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    Help Navigation during a phone call

    folks - when on a phone call, can google maps offer beeps on an upcoming turn vs staying completely silent or talking over the phone call?
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    Help Background upload

    Guys on pixel if I choose 10 videos from my gallery and upload to WhatsApp, can I move to another app while WhatsApp is uploading the videos? Just making sure as that was possible with the nexus phone. I’m moving back from iPhone
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    Navigation during a phone call

    guys - i'm about to move from iphone (forced by company) back to android. While driving with android auto if you are on a phone call (everything wired in to the car) and also have google maps navigation, does google maps read aloud directions or simply beeps without disrupting the phone call and...
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    Help Wechat

    guys - when trying to share photos in wechat, it's not seeing all my albums. Just a single one. How do I resolve this Thx
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    ROMs Lollipop stock rom

    guys sorry for posting here but i think the members here are best qualified to answer this question. I have a nexus 6 running stock rom on verizon and want to get my wife something closest to it but she doesn't want a big phone. Anything 5 and under would do. What's the best phone that I can...
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    Help Pics with flash

    Guys my Samsung s3 camera works perfectly with pics without flash With flash, I get results like the attached. Tried cleaning the lens but stays the same What do you suspect to be the problem? Thanks
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    Help Towelroot and display

    Folks I used towelroot to root my phone a couple of weeks ago and it does strange things now. The display turns on by itself onto the lock screen. At times, the display won't turn off. All the settings seems ok Has anybody seen such untoward behavior after rooting? Should I check to see if the...
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    BMW of dashboard mounts

    Folks I'm looking for the best possible dashboard mount - don't care if it's on the windshield or on the actual dashboard but want it to stick through hours of driving and not peel off or drop when it's 20 degrees outside. Also, it should be universal (
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    Help me understand this phone

    Guys I had a Galaxy Nexus phone a long time ago on Verizon - the best phone I've ever had and if I remember, it was pure Google flavor and got updates directly from Google Is this phone basically the same concept or is it just another Verizon phone where you wait a while to get the latest...
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    Glass replacement kit

    Folks Can you guys recommend where do I buy the glass replacement kit? I see a few on eBay but looking for someone who has already used one successfully. I have the Verizon S4 galaxy SCH-1545
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    Root [Verizon] safestrap wipe dalvik cache

    guys I am runing safestrap on my verizon s4. is it safe to do a wipe dalvik cache? I'm seeing some performance problems. I guess wiping will only cause me to lose some application settings, login info, etc right? Also there is a 'wipe cache' option in safestrap too - what's that? Thanks
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    AFWall help

    Guys I'm confused about the 3 categories for applications on Afwall. It shows LAN, Wifi and then a third icon at the top of the columns. What does LAN and the 3rd icon refer to? Thanks
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    Phone problem

    Guys Just wondering if anything else is seeing this. Once every month, my phone mysteriously turns off (with it's battery quite charged). I can't turn it back on and even connecting to charger shows no LED, nothing which it usually does. After doing a battery pull, it powers on and works...
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    Text app with search capabilities

    What is the best android Text app with search capabilities? I want an app that I can make my default and most apps work great, you can edit etc, but when you go to menu function, there is no search to be found so in a large text file, it gets pretty tough Thx
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    bluetooth and google now

    guys - about to buy a nexus 5 but one big question that's important to me. Using google now and bluetooth headset, does google now take instructions using the mic on the bluetooth headset? If not, this may be a deal breaker for me as I have a noisy old car Thx
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    Titanium backup batch job

    guys I moved between ROM's and doing a batch job to restore all apps & data. Since this is a batch job, I consider everything to be automated. However, every time it needs to install an app, it prompts me to accept the permissions. Is there any preference or option in TB to automate this and...
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    Which 64gb microsd to buy

    guys i'm reading up some amazon reviews and seem like the sandisk 64gb sd cards can only format as exFAT and i don't want to be limited by that or run into potential problems Which brand 64gb microsd card has one tried and works good? Thx
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    Root [Verizon] PAC-ROM install

    Guys has anybody installed this rom? Can I use rom manager to install it on top of my android 4.2.2 Thx
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    Root [Verizon] Best original dev ROM

    Guys I'm looking to go to the purest google experience ROM possible which is fairly stable. Can someone recommend one? Also, I'm guessing I'll be able to load it up with the S4 toolkit My current build is JDQ39.1545VRUAME7 Thanks
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    home screen

    guys i have 5 home screens but somehow when i press the home button, it goes to the last screen. How do i change it to go to the middle screen which was always the default but somehow changed? Thanks!
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    Auto brigtness never gets you to the max

    simple question, even under noon brightest sunlight, auto setting never gets you to the brightest screen. Why? As soon as you turn off auto and max it out, you can at least see something on the screen thx
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    Corporate email

    guys - does anybody use corporate email on their phones? With gmail, the swipe to the next or previous email works very well but corporate email it just works weird. Sometimes, it goes to the previous email when you want to go next. Basically it's very buggy Anybody else seeing this and any fix?
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    Gmail calendar sound notification

    guys I cannot find a setting to change this and it's getting very annoying. I have my corporate mail events & google calendar events and both pop up on my phone. This behavior is only with google events - when I get the event, I simply press the home button and it stays in my taskbar and...
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    SPIGEN Samsung Galaxy S4 Case Protective [Slim Armor] [Infinity White]

    Amazon.com: SPIGEN Samsung Galaxy S4 Case Protective [Slim Armor] [Infinity White] Slim Fit Dual Layer Advanced Shock Absorption Protective Case for Galaxy S IV Galaxy SIV i9500 - Infinity White: Cell Phones & Accessories Guys I'm confused about this case I bought. Are you supposed to have...
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    Root [Verizon] Closest ROM to Google vanilla flavor

    guys I'm looking to replace my stock rom because it has too much samsung bloatware. Traditionally, I've always liked pure google flavor rom. Which stable one would you suggest? Can I just install the google edition ROM and then expect to get updates directly from google when they come out...