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    a year later...

    It's over a year since I got mine. Insurance is worth whatever you pay for it. The phone got heavily damaged after it tried to commit suicide by leaping off a shelf. It still worked but it was kinda bent. They shipped me a new one next day (after 'deductible'). This phone is a Ferrari. It's got...
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    Help Location function for apps

    If all of the location functions are turned off on the phone, apps that request location permissions get nothing, correct?
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    email alerting tips

    I'm connected to work email via Exchange. I want to be alerted to emails but I get thousands of them, so I only want to be alerted to a small subset of them. Is there a way to go about this?
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    Help take your Kies and.....

    I kept hitting SOFTWARE UPDATE to update to ICS. Stupid me... the rep told me I had to install Kies. Naturally Kies doesn't work under linux. In fact, it also doesn't work under Windows. The OS sees the tablet and installs drivers. Kies sees that the tablet connects, brings up the...
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    Help Where does the battery go

    My coworkers are experiencing all sorts of difficulties with their Ones. I like mine. The other day I charged my phone by 3pm. By 11pm, it was in the yellow. This was odd. I checked on what used the battery and there was nothing out of line. BT, GPS, wifi, and almost everything else is...
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    Help Phantom flashing - ghosts?

    My tablet lives in its case. The other day I left it sitting out of its case and noticed flashing. It would flash like it was booting up, then stop. Minutes later it would flash again. I restarted and I don't believe it has happened since. Seems pretty weird. My TMobile rep said ICS...
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    Help Zombie Apps

    Taking advantage of ICS's ability to shut off unneeded or unwanted apps, I killed Maps, Google+, and Google Movies. POOF, they're back from the dead, re-enabled. I've seen this before and I'm not impressed.
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    T-Mo ICS

    FWIW, my T-Mobile rep said to expect the ICS update in August.
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    Root Just got the One

    It took a while but the phone arrived the other day. Likes: weight, screen, speaker, battery life Dislikes: no hard menu key - why did they move it to the screen?, shared SD card, can't remove battery The first charge lasted two full days plus (but I turn a lot of stuff off). Got...
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    I upgraded

    I'm in Philly and just updated. It came down pretty quickly in 4g. Took a while to install and booted right up. The first thing I noticed is that it `upgraded' my connection to 2g. Very impressive. It also made the very fast phone crawl at everything. Since I use Zeam launcher, things don't...
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    Zeam!

    I've had my Sensation for a year and it's about time to upgrade. But just for fun, I installed Zeam launcher, which I installed on every Android phone I have used. The battery time shot through the roof. I'm on day three [keep in mind no live wallpaper, no social apps, no gps or location]...
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    Help tw launcher ate my battery?

    I fully charged the tablet Friday. It sat in its case til Sunday, at which point the battery was almost gone. The unit was in airplane mode. I use Timeriffic to keep everything shut off til I need it. Upon checking for what was eating the battery, Tw Launcher was the culprit. What could...
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    linux connecting smoothly

    The Galaxy does NOT like linux, not that anyone should be surprised. What did surprise me was that there were even errors connecting to Windows. In any case, the following url nailed the process: Connecting Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Linux Apparently the system does not `see' the...
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    Mine went in for repair

    I noticed that the battery was taking FOREVER to charge. Then the unit just died, refusing to power up or charge (2 different chargers and cords). I did a very frustrating dance between Tmobile and Samsung and finally wound up sending my not quite 2 month old tablet to Samsung. To their...
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    Help Linux

    anybody else use linux as a primary operating system with this phone? The Samsung Sensation showed up beautifully. The Galaxy tab not so much. Is the One plug and play?
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