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    Goodbye my S3 rooting friends...

    Goodbye all. After 2 years of rooting pleasure me and my S3 have parted company as she can't live with little Miss Xperia Z2 who has now taken up home in my jeans pocket. It's been a great ride and I'm sure your new owner will take care of you; but for now I am moving to pasture new...
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    What makes a 4g phone ..4g?

    Bit of a silly question...but what makes a phone 4g? Is it a software upgrade (different modem etc)? Is it different hardware? Or is it as simple as a SIM switch?:confused:
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    Mounting A 64gb SDXC Card In The S3

    Picked up a 64gb SDXC Kingston card and thought I would share how I got it mounted and working. After a bit of research, many people were saying that the card should work out of the box, or reformat to NTFS first. Or just stick it in the phone, go to storage, and format it from there. Didn't...
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    Root [International] Going Back To Stock

    I rooted my phone out of the box 9 months ago. It's never booted up with stock rom so this should be interesting!! I need to run as stock because I am having problems with multiple freezes to the point where I am pulling the battery everytime I do something, or not!! Hoping that I will...
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    Root [International] Battery Life Has Nosedived

    The battery life on my phone has nose dived in the last 48hrs. I've changed nothing on the phone, but I took it off charge at around 7am this morning and by 13:00 (now) I'm down to 5%. No phone calls, a bit of facebook, probably less than 5 mins combined, and 10 mins tethered. Running Omega...
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    Whats App Spam

    Hi all, Not really an S3 question, but as the app is running on a S3 thought i'd ask here. I'm being spammed via Whats App. I am receiving up to 15 messages a day asking me to confirm my number to win an iPad, when you click through, if you agree to the T&Cs you will be billed
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    Help Lockscreen Picture

    Hi all, Having a problem with my lockscreen picture. I like my lockscreen to have the same picture as my phone wallpaper but for some reason the image I have on at the moment won't change. I have tried through Display > wallpaper and tried both the single lockscreen option & the combined...
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    Just jumped from the good ship HTC!!

    Hi all, After several years as a HTC user, the last 2 with a DHD, I have jumped ship and taken delivery of my shiny new Galaxy S3!! Hope the banter on here is as good as it was in the Desire forums.....now lets get this bad boy rooted :D
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    Today (3rd) Is Upgrade day!!

    Yep, Orange have sent me an email and today is the day I can upgrade...yaaay! It's going to be hard to give up my adopted baby but the DHD has to go :( The question is what next?? HTC isn't an option at the moment due to non expandable memory, so it's looking like either the SG3 or...
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    Root Dual Boot

    Been thinking about whether this was possible then found this on Google and also a couple of threads on the forums: How to Dual Boot Multiple ROMs on Your Android Phone Anyone tried to set up a dual boot? Thought it might be good to have my daily ROM and have something else like the new...
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    Root Rooted WFS - Can't add sync accounts

    Just flashed this ROM: [ROM] Unofficial Cyanogenmod 7.2.0-RC1-marvel-KANG (UPDATE) All went well but when I go to add accounts to set up Playstore etc, the only option I get is to set up an exchange mail account. Been through the dev thread on XDA but can't find an answer. Normally when...
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    Root Problem with HTC Dev bootloader unlock

    Trying to root a wildfire s with the HTC dev tool. I understand that the S-OFF route I would normally take is closed, or so I'm lead to believe. Installed the RUU but failing at the next step where I need to past the 'Token' into the provided screen. I get the following error: We're sorry...
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    Need help with locked wildfires.....

    Ok, I have been given 4 HTC wildfires from a company that has gone into administration. The issue I have is that all four have a numeric password lock and they have all had attempts made to access them which has resulted in them being completley locked. My plan was to root all 4 and sell...
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    Root Need to move apps to SD card

    Have rooted my sons Hero to enable him to install more apps, but can not move any apps to SD card?? On my phone (DHD) I use Titanium, installed it on the Hero but do not see the move option? Had a look at a couple off apps, move2sd etc but all are incompatible with phone? Without going...
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    Help Anyone using Evi??

    Have installed Evi search tool on my desire. The text answer service works really well, but can't get the speech recognition to work at all? Running the Absolution ROM, could this be the issue?
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