Gather 'round, folks. This is the third installment of Android Police Files and the first to contain letters submitted after we started the series. As you would expect, many emails we receive come in the form of questions, and some submitters keep their requests short and sweet. Unfortunately, we couldn't satisfy some of them even if we wanted to.
But we do our best. We really do. If we weren't here to serve, we would throw our wisdom up behind a pay wall. So without further ado, here are your questions.
Letter #1
Subject: Jeremiah Rice
Text:
Hello, Could you please ask Jeremiah Rice to email me or phone me???
Thank you so very much, XXXXXX
--
XXXXXXX Esq
XXXXXXX Esq & Associates PLLC
Telephone: XXXXXXXXXXXX
CITY
URL_OF_LAW_FIRM
NOTICE:
1. If you are not a present client, ideas and opinions expressed in
this email are NOT legal advice and should not be relied upon as such.
If you have a legal problem, do consult an attorney of your choosing
with no delay: Strict time deadlines and time limitations nearly
always apply to legal claims and issues.
2. This email may contain attorney-client privileged communication or
attorney work product.
3. This email cannot be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of
avoiding any penalties that may be imposed under the Internal Revenue
Code.
4. If you have received this email in error, please delete without
copying or dissemination and notify sender by reply email, so that the
address can be corrected. Thank you.
When asked what this is about:
Hello Artem, I read some articles he posted and I need to buy a phone
and I am a dunce about phones and hoping somebody kind will help me--I
have no one in my life who I can ask for help with this. I pretty
much know what I need, but I need help accomplishing the task and am
not sure which choices to make. Thank you, XXXXXXXX
After we all caught our breath and confirmed that we weren't being sued, Jeremiah was greatly disappointed to find out that he wasn't being hit on by a lawyer either. Since it looks like there's little chance of this blossoming into a relationship, he left it up to Artem to answer the question. Naturally, as the new guy, Artem kicked such an easy question over to me. So here goes:
Buy the Moto X. It has funny ads.
Letter #2
Subject: Every thing
Text:
I like to join to get info on most things
Sure, that's why I joined. I'll put in a good word for you.
Letter #3
Subject: Video Earrings
Text:
Hello Android Police,
We are a new striving hardware design company with cutting edge fashion forward design with technology. Our product is different, original, and will cultivate your minds from the first glance. We are glad to introduce Video Earrings, a catchy device that plays videos right from your ears. We want you to please view our video on the following link so we can get approval to submit an article to your website. You will be amazed at the next generation of technology that incorporate fashion to amaze our target audience.
[EMBED_VIMEO]https://vimeo.com/67226422[/EMBED_VIMEO]
Thanks,
Video Earrings
This is a brilliant concept, and we were all ready to push this product as hard as we could - but then we watched the video all the way to the end. Macklemore's Thrift Shop was the perfect music video to demo these earrings with, as it reminds us to avoid excessive spending, and while that may be hard to do given that we spend our days drooling over reporting on the latest gadgets, we're grateful that we at least avoided caving this one time.
Letter #4
Subject: google play store on Karbonn S5 Titanium mobile has stopped. could not solve need your help to fix it
Text:
To resolve the problem please call me.
We're not phone tech support, but here's a free tip: if you want someone to call you, leave a phone number.
Letter #5
Subject: (no subject)
Text:
Help me! With this please
I would! Love to help you
Letter #6
Subject: licenses applied to my phone without permission our knowledge
Text:
Some how my first phone was rooted without my permission and open source software was applied to my phone and now my phone is being monitored and is deleting my files, changing passwords, deleting pictures and videos. Since I became aware of this on 8/18/2013 and Verizon was aware of my issue, there was not much they can do other than send me another phone and it is still being monitored and basically keeping me locked out of my phone now. I went into my
Google+ and saw my activities under my phone
number pertaining to questions in regards to set
up my phone to a computer system. When I tried
to go back in Google+ I am completely locked out
of my Google account to go back and tee read the
questions. Is there any information I need to
present to you in offer to track down this criminal
who as illegally accessed himself/herself to my
phone? I have a little bit of information but I can't release through the internet because I do not what I have changed.
Any help would be appreciated.
I see your problem. You should have never called Verizon for a problem related to open source software. You should have instead googled the name of the program and a description of what it's doing wrong. The one line of code that you should copy and paste into the terminal will be buried on the 8th page of a forum lurking somewhere on the third or fourth page of Google results. If it doesn't work, try the code again using sudo.
Letter #7
Subject: (no subject)
Text:
hey i want your Google Nexus 7 Giveaway please can i have it?? Please :(
The entire giveaway - isn't that a bit much?
Letter #8
Subject: Winner/prepaid MasterCard my name is XXXX YYYYYYYY I was selected to win one of 10 $4600.prepaid MasterCard's today 09/25/2013 from Android. I gave them my information and they informed me that my address was not valid. It IS valid. I verified it so with MasterCard. So what is up? I want to receive my winning card. Contact me at xxxxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com I want to receive my winning card. Sincerely XXXX YYYYYYYY
Text:
Sent from my Kyocera Hydro
Your typing out the entire message in the subject conveys to me just how urgent this matter is. Nevertheless, I must still direct you to Android Police Files #1. Everything you need to know is in the title of that post.
That's All Folks!
Don't worry, there's always more where that came from. In the meantime, feel free to take a gander at the last installment. There are some oldies but goodies tucked away in that batch. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for my Screenster to arrive.
As always, you can reach us at oh.no.its.the@androidpolice.com. Don't let our penchant for sharing messages dissuade you from talking to us. We know we're blabbermouths, but at least we've never published any identifying information thus far, and we never will.