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    Not impressed by battery, worried by blackscreen

    Hmmph! For a while I had an old rooted Galaxy S2 running Resurrection Remix Jelly Bean. It was mostly good, but I did miss some elements of Touchwiz and the battery life seemed to get worse with every ROM update. I'd been tempted by the RAZR Maxx's monster battery back in the spring, but put off...
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    Removing AOKP Resurrection Remix

    l just bought a second hand S2, and it's rooted and running Resurrection Remix AOKP Jelly Bean. What's the best way to unroot and return to stock?
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    TouchWiz Exploit Spreads Fear Of Remote Device Wiping; Should You Worry?

    A single web link will WIPE Samsung Android smartphones ? The Register Fascinating and worrying story on The Register. A few choice quotes below: A single web link will WIPE Samsung Android smartphones. The devastating flaw lies in Samsung's dialling software, triggered by thetel...
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    screen cracked by 6 inch fall!

    Damn. My white S3 was stolen a month ago, I've had a blue replacement for a few weeks. Just now, I nipped to the loo, with the phone in my pocket, listening to a podcast. After I sat down, I reached into my pocket to put on a different podcast, the phone slipped through my fingers and fell 6...
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    S3 stolen, insurance replacement coming soon. Could i end up with a second 50Gb Dropbox?

    As per title. S3 hoiked out of my pocket in the pit at a Gallows gig, Geek Squad insurance replacement due in a day or two. Will I be able set up a secon 50Gb Dropbox? If so, I'll probably do it in my daughter's Gmail, as she keeps losing photos from her Sony Ericsson Arc S. All the people on...
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    .nomedia shenanigans

    Help! My S3 keeps inserting .nomedia folders in folders i set up for podcasts, which means the music player can't see them. Even if i go into the folders and delete .nomedia, the phone just creates it again as soon as i leave the folder. Anyone got any ideas for stopping this?
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    70% of app-related battery use due to ads!

    Title days it all. See this link for details. [url=http://www.talkandroid.com/100606-study-over-70-of-android-battery-drain-caused-by-ads/]Study
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    'continuous typing' doesn't work across every app on my S3, but Swype did on my old S2

    I've enabled 'continuous typing', but it only seems to work in text messages. Doesn't work in Google search, internet, etc. Is this a bug or a deliberate feature, anyone know?