Recent content by Codegerm

Well it has happened. I bought an S3 today, and for a different provider. I am now with Straight Talk (on the Verizon network). My s2 is still a great device, but I am tired of Sprint not having service at my house, and with Google bringing to an end the ability for me to use GrooveIP to make...

I received a letter from Assurant Solutions, the company that does the device insurance for Boost. As of February 21, 2014, they are raising the rate for insurance from $5.00 per month to $7.00 per month. The deductible for our phone is $100.00, and this if for a phone that is only $250.00 brand...

This is not a new thing, as I have been dealing with this issue for people long before there was Android. The issue here, is people that constantly feel the need to stuff their device with more and more apps, and then complain about being low on memory and/or poor performance of the device. I...

So today I purchased a new toy to use with my S2. I got an ASUS Memo Pad HD7. I of course will tether from the S2 and will look to integrate them together for other cool things. ASUS MeMO Pad HD 7 - Tablet & Mobile - ASUS

As most of us know, Our phone have the "Emergency Alert Message" ability integrated into our messaging app. I had disabled the alerts for the ones it will let you (the presidential one won't let you). Some how they became enabled again, and today was bothered by an Amber Alert for someone that...

Here is something fun to try. Send a text message containing just this, "One is fine by me" (without the quotes). You can send it to yourself if you don't want to send it to anyone. The moment you hit send the text is converted into a hyperlink that will open in maps with a random place or list...

This app does concern me so I decided to post about it. I discovered this upon going into settings/security/device administrators. Apparently it is supposedly meant for corporate customers to control what an employee does on a company issued cellphone. However, I believe this has no business...

For those of us in northern Florida, here is some info to get an idea of when we might see the vision upgrade in our area. Jacksonville Network Vision/LTE Deployment schedule update - Sprint 4G Rollout Updates

In the interests of me not having to flash back to stock to to look this up, would someone that has a TW ROM mind going into their Data menu (##3282#) choose view then other then DSS, and tell me what is in the three settings there? DSS server URL DSS Proxy Server IP adress DSS Proxy Server...

If you happen to be one of the users that has side loaded Flash Player on your Jelly Bean device to use with your browser, do not take the Dolphin update that is available. It will disable flash and it spanks your hand when you try to enable it. I had do to a work around to get it enabled on...

I did a little reading on the Vision upgrade Sprint is doing, and from what I can see it benefits us as well (explains why in areas that it has been done people start having WiMAX where they haven't before). Their plans could pay off for them as they switch iDEN towers over to the multi-mode...

Greenify is another module for use with the Xposed Framework (the framework we use per app dpi with). With this module, you can take better control of your device. This is to tame those apps that run all the time wasting system resources even when you aren't using them, but are still apps you do...

Today I got a notice on my VVM that an upgrade was available. When I looked at the notification, it stated that it had "ad supported features" like inline playing and forwarding to email. REALLY?! Needless to say I did not accept the upgrade. That kinda ticked me off. Trying to pump ads into my...

This will allow your Samsung ROM to use the "bootanimation.zip" to allow you do custom boot animation easily. According to the post, it should work in most any ROM that doesn't already support it. In your CWM recovery you will flash the file "Bootanimation4U.zip" from this post...

For those wanting an easy method to reboot into recovery or download mode, and don't have an expanded power menu (or even if you do), There is a nice free app for this. Makes booting into recovery quick and easy. The app is free...