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What are you doing with your old Eris?

ttran97

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Nov 29, 2009
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Now that the 2-year anniversary of the Eris is approaching and a lot of people upgrading to bigger & better phones, what are you guys doing with your Eris? I dumped the Eris last year for an Incredible, and now I'm with the Thunderbolt. My mom currently has my dad's original Eris. We're getting her a new iPhone in the fall (ugh, I know...). It's almost impossible to get any sort of tangible money for the Eris now. I think I'm going to set up TuneIn Radio, Pandora, and use it with Wifi. The Eris will be a pretty decent audio music player, but it's horrible for videos or games. I'll just leave it Eris at my mom's work so she can listen to stuff.

What is everyone else doing with the Eris? Giving it to a child? Using it as an mp3 player for exercise?
 
I couldn't imagine using the Eris as an everyday MP3 player - it is definitely not its strong suit.

My Eris will sit in a drawer as my backup phone in case something happens to the one that I upgrade to, which will not be for a few more months at least. Because I want it to be in good working order in case I need to activate it temporarily, it will not be used for anything else.
 
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My beloved, little ole Eris has been my backup / development device since July 15th of last year.

Its been very handy to have it to test my apps under difference screen sizes, hardware specs, different ROMs, etc. It is also my emergency backup, just in case...

Also, I learned a ton in doing the whole trackball-optional Amon_RA custom recovery thing (flashing a new version the first time was really scary and really cool--even cooler when the other keys worked ;)).

I will have and use my Eris for as long as it still boots. I might only use it every couple of weeks, but its still an awesome little device.

Cheers!
 
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My contract is up in August (got mine late...)

I'm thinking about heading over to AT&T. Verizon is so freaking expensive. I'm sure they'll be willing to save me a few bucks for being a convert. My dad & sis have ridiculously good plans with them.

Never needed a backup phone, but I guess I'll keep it. I always hand my old phones over to my stepmom, but she gave in to the iphone.
 
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I couldn't imagine using the Eris as an everyday MP3 player - it is definitely not its strong suit.

My Eris will sit in a drawer as my backup phone in case something happens to the one that I upgrade to, which will not be for a few more months at least. Because I want it to be in good working order in case I need to activate it temporarily, it will not be used for anything else.
Its actually pretty damn good at it, provided you use a decent media player app like Winamp (stock one is too basic for me). Much better than my iPod Touch was at least. No more having to wait to get home to add music to it. Almost 1000 songs so far.

Now that I have Gingerbread on it, I can use the DSP Manager to enable bass boost and use an equalizer. It can do full length movies as well.
 
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My Eris is still my daily driver, but I will replace it as soon as Verizon offers a phone I actually want.

I currently have a couple of apps on the Eris that I use to control my media server/home theater setup. So when I get a new phone, I'll keep my Eris and those apps and use it on my home wi-fi as a remote control.

Maybe I'll also use it to quickly check sports scores and weather.
 
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I must be subconsciously ready for a new phone; I misplaced it twice on Sunday. Including once in a parking lot at a highway rest stop, where it was turned in to the Burger King inside by an apparently very nice, honest person.

Whoa! That would freak me out!

Did you think of pushing "Plan B" to it to locate it? (I played with doing that just this morning...works really well. After you push it from market.android.com, you just text "locate" to your phone and you'll receive a Gmail message with its location in a few minutes. I was even inside a building and it worked great.).

lol... If I ever find a misplaced Eris, I'm gonna root it and overclock it first before returning it :eek: :D :).
(just kidding, of course...but the thought makes me chuckle ;))
You think the owner would notice? :D ;)
 
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Whoa! That would freak me out!

Did you think of pushing "Plan B" to it to locate it? (I played with doing that just this morning...works really well. After you push it from market.android.com, you just text "locate" to your phone and you'll receive a Gmail message with its location in a few minutes. I was even inside a building and it worked great.).

Whoa, that looks interesting! I guess I heard about that before, but I forgot about it.

The first time, I had a good idea where the phone was, and I was right. The second was a bit upsetting. I do have Mobile Defense on the phone, but that didn't help much, as the only internet device I had with me was the phone and my nieces' feature phones. The other thing, of course, was that this was a very busy highway rest area. Knowing that the phone was there would not have helped all that much. I knew it was either there or driving away.

lol... If I ever find a misplaced Eris, I'm gonna root it and overclock it first before returning it :eek: :D :).
(just kidding, of course...but the thought makes me chuckle ;))
You think the owner would notice? :D ;)

Yes. The owner would notice that suddenly the phone works. ;)
 
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Just upgraded to the Inc2 yesterday, I suppose I will see what I can get on eBay for my Eris. It was a slow phone, but I never needed to get it replaced.

Dude, you still have one of the most interesting (at least to me) and coolest avatars that I've seen. Never seen anything else like it.

Mayan, perhaps?

Cheers!
 
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Dude, you still have one of the most interesting (at least to me) and coolest avatars that I've seen. Never seen anything else like it.

Mayan, perhaps?

Cheers!

No, not Mayan ... not sure what it is to be honest. I am a big Vikings fan and I came across this image one day. It has a viking helmet on it and I added some purple into it and added the background. I looked on my pc, couldnt find the original ... but did find it with the purple added ... feel free to use it for anything ...

viking3.png
 
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