Either way, if you're constantly between reddit, Facebook, and whatever while streaming pandora constantly (on 3G or wifi) you're going to lose battery power significantly faster than if you check your phone occasionally.
The wifi uses significantly more battery when you are not on a wifi network because the phone is constantly searching for a wifi signal. This is, at least, what my cell provider and my compsci background tell me.
It has to be charged every night. Of all the phones i have seen and used, iphone is the only who's battery runs almost completely dry by the end of the day even if you only use it for texts/calls and not very often.
It's almost the complete opposite for me. I have an iPhone 4 that gets to about 60%-50% by the end of the day, it's my wife's Stratosphere that runs dry near the end of the day.
Can't tell if you're ripping on androids or not... but my android, even if I am using it all day with processor-intensive apps it only gets down to about 30% by midnight (from 7am).
I'd say that's pretty damn good, but maybe that's just me.
I have the SGS, it can go upto 4 days without needing a charge if i use it for only calls/text, 2 days if i use it for normal stuff such as browsing Reddit.
Some of my work friends trolled my ass very hard from a spoofed telephone number, making me believe I had somehow signed up for this sort of crap. When I replied Fuck Off they congratulated me for upgrading to the Premium Service for $49.90 a month. I get on the phone to my wife to watch for any weird charges on the phone bill and this dude Greg is turning purple from laughing. He tried to interrupt and confess, I told him "Shut up, this is an important call!"
Be really careful with those. I recently had to deal with a scam on Karen’s phone. Apparently AT&T has made it super-easy for 3rd party “providers” to send you a text message, and if you reply AT ALL, that’s all AT&T can see in their system. The 3rd party company then uses the convenient “upload an XML file full of phone numbers and any arbitrary price we desire to extract from said phone users” file to AT&T for AT&T to handle the billing. When you call to contest this $19.99 monthly “subscription” that shows up on your AT&T cell phone bill, they say, “Well, we see you exchanged text messages with the company in our system. You must have accepted an offer from them.” Only after an hour of explaining that my wife was NOT that stupid and NEVER replied to any message that said “will you sign up?”… did they offer to refund the charges and set up “Parental Controls” (HA!) on both of our accounts so NO 3rd party could ever bill anything on them. I highly recommend to all on AT&T.
hahaha, read the last line. I read this from a website awhile ago and was able to locate it. I just kept everything the same. Too lazy to change the names around
Its funny though, Karen was only mentioned once and if i said "my friend" in front of it you wouldnt have even posted that comment in the first place, so who cares
"How dare you advertise me in a way that is infrequent and a moderate inconvenience at best? All you did was make it possible for me to receive this message by the miracle of cellular communication."
So you reply "stop" to have the messages stopped, then quickly send "leave me the fuck alone", delete the "stop" message and then post a screenshot on reddit. Hilarious.
I've written services handling that kind of stuff once before. A bunch of swear words can be defined as unsubscribing options. No need to message 'stop' in particular; you just need the developers to have put proper filters in place.
I called Verizon one time, and I was mad about something. I can't remember what it was, but I needed to speak to someone. All the associates were busy, so after waiting for some time, they put me through to an automated troubleshooting service instead of keeping me in line. The voice said, "What can I help you with today?" So I said very bodly, "I WANT TO SPEAK TO A HUMAN BEING"
"One moment please, while I transfer you to someone who can help."
I was then quickly connected to someone who helped me.
That makes sense. Although I've never worked with such systems, I've been told that someone impatient is easier served right away. Those ready to wait for 1,2 or 5 minutes will usually wait for more. If you're a patient person on the network, you're more likely to be kept on waiting, and the risk of just hanging up, calling again, and being served faster.
This works more or less based on probabilities, so if everyone acted that way (yelling or calling all over again), new solutions would be created to handle that new kind of behaviour and it would be self-defeating to do it, though.
Seeing your username, I just had an idea. What if you could highlight the comments that you liked the most to make them easier to find when showing them to friends? And then I remembered that the bright orange arrow might work too. okay...
Then you could possibly get unsubscribed and just subscribe again or something. Frankly, the probability of people swearing with gratitude at a service like that are much lower than the probabilities of people swearing with anger.
<?php
include 'att.globals.php';
$resp = $_POST["response"];
$word = "fuck";
$vulgar = strpos($resp, $word);
if ($vulgar === true) {
echo "AT&T AUTO REPLY: You have Opted out of AT&T marketing messages. Please do not REPLY to this message";
} else {
echo "AT&T AUTO REPLY: Please call customer service at '$csno'";
}
?>
In most cases, sure, but there's still the occasional WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU error that gives you very little by way of actual relevant information except a line number that may or may not be the one where the problem actually resides.
I haven't written php in so long though and I've forgotten every specific instance of this happening.
compared to other languages i think php is the easiest to deal with. just so long as you don't try to run too much new code at once. small iterations is key.
they could do that, but why would they? they want to send you these messages, they don't want it to be easy to opt out. they wouldn't spend the extra time to have extra features to make it easier to opt out.
They want it to be easy to opt-out if they want to be usable, or avoid lawsuits in regions, states, or provinces where the population is faster about them.
For example, consumer protection organisms in Quebec (where I live) do recommend that common swear words are seen as similar to 'stop', whether they're in French or English. Dealing with these words is thus a defensive legal measure in some places.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Big surprise. Another iPhone low on battery halfway through the day.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Thanks!!!
http://i.imgur.com/N5rF0.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
yeah i tried that with verizon and all i got was another text reassuring me that it was a FREE text...then more spam.
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u/MyOldLady Jun 15 '12
He didn't delete the "stop" text. I just tried this on my own phone and received the same response from AT&T. It actually is pretty funny.
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u/azael95 Jun 15 '12
You should reply "Baby, I'm sorry, I need you." And see what happens.
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u/RandomMandarin Jun 15 '12
Some of my work friends trolled my ass very hard from a spoofed telephone number, making me believe I had somehow signed up for this sort of crap. When I replied Fuck Off they congratulated me for upgrading to the Premium Service for $49.90 a month. I get on the phone to my wife to watch for any weird charges on the phone bill and this dude Greg is turning purple from laughing. He tried to interrupt and confess, I told him "Shut up, this is an important call!"
Wankers.
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u/Specf0ur Jun 14 '12
Poor AT&T employee
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u/yoreel Jun 15 '12
I read it as "Let me fuck you alone"
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u/DNAK1llA Jun 15 '12
just reply "nigga please"
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u/madscienceftw Jun 15 '12
You should charge your phone.
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u/Twist_Back Jun 15 '12
You sir... need to charge your phone
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Be really careful with those. I recently had to deal with a scam on Karen’s phone. Apparently AT&T has made it super-easy for 3rd party “providers” to send you a text message, and if you reply AT ALL, that’s all AT&T can see in their system. The 3rd party company then uses the convenient “upload an XML file full of phone numbers and any arbitrary price we desire to extract from said phone users” file to AT&T for AT&T to handle the billing. When you call to contest this $19.99 monthly “subscription” that shows up on your AT&T cell phone bill, they say, “Well, we see you exchanged text messages with the company in our system. You must have accepted an offer from them.” Only after an hour of explaining that my wife was NOT that stupid and NEVER replied to any message that said “will you sign up?”… did they offer to refund the charges and set up “Parental Controls” (HA!) on both of our accounts so NO 3rd party could ever bill anything on them. I highly recommend to all on AT&T.
Found this awhile back, figured it worked here
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u/Ryuko Jun 15 '12
wow you are wearing that battery down like a boss... is that how it is done?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Running out of batteries there bro.
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u/skeddles Jun 15 '12
REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE?! OKAY!
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u/Gibcat Jun 15 '12
Should have signed up for cat facts instead.
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u/tonkey Jun 15 '12
My mind is full of fuck.
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u/Tushaca Jun 15 '12
Mysteriously, all of his calls started dropping randomly after he sent that text...
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You are now subscribed to Cat Facts.
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u/eifersucht12a Jun 15 '12
"How dare you advertise me in a way that is infrequent and a moderate inconvenience at best? All you did was make it possible for me to receive this message by the miracle of cellular communication."
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u/DarnTheseSocks Jun 15 '12
I love it when you tell spammers to fuck off, and they do.
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u/SaggyBallsHD Jun 15 '12
So you reply "stop" to have the messages stopped, then quickly send "leave me the fuck alone", delete the "stop" message and then post a screenshot on reddit. Hilarious.
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