I sold a rooted Evo with MIUI and now the buyer is unable to activate it. Is it true that Sprint won't activate it since it is rooted? Would a different ROM make a difference? The buyer has tried to unroot it, but has been unsuccessful. She only has a 64mb card right now, so I think that might be why she can't unroot it. I told her to get a bigger sd card and that might help. I've seen other rooted Evo's being sold, so I didn't think it would be a big deal to sell it as a rooted device. Any advice or suggestions? Thanks.
If rooted with unrevoked : get S-on tool on your sd card and flash from recovery and run a ruu from PC. No need for a bunch of SD space.
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Revolutionary
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Its the miui just have her flash the classic by tommytomato and call in they will activate it right up i just swapped my evo for my et4g the reactivated the evo on my line that had an intercept on it, all 3 devices were and are still rooted and were rooted during activation the girl i talked to while activating was asking if i had rooted my phones cuz she had rooted her et4g and was recommending roms for me to try on it sprint really doesnt care if u root unless ypu admit ypu bricked the device when trying to get a replacement. everyone i deal with at sprint is always bragging about their rooted phones and tech support gives me root onlu options to try when trouble shooting issues like data loss , so just have her flash a rom with the epst wprking and it will be able to activate yoi have to use dialer codes during activation and epst is required for them to work miui doesnt have an epst in the rom which is why she cant actovate
edit: ignore all the typos im still getting used to the keyboard being so much bigger than the evo lol
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The evo holder only has a 64mb SD card.
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Well that sucks i didnt even know they made micro sd that small you can get an 8gb for 20 whats a 64mb 99 cents?
Edit: walmart has 2gb for $5 , 8 gb for 20 and 16gb for 30 a 2 gb would be enough for a cpl roms but 8gb is more practical for the evo i use a 8gb and a 16 gb have the 16 in my main phone which was the evo now the sgs2 et4g and put the 8 back in the evo but honestly the sgs2 could function with an 8gb rather nicely since it has a 16gb internal sd that u can use just like the external u can even flash from it so having my 16 in here is kinda overkill since i have 20gb free with all my stuff on here, anyways 5 bucks for a 2gb to get flashed and activated isnt bad or 20 to be set for a while would be the best option so she doesnt spend 5 on a 2gb to just turn around and spend 20 in a few weeks when the 2gb is crammed to the gills
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Well that sucks i didnt even know they made micro sd that small you can get an 8gb for 20 whats a 64mb 99 cents?
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Lmao
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The other option short of buying an sd is for her to run a ruu from her pc because a stock/stockish sense rom with epst is the ONLY way to activate it, however using an ruu theres a real solid chance of her losing root and locking up the bootloader
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The other option short of buying an sd is for her to run a ruu from her pc because a stock/stockish sense rom with epst is the ONLY way to activate it, however using an ruu theres a real solid chance of her losing root and locking up the bootloader
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Yeah, I think if you buy an evo without an SD card or with a 64mb SD card and need some else to help you run the device, you might not need a rooted phone anyway lol.
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Yeah, I think if you buy an evo without an SD card or with a 64mb SD card and need some else to help you run the device, you might not need a rooted phone anyway lol.
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This is true although some ppl only root for a few options and never leave stock the biggest reason 99% of ppl seem to root is free wireless tether *shrugs*
Edit: damn typos eventually ill figure out how to type on this keyboard its so much bigger i hit the key next to the one im goin for lol
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This is true although some ppl only root for a few options and never leave stock the biggest reason 99% of ppl seem to root is free wireless tether *shrugs*
Edit: damn typos eventually ill figure out how to type on this keyboard its so much bigger i hit the key next to the one im goin for lol
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Lol ill be right there with you in a week or two, I'm gonna grab a new one hopefully for about four hundred, and save my upgrade for something else(if they get anything thats worth it).
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The evo holder only has a 64mb SD card.
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That's weird, my EVO came with a 6gb card.
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Lol ill be right there with you in a week or two, I'm gonna grab a new one hopefully for about four hundred, and save my upgrade for something else(if they get anything thats worth it).
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My dad has a phone fetish he went evo>3vo>photon>et4g then switched to att and got the sgs2 then the note all since august when the 3vo came out lol i got the evo and photon and et4g i hated the photon so much i never activated it then the et4g i had for 2 weeks then decided to try it and i was on the phone with sprint swapping my evo for it then swapped my intercept for the evo so now o got the et4g as my maim phone and the evo as my 2nd line which this thing makes my evo feel like a laggy dirty screened pile of junk i keep wiping the screen on it trying to clear it up cuz the et4g is so clear compared to it this thing just flies too i can do 5 full reboots while i wait for the evo to boot once
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THREESTRIPEBRAND said:
The evo holder only has a 64mb SD card.
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That's weird, my EVO came with a 6gb card.
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I find it weird that yours came with a 6gb and not an 8gb.
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My dad has a phone fetish he went evo>3vo>photon>et4g then switched to att and got the sgs2 then the note all since august when the 3vo came out lol i got the evo and photon and et4g i hated the photon so much i never activated it then the et4g i had for 2 weeks then decided to try it and i was on the phone with sprint swapping my evo for it then swapped my intercept for the evo so now o got the et4g as my maim phone and the evo as my 2nd line which this thing makes my evo feel like a laggy dirty screened pile of junk i keep wiping the screen on it trying to clear it up cuz the et4g is so clear compared to it this thing just flies too i can do 5 full reboots while i wait for the evo to boot once
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That's alot of phones. Are the radios treating you good? Also how much of a pain was the rooting process?
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EL29 sucked but i flashed the leaked fb21 and my data om 3g went from 100kbps to 1mbps rooting only took about 10mins most of which was waiting for odin to load and unpack the rom i had to read for a few hours cuz its wayyy different than the evo amd the recovery is baked into the kernel but the actual process was simple and painless once i knew what the terms meant and ****
Edit: the nice thing is no locked bootloader just grab the one click odin for simple root access then the auto root nodata and it will do everything in one click then open auto root choose your rom (mine was stock el29) and type a few letters and enter in auto root and it flasbes a kernel with the rogue recovery and u can then flash any custom rom u want ics leaks are usually flashed with odin cuz they dont have recovery baked in yet but the leaks are all touchwiz leaks of the sprint ota
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How are everyone planning to upgrade wen the new 3d comes out. My full upgrade is 2 years, which would be next year. Hows that work?
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i am going to being buying it on june 24th lol
Of course if u buy it outright, but ive been seeing about upgrades, maybe its the $75 upgrade there talkin about?
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I had sprint for like a three months and they gave me a free upgrade randomly.Its been six months since and in just about to use it for the 3D. Never found out why they gave me it, didn't really ask questions.
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I am going to use my upgrade for the 2nd phone. They said even though my first phone is technically the one that is supposed to get the upgrade, I can just transfer it to the 2nd line
Alot of these guys know how to work the system.......
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Yea I know you can use some one elses upgrade, but im jus sayin im not the only one without a real upgrade on my line right. Everybody should have to wait til next year right, without a workaround?
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No they're all probably calling in and having their upgrades reset. People do it all the time....I've seen it with my own eyes.
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Upgrades reset?
Wow didnt know bout that. Thats crazy. Who do you gotta talk to??
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Upgrades reset?
Wow didnt know bout that. Thats crazy. Who do you gotta talk to??
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It's not always so easy. When my wife had the crappy samsung moment, it took me sending in that phone 5 times for a warranty replacement and them wanting to give me an even crappier phone. BBB did the trick
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Of course if u buy it outright, but ive been seeing about upgrades, maybe its the $75 upgrade there talkin about?
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I'm eligible for a $75 discount, but not a $75 upgrade AFAIK.
Regardless, I'm not ready to move to the 3D until a few good devs go and the device is proven in the wild. They're really banking on the bleeding edge and the gimmick crowd on this one. I'm sure there will be something even better closer to when we're all due for a full upgrade next year.
Yea im not upgradin either, especially with these sense 2.1/3.0 roms comin out, really no reason. By next year though im thinking our evos wont be able to handle the roms, so I might upgrade to something new.
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I'm planning on upgrading to the Epic Touch 4G when it comes out, but my upgrade isn't due up for a few more months. However, my mom's phone is long overdue for an upgrade, and she's going to get my old Epic. My question is, can I use her upgrade on my line while transferring her line to my old phone?
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It actually depends on where you buy it from i think
On wirefly there us a large fee if you use on a different number
Atleast thats what i heard
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Just upgrade her line then a day later call sprint say the new epic is too much for ur mom *a lie* and u wanna swap phones
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I'm planning on upgrading to the Epic Touch 4G when it comes out, but my upgrade isn't due up for a few more months. However, my mom's phone is long overdue for an upgrade, and she's going to get my old Epic. My question is, can I use her upgrade on my line while transferring her line to my old phone?
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I have done this many times. Have done it at the sprint store and radio shack. Just tell them you want to upgrade this line but you want to swap phones. I did it when I got the Epic. I did it to upgrade my daughters phone. And when I put my daughter on the account I gave my wife the new phone and my daughter her phone. Right at the counter each time.
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I have done this many times. Have done it at the sprint store and radio shack. Just tell them you want to upgrade this line but you want to swap phones. I did it when I got the Epic. I did it to upgrade my daughters phone. And when I put my daughter on the account I gave my wife the new phone and my daughter her phone. Right at the counter each time.
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This. I just did this when I got my nexus. I wanted to wait for the epic touch. However my mother in law really needed a new phone. Her moment finally died lol. So I just used her upgrade for the nexus and switch the phone right there at sprint. So she got my old epic and I got the nexus s4g.
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crawrj said:
I have done this many times. Have done it at the sprint store and radio shack. Just tell them you want to upgrade this line but you want to swap phones. I did it when I got the Epic. I did it to upgrade my daughters phone. And when I put my daughter on the account I gave my wife the new phone and my daughter her phone. Right at the counter each time.
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Alright, that sounds good. Thanks for the help everyone!
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Alright, that sounds good. Thanks for the help everyone!
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No problem dude
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ok guys ive just about had enuff of my evo from all these reboots...it reboots when im texting or surfing the web or on a phone call or using the gps...ive tried everything from flashing different roms to doing a complete wipe with partitioning sdcard. ive ran out of options on this phone..i am thinking of getting a 3D off contract since my upgrade is not till sep. but if i do get the 3d do i still have to unroot my evo or na since this is will b my first upgrade with sprint.....i do want to get the evo LTE tho as my upgrade...either way idk what do to about this situation
Sprint won't even check. If you have insurance, use it. Sounds like a hardware problem. Do yourself a favor and don't get the 3d. Terrible phone. Better off finding a crappy flip phone til the EVO LTE launches. Just curious, did you used to overclock your phone?
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Sprint won't even check. If you have insurance, use it. Sounds like a hardware problem. Do yourself a favor and don't get the 3d. Terrible phone. Better off finding a crappy flip phone til the EVO LTE launches. Just curious, did you used to overclock your phone?
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lol dang that bad huh...n na i dont overclock...i used to when i first had CM7 on my evo back in the days lol
Ya it sucks. It seems to me like a lot of the people I see with hardware issues are ppl that OC their phones. I have only overclocked a phone to benchmark it. Other than that, always underclocked. You do have insurance I'm assuming?
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Ya it sucks. It seems to me like a lot of the people I see with hardware issues are ppl that OC their phones. I have only overclocked a phone to benchmark it. Other than that, always underclocked. You do have insurance I'm assuming?
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yeah i do have insurance so ill jus use it...one question tho..if i was to unroot it would it fix it or is the damage too much for it now
Won't fix anything if the phone is damaged. Have you tried running a stock Rom on it?
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Won't fix anything if the phone is damaged. Have you tried running a stock Rom on it?
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na but i think ill try that tho n see what happens...thanks again for ur input on this..
No problem. Let me know how it goes
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I think that before you throw in the towel completely, you should run the RUU for your phone and start over. not sure what base your stock was (I never upgraded mine, ever and have the stock/rooted ROM still), but I think you did the right thing in reformatting your SD Card, but you should have gone the next step and ran the RUU, then just left it stock for a day to see if the problems persisted or not
Do you have an extended battery by chance?
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Do you have an extended battery by chance?
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What would that have to do with it?
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What would that have to do with it?
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There's a thread on themikmik.com about some people had reboots because of extended battery.
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How long have you had the phone. My EVO did that to me, then it started overheating and boot looping. I called HTC and they fixed it for free. I was rooted S-OFF running FRESH Rom when I shipped it out. They kindly unrooted it for me before it shipped back but no problem there LOL
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What would that have to do with it?
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Depending on the battery, there's some reports of the connection not sitting exactly right, and any little movement or what not will cause relentless reboots.
Saw it in the Amazon reviews for the extended battery I bought a while back, but it turned out my reboots were unrelated unfortunately Haha.
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There's a thread on themikmik.com about some people had reboots because of extended battery.
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Haha yup and I was the one who brought it up
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Well is the screen going blank then you have to hit the power button? Mine ended up being the processor fried in mine. ( maybe because I left it on the car charger in the middle of August for 6 hours) but I don't know...
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Just lost my phone in taxi I'm rooted also have face unlock and pattern unlock secondary. Is there anything I can do to assure the finder can't use it. Or can I track it. I'm on monthly 4g so no insurance!
That sucks man. As for gps locating your phone I believe that's offered by your insurance, or if you had any type of Norton, kaspersky, trend micro etc security on it. They offer stuff like that. Otherwise you might be SOL. As for them getting in I don't know. Maybe someone else can shed some light on that answer.
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Go to the play store from your computer and download "plan b" it will be pushed to your phone and allows you to track it.
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A buddy of mine used "Lost Phone" app from Play store
I hate how easy it is for someone to look up how to wipe a phone and easily bypass all security. Usually when someone finds a phone, that person doesn't want to know your stuff.
Where's my Droid can also be pushed, and then you can get it's location
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did u ever set up Lookout on you phone? it comes w/it.. if you maybe randomly did one day, you can find it with that
2nd to the Plan B. That works amazingly. Also, check if you have a cab receipt. You might be able to use that to identify which cab specifically had the phone. You can call into their dispatch office and ask for that cab. Lookout is awesome too.
I called the cab said he saw no phone. Another passanger could have gotten it. I'm not even going to bother now what's done is done. Thanks to you and everyone for your help. I wanted a new phone anyway maybe my wife will get me one for fathers day. I'll wait and probably get a note or galaxy nexus I'm sticking with Samsung I have a windows and a iPhone at home but don't feel like it I can't go backwards .
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I called the cab said he saw no phone. Another passanger could have gotten it. I'm not even going to bother now what's done is done. Thanks to you and everyone for your help. I wanted a new phone anyway maybe my wife will get me one for fathers day. I'll wait and probably get a note or galaxy nexus I'm sticking with Samsung I have a windows and a iPhone at home but don't feel like it I can't go backwards .
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Or you can wait and preorder gs3
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Or you can wait and preorder gs3
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I find that the GS3 is not much of a significant upgrade from the GSII. I would much more suggest a Galaxy Nexus since it will still be relevant for many more months to come. The GN comes with pure stock ICS not that TW crap. The GN is almost certain to receive jellybean directly from Google pretty quick while the S3 will have to suffer through what the SII just went through from GB to ICS
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Or you can wait and preorder gs3
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I thought about that but I'd be paying full price I have monthly no contract. And since the the note is dual core as well as the s3 I rather the larger screen
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I find that the GS3 is not much of a significant upgrade from the GSII. I would much more suggest a Galaxy Nexus since it will still be relevant for many more months to come. The GN comes with pure stock ICS not that TW crap. The GN is almost certain to receive jellybean directly from Google pretty quick while the S3 will have to suffer through what the SII just went through from GB to ICS
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I get what your saying also I hate that stupid button on the s3
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I get what your saying also I hate that stupid button on the s3
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Should've went with nexus style all screen.that was kind of the point of ics
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I would recommend setting up a pin lock on your next device, that way whenever the phone is restarted it prompts you for the pin. It doesn't matter if it's been wiped or not, it registers with your carrier. Also, as added security, I use Avast and from there I can remotely wipe my sd card and the phone, thus removing any chance of someone getting any of my personal info.
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Should've went with nexus style all screen.that was kind of the point of ics
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I totally agree don't know why these manufacturers still making new ics devices with buttons. Besides the nexus the only other device I see with on screen is a new Motorola phone coming out.
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I would recommend setting up a pin lock on your next device, that way whenever the phone is restarted it prompts you for the pin. It doesn't matter if it's been wiped or not, it registers with your carrier. Also, as added security, I use Avast and from there I can remotely wipe my sd card and the phone, thus removing any chance of someone getting any of my personal info.
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I will definitely do that especially for the SD wipe part I was more worried about that . I changed all my passwords starting with Google account and Facebook
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Oh and you should leave your gps enable all the time because i realize that all those apps does not have the capability to turn it on.
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Oh and you should leave your gps enable all the time because i realize that all those apps does not have the capability to turn it on.
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I do I just haven't install any of those apps but I'll with new phone
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Well my lovely wife surprised me when I got home early fathers day gift $400 for what ever phone I want now just to choose note or galaxy nexus. I'm getting the note now second choice eBay or Amazon I've never used eBay but got some good prices. PS hey if I loose the note I'm an ass that phablet too big to loose lol. But will definately secure it
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Getting the optimus later today. Is there anything I should know before hand?
What rom/mod/tweaks would you guys recommend? I used to own the evo 4g
Its new and in a way hesitant cause there isnt a sd card slot or removable battery
I love this phone. I can't really speak on any of the roms but even stock it rocks! It does have some issues with some Bluetooth receivers though but other than that I have had no problems.
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Getting the optimus later today. Is there anything I should know before hand?
What rom/mod/tweaks would you guys recommend? I used to own the evo 4g
Its new and in a way hesitant cause there isnt a sd card slot or removable battery
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You should know that it's awesome.
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you will be blown away by this phone. especially after using an evo. my wife cant believe how bad ass this phone is either lol