android AND all the guides i found no longer works... but I guess I'll try to start a thread or something

Here is a question: Windows 7 vs Android phone???

If you have tried both, which one is better?

Originally Posted by titties

I want to unbrand my Sony Xperia X10a.

But more importantly I want to know if I can change it to a Sony Xperia x10i by some fancy reflashing methods because my if i want a phone with a data plan up here in canada its at least going to cost me $50 and thats very limited data usage and phone plan. I can get an unlimited data, call/text plan for $25 if I have a phone that works on the network of a new provider in canada. But they only provide service to very few networks HSDPA 1700/2100 (x10i) and my phone is an x10a which is 1900/2100. But if I can just reflash it to an x10i then life will be good

Any takers?!?!?

Originally Posted by A-Rich

I would think it'd be cheaper to get a Galaxy SII from AT&T with your renewal rather than get a free phone you won't use and buy the Samsung for full price on Amazon. You should be able to keep your same data plan. Maybe I'm missing something.

I'm on a messaging plan, not a smartphone plan. I only get access to the smartphone's retarded cousin

Originally Posted by A-Rich

I would think it'd be cheaper to get a Galaxy SII from AT&T with your renewal rather than get a free phone you won't use and buy the Samsung for full price on Amazon. You should be able to keep your same data plan. Maybe I'm missing something.

Only problem is the fact that AT&T and all American Tele carriers requires you to have a data plan when you get a smart phone... And that means hannah needs to give up his unlimited plan that was on the old contract for a new plan with the data.

Stupid American corps and their greedy policys seriously I barely even use my data plan and just live off the WiFis around here. People dont know how to set up password on their routers here...

Yeah that's what I did with my iPhone. I'm on a T-Mobile plan, and both T-Mobile and AT&T use the same network. So, I unlocked it to be able to use T-Mobile as the carrier and I didn't have to buy a data plan, I just used wifi.

Originally Posted by titties

ya... but i don't know if it works with newer versions of android AND all the guides i found no longer works... but I guess I'll try to start a thread or something

Rooting on Gingerbread takes a bit more work, especially on a Galaxy as you can no longer use a 1-click-root script. It involves working with Odin to manually update your modem, flash the hardware, flash the software to include the standard clockword MOD, then flashing it to give you a full Clockwork mod which then allows ya to flash a rom/root.

Originally Posted by rev

Yeah that's what I did with my iPhone. I'm on a T-Mobile plan, and both T-Mobile and AT&T use the same network. So, I unlocked it to be able to use T-Mobile as the carrier and I didn't have to buy a data plan, I just used wifi.

They run on the same spectrum, but unlocking phones to run on different carriers isn't as effective anymore. Most features of a smart phone are tied to a cloud and inturn the mobile plan you get. Many phones just flat out don't work now unless you are connected to the proprietary network due to call home features. Though that's here in North America (Including Canada), where carriers have taken many steps to drastically lock down phones.

Oh. Well this was a few years ago on a iPhone 2g.