Have you looked into MVNOs? There are plenty at half the cost of AT&T or Tmo right now.
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Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] [Recovery][VM]CWM 6.0.4.8 Touch for the LG Optimus F3
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gherkaul
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Virgin Mobile and Boost are MVNO'S
Yes, my point is that GSM phones are plentiful compared to the few locked down VM phones.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
I hear ya. Only thing is I'm limited to what's available in my area.
Me too, AT&T and Tmo don't have as good coverage as Sprint does, and I'm in Denver so it should be better than it is.I hear ya. Only thing is I'm limited to what's available in my area.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
I would like to have a GSM instead of CDMA though. GSM is so much better.
Yup, agreed. I have an unlocked F6 I use to travel overseas, and it would be great to not need several phones.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
Yeah, I was in Germany a while back and had AT&T which as you know uses GSM. It was flawless calling to friends here in the states. Going to Italy in march but unfortunately VM isn't going to cut the mustard with CDMA even if I roam, lol.
We went on a 4 week trip over the summer to Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, Luxembourg, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore and the phone worked well everywhere.Yeah, I was in Germany a while back and had AT&T which as you know uses GSM. It was flawless calling to friends here in the states. Going to Italy in march but unfortunately VM isn't going to cut the mustard with CDMA even if I roam, lol.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
Yup, and the whole thing was free except for food. And we flew Biz class on all the long hauls in the newest planes each airline offered. Airline miles and credit card points 770k+ miles and points for everyhtingNo kidding...sweet. Thanks, thats good to know. I wasn't really sure.
gherkaul
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Nice...yeah those 9 to 11 hour flights depending on where you're going are killer.Yup, and the whole thing was free except for food. And we flew Biz class on all the long hauls in the newest planes each airline offered. Airline miles and credit card points 770k+ miles and points for everyhting
One of the flights was 13 hours, and it was supposed to be 14 hours! That was the first flight I was able to get any sleep on, all others I couldn't sleep no matter how much I had to drink lol.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
When I went to England there was about 50 college students onboard. They partied the whole flight so no one got any sleep, lol.
We had these 4 trust fund douche bags from CA with us from LAX-Frankfurt and they made a total mess. The awesome German flight attendant shoved all their crap that spilled into the aisle all into their space and gave them the look of death. And later I beat one of the bastards at Yahtzee and he shut up the rest of the flight. They were under 25, and they were definitely drinking. but other than that the flights were quiet, it's just difficult for me to go to sleep, even at home in total silence. Plus I'm tall so I don't even fit into the Biz seats/beds. Lucky me
LOveWerks
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If my EVO 3D hadn't been dropped into a hot tub, that's where we'd be... swapping MEIDs, and phone numbers, running KitKat. At least you have the open architecture that made Android famous for mods, and the ability to flash ROMs and bootload kernels... what makes things worse with the LS720 is the updating... Boost has their BoostZone BS piggybacked with every update, and that stuff might be great in markets where hip hop and gangsta crap is the raison d'etre, but, not for a guy like me who was born at the end of the Baby Boom (yes, my song list stretches from Sinatra and Bennett to Maroon 5 and Adele). Which carrier (of the cheaper realm) would any one of you folks go with, if you were like me? I used to be a Virgin Mobile customer when most of their available phones were of the CDMA variety... this Boost BS has got to go... LW
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gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
Wow, that does sound like a great deal.
DevoutDev
Android Enthusiast
It was the "family plan" but a few colleagues and I did it. $100 for 4 lines and can add more for cheap.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
I gotcha, still all said and done that's a really good deal. My boss is looking for a bundle for his family. Right now he's paying well over $300 a month with AT&T...ouch. I'll tell him to check it out. Thanks for that info.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
Thanks for this. I've been sitting on it for a while now, finally did it using FX on the phone itself.
I was thrown off by the reboot option in CWMR... it says the stock recovery could come back. I pressed the back button and it rebooted anyway... I still have CWMR though
Did you try the Windows Installer?
You'll get the "disable recovery flash" question any time you flash something with cwm recoveries. It's actually only meant for flashing roms with recoveries built in. Just in case you want to keep the one installed. Just answer no and reboot.
gherkaul
Android Enthusiast
I hear ya. Did FX tell you if the paste was successful or not?
LOveWerks
Android Expert
NeoZiggy, maybe you can help me with my v7 Optimus F3... gherkaul tried to help me (he's great), but my sdext2 remains read-only, and though I can access CWMT 6.0.4.8 through Link2SD Plus, I still end up with a factory reset, and I can't access recovery with volume - and power pressed... financially, I can't afford a phone upgrade right now, and everything relevant is installed: root via Towelroot, BusyBox Free, SuperSU & CWM Superuser as the phone seems to behave better with it installed; Remount, ES File Explorer and Root Explorer. The downside is that my carrier is Boost Mobile. I even installed Universal init.d... any ideas (short of chucking the phone out of the window of a moving car) would be most welcome - LW (I had root and recovery chops back during Gingerbread, but now... whoa...)
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