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  • darkshark
    Nothing.
    • Nov 2004
    • 4189

    #1

    New phone

    So I broke my screen on my super crappy $60 Kyocera MetroPCS phone a while back, and just kinda lived with it for a while before starting to look for a new phone. I did some pretty in-depth research on smartphones and decided to go with the HTC Touch Pro 2...However it's a $600 phone and I didn't feel like paying that much obviously, so I lurked on craigslist for a week or two looking for a CDMA Sprint or Verizon version of the phone for sale (also did alot of research on flashing these phones over to Metro from Howardforums, for those of you familiar). Picked one up for $360, spent about 4 hours "hacking" the phone, reverting drivers, changing prl's, and various info to get it ready to be MetroFlashed. Took it to 5 different retailers trying to get it flashed, none of them knew how to do it

    /facepalm

    Finally, 6th one is the charm, got it switched over, it was a headache, but worth it. It's an amazing phone, not much you can't do on it, especially because it has Windows loaded on it. Anyone else have smartphones? Screw normal ones, never going back xD

  • scottish
    FFR Veteran
    FFR Simfile Author
    • Apr 2003
    • 3257

    #2
    Re: New phone

    Cool Shayne! I can finally have someone to flash roms with because HTC phones are ****ing sweet. I have the Fuze, Aka Raphael/Touch Pro/Etc. which is essentially your phone without the face lift and you being CDMA. If you need anything in regards to customizing or anything with questions, let me know, I know a decent amount.

    Edit: On second thought, **** CDMA. I don't know **** with how to do crap with them
    Also, don't know if you know xda, but this is an awesome community. Here's the Rhodium (Essentially TP2, Tilt2, etc.) forum for CDMA
    Last edited by scottish; 11-18-2009, 08:21 AM.

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    • darkshark
      Nothing.
      • Nov 2004
      • 4189

      #3
      Re: New phone

      Yeah I was thinking about just going for the TP1, but after all the reviews I read about both the 1 and 2, seems like the 2 is much less buggy, and the keyboard doesn't have problems, and besides, the tilting screen is pretty rad, HTC really does make some solid phones.

      And CDMA is just the type of carrier connection, it doesn't have anything to do with what you can load on the phone really.

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      • cedolad
        moonchild~
        FFR Simfile Author
        • Jan 2007
        • 6879

        #4
        Re: New phone

        ....I'm jealous.

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        • darkshark
          Nothing.
          • Nov 2004
          • 4189

          #5
          Re: New phone

          Jealousy doesn't get you anywhere, go buy one xD

          ps I just wrote this post ON MY PHONE be jealous.
          lolololoooollolololollool

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          • cedolad
            moonchild~
            FFR Simfile Author
            • Jan 2007
            • 6879

            #6
            Re: New phone

            Stop making me feel poor

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            • Kekeb
              davai
              • Dec 2006
              • 2765

              #7
              Re: New phone

              Originally posted by cedolad
              Stop making me feel poor

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              • Dr Tran
                Banned
                • Aug 2008
                • 1134

                #8
                Re: New phone

                i make most of my posts from my G1 which is made by HTC <3. i also cant go back to normal phones after having a smartphone and getting used to a non touch screen would be hard

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                • Izzy
                  Snek
                  FFR Simfile Author
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 9195

                  #9
                  Re: New phone

                  My phone looks similar, but it probably has less features. I feel like a whore for buying it. I should use it more.

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                  • scottish
                    FFR Veteran
                    FFR Simfile Author
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 3257

                    #10
                    Re: New phone

                    Originally posted by darkshark

                    And CDMA is just the type of carrier connection, it doesn't have anything to do with what you can load on the phone really.
                    It does, for flashing roms and the availability of cooked roms and everything. CDMA has a whole different process.

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                    • Mythix
                      FFR Veteran
                      • Oct 2006
                      • 1045

                      #11
                      Re: New phone

                      That's a.. PHONE? Can you ring with it?

                      Let's see if it can pull Crysis. Or worse, FFR.

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                      • scottish
                        FFR Veteran
                        FFR Simfile Author
                        • Apr 2003
                        • 3257

                        #12
                        Re: New phone

                        On my touch pro I can pull of ffr, the chats, youtube, etc., it runs smoothly, but certain aspects of it doesn't work. Haven't tried Crysis obviously rofl.

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                        • Mythix
                          FFR Veteran
                          • Oct 2006
                          • 1045

                          #13
                          Re: New phone

                          Originally posted by scottish
                          On my touch pro I can pull of ffr, the chats, youtube, etc., it runs smoothly, but certain aspects of it doesn't work. Haven't tried Crysis obviously rofl.

                          FFR > Crysis in ram consumal LOL

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                          • Crashfan3
                            FFR Player
                            • Nov 2006
                            • 2937

                            #14
                            Re: New phone

                            Too white trash for a smart phone.
                            Using an LG Vu atm. It can text message. I'm good with that. Plus, the whole I-only-paid-forty-bucks-for-it thing.

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