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  1. PolicyWonk

    Windows Kin smart phone

    We traveled out of state over the Christmas holiday to spend a few days with my sister-in-law. Verizon had talked her into upgrading to a Windows Kin 2 (model 119). She hates it. She asked me (her geeky brother-in-law) to set it up to meet her needs. I played with the phone, read the manual...
  2. PolicyWonk

    Root Root terms defined - ROM, Shell, S-ON, etc.

    I'm a newbie (AKA noobie). Got my Precedent in the middle of Oct. 2011. i was totally new to Android. I thought I was a little bit of a geek, but I couldn't comprehend what looked like gibberish in forum posts about rooting. I'm sure there are and will be many more Precedent users who are...
  3. PolicyWonk

    Root Charging non-OEM batteries in Precedent phone

    I've had my Samsung Galaxy Precedent Android since the middle of Oct. 2011. I'm a new user; not an expert. This is my 1st "thread." After rooting my phone, I found I could charge higher capacity non-OEM batteries on my phone which I could not do before rooting. Don't know if this will work for...
  4. PolicyWonk

    Smartphone & not smart me!

    I'm 65 and a self-employed consultant (no, not the high paid kind). I've just switched from a Nokia Smartphone to the Precedent. The Nokia with the Symbian OS was complicated but I finally got it to work good enough for me. The lack of a touch screen was a PIA along with the outdated OS. I'm...