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    Help New to TB, some questions?

    Hello all, My wife just got a Thunderbolt - her first smartphone. I'm an rooted Eris owner, but after reading this forum about the reboot problems and the battery issues beginning with an update, I wonder if I should do an update or not. Her is the current phone info: Android version...
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    Root FYI - Flashing ROMS & the Kindle App

    Imagine my surprise when I went to open a purchased book on my Kindle App, and was told that I had exceeded the max number of devices registered to my Kindle account. Upon further investigation, I found that each time I flashed a new rom, it registered as a new device on my Kindle / Amazon...
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    Root Strange fluke with the 4.2 & 4.5 xtrRoms

    I upgraded to xtrROM 4.5 just to try out the cache2cache, and I encountered an odd fluke; my POP3 mail account would not receive any emails. I could send an email to my work account, or Gmail account, but I could not receive any mails. I tried re-flashing, re-entering my user info several times...
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    Root XTRrom 3.03 observation

    I may be crazy but I think this rom runs faster withOUT setCPU installed. Took it off after reading some of Frisco's and others observations, and I think it runs smoother & faster with no OC and setCPU removed from phone. Battery seems soooooo much better without me mucking things up!! Would...
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    Help aHome constant FC - Can't boot!!

    Is there a way to boot into my Eris Safe Mode? When trying to turn on my phone last night, I get a force close pop up telling me aHome has stopped working, "Sorry"... I've been searching since midnight for a way to start Safe Mode, or a step by step of what to do in recovery mode. I have a...
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    Home Switcher question

    I've read that s ome have turned off Sense and have seen an improvement in performance and battery life running vanilla ANDROID. If one uses Home Switcher does that accomplish the same thing, or is Sense still running in the background?
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    New Eris Owner's Observations.

    Greetings, I've been lurking here trying to learn all I could about the Eris, and yesterday I finally pulled the trigger and became an Eris owner. Gave up the old LG VX8300 I've been using for longer than I can remember... I wanted to share some early observations from a real newbie; some of...