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Recent content by swerver32

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    Help Searching for 4G when wifi is on

    The building I work in lately has bad 4G signal indoors. Luckily we have wifi. For some reason, my verizon m8 still frantically searches for 4G, even with my wifi on and connected. To the point that the phone gets warm to the touch and the battery will drain 50% in a couple hours. If I turn...
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    Root Root?

    Guess the devs haven't got to this one yet? Or maybe I missed it somewhere on xda. If anyone knows how to root the vm desire please add a link, thanks.
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    Do the math

    Well I pulled the plug on my nexus 5 plan. I'm realizing the hidden trick with prepaid, - you have the option to buy a newer phone whenever you like. This can be a blessing, or a curse. Since what you end up with on prepaid are generally mid-range phones, the urge to upgrade is stronger than...
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    Root Are there any JB Sense roms?

    I do like the AOSP/KP "pure android" style roms but I haven't seen any that have all the little features that I like about sense. (phone call goes to speaker when placed face down, those types of things) So I'm trying to find out if such a thing exists as a JB/sense rom. I don't need sense 4.0...
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    Help Calendar, Alerts, and Notifications

    For some reason I get alerts AND notifications for calendar events. I get an alert at the event's specified reminder time (10 minutes before or whatever) at which point I'm asked to either snooze or dismiss the alert. This is what I want. But then I also get a notification in the status bar...
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    Root Sense Weather Widget not updating date

    Anyone know why my weather widget is showing weather from March? I have about 8 cities loaded in there, and they all show various dates, some as recently as a couple days ago, some back to March. In some cases, the now view and the 4 day view can't even agree what day it is... Did I hose...
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    Transfer grandfathered plan to another person/number?

    Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm on $25/mo with a wildfire s but since I'm getting the evo I'd like to give my wildfire to my father in law, who is looking to see what the smartphone thing is all about. Any way I can get him on $25/mo? I suppose I could keep the phone and have him...