I have never understood the point of a back up on unrooted phones. I understand that on rooted it's good idea to backup your files incase you screw up. When it comes to backing up you photos etc...why don't you just use google drive. You get free 15 gig storage and if you want more it's $1.99 a month for 100 gb. What's great about google is that you access your files anywhere including your computer or other phones.
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I have never understood the point of a back up on unrooted phones. I understand that on rooted it's good idea to backup your files incase you screw up. When it comes to backing up you photos etc...why don't you just use google drive. You get free 15 gig storage and if you want more it's $1.99 a month for 100 gb. What's great about google is that you access your files anywhere including your computer or other phones.
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The biggest problem with using google drive and other online media to backup your data both US and EU courts have ruled that they can access that data at anytime, this you should google to understand how risky it is. Once you put data in any cloud including facebook most places have TOSes that state the own oir can do anything they want with it.
Let's not forget the fact the ISPs are putting data caps on most internet services 250GB being the average for a home connection that 100GB would put you half way there to being charged overages. For the record data caps are only there for profit reasons. http://www.extremetech.com/computin...iness-decision-not-an-engineering-requirement
You can read more about the shady things communication companies are doing at http://stopthecap.com/
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The biggest problem with using google drive and other online media to backup your data both US and EU courts have ruled that they can access that data at anytime, this you should google to understand how risky it is. Once you put data in any cloud including facebook most places have TOSes that state the own oir can do anything they want with it.
Let's not forget the fact the ISPs are putting data caps on most internet services 250GB being the average for a home connection that 100GB would put you half way there to being charged overages. For the record data caps are only there for profit reasons. http://www.extremetech.com/computin...iness-decision-not-an-engineering-requirement
You can read more about the shady things communication companies are doing at http://stopthecap.com/
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I doubt anyone is going to be backing up 100GB every month.
And I really don't care if the government can access my data stored in the cloud, or the company I'm backing it up to. I'm not doing anything illegal on my phone(or anywhere for that matter), so whatever, let them look at it. All they're going to see is a bunch of meme's. They probably need the laugh.
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I doubt anyone is going to be backing up 100GB every month.
And I really don't care if the government can access my data stored in the cloud, or the company I'm backing it up to. I'm not doing anything illegal on my phone(or anywhere for that matter), so whatever, let them look at it. All they're going to see is a bunch of meme's. They probably need the laugh.
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I was talking more about people making images of their computers and backing them up online. People tend to forget they store their own tax returns and that information could then be sold online to a third party and there has been cases where people have been using that stolen tax information to file fraudulent tax returns. I just people should be more careful about what they store in the cloud and they leave on their computers. This is off topic and I'll end this here.
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I was talking more about people making images of their computers and backing them up online. People tend to forget they store their own tax returns and that information could then be sold online to a third party and there has been cases where people have been using that stolen tax information to file fraudulent tax returns. I just people should be more careful about what they store in the cloud and they leave on their computers. This is off topic and I'll end this here.
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Whole computer images I agree 100% on.
Please keep your conversation here and not in the "Praying for root" thread.
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I was talking more about people making images of their computers and backing them up online. People tend to forget they store their own tax returns and that information could then be sold online to a third party and there has been cases where people have been using that stolen tax information to file fraudulent tax returns. I just people should be more careful about what they store in the cloud and they leave on their computers. This is off topic and I'll end this here.
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If you screw up and end up in court. Government will more interested in your proxy and what you do over Internet and who you message. It's really stupid to have something illegal on your phone. If you are scared of identity theft you shouldn't evrn root your phone since you become vulnerable to get hacked. Bottom line is that if someone wants to steal your identity they will no matter what. Btw on Google account you can do security settings that no one can log on to your account unless you recieve text message to your phone
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Hi guys just wanted to let you know I found a way to get a working free mobile hotspot from Big Red using the same method as the Bionic's (thanx to who ever found this). Anyway I made a quick video for the the Razr. As for those wondering about Big Red watching you, I used 43 gb last month and 32 gb so far this month Also here's an article from XDA about throttling legalities on 4g networks. Can't say for sure, I'm no lawyer but it looks legit.
Worked perfectly. Thanks!
Your account can be flagged, and Verizon can either sue you for illegally using (read: stealing) their services, throttle you permanently, or just be nice and just tack on the tethering price to your monthly bill without telling you.
This is illegal, don't do it.
looks like you copied zedomax post man...
i am 1addictsad78 and i just found a way to resolve to endless loop by changing the MTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTOOfogAaU
So, we should stay away from this procedure???
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Your account can be flagged, and Verizon can either sue you for illegally using (read: stealing) their services, throttle you permanently, or just be nice and just tack on the tethering price to your monthly bill without telling you.
This is illegal, don't do it.
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This is NOT illegal, in my mind, if you have payed for a certain amount of data. You are not stealing their services because hot spotting is NOT their service. It is a a feature built into your phone that they blocked so they could charge you extra. Period. Even if this was illegal, you can always root and install a tethering app. At that point, I'd like to see them explain why this is still a service provided by then.
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Your account can be flagged, and Verizon can either sue you for illegally using (read: stealing) their services, throttle you permanently, or just be nice and just tack on the tethering price to your monthly bill without telling you.
This is illegal, don't do it.
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You are probably correct. I changed the setting back after testing because I don't need any legal issues (or an increase in my bill), but for people who don't care or think they won't get caught, the procedure at least appears sound...
i have a massive data when i started using the thunderbolt with open garden tether. I'm a netflix guy and use as a modem to my apartment for over 6months and never get flagged. now i have the droid razr doing this Verizon hotspot too.
grandfathered rules!
It's not a matter of legality. It's not illegal.
It's a matter of ethics. Are you willing to break the Terms of Service that you signed agreement with when you bought the service? And are you willing to deal with Verizon's reaction when they find out? If they add a tether charge to your account, you earned it.
@ x2breakoffate, you have paid for unlimited phone data. You have not paid for ANY tether data. They sold it to you with the data blocked. If you didn't like that you should not have bought a phone that was crippled.
What you offered is a lame attempt to make yourself feel better, not a justification.
If any of you would read the full post and the associated links, you would know about the Block C provision. I've used it for a couple months on the Bionic and had no problems.
@ ad78.....I'm sorry it wasn't clearly stated that this was not my own work and I copied it from the Bionic
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Hi guys just wanted to let you know I found a way to get a working free mobile hotspot from Big Red using the same method as the Bionic's (thanx to who ever found this).
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@ everyone else: Stated I am no lawyer but I can say for those like me on the UNLIMITED DATA PLAN, yes I think it's BS that they lock down the devices and limit tethering to a usb. As posted earlier http://goo.gl/cL3L1 it is illegal under Block C to limit or throttle 4g devices.
You can throttle Block C devices for reasonable network management reasons (you using a 100 GB of data per month and therefore causing data congestion is one of those reasons).
And yes, it is illegal to use a paid service without paying for it.
I could tap into DirectTV's cable service and use it for free somehow, or get channels that I'm not paying for...is it simply a moral dilemma because they lock it down "simply because they want to charge me money" for them?
Terms of use aren't just a wall of text there because they want to put it there, it's a legally binding document that you AGREED to (which is the equivalent of signing). They CAN sue you for "pirating" their officially branded tethering service on their network. That's what you're doing. You're disabling the check in THEIR software to make sure you have the tethering plan, and you're using THEIR officially branded service, through THEM, without paying THEM. That is illegal.
The only difference between this and pirating a version of Microsoft Office and disabling the serial check is the fact that it's more easily monitored since all of the stolen data you're sending is going through their servers, possibly with something attached that tells Verizon that you're tethering.
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you have paid for unlimited phone data. You have not paid for ANY tether data.
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There is no difference to phone data and tether data.
It's all just information sent by the TCP-IP protocol.
It is like buying a book, but you are only allowed to read it outside because you have not payed for the ability to read it by artificial light.
Its still stealing bottom line. If you can afford a smartphone you should be able to afford internet at home or just pay extra for a tethering plan.
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But in order for this to not count towards you're data is if you're on the grandfather plan and rooted right? Cuz if ur on a 4gb plan then you're data would count correct?
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With a net income of over 3 billion, I don't think it hurts them that much from the very few root user users and even fewer heavy 4g users.
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But in order for this to not count towards you're data is if you're on the grandfather plan and rooted right? Cuz if ur on a 4gb plan then you're data would count correct?
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Not sure what you mean. Basically I was grandfathered in on 3g unlimited so I fell into the unlimited 4g plan. Yes you have to be rooted to use this.
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Not sure what you mean. Basically I was grandfathered in on 3g unlimited so I fell into the unlimited 4g plan. Yes you have to be rooted to use this.
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Yea I meant the unlimited data plan. That's the only way you can use the tether hack because if your not on the unlimited data then if you use this hack you're data will count right?
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or you could just download the latest android wifi tether app from google. it works perfectly.
pajn said:
There is no difference to phone data and tether data.
It's all just information sent by the TCP-IP protocol.
It is like buying a book, but you are only allowed to read it outside because you have not payed for the ability to read it by artificial light.
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No, it's like buying basic cable and expecting to get all of the channels. It's all just data sent by the cable line after all!!!
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With a net income of over 3 billion, I don't think it hurts them that much from the very few root user users and even fewer heavy 4g users.
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Right, let's just all steal food from Walmart, it's a multi-billion dollar retail chain, it won't hurt much.
Honestly, if you're going to tether, at least use a 3rd party app. Using their software to steal free service is like peeing on a cop car and expecting to get away with it.
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No, it's like buying basic cable and expecting to get all of the channels. It's all just data sent by the cable line after all!!!
Right, let's just all steal food from Walmart, it's a multi-billion dollar retail chain, it won't hurt much.
Honestly, if you're going to tether, at least use a 3rd party app. Using their software to steal free service is like peeing on a cop car and expecting to get away with it.
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Ok but if you use a 3rd party app to tether its still using your data allowence right?
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Wouldn't it be great to be able to pay for apps through our phone tarriffs?
If your in the same boat as me with no other way of buying apps asthe acct you use doesn't have a card with that type.
Yes it would probably cause your providor to set up more bank accounts or set some way of paying all you great developers at the end of the month but hey at least you will be able to reach more customers and because your on the playstore you have even more respect because everyone now knows theres police watching apps on there big up guys n girls for removing those pesky apps.
Doubt this will happen but hey if theres lots of people in this boat you never know?
It's got nothing to do with the I9100 and already exists for many providers.
I'll even give you a link for good measure. http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=167794
can see lots of parents being happy their kid is adding loads more onto their phone bill without them knowing.
Yep you can already pay for apps using your network provider (phone bill) and as for kids making a bill for parents to pay, you can set up a pin on the play store which you have to enter before you make a purchase. Open play store, menu key, settings, unlock settings and set up your pin
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this service not available for me
Unfortunately im on h3g they dont have this available yet as the options your giving me arent there so i presume this is the case.
Looks like annother few half hours on phone to them lol.
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Unfortunately im on h3g they dont have this available yet as the options your giving me arent there so i presume this is the case.
Looks like annother few half hours on phone to them lol.
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The options I gave were for the secure pin before app purchase. To use pay via phone bill, select app you want to purchase, when you see payment method option, ie your credit or debit card click on it, this will give you the option to use for eg 'bill my tmobile account'
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i have been terminated by sprint for allegedly being a data hog. fine by me, as far as i know i did torrent a handful of times and i guess thats what did me in, that and netflix i gather.
had anyone been in this situation before? if so, will my photon have a bad esn? and lastly, i did give sprint a deposit, did anyone get that backbin its entirety?
many thanks!
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i have been terminated by sprint for allegedly being a data hog. fine by me, as far as i know i did torrent a handful of times and i guess thats what did me in, that and netflix i gather.
had anyone been in this situation before? if so, will my photon have a bad esn? and lastly, i did give sprint a deposit, did anyone get that backbin its entirety?
many thanks!
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the torrenting is what did you in my friend, i had a "test" month this month and manage to scrounge up about 6-7GB with nothing happening but this is all from youtube, google music, and large games downloads (nova 3)...and the deposit, well your suppose to get it back after a year i believe, but if you got terminated before then well....who knows, and lastly you can always just call sprint and ask for an esn check (just say you're buying it on ebay or something)
checkesnfree.com
and trhe phoen should be clean its only when the phone is lost/stolen or in use is it "bad"
Since sprint advertises unlimited data, I thought the only way they could terminate you (per the contract) is if:
1. excessive data roaming
2. tethering and not paying for that
3. being caught doing something illegal
Unless they can show that they terminated with cause (in writing per the contract you agreed to), than you should get your deposit back with no ETF.
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i have been terminated by sprint for allegedly being a data hog. fine by me, as far as i know i did torrent a handful of times and i guess thats what did me in, that and netflix i gather.
had anyone been in this situation before? if so, will my photon have a bad esn? and lastly, i did give sprint a deposit, did anyone get that backbin its entirety?
many thanks!
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Since sprint advertises unlimited data, I thought the only way they could terminate you (per the contract) is if:
1. excessive data roaming
2. tethering and not paying for that
3. being caught doing something illegal
Unless they can show that they terminated with cause (in writing per the contract you agreed to), than you should get your deposit back with no ETF.
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you guys answered each others questions,lol
How much data did you use? I'm trying to get them to cancel me without having to pay an etf. I've used about 50 gigs already, but I think the problem with that is I have my phone torrenting while I sleep. I checked Sprint terms of service, they don't consider you an issue if you're not impacting other cusomters use of the service. I don't know how to become an issue through the day since I get crap service at work. (10-15 Kbps. BS)
moxiot, what was your data usage like. Sprint does have a redflag limit and last time I checked it was about 30GB.
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What does torrenting have to do with "being caught doing something illegal"?
http://shop2.sprint.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml?ECID=vanity:termsandconditions
Prohibited Network Uses. To ensure the activities of some users do not impair the ability of our customers to have access to reliable services provided at reasonable costs, you may not use our services in a manner that is unlawful, infringes on intellectual property rights, or harms or unduly interferes with the use of Sprint's network or systems. Sprint reserves the right, without notice or limitation, to limit data throughput speeds or quantities or to deny, terminate, end, modify, disconnect, or suspend service if an individual engages in any of the prohibited voice or data uses detailed below or if Sprint, in its sole discretion, determines action is necessary to protect its wireless networks from harm or degradation.
Examples of prohibited data uses: Sprint data services are provided solely for purposes of web surfing, sending and receiving email, photographs and other similar messaging activities, and the non-continuous streaming of videos, downloading of files or on line gaming. Our data services may not be used: (i) to generate excessive amounts of Internet traffic through the continuous, unattended streaming, downloading or uploading of videos or other files or to operate hosting services including, but not limited to, web or gaming hosting; (ii) to maintain continuous active network connections to the Internet such as through a web camera or machine-to-machine connections that do not involve active participation by a person; (iii) to disrupt email use by others using automated or manual routines, including, but not limited to "auto-responders" or cancel bots or other similar routines; (iv) to transmit or facilitate any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, telemarketing, promotional materials, "junk mail", unsolicited commercial or bulk email, or fax; (v) for activities adversely affecting the ability of other people or systems to use either Sprint's wireless services or other parties' Internet-based resources, including, but not limited to, "denial of service" (DoS) attacks against another network host or individual user; (vi) for an activity that connects any device to Personal Computers (including without limitation, laptops), or other equipment for the purpose of transmitting wireless data over the network (unless customer is using a plan designated for such usage); or (vi) for any other reason that, in our sole discretion violates our policy of providing service for individual use. Unlimited Use Plans. If you subscribe to rate plans, services or features that are described as unlimited, you should be aware that such "unlimited" plans are subject to these Sprint Prohibited Network Uses.
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the highlighted text is BS in my opinion, but can be used to justify getting rid of you for any reason. That being said, (depending on where you signed up with sprint) you likely signed a service agreement for a plan and not specifically their Terms and conditions. Torrenting is not officially prohibited, and Sprint does not make clear how much data usage on an unlimited plan is prohibited. You should be able to get your deposit back with no ETF fees, and phones with clear ESN's.
Just another way for Sprint to **** people with their "TRULY UNLIMITED DATA"
And they, and people in here who work for Sprint wonder why people get pissed.
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Just another way for Sprint to **** people with their "TRULY UNLIMITED DATA"
And they, and people in here who work for Sprint wonder why people get pissed.
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Use to work for em, people got pissed cause sprint said somethin about what they were doin, when "the people" knew what they were doing...at least own up to what you do
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How much data did you use? I'm trying to get them to cancel me without having to pay an etf. I've used about 50 gigs already, but I think the problem with that is I have my phone torrenting while I sleep. I checked Sprint terms of service, they don't consider you an issue if you're not impacting other cusomters use of the service. I don't know how to become an issue through the day since I get crap service at work. (10-15 Kbps. BS)
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on average 20 gigs a month, youtube, netflix, and some music. i did download a few torrents the last month so..
all in all im ok with it, as long as they return my deposit, which they said they will. mmmmm galaxy note on tmo coming soon??? yeah, take care sprint...
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on average 20 gigs a month, youtube, netflix, and some music. i did download a few torrents the last month so..
all in all im ok with it, as long as they return my deposit, which they said they will. mmmmm galaxy note on tmo coming soon??? yeah, take care sprint...
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No etf or anything?
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LOL - you are right, torrents typically are not used for legal content. I'm glad to see Sprint scrubbing "questionable' excessive users so that my rate doesn't go up.
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moxiot, what was your data usage like. Sprint does have a redflag limit and last time I checked it was about 30GB.
What does torrenting have to do with "being caught doing something illegal"?
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Are you serious? What do you suppose torrent is 99% used for?
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.....all in all im ok with it, as long as they return my deposit,......
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Glad you are OK with being kicked to the curb. So who's your next carrier? Sprint is most lenient. Who do you think will let you use more data than Sprint? Seriously - who? And you know you'll pay more, right?
I question if torrents really had anything to do with it. A while back someone got terminated for using 90 gigs in 3 months. If you used 20+ for months on end, that could easily be the reason. Also, there are a lot of legal torrent uses, so I would hope they wouldn't just terminate everyone that uses one. As an example, Joker uses torrents as an alternate way to download his custom ROMs.
Did they warn you before terminating? It seems like they should have just told you that you are being excessive.
yes they warned me and after that i think i torrented one or 2 things.
I wouldnt be surprised if uploading (seeding) had more to do with it than the downloading.
I wouldn't even be able to be terminated if I tried. My download speeds over EvDo around my house suck. We're talking like 15kb/s max. The only place I get reasonably good speeds is in my dorm room, which is on the 17th story probably a mile (roughly) away from a tower.
Thanks for answering my question, guess I'll just have to persist for a few more months. I don't need a ton of data and I very rarely make phone calls. I'll be switching to T-Mobile's $30 a month plan. When I'm really using data on my phone I'm just messing with RSS, Gmail and a few sub-groups on social sites. My data use was consistently under 1.4 gigs until I got tired of waiting for m feeds and other stuff to load.
My usage may come close to doubling on another network but it will be worth it to actually get data service when I want it. If I need to, I'll jump to T-Mobiles $50 plan. I'm not even greedy, I just want speed that doesn't drop below 400 Kbps very often where I work and in transit to and from it. Most of the Sprint users in my area that I knew said that service was awesome but the phones sucked. I had to find out the hard way that I was speaking to people that didn't know the difference between a software/hardware bottleneck and network bottleneck.
I don't even hate Sprint, but I wish that there was a better method to check average download speed (outside, uninhibited) in an area without jumping onto the service. This goes for any provider.
I wish that there was a better method to check average download speed (outside, uninhibited) in an area without jumping onto the service. This goes for any provider.
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run speedtest off the demo phones from retail sites. Should give you a good idea.
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Are you serious? What do you suppose torrent is 99% used for?
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Actually, yes. It doesn't matter if most torrents are illegal content as the burden of proof lies with the service provider. Therefore the premise of "if he was torrenting that it must have been something illegal" is flawed.
The same flawed thinking also applies to rooting/unlocking. It's the popular mindset of carriers/mainstream news and general pubic that the any reason someone would root their phone is free tethering or some other illegal activity.
Now if the OP was torrenting illegal content then that's his mistake. But at no point did the OP state that he was doing so.
Ok, this is going to be a bit long, but I'm hoping someone smarter than me can answer this. I'm about to cancel the data plan on my wife's old phone (HTC Rezound) as she got a promotion at work where they provide her with a phone...her Galaxy S4. There is no need for me to keep a data plan she doesn't need (and barely used before). She's a bit nervous about texting on her work phone, or using it for anything else non work related. She is an upper administrator for a school district, so most things work related (that aren't of a confidential nature) are considered public records. So.....should I activate a dumb phone for her to text and call me from, or do you think she is fine using the S4 for everything phone related?
Mostly the text message thing is what I'm worried about. Nothing inappropriate, but sometimes personal. Am I paranoid, or should I be concerned and CYA?
Text Messages can easily be tracked, through the provider with a sophena. I work for the State of PA and am administer of the phones in facility and I look at the bill and track everything that is not work related and charge the persons for it. This is of course our policy, if used for personal calls or txts we charge the person for those specific calls or texts. Everything on that phone is public knowledge other than HIPPA and other small bits of information deemed confidential. If your paranoid about it I would suggest getting her another phone.
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Text Messages can easily be tracked, through the provider with a sophena. I work for the State of PA and am administer of the phones in facility and I look at the bill and track everything that is not work related and charge the persons for it. This is of course our policy, if used for personal calls or txts we charge the person for those specific calls or texts. Everything on that phone is public knowledge other than HIPPA and other small bits of information deemed confidential. If your paranoid about it I would suggest getting her another phone.
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She now has changed her mind and decided not to carry two phones and just use the S4 from her district. All the other administrators use their work phones as personal phones. While everything can be tracked, I don't think they do. I have to keep her old line anyway (still under contract) but I don't have to keep data on it. Shame too as it's unlimited (although she never used much data). I can't even sell the plan, as it's part of a share plan. They won't let me separate that.
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She now has changed her mind and decided not to carry two phones and just use the S4 from her district. All the other administrators use their work phones as personal phones. While everything can be tracked, I don't think they do. I have to keep her old line anyway (still under contract) but I don't have to keep data on it. Shame too as it's unlimited (although she never used much data). I can't even sell the plan, as it's part of a share plan. They won't let me separate that.
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As I understand it those unlimited lines are transferable . . might be able to make some money off of it.
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hlxanthus said:
As I understand it those unlimited lines are transferable . . might be able to make some money off of it.
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I would LOVE to do that, but it's part of the old 700 minute family share plan with 5 phones on the account, 2 of them smartphones. The 5th is an extra that got me my S4 as my line (main number) and one of the dumbphones expiring contract in April. You're telling me they would let me separate the second smartphone line on its own? If so I would gladly sell it.
So I can separate the line with an AOL. Looks like I'm searching for a buyer!
I'm trying to get some information from application developers pertaining to a potential breach of security. this year I got into a very bad Trucking accident and almost got killed. Because of covid-19 the workman comp insurance company denied my claim. My attorney and I found out today that they have either hacked into my phone or utilized a trucking application to get my text phone call and Google search history. I also just realized that after I was terminated from the trucking company that I worked for that I forgot to delete their company application from my phone. I'm not certain but I think that application can track your GPS coordinates but I'm not certain about the ability to recover Google search engine history.
Here's what happened and I'll try to make it short. Last week I started searching through Google for a psychologist or psychiatrist to do a psychological evaluation to determine if I have PTSD because of my Trucking accident. I've contacted several psychologist in my surrounding area and inquired about pricing and procedure techniques. I never gave any of my personal information including insurance case numbers or even my first and last name. As of this week the insurance company and the attorneys handling my workman comp case reached out to a psychology office that I've never been to that I possibly called after doing a Google search... And requested from The psychology office medical records. You tell me how strange that is! There's no way in hell they could have known this without snooping on my phone. I never made an appointment and like I said before I never gave them any of my personal information. I still have this app on my phone and I would like to know if there's any kind of way I can find out if they were utilizing this app to gain control of my phone to where they would know who I called and text and my Google search history. Thank you
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As soon as you open in browser a website, you get tracked. In WEB nothing is for free: you pay with your data. As soon as you start using an Android device and register with Google, you get tracked. Android is not free: you pay for it with your data. As soon as you make a call, you get tracked by carrier. As soon as you write an e-mail you get tracked: your mail get read with by mail service. And so on ....
Even when you read this post you get tracked by XDA.
You are the victim. That's life.
How did the insurance company know that I reached out to a psychology office that I never conducted business with? was there an app that I accidentally uploaded on my phone where they secretly sent me a text message? This doesn't make sense the insurance company sent a request for my medical records to a psychology office that all I did was inquire about getting a psychological evaluation for PTSD. I never conducted any business at all with the psychology office. They notify the insurance carrier that I was not a patient. Really think about this, they knew that I Google search for this information. How in the hell is this legal. We're not talking about a law enforcement agency this was a damn insurance company