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  1. Slickinator

    Root This might be a stupid question but I can't find the answer anywhere.

    If I wanted to flash a ROM I'd have to wipe my phone right? But does it just wipe /system and /data or everything including pictures and music? I'm coming from a phone that only wiped the system I wanted to know if it was any different for the Nexus 5, thanks.
  2. Slickinator

    Root My Esteem is broken beyond repair

    I was skating with my Esteem in my pocket screen facing out, this tiny little pebble went under my wheel and literally skid the rock a good 6 inches before stopping and me falling off. I fell almost face first but I put my arms out in time and only impacted my hands and right leg pretty hard...
  3. Slickinator

    MetroPCS website down for maintenance 11.16.13

    Seems like the Metro site is down for maintenance. I'm gonna guess they're putting up the black friday sales prices up and family plan prices or something. Will confirm later.
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    Root Completely AOSP ROM idea?

    Can we make a completely stock AOSP gingerbread ROM? from source or something? It'd be nice to have a sort of Nexus experience on the Esteem
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    Root Stuck in a weird "bootloop"

    So today I wanted to flash the Plagued ROM and I did and when the bootanimation stopped and it went to the start up thing to set up the phone and I did some of it when the phone randomly went back to the bootanimation and kinda rebooted, I did some of the steps again and it "rebooted" again, its...
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    Root [MetroPCS/CDMA] Getting an S3 in April, but I have some questions

    Sorry if this is a stupid or very often asked question, but I'm getting the S3 in April and I wanted to know how I can root the Jellybean update and I wanted to know if the battery life is better, worse, or the same in stock Jellybean, if its worse what rom do you think has a decent battery...
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    Root Theming without flashing?

    Is it possible to take the picture files from the framework's drawable hdpi from another rom or theme and "inject" them into my framework and push it to my phone basically theming it? I'm not planning on making a theme or ROM to release if you guys are wondering "This guy's gonna take a bunch of...
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    Root Youtube HD

    So, I play youtube videos on my Esteem in HD but it seems pixelated, does the Esteem even support HD video playback on Youtube?
  9. Slickinator

    Root Goodbye Admirers.

    Just got an iPhone 5 fully flashed to Metro and jailbroken, smell you guys later.
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    Root I have a question

    So you guys know how 2.3.6 has A LOT of internal memory and literally always have a bunch of RAM to spare? How do I do that to 2.3.4 so I have more memory left and such?
  11. Slickinator

    Root New update 2.3.6

    So I hear that now there's an official 2.3.6 update for our phones, that's pretty cool, does that mean that if req can base CM7.2 off of the official update that we could have have data and MMS at first boot?
  12. Slickinator

    Best luck ever.

    Yesterday I was at an aunts house and I went to my car and I saw a shiny black thing on the ground and I went to go look at it and you won't believe what it was, it was an iPhone 3G, literally perfectly working haha and I'm gonna use it as an iPod touch because it has no SIM tray and no SIM, so...
  13. Slickinator

    Name your favorite Metal, Alternative, Post-Hardcore songs!

    I wanna discover some new bands and new songs, so just post your favorite Metal, Alternative or Post-Hardcore songs/bands
  14. Slickinator

    Root 1000th Thread

    Cool, this is the 1000th thread on this sub forum
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    Root Not have to press OK to unlock phone with pin

    Anyone know what setting or build.prop line or whatever I need to do so I don't have to press OK after I enter my PIN on the unlock screen? I got too used to doing that in CM7 and now it's kinda weird having to press it lol
  16. Slickinator

    Root ROM toolbox ?

    I know that ROM Manager will completely **** my phone but what about ROM Toolbox? I heard it has ROM Manager in it but if I don't use it will I be okay?
  17. Slickinator

    Root DSP Manager

    Does anyone have or know of a build of DSP that works with Stock Admire ROM? Or do I have to do anything to it to make it work? I had CM7.2 and DSP worked great but I can't get it to work on stock, can anyone help?
  18. Slickinator

    Root Titanium Backup restore SMS/MMS/APN Dialer Storage 2.3.4 without overwriting current messages

    Hey guys, I had a little question about Titanium Backup, every timeI'm about to flash a new ROM I like to backup my messages in Titanium Backup, and I restore them once the ROM is flashed and I install TB, but I had one question, if I send and receive messages before I restore, and then restore...
  19. Slickinator

    Root Sending messages on 3G?

    So I heard that on the Admire (and probably on all Metro phones) regular SMS text messages are sent on the 1x network, I wanted to know if there was any tweak or something that I can do to have my texts sent and received on Metro's 3G network when I am connected to 3G?
  20. Slickinator

    Software to restore or enhance video quality ?

    Hey guys, I wanted to know if anyone knew of any software that could help the quality of a video to be better, I've tried different filters on video editing programs but that doesn't seem to cut it, any ideas?
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    Vibrations got weaker ?

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    Root Vibrations got weaker ?

    Okay so basically I got an Admire in early April and then my dad got one around the end of April, and about 3 weeks ago I was going to download an app for my dad's phone, so I Unlocked it and I felt the difference of the way his Admire and mine's vibration, his seemed to be stronger and I could...