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Perhaps - however I don't think they are refurbishing phones at the Genius Bar, I think that's done in the 7th sub-basement of some lab in Cupertino...

Here's how it works, at least on the Sprint end of things. Sprint will not activate any ESN/MEID that is not in their database of phones. However, every single iPhone MEID is listed as available for activation, as there is, like you found out, only one CDMA model of each iPhone. You can put any CDMA iPhone on your Sprint account. If the device is programmed for another carrier, however, it won't activate properly.

 

I found this out recently, as Asurion received a batch of iPhone 5's that were programmed for Cricket, but shipped out to Sprint customers. They will attach to the account, but will not activate. Similarly, I had a situation where a woman brought in an iPhone 4S to be activated, and we only found out after it was already on her account that it was programmed for VZW, and it couldn't be used.

But the replacement device I was given is definitely not a new phone. Theoretically, if we got access to the software the Genius Bar uses to wipe a phone before giving it to a customer, we could use it to unlock a sprint iPhone, correct?

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As you all know, Sprint phones are sold with their GSM "parts" locked. Today I had an Apple Store appointment, and my iPhone was replaced for a broken power button. When the Genius set up the new phone, the first screen (before the "Hi, Hola, Bonjour, Konichiwa, etc" screen) asked what carrier the phone should use. The choices were all CDMA carriers I believe, with Verizon and Sprint at the top, and regional carriers below them. So theoretically, if the Genius had chosen Verizon, I would have an unlocked phone that runs on Verizon?

I know that CDMA carriers use ESN databases, but these replacement iPhones are given out regardless of your carrier. So these iPhones are added to the ESN databases when the geniuses set them up? I'm confused as to how this works.

Agh we need some deployment here! Haven't seen any new LTE in ages.

DC, however is looking nice. I saw a tower crew in Pentagon City yesterday. I'm not sure if it was sprint though.

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It's priced at $259.99 for me.

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Everyone does this and it annoys me. What part of "It does not make a difference" do they not understand?

To paragraph 3: yes, and yes people do. That doesn't make it entirely true; people just usually fuss for the wrong reason. There is a good reason to discuss the drawer and what it does and doesn't do. It does: kill apps, running or suspended; killing suspended apps generally is a waste of time, but not always. And not only for battery draining in not-really-suspended apps that are shady like FB. Typical iOS user cannot see when the RAM is "full" with suspended apps. When opening a larger app, other suspended apps must be swapped into flash. This is around the 50MB unallocated point. It can slow to a crawl doing this, when you could have freed the RAM occupied by the gaseous-phase-like cache of FB, for example (safari can be large too) with a quick tap previously, rather than wait when you want to use a new app.

 

To the first paragraph: False. Forcing an app that wasn't created to do so, to launch on boot backgrounded (either completely or in "native"

suspend-state background), is a jailbreak thing. On stock iOS 6.x, Skype as a process launches into native-background (suspended) mode on boot, as does FB etc. JB also allows you to force an app which does it normally, to NOT do it. This is nice since, when I respring or reboot, I don't want to manually kill FB etc. since we already discussed it's miraculous use of a lot of battery at times, while it should be "suspended." And, even more so since it is quite persistent at relaunching when killed even -- two or three times at least; I used to find it in my process list after a while, regardless. And by process list I don't mean tray. A stock iOS user would never be able to tell. Kill FB, it's gone from the tray. Reboot. FB starts and you cannot see it. What a crock of shit.

To be honest, my iPhone never slows down. On my old 3GS, too many multitasking apps may have been a problem sometimes, but in newer iOS versions, the threshold for releasing suspended apps has been increased to around 75-100MB free.

You can download the old ipsw's from many places. As a non-dev, I cannot do shit with them since Apple changed their signing mechanism again, a while ago. I also did not know devs could get old ones signed and installed. I would pay for a dev license to be able to install old ipsw's in the event, for example, I broke a jailbroken device and replaced it only to find the new model came with 6.1.4 ;)If you had a dev license and the correct 6.1.2 ipsw for the device, can you install it?

No, you cannot. Apple developers do NOT have any special privileges as far as downgrading firmware.

If you update to iOS 7 beta (or 6.1.4 for that fact), on a device with an A5 chip or higher, you cannot restore to anything but the latest iOS 7 beta or iOS 6.1.4.

I'm really pleased to see the 4G rollout covering almost all of the Beltway and I-95 near the DC area - but there's still a big section of the Beltway (~7PM - 12PM on a clock face) as well as most of 270 which remain pretty Sprint 4G-free. Does anyone have estimates on these areas and whether or not these areas are specifically excluded for the time being?

They work on sites as they can. As soon as they get equipment, and the site is prepared (backhaul, permits, etc), they get to work. They'll get to those sites soon. They aren't excluded, I promise!

I'm going to go as far as saying that was a disappointment.

Do we have some Clearwire LTE support in here?

He moved too fast... Done in like 20 minutes. Crammed it all really fast.

And looks like its plastic again. Damnit!

Yeah, the VZW EVDO network is going to shit here too. Pings over 200ms everywhere, speeds around 50kbps occasionally, while others are blazing along at 2Mbps. Sprint has great speeds where VZW is crap. VZW has amazing speeds where Sprint os crap.

Is anyone expecting this to be a budget phone? Like the Nexus 4? We really need a CDMA budget phone.

Its pretty fast here, especially Sprint to Sprint. Seems fine down in DC as well. After I jailbroke, however I've been receiving several messages at once, and most of them I've already received. I'm pretty sure its just a tweak I've installed though.

We went from 40' and snowy on Wednesday to 70' and sunny today.

LTE must be coming!

 

On par? I think it just decimates any other device on the market period.

 

... That's just me though. Jailbroke every apple product I ever bought since '08. :-)

Bit of bias there, don't you think?

It's definitely a great device. But I wouldn't go as far as saying it decimates every other device on the market.

Yeah, I jailbroke my first iPhone, on Cingular/AT&T. AppTapp, iLiberty. Installer.app. Back when Cydia was an alternate app store that no one used. Ah, those were the days.

I know, my app is available in the store right now (Storm Sim)

 

I mean for hobbyists - something cheaper and more oriented toward non-programmers.

I would love that... I don't want to spend $99. And I never will.

I have a tweak recommendation for everyone. Check out BatteryDoctorPro. Amazing app for lock screen toggles, battery control/conservation. It's free on BigBoss.

Forget LTE, allow 3G roaming and I'll be happy.

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Ah I see what you're saying. If you have LockInfo, then you can add the clock to the Weather Widget. Just navigate to Settings > Notifications > Weather Widget and verify the "Show Clock" switch is set to ON.

Oh, thank you!

EDIT: Uh oh, Weather app is crashing now.

 

I'm using the default "Weather Widget" with the Replace Background option turned off. I'm not sure if that's available on the iPad since it doesn't have the Weather app..

Mine isn't showing the time. I have an iPhone 5 as well.

Here's mine:

My jailbroken iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.

 

 

LockInfo Lockscreen

Widgets and Notifications on the lockscreen

 

Unfold

Replaces Slide to Unlock with folding animation

 

Dashboard X

Add widgets to your homescreen/springboard

 

BiteSMS

Similar to ChompSMS on Android. Allows replying and sending of text messages without leaving current app

 

Auxo

Replacement task switcher

Ooh can you give me the Dashboard X Clock/Weather Widget you're using? And I just got Unfold. Already had LockInfo and Auxo. I'll upload my screenshot in a second.

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FYI: the latest 6.1.3 build patches the exploit and breaks the jailbreak. Apparently there were two vulnerabilities and I think Apple is patching both of them... No idea why they didn't just ship one so the tool could be updated when that hole was patched.

 

Unfortunately any hole that allows jailbreaking is a hole that malware/virus writers might attempt to exploit, so I see this cat and mouse game continuing.

 

I still think Apple should have a program to self-sign code for your own phone, maybe a nominal fee or whatever to get the certificate, suitable for people who want to tinker and understand the risks.

The Apple Developer Program allows you to do that. $99 a year, and you can sign your own code. There's even an HTML5 site that allows developers to install Cydia packages without a jailbreak.

Anybody know if LTE is deployed in Ocean City?

Not yet. First spots should be appearing soon.

WThe round table format ate hairy spiders when drunk. Its towers became bloated after swallowing a mouthful of baby formula. The baby ate his poisoned barbeque chicken ribs without A1 steak sauce. Fix the chair leg before somebody trips and breaks their sister's glass. It peed shards of LTE droppings from bubbly fermented apples. Doctors gouge the helpless when options appear dangerously silly for perpendicular slicing. Around 2pm there was another explosive diarrhea attack that drove Dan to SMS SoftBank, which viciously countered MetroPCS;s audacity to compete. Meanwhile, Mexicans discovered sparkly water of Rio which tasted like rainbows. LightSquared, however, beamed sparkly clusters of spectrum at GPS, causing multitudes of bananas being paranoid about world domination. This exacerbated an enormous flock of pelicans into your mother's house. Then seagulls confronted Darla with weapons manufactured in Korea that annihilated Kim Kardashian. She fell backwards after drinking highly intoxicating tequila shots. Uncoincidentally, she tripped over and fell on her face, then vomited major chunks of beef jerky while passing gas. Afterwards, Kanye parachuted over Taylor Swift grave and randomly stomped salmonella

The round table format ate hairy spiders when drunk. Its towers became bloated after swallowing a mouthful of baby formula. The baby ate his poisoned barbeque chicken ribs without A1 steak sauce. Fix the chair leg before somebody trips and breaks their sister's glass. It peed shards of LTE droppings from bubbly fermented apples. Doctors gouge the helpless when options appear dangerously silly for perpendicular slicing. Around 2pm there was another explosive diarrhea attack that drove Dan to SMS SoftBank, which viciously countered MetroPCS;s audacity to compete. Meanwhile, Mexicans discovered sparkly water of Rio which tasted like rainbows. LightSquared, however, beamed sparkly clusters of spectrum at GPS, causing multitudes of bananas being paranoid about world domination. This exacerbated an enormous flock of pelicans into your mother's house. Then seagulls confronted Darla with weapons manufactured in Korea that annihilated Kim Kardashian. She fell backwards after drinking highly intoxicating tequila shots. Uncoincidentally, she tripped over and fell on her face, then vomited major chunks of beef jerky while passing gas. Afterwards, Kanye parachuted over Taylor Swift grave and randomly

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Finally LTE on Rt 40! Got a good signal around Sams Club/Chick Fil A in Catonsville.