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    Root possible perma bootloop

    after reverting back to stock, holding power + vol down does nothing. have retried kdz firm C and F 4 or 5 times now. should I just kick the bucket and get a new phone? or is there something else I could try. ty in advance ;)
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    1080p purple video

    is not purple anymore after flashing C firmware. tested on bobz rom and pg 08/05 build (btw switched from version F)
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    Root sweet, ty lg. metro

    wake up this morning phone is off. try to turn it on and what do you know "lg security error" morning call cannot be varified the **** is this. nothing has changed since last reboot. will i go and try to flash it or will i throw it, along with all purchased apps from google play out...
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    cellular unlocking getting media attention?

    Opinion: Unlocking your cell phone is no crime - CNN.com --author Derek Khanna "On January 26, a ruling by the Librarian of Congress made unlocking a cell phone for use on other carriers illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Unbelievably, such a policy means that...
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    Root lg-motion in a vm?

    could i just use the files from the pinned unbrick guide, along with the proper android.iso to get a virtual motion running? i've used ics in vbox before so i'm basically just wondering about actually getting the motion specific packages built on to it after words, i'm guessing i would just run...
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    so im thinking about grabbin a new phone

    im plannin on getting the u. s version if the S3. but my concern is that i dont know enough about up and coming products. are there any devices released already or said to be released with upwards of 3gb+ ram?
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    specs

    can someone tell me if i get the u. s at&t version of this phone will it be coming with 2g ram or 1gig ram. sorry i wouldnt need to ask but i keep seeing conflicting articals stating it only has 1gb which im guessing the International version has or something. even the att website...
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    Root new update + stock 1.5mhz

    has anyone done any recent clocking since the update rolled out? i haven't, cause i pretend not to care on the outside. but if anyone has let us know your results!
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    Help program icons

    anyone else notice their icons changing? like the ones that would previously just show a little droid? specifically my google services framework icon got updated to a little puzzle piece eith out me noticing in the last 3 hours
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    SkEye

    howdy everyone. does anyone know why the free skeye planetarium is listed in google play, but not the pro/donate version? you can only buy it from amazon or slideme. does anyone have any insight as to why google wont put it on theirs? its a great program and i was willing to dish out the 9...
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    screen protectors

    just an fyi to everyone buying those over priced things, spend the extra 2 dollars and buy the privacy version, it's way way way better quality, thicker and it feels good on the fingers, not to mention the whole "privacy" benefits as well ;D p.s i thought i'd never solve the issue of my fingers...
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    remote attack: dirty line of code threatens S3

    check this out if your planning on buying an s3 for metro coming out, i'll also be posting this in the s3 sub forum directory, but i chose to put it here as well as i know many metro users planning on buying one. "Even more worrying is the concern that the attack can be increased so a USSD...
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    strange app draining background data

    its simply called 10105, i just want to know what it is. another one that caught my attention simply has the name/description of removed apps, whats the purpose of that really. is it just the apps i have had but currently uninstalled? or is it something sinister like apps that are not there but...
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    Help google play

    my google play is now force closing with out even showing signs of loading up past 1.2 seconds, it doesnt even give a warning. i've wiped data uninstalled updates and it still didnt work. i found a person with the same issue on the xda forums, but there was no reply. even trying to dl from...
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    ICS google earth fc?

    hi all, i've already asked this in my lg-motion-4g forum sub directory, but no one there is having a problem. so i'm wondering if i can find someone on a bigger scale that had or has the problem i'm experiencing. basically google earth worked for the day i bought the phone, then after that it's...
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    Help google earth

    google earth fc every single time at boot, i thought it might be network location is disabled, but i enabled it and same thing, is anyone getting these same results? its not a bad "install" of the app.
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    Help security

    has there been some kind of intrusion threat/virus threat that has been discovered for so many antivirus programs to get over 20000 people rating on them? what would they be basing that rating on anyway, just app usability? i'm going to mess around with the features in avast mobile security, i...
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    voice privacy/encryption

    has anyone had any luck finding this setting anywhere? i know atleast a couple phones from metro have it. i had a normal glance and i couldnt spot it
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    Help RAM

    what exactly is the deal with the random access memory. i mean i would've bought it anyway if the provider/manufacturer listed something lesser than 1gig, but they didnt. but according to the built in task manager /running apps apparently it only shows about 700ish mb total. is the other...
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    strange text from 400000 metro

    it seems like an update was trying to be applied to my phone and for what ever reason it failed and left me with a strange text message, i say (failed) update because the first few letters in the text read as follow: //BREW:0x01079633:!1...
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    Help update dec, 15th

    i dont know exactly what happened, as it had to of happened at around 4 or 5 am. when i woke up my phone whas on the floor and off, which made no sense to me because i had to plugged in charging. The phone was dead which i thought was also strange. I tried to turn it back on and no go, so i...
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    Root overclocking_ I/O sheduler/scaling

    planning on making this a thread for beginners who've never overclocked or chose to choose an i/o sheduler, (perhaps also to possibly show what you can do with our devices compared to more mainstream devices) and show some results with various scaling modules, frankly i dont know too much about...
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    Help accidental mutli-texting

    Has anyone had their phone send the same text message two or 3 or 4 times just by hitting send once? It's starting to happen more and more frequently, i have flashed the phone before i dont think it has to do with the rom i'm using, but could a bad flash be the culprit? Every thing else on the...
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    Root delete thread : indulge locked messages?

    when i go to delete messages from my phone and i have the need to select all to delete, a box will pop up saying 'Delete selected threads' then below there is an unchecked box with the description 'indulged locked threads' and i cannot check it. someone tell me wtf is this do i need to grant...
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    Root phantom process(s)

    I dont know what the deal is, maybe the individual bit's are getting stuck. Here's the break down. When you first turn on the phone, you can call/text and clear the ram (on my phone) for the first 2 hours or so will be at about 200mb freed up memory, if i dont clear it up and let it keep...