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Galaxy S3 Watering Hole

Klin - congrats on your rooting progression :party:

The following is intended for the rooting/hacking WH'ers:

As it looks like your getting deeper into rooting/customize your phone I would say this is a good time to back up your IMEI. Your IMEI is a unique identifier that every cellphone has.

The GS3 has a bug that can cause it to be corrupted and wiped when flashing things in recovery (roms, mods, backups). If this happens you will lose data and can be a real PIA.

How to backup your IMEI:

download a terminal emulator from the play store
open the terminal emulator
type: su (then hit enter)
type: reboot nvbackup (hit enter)

Now your IMEI is backed up incase you ever lose it.

Excellent advice there Trent. Thanks!
 
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Klin - congrats on your rooting progression :party:

The following is intended for the rooting/hacking WH'ers:

As it looks like your getting deeper into rooting/customize your phone I would say this is a good time to back up your IMEI. Your IMEI is a unique identifier that every cellphone has.

The GS3 has a bug that can cause it to be corrupted and wiped when flashing things in recovery (roms, mods, backups). If this happens you will lose data and can be a real PIA.

How to backup your IMEI:

download a terminal emulator from the play store
open the terminal emulator
type: SU (then hit enter)
type: reboot nvbackup (hit enter)

Now your IMEI is backed up incase you ever lose it.

Now if you ever lose your IMEI

open the terminal emulator
type: SU (then hit enter)
type: reboot nvrestore (hit enter)

I don't know what I would do without you ! Especially since I have no idea (not do I care to know) what a imei does....

But, back to the Google play store I go.... happy Sunday funday !
 
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Morning everyone! I don't know what I missed yesterday - you guys are all very talkative!!! I hope everyone had a good day and is having a good one today too so far.

Hey there BB! As per usual not much really happened.

I got drunk.
Treb got wet.
X cooked another excellent meal.
K'lin tried to look after us.

And, oh yeah, there was some football discussion...
 
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Morning everyone! I don't know what I missed yesterday - you guys are all very talkative!!! I hope everyone had a good day and is having a good one today too so far.

You didn't miss to much, just the same ole hole antics... Rachel stole Trebs secretary after Treb kicked her off the game room couch so Dawn could watch the football. I went on yet another date with P'Lin, X was kinda absent since he had company, (although he managed to get a few comments in). And, by the amount of muratic acid I put in the pool, I believe, someone broke in last night .

Pup, Trent, AD, Metroid, Jmart and GBig stopped by last night and as far as I can tell, all is well with the rest of the crew.

Just a another day in the hole... Hope you have a great day BB
 
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