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Now I'm playing the waiting game can't wait to get mine in I will not root it its no point for me rooting it but is there any apps yall recomend getting for it or cases?
Thanks in advance
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I will not root it its no point for me rooting it..
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Heh, that's what they all say in the beginning. I said that too and it lasted.... about a week. I rooted the other day to get the Multi-Window update to work with all apps not just the handful that Samsung limits you to.
I don't know app wise, but if you get tired of the Touch Wiz limitations, I can recommend Nova Launcher. That's probably the best update I have done to this thing. Add much more flexibility to the phone.
I rooted mine as soon as i got home, took about ten minutes....if that. Titanium backup is essential to me ever since my OG EVO.
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Heh mine lasted about 3 hours without rooting while I got familiar with the features of the phone.
I rooted as soon as I got home. Copied the Titanium backup directory from my old phone and restored my apps.
Thanks for yall response I will be getting my phone in today can't wait the part that I don't like so sdvo and it looks like they won't enable that in it
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I ordered mine from wirefly last night. I will have it on Tuesday. I can't wait. I've read through probably every thread in the GmbH forum. Jeez I hate waiting
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I ordered mine just yesterday and it's supposed to arrive on Monday afternoon. I can't wait!!
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I ordered mine just yesterday and it's supposed to arrive on Monday afternoon. I can't wait!!
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Also from Wirefly? I ordered mine on the 15th at 9am and even paid for 2nd day delivery and it's also getting delivered Monday around 7pm :banghead:
I called them and they reimbursed me the 2nd day fee
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I got mine and it's awesome phone love it
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I got mine and it's awesome phone love it
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I'm jelly!
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I'm having gps issues it lock on once and now it won't
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I'm having gps issues it lock on once and now it won't
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Hmmm...I'm seeing tons of partial kernel wakelocks from Google Maps while sleeping overnight.
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I'm having gps issues it lock on once and now it won't
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GPS is taking a LONG time to connect for me. Sometimes I give up, restart Navigation and then it connects in about a minute. But the initial connect is WAY too slow.
My EVO 3D would connect in about 30 seconds max, this thing takes many minutes.
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GPS is taking a LONG time to connect for me. Sometimes I give up, restart Navigation and then it connects in about a minute. But the initial connect is WAY too slow.
My EVO 3D would connect in about 30 seconds max, this thing takes many minutes.
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Something must be hinky. Weatherbug Elite locks on in seconds here. Rooted up to date stock ROM.
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Something must be hinky. Weatherbug Elite locks on in seconds here. Rooted up to date stock ROM.
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Yes, GPS in other apps seems ok, but in Navigation(Google) is what is taking forever.
My Galaxy Note 2 just started acting very strange recently.
When I try turning it on, it shows a battery with a circle in the middle then turns off and keeps trying to turn back on showing the battery with the circle. I'm assuming this is low battery but its not because just a few minutes earlier it was working and had 85% battery.
I can use Vol+home and get into twrp recovery without a problem and it shows 85% battery but I don't want to reset my phone right now? Does anyone know of a solution?
Also strangely yesterday I was having trouble trying to get it to charge it took a couple of attempts at inserting the charger for it to work.
I have a SGH-I317M running Cleanrom if that matters...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried to turn it on without battery? Just pull it out then connect the mobile to a charger (or PC). If it will open up, then suspect from your battery. Otherwise, might be something different causing this. (Because battery or electricity malfunctions screwing electronic devices and set them to act bizarre, I saw that before)
I just tried that and no response whatsoever are you sure it can turn on even without the battery and just from an outlet?
I had the same problem with my Galaxy S2. I had 3 batteries and have bought 2 more....all 5 do the same thing. USB OTG stopped working at the same time, though it still connects to a PC. Also my yellow triangle disappeared at the same time when the metal connectors seperated from a USB cable and got stuck in the port. I suspect that it fried something.
I tried different ROMs before I gave up last week and bought a GN2 instead.
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So my only option is to get it replaced for another one :/
Could this be the sudden death syndrome? What does that look like?
What about the exynos error?
Have you tried clearing cache and dalvik cache in twrp?
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Have you tried clearing cache and dalvik cache in twrp?
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I just tried that, I even gave up and did a factory reset. Same result it keeps trying to turn on and then shows empty batter then turns back off and repeats that.
I also left it in the charge until it reached 100% still same problem.
Do you have a second battery? Try it with a 2nd one. If not working than return and claim warranty.
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I don't have a second battery, I'm going to have a little issue if I return it because its rooted with a custom rom... Will they be able to figure that out?
Can you boot in download mode? If yes then can Odin recognise the phone?
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Can you boot in download mode? If yes then can Odin recognise the phone?
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Yep I can do that and odin recognizes the phone.
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Yep I can do that and odin recognizes the phone.
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Try to flash a stock rom for your variant and see if it fixes it!
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Try to flash a stock rom for your variant and see if it fixes it!
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I just tried that, still same issue.
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I just tried that, still same issue.
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Atleast now you're on stock rom. Find a nother battery if possible or return it.
Good luck.
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Atleast now you're on stock rom. Find a nother battery if possible or return it.
Good luck.
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I still have the issue of the custom binary thing showing more than one... hopefully they don't look at that.
If your phone doesn't turn on I doubt they'll find out
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Maybe the triangle away boot image can be flashed manually via odin then binary reset. But I am not sure if it is even possible.
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If your phone doesn't turn on I doubt they'll find out
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Well if I hold vol- and home while turning it on I can get into download mode where it shows the number of times of flashed it.
Ooh then your conned mate X_X hard luck I guess. I just read the full thread my bad and sorry for your loss cant seem to understand what happened to it, not sds for sure
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Since December I've been running CM10 on my GS-III with little to no issues. I flash CM 10.1 mid January and even though it was an unstable nightly it was very stable.
Flashing the nightlies as they became available with no issues at all.
Then today my phone starts slowing down and froze up.
Keep in mind that I hadn't flashed a nightly in like a day or 2 do I had been using the past nightly as a daily driver.
When my phone decided to freeze I rebooted it and it booted just fine.
About 2 minutes in the screen goes black. Holding the power button it's unresponsive.
Now my phone is completely unresponsive to all button presses. I've tried the 3 button combos for recovery and download mode with no luck. I've even held the buttons for a full minute but nothing is working.
Is my phone dead or is there a possibility of resurrecting it?
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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No you're not insulting by asking that. I use to record music and when something wasn't wasn't working that's the first thing we asked and re asked.
Unfortunately I do believe I checked that out. When I plug in a charger it doesn't even show me a battery charging logo.
I have noticed that when I pull out the battery and connect the charger the led turns red.
I'll see if i can't swap batteries with one of my friends and see if that helps.
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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I'm checking that right now
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Well unfortunately there's no response from adb or phone.
However the computer does make a usb device connected sound.
Not sure if that's just a standard sound from the computer or if the phone is triggering it.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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Android_Monsters said:
Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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A usb jig should do it most of the time it do work and if it doesn't oh well you could sell it out for parts i guess ?
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You would probably make most of your back if you sold it for spare parts and may only have to pay $50 for a replacement. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand how a jig is going to help him when the phone won't turn on.
I would try another battery first. You said you were going to try this but I don't see where you confirmed that it wasn't the issue.
Hmm you could have ran into that now infamous mb crash and burn error although I'm not sure how since you were running aosp. Anyone else want to chime in?
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If the battery truly died plugging it in won't be any help
Try another battery, I'm betting that's the issue. T-Mobile will have one or two on hand in store so you can try
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a spare battery to test this with as soon as I'm off work.
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Well unfortunately the spare battery i used on my phone was no good in getting the phone to respond.
Now my next step is to attempt to hope that the jig will do something for my phone.
If not i guess that i will have a nice paper weight of luxury lol
Either that or i can sell it to someone.
So far those are the only options that i think i have at the moment.
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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He cannot flash anything his phone doesn't answer to anything i don't see how he could do that..
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The phone is dead. My friend's gs3 died suddenly one day while I just happen to be using it. I plugged in an otg plug and few minutes later the screen just went black. I was sure it was dead when I plug in a charger and there was no sign of life from the phone.
I don't know if you have to pay a deductible but Samsung is supposedly replacing galaxy s3 for free because there is a known defect which cause the motherboard to go bad. My friend's was a Verizon model and they just replaced it free.
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I juat have a question in regatds to battery drain issue. It seems like evrytime i unplugged my phone from the wall charger battery goes down to 99% right after. Any one having issue like this? I recalibrated it using rhe app and still the same. Im using ktoones latest kernel and rom.
Any suggestions?
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I juat have a question in regatds to battery drain issue. It seems like evrytime i unplugged my phone from the wall charger battery goes down to 99% right after. Any one having issue like this? I recalibrated it using rhe app and still the same. Im using ktoones latest kernel and rom.
Any suggestions?
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Happened all the time to me. Before you unplug it next time reboot it and let it charge the rest of the way.
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Happened all the time to me. Before you unplug it next time reboot it and let it charge the rest of the way.
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Ok. Ill try it. Thanks
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That's pretty normal. I wouldn't worry about that 1%
It doesn't seem to matter what rom I'm on my phone randomly just shuts down about five times a day. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks!
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What roms have you tried and what are you using now? You did a clean installation right? Factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvik cache?
What did you do before this happened?
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Yes I always do a clean install system wipe, factory reset, clear cache etc. I've used about every Rom I think... the only one I can remember not having this issue was darthstalker x1. Right now I'm on stockaroma version 2 and it happens all the time. I even odined back to stock and reflashed and it still happens. I like multi window a lot so I hate to go backwards.
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Have you tried to Odin back to stock and NOT flash a Rom?
If not, give it a shot and let us know.
Also, it could be your battery has finally given its last. If you don't know someone with an s3 go to a T-Mobile store and they should have one you can test with.
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Now that I think of it, I'd get the battery checked before flashing anything else.
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Yes when I was on stock it actually shut down during the first boot. I did notice that after flashing cyanogenmod 10.1 I charged it all night and it was at 100% charge but as soon as I unplugged it then it instantly dropped to like 10% that only happened once though. I guess maybe my battery it's jacked...
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Are they able to check batteries at T-Mobile? I'd hate to buy a new one they're pricy if that's the case I might as well pick up a gs4.
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They should have a known good one you can try. Plug it in and see if the reboots quit. No idea if they'd let you borrow it for a day, but I don't see why not.
If it dropped that quick though, I'm pretty confident that it's related.
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Yes when I was on stock it actually shut down during the first boot. I did notice that after flashing cyanogenmod 10.1 I charged it all night and it was at 100% charge but as soon as I unplugged it then it instantly dropped to like 10% that only happened once though. I guess maybe my battery it's jacked...
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it could also be that you need to clear the battery stats, my brother in law has had that issue many times after flashing CM on several different devices, but it could still be a jacked battery, am a licensed electrician and i can tell you while it does happen often for me because we buy so many products (obviously) that we get bad items directly from the manufacturer.
How can I clear the battery stats? I used to do this all the time under advance in clockwork recovery but I don't see it there on this phone. Thanks!
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MotoDefier said:
we get bad items directly from the manufacturer.
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This happens way too often. Not just electronics, either.
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How can I clear the battery stats? I used to do this all the time under advance in clockwork recovery but I don't see it there on this phone. Thanks!
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Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ignisoft.battery.calibration
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Well I charged my phone to 100% and calibrated the battery and not two minutes later it shut off for like the eighth time today... I'm going to go ahead and order a battery on eBay and if it keeps doing it I'm getting a gs4 and my s3 will be for sale lol.
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Well I charged my phone to 100% and calibrated the battery and not two minutes later it shut off for like the eighth time today... I'm going to go ahead and order a battery on eBay and if it keeps doing it I'm getting a gs4 and my s3 will be for sale lol.
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Is it a new phone?
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No it's a year old.
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Just since I calibrated my battery last night my phone has already shut down five times. That's so frustrating... Hopefully slapping a new battery in it solves my issues.
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Just since I calibrated my battery last night my phone has already shut down five times. That's so frustrating... Hopefully slapping a new battery in it solves my issues.
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dont worry it should, if not i know its been a year but tmo should replace it under faulty equipment, i have had phones replaced for faulty equip. two and three years later, dont forget to go back to stock and reset binary and flash counter.
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dont worry it should, if not i know its been a year but tmo should replace it under faulty equipment, i have had phones replaced for faulty equip. two and three years later, dont forget to go back to stock and reset binary and flash counter.
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So the battery didn't help at all. Just for fun I flashed darthstalker X1 again and it seems to be working fine now. Weird... I'll try to get to the bottom of this but I'm boggled.
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One more thing it was doing was when I'd turn the screen off it would always come back on. It would do that two or the times before it would stay off then half the time the phone crashed. It's not doing that now either and I had that trouble on several different roms.
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Nevermind it's still doing it my phone must be jacked....
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Nevermind it's still doing it my phone must be jacked....
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I had those same issues on my motorola defy when I was over clocked and running the v6 supercharger script at the same time.
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