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Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

I continue to read these posts with hope. When I can I hop on and read some more about flashing the phone. I was going to buy the i900 but was informed (actually my wife, i'm in afghanistan right now) that it would not work on the verizon network. I have been looking at world phones for a while but the i900 was the only one that I really liked and was willing to pay for.

My wife got me this i910 since when I get stationed back home i'll be there for a couple of years and it wouldn't matter if it was GSM capable anyways. I just hope that the features orginally intended for this phone are activated by the time I get back. By then Verizon would have moved on to there new line of phones and might give us what we want to keep us, and keep us quite.

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

I would like to thank you for risking your life to fight these crazy freak radicals that feel Americans must all die. I just cant believe that we helped them to fight Russia awhile back. Oops. Ther is a couble sites you can look at but you can start by clicking on the picture of the omnia up top and click on the rom section. The cc20. Its different than the other cooked roms to flash.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=69628
WOULD BE NICE TO GET SOME DONATIONS TOGETHER TO GET YOU ONE SENT OVER THERE. Flashed already and loaded with pictures of Home to remind you what you your there for. Both my brothers served time there. Come home safely. I was wondering do most afgans appriciate what you are doing for them.

Edit: Is the omnia 910 even have world capabilities i don't believe it does. Might have to go with well good luck and let me know cause i hate the black berry storm. I think world phones have an extra gsm radio in them to use those towers. Cdma and such might be in some countries but idk about Afghanistan.

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

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Originally Posted by pdub73 (Post 967990)

A cookie...a reward given to children for bragging about being first...! =D>

Yah buddy i will take one. Sounds good. I wish i had a little youth left in me.
I just was thinking what the...... can people see what i wrote cause you would have to be staring my post right in front of you when you hit reply. Written hours before. I can care less about being first. Just thought you should read the thread first. Especially the one right before yours. Or quote me for petesake thats playgerism. Show me the money(1). LOL

(1) Quote from a movie with tom cruize and cuba Jr. and i forgot the name but just giving them a cookie.

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

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Originally Posted by MrOmnia81 (Post 966911)

I know nanotechnology in medicine is at least 10 years away. I would say x-ray on cell phones is about 4 or 5 years away(if that). Engineers/scientists want to treat and destroy viruses when they began. They are making progress every few weeks but it is a while before it can become mainstream. Then they will probably have to fight the drug companies b/c they are the wizards behind the entire medical field. I am a software engineer and I always thought it was weird that we can come up with theorems to measure the size of our galaxy and use math to create things such as wireless technology, gps, artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks but we cannot eradicate illnesses like cancer and other diseases. I wish you a quick and speedy recovery with your surgery!

Thanks Me to. Pain is unbearable. Its totally amazing though especially how some inventions and medical breakthroughs happen. From Hitlers Human experiences on the jewish people to The tecknology coming out of wars. It really seems ther should have been more progress on Cancer atliest with what we can do. But i wonder if a drug company had a cure for cancer would they release it. You would think so but however silly it sounds it would probably have a huge impact on medical industry considering how much finding a cure and treating cancer brings in money and jobs. Wish all those geniousus like stephin hawkings and such could devote ther brilliance on somthing that is going to happen or has happened withen our time and demension that can actually produce some results that our usefull to survive right now. Glad we might be able maybe time travel but if it can happenes could somebody come back and show us that it works cause if know one has ever shown up from future than it probably wont ever happen. So Stephan hawking the grand master genious. We know about gravity and such impress me. Cure cancer and aids and depression wars. Cure yourselph. I would like to time travel to a thousand years from know and see what a computer looks like or what version of windows mobile is out. Probley a chip in our brains conected to optical nerves and hearing. With a big verizon logo tattoed on the forhead as stipulated in the contract to get the phone. G.P.S. still locked.

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

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Originally Posted by phullofphil (Post 972982)

well here is what happened or should I say "what had happen was" ...I dont know if u noticed it...ur post was the last on the page before my post and mine was the first on the next page...when I opened the thread I went directly to the last page...never saw ur post...

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

did this thread go sideways or is it me?

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Originally Posted by mr8820 (Post 973213)

did this thread go sideways or is it me?

this thread was a waste of time to begin with...but yea it went sideways...and I had a hand in it...

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

*rant on*
from a purely pragmatic point of view, we have a solution to the problem already.
while i agree that vzw crippled the omnia, azintegra gave us a way around it.
to my way of thinking it's a win for all of us who want our phones as good as they can be.
personally, i like to tinker, and my omnia is just like my harley, a blank canvas ready to be turned into what my vision of my phone should be.
as far as the lawsuit thingy goes, i find today's folks way too litigious for my taste. if you don't like what vzw is doing take your dollars away from them, simple as that.
all our lives would be better off with less lawyers and more personal responsibility.
*rant off*

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

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Originally Posted by pdub73 (Post 973188)

That makes sence cause i changed my settings to display alot more post per page. I am barely on page two on this thread. I think i have it set on forty but forgot.

Re: File Complaint with FTC against Verizon for locking GPS on Omina (& other phones)

I confess i did intend to make thread to go sidways. It should be takin down. Verizon is doing nothing illeagle. Alread typed a longer version but forgot to post. but Unless some one can post a lynk to a advertisement stating you can use 3rd party apps with the gps on the verizon sch-i910 than it does have gps you just had to pay. Considering its not illeagle than fcc complaint may delay it further. Better to complain directly to verizon.

I do say if somebody can find writtian proof of any thing that verizon did wrong than if its not to late please provide it so ther can be somthing to go off of.