Tag: T-Mobile

A Samsung Galaxy 8, Phantom Notifications, and @Tmobile’s Dreadful Support

This is a blog of two topics. The first, a brief technical explanation of a problem with my Samsung phone after an upgrade to Android 8.0 (Oreo) pushed by T-Mobile, the subsequent debugging, and hopefully help for anyone else experiencing the issue. The second, my horrible experience with T-Mobile Twitter-based tech support. On April 2,…

April 13, 2018
T-Mobile’s Poor Implementation Works Against Amber Alerts

Just over a month ago, I received a pop-up alert on my Samsung Galaxy 3 (via T-Mobile) with a standard, and persistent, emergency broadcast noise… Emergency alert Longmont, CO AMBER Alert: LIC/245FLJ (CO) 2001 Blue Ford F350 Pickup truck Type: AMBER Alert The noise stopped briefly, then picked back up again until I tapped “OK”.…

July 5, 2013
T-Mobile SMS Disclosure

Yesterday while waiting for a friend to arrive for a movie, I got a curious text from an unknown number with a 337 area code, saying that I had the wrong number. Since I had not called or texted that number, I replied as such. A few texts later, the stranger sent a screenshot of…

June 5, 2013