[Q] activate NEVER USED box device with new carrier topic

Hi,
I recently bought an HTC One M8 in the USA and shipped it Israel.
The device is new and was open for the very 1st time in Israel.

Apparently the phone can't be activate and be used is another carrier unless it was 1st activated in Sprint.

Is there something I can do from out side of Israel?

[Q] Kindle Fire with CM11 Otter will not activate Gapps topic

I loaded CM11 snapshot from Nov 2014 from CyanoGenMod using TWRP. It loaded fine and booted fine. I then loaded Gapps for CM11 full version. The Gapps loaded but I could not sign into Google account to activate the Google Store. I also could not load into Google Account email. I have tried two additional Gapps packages, a micro and a small, with the same results. I do a factory reset before installing the Gapps.

I really only need Google Store, if I have that then I can load what I want, which isn't much. The first Gapps package said it was for 4.3, the second one said 4.4 and the third one 4.2. I would think all of these Gapps packages should work with my CM11 Otter 4.4 ROM.

I have searched for solutions but have not found much except to make sure I have the latest TWRP. I loaded TWRP 2.7.1 before I flashed my ROM.

Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you.

How to activate hidden Private Mode on Lollipop? topic

While playing with QuickShortcutMaker I found 'Private Mode' in settings. This allows us to hide content you want to keep private. I could go up to setting a pattern lock but in the last screen it just could not get activated. Can this be done?
Thanks,

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