Recent content by MrMelQuin

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    why no flash player for this phone??????

    Donovan, the phone also has a GPU, but almost no one is taking advantage of it. I'll pull up some specs when it's not 2AM. ;) *added* The GPU is also a Qualcomm product. While clearly not a Tegra 2 or an Andreno 220, the Andreno 200 in the thrive has the specs to run Flash on a 320 x 480...
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    netflix for thrive?

    On my Thrive, the colors are messed up--like an old color newspaper with misaligned color plates. I'll try again soon to see if there is a newer version.
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    Being billed

    You need to configure your phone to disable mobile data. This leaves Wi-Fi enabled. The phone shown here is a never-rooted Thrive running Android 2.2.2 (Froyo). This should work on 2.2.1 as well. (The USB and DEBUG icons in the status bar are there to let me take screen shots using Droid...
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    Thrive GPS

    Good news and bad news- Bad news- all of the stock mapping apps stream to a cache. Good news- the phone has WiFi, and the data plan is not needed to use WiFi. We have two Thrives, neither has a data plan, and one isn't even in service. The WiFi works on that one too, even though the phone has no...
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    Firmware Update on the Phenoix released

    Thanks- worked for me as well.
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    Force 2g/EDGE on LG Phoenix?

    Re: Force 2g/EDGE on LG Phoenix??? A silver lining is that the phone's hardware is intact. On another brand of Go-phone, they physically disabled the WLAN/WiFi functions. I haven't found a parallel in the Thrive yet, but I'm puzzled as to why ATT would disable those options on a Phoenix...
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    Firmware Update on the Phenoix released

    Same here. We have two, and one had little problems with an OTA. The other one will never complete checking or will give me the exact error you describe.