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Old 07-24-2013, 08:24 PM
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If someone wants to upgrade from a stupid phone, this looks like a deal.
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Old 07-24-2013, 09:47 PM
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Is your contract up? I would assume so, in most cases, ATT will unlock it for you if you are travelling. Just call their CS and let them know whats up. If they say no, just call again and hope for a different rep.
Contract is not up, I will more than likely just pay for a month or so of service and if I stay longer than 3 months or so I will cancel my contract and pay the crazy fee that is due for breaking my contract. The guy up at ATT told me to unlock my phone, I forget the name of the app or site he told me to use. Hopefully he is there tomorrow otherwise I will be SOL. I was also thinking of letting my parents use this phone and changing the number so I do not get any unwanted calls going to them. I do most of my stuff via email, but since I am going to be the General Manager of the shop I thought it would be nice to be able to take my phone down there and use it on the TelMex system. Oh well, I will keep on looking, that's what I get for waiting so long

Oh yeah on YT it seems you have to pay like $30 to get it unlocked or I can figure out how to root it and install galaxsim on it. Oh well too much more my little brain, I might just buy another phone while down there instead.
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Originally Posted by w0ng3r
Is your contract up? I would assume so, in most cases, ATT will unlock it for you if you are travelling. Just call their CS and let them know whats up. If they say no, just call again and hope for a different rep.
It was easy, all I had to do was call ATT and ask them to unlock it, they asked why I wanted it unlocked and mentioned I was traveling abroad and voila I was texted the unlock code. Sometimes honesty and being upfront is the best policy
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Originally Posted by East Bay STI
It was easy, all I had to do was call ATT and ask them to unlock it, they asked why I wanted it unlocked and mentioned I was traveling abroad and voila I was texted the unlock code. Sometimes honesty and being upfront is the best policy
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Old 07-29-2013, 04:38 AM
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Rooted my Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket and installed Cyanogen mod 10.1.2! Love it, although getting a headache from trying to figure out how to bring back data from stock form of Jellybean........ mehhh
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what do you mean bring back data?
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Old 07-29-2013, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by stupidchicken03
what do you mean bring back data?
Such as apps, texts, contacts, etc.
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Meh I gave up and restored..

going to read into it deeper tonight.
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Your apps/contacts you can set to auto install/update. Its a feature of android. You just have to make sure you have the settings set for it.

menu > system settings > accounts > google > click your google account > check desired boxes
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Your apps/contacts you can set to auto install/update. Its a feature of android. You just have to make sure you have the settings set for it.

menu > system settings > accounts > google > click your google account > check desired boxes
Awesome thanks

But another part of the problem is that when I run Cyanogen mod 10.1.2, I dont have to google play store. If i restore the play store and play store services, the app doesnt want to open at all and immediately closes with no error message.

Edit:

My bad for being a total idiot, figured out issue. Sorry for wasting your time.

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Originally Posted by theoutbackdream
Awesome thanks

But another part of the problem is that when I run Cyanogen mod 10.1.2, I dont have to google play store. If i restore the play store and play store services, the app doesnt want to open at all and immediately closes with no error message.

Edit:

My bad for being a total idiot, figured out issue. Sorry for wasting your time.
Were you missing the gapps.zip?
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