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    Help Lists Scroll Really Slowly!!

    Hey all. I've had the phone for a few days now and so far so good! One annoying thing is that it seems lists scroll so slowly. It's kinda like trying to play air hockey without the air turned on (if that makes any sense??). It's not specific to any app or settings list. Is there a setting...
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    Getting absolutely INSANE battery life all of a sudden!!!!

    I made one change that has made all the difference: Turned mobile data off (I keep 4G off by default). Right now I'm at 77% after 30 hours off the charger with normal (for me) usage. Not rooted. Occasional texts and calls. Light browsing. I turn on data to check e-mail. I use wifi at home...
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    Help Built in USB Tether - How to install??

    I was trying to use the mopho's built in USB tether function, but when I activate it, it caannot install the necessary software because the phone's storage is not accessible when you activate tether. Does anyone know how I do this??
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    Help HELP!!! None of my apps can find their old settings!!!

    Before I got my Photon today I backed up the settings to a bunch of apps to the SD card. After I reinstalled the apps, none of them seem to be able to find the backup/data files I saved? I tried copying the data from the SD card to the phone storage on the Photon with no luck. I tried...
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    Android Appstore - no way to sign out? WTF??

    I just did the update to Gingerbread on my Evo today, and I guess doing that somehow logged me out of the Amazon Appstore. I logged in, but I used the wrong Amazon account, and it is not recognizing any of the apps I purchased. When I try to open any of them it says "You do not own this...
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    What's the advantage of dedicated camera button?

    I've seen it mentioned in multiple threads that the dedicated camera button is a "plus". I'm having difficulty figuring out why? The only plausible potential benefit I can think of is that it might allow you to bring up the camera app without having to "unlock phone, find app, open app" every...
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    Can we please lay off the righteous outrage??? LC

    While I admit that I find it more amusing than anything else, can we all lay off the righteous outrage over the bootloader lock? Should we be able to do "anything we want!!!!!!!!!!!!" with our phones? Yeah. Just please quit trying to make it into some sort of civil rights issue. There are...
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    Root noooooooooob question

    Like many people, I am considering rooting, but I am a bit nervous to actually give it a shot. One of the reasons I am wary is that I am very absent minded and usually a complete bonehead about backing stuff up. No matter how many times I've lost hours of work I've done because I neglected to...
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    Help Options for making/receiving calls while in other countries?

    I'll be doing a fair bit of international travel for work over the next few years and I'd prefer not to have to rent a phone for each trip. What options are there to be able to make & receive calls to & from both the US and my foreign location? I work in event planning so I'll be spending most...
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    Help Very Confused...??? (Battery/Awake Time/4G combo post) a little long sorry :(

    A little history: Had the phone since launch. Did most of the battery "tricks" when they came out: GSM fix, stop GTalk auto login, tried the on-off-on charge thing, but never ever got more than a minute of red LED before it turned green again, turned auto-sync off, etc. I usually have what I...
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    Help Force Close... or not!

    Occasionally an app will freeze for a bit then I get a force close popup. But when I clock ok to force close, it doesn't actually close. I can simply resume what I was doing right from that point without having to reopen the app. Please note that I'm not actually complaining since I would...
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    Help Hard Reset screwed my phone up!!!

    I was having an issue that I was pretty confident was a software issue, and per the recommendation of Sprint tech support (in store) I did a hard reset on the phone. Ever since then I've been having a bunch of problems that did not occur before. Battery life has gotten significantly worse...
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    Help Hard Reset - What am I gonna lose?

    So I've been having an issue with my Evo and the tech ppl at local Sprint Store recommended a hard reset to try and clear it up. All my apps were purchased through the Market, so no worries there. Calendars and contacts are on Google, so no worries there either. I've backed up everything on...
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    Help Evo & music controller for bluetooth

    Hey everyone, A couple of day ago the music controller on my BT stereo headphones (backbeat) just stopped working. I can't move between tracks and if I hit the pause button it mutes the music but does not pause the playback. It does not appear to be a physical problem with the switch...
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    For refugees from the Pre/Pixi - Have you found a similar Notepad??

    Have any of you guys who came over to the Evo from the Pre seen a notes app with a similar interface to the notepad on the Pre? I really liked the look and simplicity of it. What I do not wanna end up doing, though, is wasting an entire page with a buncha freefloating sticky note type things...
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    Accessories Get a screen cover now!! The Evo screen is NOT scratch proof!

    I am sure you can imagine how I am stating this with such authority. *sigh* It happened on the very day my phantomskinz arrived, no less. :(
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    Help Trouble rotating from landscape to portrait

    Hey all, I hope someone can help with this. My Evo seems to have a very strong preference for landscape view. Any time I am not holding the phone completely straight up it drops to landscape. Then even if I do push it back straight up it doesn't wanna go back to portrait view. Has anyone...
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    Help Where are ringtones stored on the Evo?

    I converted a ton of songs on my Pre into ringtones. I like to get goofy with custom ringtones for people. So, when backing everything up in advance of moving from the Pre to the Evo I also saved the ringtones folder from the Pre. I've conncted to the "drive" on the Evo via the USB cable...