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Android BlackBook – MMS Support Coming Real Soon

Jul 10th

Posted by nseidm1 in Android

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A sorely lacked feature has been MMS photo support. I am happy to report it is relatively close to being released. After this feature is stable, and released, its on to T-Mobile support. Then 2.2 support; I may need to wait for 2.2 on the Incredible, or actually purchase  the Nexus 1 with a prepaid T-Mobile sim.

T-Mobile has proven tricky. The incoming telephone number has a 1 in it. I have compensated for this manually, but I want the process to be automatic. As of now BlackBook works with T-Mobile when the T-Mobile option in the main settings is checked. The option allows for a 1 to be stored in the contacts telephone number. For some reason even with the 1 in the contacts telephone number SMS filtering is not working.

SMS delivers a bundle. In the bundle is the message and the senders address(telephone). I have a feeling the senders telephone number does not have a 1 for SMS messages. This means T-Mobile is all over the place. There is definitely a 1 in the incoming telephone number, but most likley not a 1 in the incoming SMS message? Strange, where is the consistency?

If I cannot make T-Mobile detect automated I am going to make the T-Mobile option more obvious. I will also make it so when the option is disable and enabled the telephone numbers of all the contacts are re-adjusted automatically.

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iPhone 3.1.2 Jailbroken to use any Carrier – Does it Matter?

Nov 4th

Posted by nseidm1 in GSM

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iphone OS 3.1.2 has been jailbroken again, allowing users to do whatever they like with the gadgets they’ve bought.[Source]

The iPhone can use any carrier particularly TMobile instead of at&t. I had an iPhone for a long time, but ultimately the GSM bottleneck of the device is a tremendous downfall. On at&t MMS took unnecessarily too long, and I cant tell you how many times my calls were dropped. At one point I was calling tech support just so the call would drop with them on the phone. I called for a month traight, toward the end of my at&t experience, resulting in over 10 dropped called per day. Ultimately I got a rep that credited me $200 because of the amount of dropped calls. I was doing pizza delivery at the time, and literally could not drive through town without getting a dropped call. I used the $200 credit to cancel my acount without having to pay the early contract termination fees. Worked like a charm!

The worst thing is the at&t map says there is full coverage in my neighborhood. That was relative bullshit. I say relative because I also used another at&t phone, that was operating at 1 bar, but the calls did not drop. Apparently the iPhone requires a stronger signal strength as compared to other more simple phones.

I eventually jailbroke my phone, but did not have good experience with TMobile either. I ended up ditching the iPhone, even though I loved and still love it, for Verizon. I went with the Blackberry storm.

I still have my iPhone with a TMobile prepaid sim card. Its a $10 prepaid sim card, and the iPhone has full edge internet access for three months at a time, resulting in a net cost of $3 per month.

I rarely use the iPhone, but I still love it. I also love my Blackberry. There is no winning and you can never have the best of both worlds.

In this post I show an at&t coverage map of my neighborhood that is completely incorrect.

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