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Root 2 Things That Make me Want to go IPhone

yoyocallmemj

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Sep 27, 2010
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I have been extremely happy with my phone aside from these two things.

1. As I've mentioned previously, the time on my eb01 voodoo'd fascinate is always wrong when I wake up in the morning. Doesn't matter if I have it on automatic or manual. It's also been wrong at times throughout the day until I reboot my phone. How hard is it to have a phone with the correct damn time?

2. I cannot receive picture messages on wifi. The message just says "downloading" FOREVER. It's been suggested to turn off wifi. I turn off wifi, and the picture still doesn't come. If I have the person resend the picture to me while I'm solely on 3G, sometimes the picture will come. But it's really annoying because I keep my wifi on all the time (for obvious) reasons and every single time I have to tell the person to resend the damn picture and they get pissed off.
 
I'd say those are pretty menial problems which should be fixable rather easily (especially the clock feature... have you disabled the network provided time?)... I did the switch from iPhone to Android and I couldn't be happier with the speed and abilities that the Fascinate has. I would never want to be tied to a specific computer or piece of software again.
 
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You're right, but they haven't been fixed yet... I did try to disable the network provided time. That's what I meant by automatic. It didn't help.

I agree, the Android is faster, more customizable, and other than my two problems, I wouldn't want to switch to Iphone. However, these are two big things to me because well I depend on my phone for the correct time and I also receive picture messages pretty frequently...well I used to, people still try to send them, but they never come through.


I'd say those are pretty menial problems
which should be fixable rather easily (especially the clock feature... have you disabled the network provided time?)... I did the switch from iPhone to Android and I couldn't be happier with the speed and abilities that the Fascinate has. I would never want to be tied to a specific computer or piece of software again.
 
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Try a full wipe and re install. I am not having the problems at all, and if it still happens, go back to stock and call verizon and tell them you just did a system reset (it will show up that you just reactivated the phone and they will beleive you) and you can get a warrantied phone..it might be a hardware issue, though I doubt it, probably some software flashing issue...
 
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I have been extremely happy with my phone aside from these two things.

1. As I've mentioned previously, the time on my eb01 voodoo'd fascinate is always wrong when I wake up in the morning. Doesn't matter if I have it on automatic or manual. It's also been wrong at times throughout the day until I reboot my phone. How hard is it to have a phone with the correct damn time?

2. I cannot receive picture messages on wifi. The message just says "downloading" FOREVER. It's been suggested to turn off wifi. I turn off wifi, and the picture still doesn't come. If I have the person resend the picture to me while I'm solely on 3G, sometimes the picture will come. But it's really annoying because I keep my wifi on all the time (for obvious) reasons and every single time I have to tell the person to resend the damn picture and they get pissed off.

You have something wrong with your phone or ROM. Haven't seen anyone else with those issues. Flash back to http://androidforums.com/fascinate-all-things-root/238460-di01-odin-fix-all.html, it that doesn't fix it, your phone is the problem.
 
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I have been extremely happy with my phone aside from these two things.

1. As I've mentioned previously, the time on my eb01 voodoo'd fascinate is always wrong when I wake up in the morning. Doesn't matter if I have it on automatic or manual. It's also been wrong at times throughout the day until I reboot my phone. How hard is it to have a phone with the correct damn time?

2. I cannot receive picture messages on wifi. The message just says "downloading" FOREVER. It's been suggested to turn off wifi. I turn off wifi, and the picture still doesn't come. If I have the person resend the picture to me while I'm solely on 3G, sometimes the picture will come. But it's really annoying because I keep my wifi on all the time (for obvious) reasons and every single time I have to tell the person to resend the damn picture and they get pissed off.

lets be clear.....

you are comparing EB01 which is unofficial and unreleased to an iPhone? how many custom roms and unreleased operating systems and how many options does the iPhone have? how well do they run? yeah.....

you don't have those problems on an official os. I don't have those problems on EB01 Superclean either. Maybe you can get the custom rom cooks for the iPhone make you something less gay than the iPhone stock rom? nope
 
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lets be clear.....

you are comparing EB01 which is unofficial and unreleased to an iPhone? how many custom roms and unreleased operating systems and how many options does the iPhone have? how well do they run? yeah.....

you don't have those problems on an official os. I don't have those problems on EB01 Superclean either. Maybe you can get the custom rom cooks for the iPhone make you something less gay than the iPhone stock rom? nope

Lol yeah sureee, because OTA updates are always concrete :rolleyes:
 
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No gapless audio playback on Android. Soon as I can, I'm ditching this for an iPhone.

This is huge IMO. I won't go back to iphone, but seriously, how hard is it to have gapless playback? I remember bitching about this with media players on my PC, it just blows my mind they can't seamlessly go from one mp3 file to the next, without an audio gap.....
 
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You're right, but they haven't been fixed yet... I did try to disable the network provided time. That's what I meant by automatic. It didn't help.

I agree, the Android is faster, more customizable, and other than my two problems, I wouldn't want to switch to Iphone. However, these are two big things to me because well I depend on my phone for the correct time and I also receive picture messages pretty frequently...well I used to, people still try to send them, but they never come through.

Well since these two things seem to only happen on your phone perhaps its your phone. Have you tried to have VZW replace it?

Or if you've flashed a ROM (which I believe you have) try a different one or go back to the one that worked.
 
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I have been extremely happy with my phone aside from these two things.

1. As I've mentioned previously, the time on my eb01 voodoo'd fascinate is always wrong when I wake up in the morning. Doesn't matter if I have it on automatic or manual. It's also been wrong at times throughout the day until I reboot my phone. How hard is it to have a phone with the correct damn time?
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I don't have this problem happening all the time, but since going eb01, themed, and voodoo (actually before voodoo I think, but after I went eb01), I also have noticed the time being messed up. The time on the lock screen will be accurate, but the time on the status bar at the top will be wrong, frozen I believe. It's happened to me 2 or 3 times that I've noticed.
 
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when I went to SC 2.6 the next morning I noticed my phone was off about about an 1hr+

I turned off automatic time. Turned it back on (no change) then rebooted the phone and it's been fine since with time set to automatic. Watching it closely for the time being.

I have this old fashioned thing called an alarm clock. So no hardship not using the phone as one.

But yeah there has been people with time problems but I haven't read up on them yet. A search at some of the forums will turn up some threads.
 
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okay genius OP to get pictures verizon does not allow media downloads on wifi turn on data and boom u got pictures come to xda to see real answers to meaningless threads

xda is the not the end all, be all to forums (although i consider myself among the more active posters there :cool:)....threads like this are common among various forums and i prefer they stay here than in a "development" forum
 
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In the XDA forums for the Fascinate there is a zip download fix for that i had the same problem. so when i went to SC 2.9 i downloaded and installed this fix, Works great now.

EDIT: had problems with it after i installed, did a reboot and good to go. so after install from clockwork, and boot is finished, reboot and you should be good.
 
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