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    Picture breaking up

    My chromecast is plugged in using the supplied adapter so it's on 24/7. After a couple of weeks the picture starts to break up. Every few seconds it just shows a screen of noise. This happens on the chromecast page, the one with pictures and the time, and if I stream stuff. It is fine after...
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    Return to stock

    To return my phone to stock and be kies compatible do I have to flash the exact firmware it had originally or can I just flash the latest version. The phone was supplied by orange uk and was on BVLPB.
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    Root Second gmail account on Nexus 7

    My daughter has a Nexus 7 that I rooted using the motochopper method to allow her to use stickmount. Now it wants to update to 4.3 but it will loose root and so stickmount won't work. The bootloader is still locked as I didn't want to wipe her games, that's why I used motochopper. Can I log...
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    Help Unrooted backup

    My partners phone is getting exchanged under warranty and isn't rooted. Is there any way to back up her apps and settings without rooting? If not what's the closest you can get? It's on 4.0.3 so I could use the signed temporary cwm recovery but the new phone will be on 4.0.4 and I'm wary of...
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    Help Phone keeps losing connection

    My phone keeps losing it's mobile network connection. Usually mid-call but sometimes I check it and it has no connection. When there is no connection there is no SIM data in the settings menu. Sometimes it comes back sometimes it needs a restart. I'm running xxlpi neatrom lite, siyah 4.1.4...
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    Apps started stopping and phone wouldn't restart

    Sorry if this is a bit long. I've got an orange uk phone that was running orange branded BVLPB firmware and flashed neat LPI to it as follows. 1. I rooted it using the temperary clockwork mod and installed superuser and busybox. 2. Made a clockwork mod backup and a titanium backup. 3. Booted...
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    Help Backing up phone

    What's the best way of backing up an unrooted phone? My gf's phone is being replaced under warranty. I think kies will do stuff like messages and her google account will do the apps but what about stuff like game saves? Is there a method of backing up and restoring to the new phone? Cheers, Matt
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    Help Google talk sign in failed

    My girlfriends sgs2 keeps going flat too quick. I installed better battery stats and it identified google talk being a wakelock. I tried to open the app to stop the auto sign in but it just says sign in unsuccessful, Invalid username or password, please try again and then exits the app. I...
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    Help Strange messages on screen

    My girlfriends phone keeps popping up odd messages. To get one to take a picture I told the phone to search for mobile networks and got the attached message for a few seconds. I'm guessing it's from an app she has installed, is there a way of telling which one it is? It seems be be a...
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    Facebook status update location

    Just got a samsung galaxy s2. I've installed facebook and my status update has my location in it, ie near ???. How do I stop it doing that?