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[Q] WIFI Unable to connect....

This just happened about 24 hours ago to me. i noticed it says "unable to start wifi" also i think that affected my wireless tether.
My phone has the simple root done to it. I have Astro File Manager, ROM Manager, and like i said before i did the simple root with Unrevoked3. i am a mac user, i dont know if this second paragraph of information helps.
What should i do? should i just wait for the update to 2.2 that is supposed to be updated to my phone sometime soon? i tried restoring from an old backup and also tried to do a full system clean as well but still same thing. I am a newbie to this but i feel as though i have somewhat of a grasp on this.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated

You guys sure keep the mods busy around here.
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that suggestion didnt help

I feel your pain, most responses around here aren't helpful... just negative... you'd think that if someone took the time to reply they'd just share... typical forum behavior though.
I can’t seem to find a clear answer on this… some say it works, others say it’s broke.
*watching in hopes someone can help*

yeah i am just hoping i get the 2.2 update soon and it fixes it. so i am guess i am gonna have to wait until then and then take it from there. unless someone has some ground breaking suggestion. cause, i've been looking around and it seems like this is a problem thats been occurring as of recently.

Stu_Gotti said:
I feel your pain, most responses around here aren't helpful...
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All I can say about this comment is wow...
Stu_Gotti said:
you'd think that if someone took the time to reply they'd just share... typical forum behavior though.
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This post when I commented was in the development forum.
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please somebody help me... i am in Kahuutz

lorbocaust said:
please somebody help me... i am in Kahuutz
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I have sky raider 2.5.2 and my wifi keeps trying to connect then obtain ip address then disconnects and keeps trying all over again why please?

so since nobody gave me any good feedback i decided to take on the task like a blank canvas.
Step 1: Reinstalled original Kernel
step 2: Full Data/Cache Wipe
step 3: reuploaded all of my data from last backup...
it appears everything is working fine.WIFI works great!!! I need to double check wifi tethering though. if anyone is interested i can repost if tethering is working.

My phone was stolen. Rooted with Fresh 3.4, Please help me!

Hey guys,
My Evo was stolen a little bit ago. Homeless guy (who knew my dad, so I had no reason not to trust him) came into the house, and I'm sure that he stole it.
Is there anything I can do to find it?
I've heard about the family locator and whatnot, but I know you have to have activated it before the fact.
Please help!

Borrow a phone.
Find the guy.
Call your own phone number.
Listen.
Pete

dsgn09 said:
Hey guys,
My Evo was stolen a little bit ago. Homeless guy (who knew my dad, so I had no reason not to trust him) came into the house, and I'm sure that he stole it.
Is there anything I can do to find it?
I've heard about the family locator and whatnot, but I know you have to have activated it before the fact.
Please help!
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Use Sprint family locator to find it link attached. Create an account it will show you on a map when you find him whip the $hit out of him.... twice
https://sfl.sprintpcs.com/finder-sprint-family/welcome.htm

Mobiledefense is a great app. If you get your phone back is suggest installing it
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I use look out.... Google it, it tracks your phone, makes it scream if its on silent or vibrate and you can remote wipe it or remote lock it...
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That sucks. What was he doing in the house?
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rejectedkid said:
Mobiledefense is a great app. If you get your phone back is suggest installing it
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Is it out of beta and accepting new apps I know I have it and and a account I love the app let someone steal it unless there really smart they wont ever know its there and they cant (really unless your smart/into android) uninstall it even you can turn your phone on if its off turn gps on if its off tell you if its on a floor or waist high everything make sure you get it if you dont it helped me find my lost phone

chumba8 said:
Is it out of beta and accepting new apps I know I have it and and a account I love the app let someone steal it unless there really smart they wont ever know its there and they cant (really unless your smart/into android) uninstall it even you can turn your phone on if its off turn gps on if its off tell you if its on a floor or waist high everything make sure you get it if you dont it helped me find my lost phone
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I think it is still in beta nvm.. I have it installed on my wifes Evo and mine.
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rejectedkid said:
I think it is still in beta nvm.. I have it installed on my wifes Evo and mine.
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I installed MD as a system app so even if someone factory rests the app does not uninstall.

bender1077 said:
I installed MD as a system app so even if someone factory rests the app does not uninstall.
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How do you do that?

jdh10475 said:
How do you do that?
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If you have root, move the apk to the system/app folder (or /system/data, I can't remember right now)

if rooted just go to mobile defense site and download the system flashable zip. boot into recovery and flash. this will allow you to turn on gps remotely if it's off.

Im going to give this mobile defense a try. Unfortunately they have the beta closed right now so I had to go to the site to sign up for the waiting list. This sounds like an very useful app.

Sucks.. Mobile Defense you cannot get anymore

Where's my droid is a free app on the market which I use. If you misplace your phone somewhere and it is on silent all you have to do is text it from another phone with the phrase where's my droid and it will ring on the loudest setting until you find it.
If someone steals it all you have to do it text the phrase gps my droid and it will text you back the longitude and latitude coordinates and also a google maps link of where it is at. pretty cool app.

markushi said:
Where's my droid is a free app on the market which I use. If you misplace your phone somewhere and it is on silent all you have to do is text it from another phone with the phrase where's my droid and it will ring on the loudest setting until you find it.
If someone steals it all you have to do it text the phrase gps my droid and it will text you back the longitude and latitude coordinates and also a google maps link of where it is at. pretty cool app.
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It says GPS via email doesn't work with sprint in the app market description.
Sent from the void...

elapshtc said:
if rooted just go to mobile defense site and download the system flashable zip. boot into recovery and flash. this will allow you to turn on gps remotely if it's off.
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Are there any other apps that can turn on gps remotely?

Arent all these apps battery killers?? They run all the time and destroy battery faster than anyother program

Battery killing apps < Losing your Evo

afma_afma said:
Battery killing apps < Losing your Evo
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+1 i could care less about sacrificing 2 hours of my battery life to find my phone that i paid 300.00 for...

[Q] help incoming caller id not working shows unknown

I just bought a new evo for my wife off of ebay last week. I got it activated by sprint everything was good. two days after that she told me every call was coming in as unknown. I rooted it using unrevoked and installed myns rls5 new radio all that good stuff. I then checked the caller id and still doing the same thing. I called sprint to make sure there was not a problem with my service they checked everything was good they even reset my service and caller id still doesn't work. Has anyone had this problem or know of a fix? please help.

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I just bought a new evo for my wife off of ebay last week. I got it activated by sprint everything was good. two days after that she told me every call was coming in as unknown. I rooted it using unrevoked and installed myns rls5 new radio all that good stuff. I then checked the caller id and still doing the same thing. I called sprint to make sure there was not a problem with my service they checked everything was good they even reset my service and caller id still doesn't work. Has anyone had this problem or know of a fix? please help.
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That's odd. It's happening all the time, on every call? That happens to me once in a great while, but only when it's call waiting (I'm already on the phone, then get a second call, it usually doesn't show the caller ID, but for some reason, sometimes it does) I dont know what causes, and I've never seen it reported to happen, other than when it's call waiting. So the caller id was working at first, then stopped? Then you rooted and flashed RLS5, and the same thing? That must be annoying, and wish I had a fix for ya. Are all of the contacts stored as a 10 digit number? area code + regular number? Not sure if that matters or not, but just throwing off ideas. Hope you get it figured out.

ya does it all the time for every call even for numbers stored in contacts as 10 digit numbers.

just root it and flash a custom rom rather than dealing with sprint on this one

That's what i did rooted using unrevoked 3.21 flashed myns rls5 hoping that would work and still same problem. I don't understand it had my other evo since a came out and never had anything like this happen even flashing unstable roms

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ya does it all the time for every call even for numbers stored in contacts as 10 digit numbers.
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Thats extremely odd. You are the first person I've seen report this, and I've never had it happen, so unfortunately don't have or know of a fix. Did you or your wife make any changes to the phone prior to this happening?
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I actually just googled this issue for you, and it seems you're not the only one. I've never seen it mentioned here in XDA before, but I guess your problem is somewhat known. I didn't look too deeply in these threads, but a couple people made some suggestions that they said worked. Take a look, a guy suggested removing the - from the phone number (do 1112223333 as opposed to 111-222-3333), and said that worked for him. Crazy, if that's the case, but who knows? And now that I've read that, I checked my contacts, and all are stored as google contacts, and have no -'s in the numbers, no separators. Would be a PITA, but try it, see if it works. Change your saved number in your wifes phone, so there are no -'s, then call her and see if it works. If it does, sync all contacts to google, edit them on the computer, then sync back. That would be crazy if call ID doesnt work with -'s in the number.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g/44794-caller-id-not-working.html
http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/94/t/6907.aspx

cool i will try this as soon as i get home. thank you k2buckley hope it works ill let you know if it does

zombietxff said:
cool i will try this as soon as i get home. thank you k2buckley hope it works ill let you know if it does
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You're welcome. I hope it works as well, it's always good to figure things out! Let me know if that actually does the trick! If so, I have never seen such a thing, such a little nit-picky thing on someone's part (google? htc?)
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Well, I've been messing around with my phone, trying to reproduce your problem. I can't do it. I tried saving my work phone number as 702-591-6##1. Called the evo from my work phone. Caller id worked. I saved it as a phone contact, instead of google contact. Caller id still worked. I saved it as something other than a 'mobile' contact, such as work. Caller ID still worked. The only way I could force caller id NOT to work, was if I didn't save the full 10 digit number, if it was just the 7 digit number, without area code it did not work. So I don't know how helpful the other suggestion will be. Still try it, as you've got nothing to lose. Im perplexed.

Damn still didn't work k2buckley I've tried entering the my number all kinds of different ways and still same problem even after a factory reset
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zombietxff said:
Damn still didn't work k2buckley I've tried entering the my number all kinds of different ways and still same problem even after a factory reset
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Yea man, I don't know if you noticed, but I edited my last post. I couldn't reproduce your issue no matter what I tried. I'm lost on this one, out of ideas at the moment. Good luck, I hope you figure it out. Maybe take it to sprint?
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k2buckley said:
Yea man, I don't know if you noticed, but I edited my last post. I couldn't reproduce your issue no matter what I tried. I'm lost on this one, out of ideas at the moment. Good luck, I hope you figure it out. Maybe take it to sprint?
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I tried doing some research as well...and couldn't find anything. I'd take it to Sprint [unrooted of course] And say it happened after you updated your PRL and installed the newest OTA.

cool thank you for your help unrooting taking it to sprint tomorrow. ill post the outcome it might be helpfull to someone later. so frustrating not to be able to fix it myself lol

zombietxff said:
cool thank you for your help unrooting taking it to sprint tomorrow. ill post the outcome it might be helpfull to someone later. so frustrating not to be able to fix it myself lol
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No problem, but that was a rather uncommon problem though. They should at least exchange it for you.

Malware? UpgradeDroid.apk

So my wife was on her Evo when suddenly the browser opened and started downloading something called DroidSpeedUpgrade.apk. The website I traced and it gave me a forbidden 403 from my PC, but did allow me a DL of the apk from phone. I did not install, look at the crazy permissions! Any idea what this is, or how it opened on my wifes Evo (cm7)?
Thanks
Below is the APK, I wouldnt install it, screen shot is the permissions...

I would backup all apps [except that], then do a fresh re-install of CM7.

teh roxxorz said:
I would backup all apps [except that], then do a fresh re-install of CM7.
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I would question if there's already a malware app on the phone if the browser automatically opened to that page.
Check through unfamiliar apps and the permissions associated with them.
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jackslim said:
I would question if there's already a malware app on the phone if the browser automatically opened to that page.
Check through unfamiliar apps and the permissions associated with them.
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That too is true, but hoping he did that already. Though either way, I firmly believe she should do a clean install again; at least go through the last 10 apps she installed, and like said, check the permissions.

If I were to wipe fully with a clean install of a rom, and not log in to Google or restore anything, what damage do you think this could do if I installed it out of curiosity?
I know it could get my phone number, info and whatnot. That alone would probably keep me from doing it... but what's the worst that you think it could do?
If I had an unactivated Android phone then I might do it.
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plainjane said:
If I were to wipe fully with a clean install of a rom, and not log in to Google or restore anything, what damage do you think this could do if I installed it out of curiosity?
I know it could get my phone number, info and whatnot. That alone would probably keep me from doing it... but what's the worst that you think it could do?
If I had an unactivated Android phone then I might do it.
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Your curiosity is like mine, I am tempted to just install it, lol. See if the app can be found in app drawer or what, if I can do anything with it, and so on. My wife doesnt have any credit card junk stored on phone, but has a bank app, so that is all bad by itself! Wait, Amazon Market has credit card linked to it, so in theory they can get password and get credit card info from Amazon. On top of bank passwords, all bad! Maybe I am being paranoid, but this rouge apk seems to have to many permissions for it to just install like that.
I have a unactivated LG Optimus S here, I will install it on that and report my findings
edit...INSTALLED!!!
OK, it is just a Task Manager, on the outside that is. What it does is mask itself as a battery saver/task killer. Meanwhile it sends and recieves text messages that cost YOU $9.99 each! Says a minimum of one per week will be sent and or received. If works with either Sprint or Tmobile, according with terms and conditions, which are carefully hidden. For the average user its gonna fool them, the app by itself would not be so bad so one would think they got a awesome app. Meanwhile your Sprint bill is racking up $9.99 texts, I guess you can get them reversed by sprint. But if you have autopay set up it may take a bit to realize you bill payment was a couple hunderd over normal cost Just be on the lookout, the app may do more than what I found, I only scratched the surface of it.

Just create a nandroid backup, turn off your mobile network, install see what it is, then flash back
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Khilbron said:
Just create a nandroid backup, turn off your mobile network, install see what it is, then flash back
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see post above yours, i installed it. its all bad for anyone who does get fooled into installing this on a activated phone

cordell12 said:
see post above yours, i installed it. its all bad for anyone who does get fooled into installing this on a activated phone
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That blows, good catch

Will it do that to my phone if I turn off all data and place it on airplane mode then install, Check it out then uninstall it then turn airplane mode off.
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Will it do that to my phone if I turn off all data and place it on airplane mode then install, Check it out then uninstall it then turn airplane mode off.
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it's best not to find out with something like this
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Will it do that to my phone if I turn off all data and place it on airplane mode then install, Check it out then uninstall it then turn airplane mode off.
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It has permission to change your settings, so it could turn data back on. It can also read your phone information - phone number and such - so if it can send this information out then it can definitely do damage.
I wouldn't try it.
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It also gives the user magic powers and allows the user to live forever. THIS is a must install. LMAO! However, I WOULD PERSONALLY *that is if I had time to do this* DECOMPILE THIS CRAP AND SEE WHO THE HELL MADE IT AND WHERE IT IS SENDING OUR INFORMATION TO. then, I would track the person down. and put a bullet in their head or heads. I don't play games with identity theft. oh and we all know the two places they are likely from. either china or Africa. Well, in Africa... I firmly believe most of them should all be put into a grave. :-D
Does this make me a bad person? nope... it sure doesn't. I'm protecting americans. Actually. the government does this on a daily basis. They murder hundreds of people over seas for oil. :-D We gotta have our oil. :-D lmao If they come over here, they are terrorists. If we go over there, we are terrorists. :-D as I just went way off subject...
okay okay. don't install it. final. and why would you install something that you know for a fact is a phone virus? How stupid is that? We need a platform that can tests apks OUT OF A REAL phone environment. like a virtual mobile computer like vmware.
okay, I'm done. bedtime!

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the government does this on a daily basis. They murder hundreds of people over seas for oil. :-D We gotta have our oil. :-D lmao If they come over here, they are terrorists. If we go over there, we are terrorists.
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wow really?

good lord... i haven been uninstalling this on my customers phones for 2 weeks now... anyone, get a full decompile on it?

[Q] To devs or anyone...please help!!!!

Here's the problem . My friend has an Stock Epic 4g and it eventually bit the dust. She can still access the download screen via 1+power buttons but other than that her phone won't turn on. Now, thats not the problem. I can fix that. The problem is that she had very important text messages in her phone and we're trying to see if there's a way to retrieve them before I "unbrick" her phone. has anyone found a way to pull info off the phone before undergoing restoration and deleting everything? I apologize in advance if the answer is already on here somewhere. I searched and came up with nothing in our forums except for the text message history viewer on sprints website that is no longer there and besidesm even if it was, these texts are from around christmas. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

I think you're pretty much stuck. I had the same problem once and never managed to get it working. If you can somehow make a backup of the messed up system that would be great. If the phone is stock, I don't think there's a way to do that.

Tomcat5 said:
I think you're pretty much stuck. I had the same problem once and never managed to get it working. If you can somehow make a backup of the messed up system that would be great. If the phone is stock, I don't think there's a way to do that.
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no, there's not. I thought of that too. I was wondering if maybe i plug the phone into my computer maybe there's something that can take everything from the phone and copy it to my computer? or even just view the system folders in hopes that I can get the text messages that way but i dunno if that's even possible.

No. She's screwed. Tell her to back up next time.

k0nane said:
No. She's screwed. Tell her to back up next time.
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OUCH! When I give people bad news I at least hand them a bottle of petroleum jelly first! Yes this is an attempt to make a very dry (or is that wet) joke! Sorry had to.
On topic I don't know if you can mount the system w/adb once it is in that state and k0nane would know more and if he is saying no I doubt it.

I am by no means an expert but... could you odin in the recovery, get into CWM, make a backup, extract the data image, pull the messaging data and then restore after getting the phone functional?
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tinslwc said:
I am by no means an expert but... could you odin in the recovery, get into CWM, make a backup, extract the data image, pull the messaging data and then restore after getting the phone functional?
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at that point you would of over written what the person needs

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at that point you would of over written what the person needs
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Wouldn't that just reflash the recovery partition? OP: Try this if you haven't just reOdin'ed yet. It wouldn't damage the messages any more than they already are.

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Wouldn't that just reflash the recovery partition? OP: Try this if you haven't just reOdin'ed yet. It wouldn't damage the messages any more than they already are.
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That is what I was going for, just overwriting the recovery partition like you would for rooting GB. You could even try to bring it back to life by flashing a kernel and see if it would boot. Neither of those operations should delete data.
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I agree with the above. Don't odin it, try reflashing the recovery partition, nandroid everything to sd, THEN unbrick, restore data.
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Try the nandroid restore and see if that works. U should be able to get into cwm
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djjoshplacid said:
Here's the problem . My friend has an Stock Epic 4g and it eventually bit the dust. She can still access the download screen via 1+power buttons but other than that her phone won't turn on. Now, thats not the problem. I can fix that. The problem is that she had very important text messages in her phone and we're trying to see if there's a way to retrieve them before I "unbrick" her phone. has anyone found a way to pull info off the phone before undergoing restoration and deleting everything? I apologize in advance if the answer is already on here somewhere. I searched and came up with nothing in our forums except for the text message history viewer on sprints website that is no longer there and besidesm even if it was, these texts are from around christmas. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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Make sure you tell her that her boyfriend still loves her even though the text no longer exists.

Download google voice from the market and you should see your texts there. For whatever reason, all my texts have been saved even though I've wiped my phone many times for different ROMs.
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b16flybye said:
Download google voice from the market and you should see your texts there. For whatever reason, all my texts have been saved even though I've wiped my phone many times for different ROMs.
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That is only if you have voice integration.
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I suppose I'll keep voice integration as a habit for my device. its a good way to keep those important texts. Just need to be sure the lady doesn't go through the phone and stumble upon old "secret" ones.
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