I keep my Droid x2 in the maximum battery move and all it says is that it turned day off after 15 minutes and dims the screen, but dose it underclock the CPU? The phone is fast but I just tried to click on the camera while listing to the FM radio and the phone locked up had to pull the battery out. Also is there a good app the tracks data that automatically starts when phone dose? I need one since I'm on a limited data plan. Thanks in advance everyone.
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ghostcamed302,
I've had luck with the My Verizon Mobile app (hate to plug em) that's pre-installed on phone it will track your data usage. Its the only VZ app I use all others removed or froze.
I don't believe it under-clock's the CPU that the setting I use no problem's
Hope this Helps :fingers-crossed:
I probably should have mentioned this before but I have my x2 on page plus a d that app don't work on it, sorry I was in a hurry trying that post.
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ghostcamed302 said:
I probably should have mentioned this before but I have my x2 on page plus a d that app don't work on it, sorry I was in a hurry trying that post.
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Setup an online account at www.PagePlusCellular.com and track the remaining balance of minutes, messages and data in your monthly plan.
You most definitely want to set up an account and add your phone to it on the P+ website. Getting the text to verify your phone can be a bit tricky at times but this gives you a pretty good running total of minutes, texts and data remaining on your monthly plan.
PagePlusCellular Customer Service (800) 550-2436
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ImgBurn said:
Setup an online account at www.PagePlusCellular.com and track the remaining balance of minutes, messages and data in your monthly plan.
You most definitely want to set up an account and add your phone to it on the P+ website. Getting the text to verify your phone can be a bit tricky at times but this gives you a pretty good running total of minutes, texts and data remaining on your monthly plan.
PagePlusCellular Customer Service (800) 550-2436
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how bout dial #3282 to find everything in a text from your carrier...Verizon
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Pixelation Hello Jersey,
I believe you are talking apples and oranges Page Plus Cellular and Verizon are two separate companies.
But That's Just My Opinion. I Could Be Wrong
How to Find out My Balance on Page Plus
Page Plus is a prepaid wireless cellular phone company that offers voice and data services within the United States. Page Plus specializes in pay-as-you-go cell phone services, unlimited "Talk n Text" plans and several other subscription services that do not require customer credit checks or contracts. Frequently checking the account balance for your Page Plus prepaid cellular service will allow you to make an informed choice with regard to usage and account replenishment. Page Plus offers different ways for you to quickly check your account balance.
Instructions
1 Turn on your Page Plus mobile phone and dial "#737" using the keypad. The screen on your mobile phone will display your current account balance.
2 Dial 800-550-2436 to contact the Page Plus customer service hotline from any phone. Listen to the menu options and press "2" in order to retrieve your account balance.
3 Navigate to the Page Plus Website and log in to the user account page link, located on the top right portion of the Web page menu bar. After logging in to your account, locate the remaining usage balance found on the accounts page. Click on the "Register Here" link below the login fields to setup your online account, if needed (see Resources).http://www.pagepluscellular.com/
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I made various purchases with different “main gmail accounts", but always used the same Google checkout.
Now depending on what email I set as first after a new Tom install I can either download a part of what was purchased with that gmail as default or reset and use the other default for the other apps, impossible though to access all purchased, attempts restoring backed up apps result in copyright protection prompts.
Any idea how to solve that?
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I'm wondering the same thing, when I was running android on my tp2 I was using a different account.now I use my gmail and I can't figure out how to transfer my old purchased apps
I got the answer.. but not very appealing...
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I'm wondering the same thing, when I was running android on my tp2 I was using a different account.now I use my gmail and I can't figure out how to transfer my old purchased apps
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After reading true the Google FAQ I found the answer, anything else than satisfying though...:
- According to Google each purchase is associated with your main account - main account as per definition is the one that you've added first after installing a rom, regardless if your checkout account is associated with another gmail account. They state clearly that if one changes email, he has to buy the stuff again.
Usually not the approach that google takes, and without ending in a collective bash, I still gotta admit that this is quite a primitive way of handling customer relation - at least in my opinion.
[Edit:] I made an experiment with apprain.com, hoping they would be the solution for future purchases, but unfortunately the market app is the dominating part in the triangle between user - apprain - market syncing[/Edit:]
Having never used Android before, I bought my first Android device last month (Xperia Play) and installed it on my HP TouchPad. Of course, I had never used the Android Market before either, so when I made a test purchase from the Android Market I was surprised to see it go through without ever asking me for payment details. I got an email receipt to my Google account saying that I could get a refund in a certain amount of time, but I still had no idea what card or account it had been charged too. Eventually, I found that $5 had been deducted from my Chase checking account, presumably from my debit card. That's strange because I have not used Google Check Out or anything Google-related since the last time my check card was replaced, so I can't imagine how they got the payment details. It's on my twin brother's family plan, so it was not charged through the cellular provider either. To make matters worse, I no longer used that account and it caused an overdraft (corrected)
Now, I checked every account and settings screen I could find in the Android Market app but I could find nothing about payments or payment methods. I logged in to market.android.com on my PC and similarly could find nothing. I checked their help and FAQ questions: Nothing. I searched here: Page after page of irrelevant results. ARGH!
I'm ready to make more app purchases (Titanium Backup Pro, PdaNet, etc) but I only have enough in that account to cover the bills that I pay from it and I can't allow Google to withdraw on that bank account again. How can I switch payment methods so that it will not automatically bill the wrong account AGAIN?
Edit: "ARGH!" again. I found a thread about billing to your AT&T account being added and there was a screenshot distinctly showing AT&T billing as a drop-down in some kind of checkout page in the Market app. Thinking I must have somehow missed it, I installed Titanium Backup and then chose to purchase the key. Once again there was NO checkout and it just went ahead and purchased without ever giving the option to provide a funding source. How on Earth did they ever get my payment details and how to I manage them?!
I immediately canceled/refunded the order.
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Having never used Android before, I bought my first Android device last month (Xperia Play) and installed it on my HP TouchPad. Of course, I had never used the Android Market before either, so when I made a test purchase from the Android Market I was surprised to see it go through without ever asking me for payment details. I got an email receipt to my Google account saying that I could get a refund in a certain amount of time, but I still had no idea what card or account it had been charged too. Eventually, I found that $5 had been deducted from my Chase checking account, presumably from my debit card. That's strange because I have not used Google Check Out or anything Google-related since the last time my check card was replaced, so I can't imagine how they got the payment details. It's on my twin brother's family plan, so it was not charged through the cellular provider either. To make matters worse, I no longer used that account and it caused an overdraft (corrected)
Now, I checked every account and settings screen I could find in the Android Market app but I could find nothing about payments or payment methods. I logged in to market.android.com on my PC and similarly could find nothing. I checked their help and FAQ questions: Nothing. I searched here: Page after page of irrelevant results. ARGH!
I'm ready to make more app purchases (Titanium Backup Pro, PdaNet, etc) but I only have enough in that account to cover the bills that I pay from it and I can't allow Google to withdraw on that bank account again. How can I switch payment methods so that it will not automatically bill the wrong account AGAIN?
Edit: "ARGH!" again. I found a thread about billing to your AT&T account being added and there was a screenshot distinctly showing AT&T billing as a drop-down in some kind of checkout page in the Market app. Thinking I must have somehow missed it, I installed Titanium Backup and then chose to purchase the key. Once again there was NO checkout and it just went ahead and purchased without ever giving the option to provide a funding source. How on Earth did they ever get my payment details and how to I manage them?!
I immediately canceled/refunded the order.
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Log into your Google account on a PC and then manage you google checkout options. The card is in there.
zelendel said:
Log into your Google account on a PC and then manage you google checkout options. The card is in there.
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Thanks, but I already looked for Google Checkout options in the logical places last month and found nothing, but I shouldn't have to even look: It is illogical that they would use the service without my permission and without informing me. Even so, I checked Google.com>More>Even More while logged in and searched in the page for "Check" with no results. I am logged in. On the Google page I only have search related configuration options.
OK, so I tried to go to checkout.google.com MANUALLY and it forwarded me to "Google Wallet," which I have never used before. I had to agree to all kinds of things just to get in there and delete the card, so it's like they were holding it hostage until I agree. One thing is for sure: I NEVER agreed to automatically be charged through the Android Market. *NOW* will I finally be prompted for payment options when I chose to buy an app? I'll find out soon.
They are getting pretty sloppy. First, I got slammed by over $30 of texting fees because their Google Voice app said it was receiving the messages in the messaging app instead of saying that it was forwarding them to my mobile number (Grrr... without even a warning about potential fees, they worded it exactly like the feature I was looking for: like iMessage and BBX or SMS GV Extensions on iPhone integrating with the native text messaging app).
The fact that there is no mention of GCO/Wallet anywhere on the Android Market options or help pages is a serious oversight.
Oh yeah I forgot that Google check was changed to Google wallet recently. I know when I buy an app it tells me what card it is charging it to before I buy it
same here. I didn't start using the Android Market until the 10 cent deals came out. It asked me if I wanted to charge it to my cell provider or enter a new credit card. Each time I make a purchase I have both of those options, though my credit card info is saved with Google Wallet or what ever it is. Then I have to manually enter my pin. I wasn't sure what this was at first, but tried my phone lock pin and that was it.
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update to this...
I pushed the app "Android Lost", and "Android Lost Jumpstarter".
I was able to
1) have the phone call me with this app,
2) get the phone number,
3) request a password reset on the t-mobile account
4) pull the texted password from the phone,
5) login to the tmo account
6) acquire owners name, address, lines
7) pulled GPS location, went to her work location.
8) Gave her a chance to return my phone. After refusing, had a police office retrieve my phone.
Wonderful app. Will be donating.
Plan B fell short. Way short.
I lost a phone recently, and someone found it. Unfortunately, the one who found it was not honest, and it has not been returned.
I found the app "Plan B", which is wonderful, except i never got the emails giving me any location info. The person who now has the phone has swapped sim's, so i cant text "Locate" to it. Also, since google play wont allow you to uninstall, Im pretty much stuck now. What i really need is a app like Plan B, but one that listens to email, or reports back to a server, and can be deployed via google play without any intervention on the phone. I just need a current in use phone number emailed to me... or a location...
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
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If you had Google maps installed, and you joined Latitude on the device. You can check it's location through Google Maps on your PC at home.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11
doink.
Today i found article about a Motorola Droid X2 which constatly sends a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola and just can't belive it (google "Motorola Is Listening", I can't use links)... Can someone check this with RAZR?
Sorry for crappy english...
Not just Motorola, every smartphone, I repeat, every smartphone is prone to the incident of sensitive data being collected.
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neo.ank said:
Not just Motorola, every smartphone, I repeat, every smartphone is prone to the incident of sensitive data being collected.
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I've read about CarrierIQ, but this article is not about it! Motorola does something much worse, for example the email address and password for the Facebook and Twitter account are sent to them!
l_uke said:
I've read about CarrierIQ, but this article is not about it! Motorola does something much worse, for example the email address and password for the Facebook and Twitter account are sent to them!
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Glad I dont have a Facebook or twitter account...
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xpsychox said:
Glad I dont have a Facebook or twitter account...
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Not only twitter and facebook, here is quote from article:
Information that is definitely being collected:
1. The IMEI and IMSI of the phone. These are referred to as MEID and MIN in the phone's UI and on the label in the battery compartment, but IMEI and IMSI in the logs. I believe these two values are all that's needed to clone a phone, if someone were to intercept the traffic.
2. The phone number of the phone, and carrier information (e.g. Verizon).
3. The barcode from inside the battery compartment.
4. Applications included with the device as well as installed by the user.
5. Statistics about how those applications are used (e.g. how much data each one has sent and received).
6. Phone call and text message statistics. For example, how many calls have been received or missed.
7. Bluetooth device pairing and unpairing, including detailed information about those devices.
8. Email addresses/usernames for accounts configured on the device.
9. Contact statistics (e.g. how many contacts are synced from Google, how many Facebook users are friends of the account I've configured on the device).
10. Device-level event logs (these are sent to Google as well by a Google-developed checkin mechanism).
11. Debugging/troubleshooting information about most activities the phone engages in.
12. Signal strengths statistics and data use for each type of radio included in the device. For example, bytes sent/received via 3G versus wifi.
13. Stack memory and register dumps related to applications which have crashed.
14. For Exchange ActiveSync setup, the server name and email address, as well as the details of the security policy enforced by that EAS server.
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I guess that we need to assume that everything that we do and say is being collected. Use encryption whenever you can...
Does encrypting our data help here?
RAZR Maxx running Premium
If your not doing anything bad you have nothing worry about. Your information has no value to them, unless your doing something really bad. No stranger cares if you did something with you friends wife, or anything else. If it keeps me safe, i don't see why not. But i hope not everyone collecting the data can easy access to my name. Other than that if its an algorithm, (not even an human) looking through data to find something bad, it doesn't worry me at all. Given whats recently happen to the city i live in, if that could have helped, sure because I don't feel my essential liberties are being violated if at the worst case its just some algorithm looking for bad patterns in my data. You have to be really naive or stupid to think this isn't happening. Other governments do this to make sure there people are in line, not to protect them. I'm an american and this is how i feel.
So I finally upgrade my LG simple 1G phone to a VZW Galaxy S4, allowed it to update to MK2, setup my gmail account (not G+ though), take care of organizing it like I want, etc. Next thing I notice, that in my gmail I start getting dangerous looking spam ("update your Amazon credit card info", "update your ###### info", and the image had a link which would've sent me to a Yemen domain. Nothing happens without a reason, and the only thing that changed was I gave the phone my gmail logon. I did not directly give account info to any of the other vendors advertised on the bloatware on this phone. I should add that prior to this I was familiar with the spam I'd get in gmail (and gmail would flag it into spam folder) and it was consistent and never made it into my inbox.
This being my first android I'd appreciate comments on your experiences with this, and anything you can share on how to better safeguard my info. I hate google, or anybody for that matter, having so much access to my credentials which I normally and successfully hold fairly close. (Yes this is my first smartphone).
I am a Malwarebytes registered user on my desktop and laptop so I downloaded their app onto my phone, but something tells me what caused this spammer to source me was over-sharing of data on google's (android's?) part.
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MessyPotamia ("because in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, things are a MESS")
Huntsville, Alabama
I think its pretty safe to say its coincidence. My family owns about 5 Android devices and I myself have three Android devices currently in active use , two gmail account, one for my personal devices and the other for family use and so far, we have yet to get any 'weird' spam issues except for the occasional spam that promises me that I'll get bigger manhood and such. Try playing with the app settings or try another email app. I mean, if you have a gmail account all this while and google wants to sell off your personal information, they would have sold it a long time ago and not wait only now because you have a new smartphone right? Lol
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mha93 said:
I think its pretty safe to say its coincidence. <SNIP> I mean, if you have a gmail account all this while and google wants to sell off your personal information, they would have sold it a long time ago and not wait only now because you have a new smartphone right? Lol
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Didn't mean that I think G directly sold it off, but something enabled a spammer to target me. Have been getting this same spam about 1x / day since I shared my 10 yr old gmail acct w/ VZW/I545/MK2. Something triggered it, I don't believe in coincidences (my prior CI work, sorry!), and the only thing that changed was my new setup.
Maybe its something that you've installed? Like have you pirated any apps or downloaded any sketchy apps? Besides that, I can't think of other ways besides logging in to your gmail account, and actively mark the emails from that address as spam.
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mha93 said:
Maybe its something that you've installed? Like have you pirated any apps or downloaded any sketchy apps? Besides that, I can't think of other ways besides logging in to your gmail account, and actively mark the emails from that address as spam.
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Two days later from my orig post. First, I have not downloaded any suspicious apps (only 2 banking apps, and they're pretty secure), one or two others from app store (but uninstalled them when I wasn't impressed). I set up my wife's yahoo email account as another account under email; one gmail account I use often as another email account; and my regular gmail account is the main phone account. My regular gmail account gets very little spam.
Now I notice my wife is getting evidence her contacts have been harvested, as folks in her contacts (some very old contacts) are replying "Did you send this? " or rejection messages from their .gov or .mil enterprise mail server. She has had registered malwarebytes on her laptop, as do I on mine. Tomorrow I will run CCleaner and HijackThis on both hers and mine. I must say the neither of us visit suspicious places or have any poor practices regarding opening emails or attachments, and our Secunia PSI scores are usually around 98.
This has to have something to do with my new Galaxy S4 and the fact that I gave it my gmail credentials, and her yahoo credentials.
This is not a coincidence.
After googling around, I came upon several forums stating that their users are getting spam mails after logging into their gmail accounts from their 'new' smartphones. So I guess your case is not unique. In all the cases, they managed to solve the problem by changing their gmail password. So what I'm thinking is that your phone is a 'manufacturer refurbished phone' or at least one that was returned to your carrier and repackaged again and that the previous owner left a malicious code or script in the phone. So short of returning to your carrier or to Samsung, I suggest that you change your password, factory reset your phone, update the firmware before logging in to your gmail account and see if it changes anything. The best bet is to return it to Samsung or your carrier on grounds that its a 'defective device' or at least claim that something is wrong with it. Chances are, they will reflash a fresh new firmware onto your phone and would in theory solve and delete any malicious code in your phone. Or they'll replace yours with a new phone. Yeah sounds troublesome but if you want to skip Samsung and reflash a new firmware yourself, head over to the S4 forums and see the method of flashing a new stock firmware. Sorry that your new smartphone causes so much problems. Google is quite helpful when its working right.
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(Problem solved)
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After googling around, I came upon several forums stating that their users are getting spam mails after logging into their gmail accounts from their 'new' smartphones.<<SNIPPED for brevity>> Google is quite helpful when its working right.
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The source of the spam is most assuredly the YAHOO MAIL ANDROID APP (downloaded 3 days ago from App store and put on her android, not mine). After running (reg'd) malwarebytes, plus CCleaner and HijackThis (all showed nominal) I began to suspect it was on Yahoo's side, and sure enough there are plenty of recent articles about their vulnerability. Removed the app from her Moto Droid.
I particularly enjoyed reading this:
[I can't post outside links, google the search terms "even-yahoo-employees-dont-use-yahoo-mail"]
Meanwhile, everyone here I thank for participating in this thread.