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Usb thumbdrive plugged into buttom of Hero

I'm just getting around to posting this so first I searched this forum and a couple others. I haven't been on the forums in a few weeks so I was sure it was buried somewhere. I then did a Google search on it as well and found nothing. This has to have been brought up though.
We all know Chloe is using the HTC Hero on 24. The rest of the cast seems to be using the Palm Pre which I love just as much. However this past Monday's episode did everyone notice Chloe plug the thumb drive into the bottom of the guys Hero to copy his information and then give him back his phone while pocketing the thumb drive?

JynxRD said:
I'm just getting around to posting this so first I searched this forum and a couple others. I haven't been on the forums in a few weeks so I was sure it was buried somewhere. I then did a Google search on it as well and found nothing. This has to have been brought up though.
We all know Chloe is using the HTC Hero on 24. The rest of the cast seems to be using the Palm Pre which I love just as much. However this past Monday's episode did everyone notice Chloe plug the thumb drive into the bottom of the guys Hero to copy his information and then give him back his phone while pocketing the thumb drive?
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Im guessing we could also project with out cameras one of those fancy in air GUI's used on CSI.
Its a tv show.

Oh I'm sure its not accurate, its all meant to be entertaining and I'm sure they don't expect the casual viewer to really question a small clip like that. Most times you'll notice when there talking on the phone that the screens are on something entirely different. Last season Jack used the Instinct and it would ring and he would answer but it was still the home screen. I was mostly just surprised I couldn't find anyone else saying "Did you see that!"

JynxRD said:
Oh I'm sure its not accurate, its all meant to be entertaining and I'm sure they don't expect the casual viewer to really question a small clip like that. Most times you'll notice when there talking on the phone that the screens are on something entirely different. Last season Jack used the Instinct and it would ring and he would answer but it was still the home screen. I was mostly just surprised I couldn't find anyone else saying "Did you see that!"
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Ah I gotcha, yeah I actually dont watch 24 and never have but happen to watch a few minutes and see the scene you were originally talking bout.

just speculating on possibilities here.
It is possible but not probable
They could have used one of these and coupled it with a micro drive of some kind.
Now the question that arises is: Is the OS capable of mounting this as a partition and writing or reading from it....yes...it probably is...but it would take some kernel level code work to get it to work....
What ever government agency it is that 24 is based around has the knowledge on hand to do this.

If a silly post like mine could actually turn into someone skilled enough to mount a USB drive to the bottom then hey awesome. Hopefully it says "Thanks to Chloe, 24 and Jynx" lol.

this is off topic, but have you ever tried plugging your hero into your computer then using the "boot from usb" BIOS option? your computer will show the "htc" screen. the android kernel has all the drivers for usb/cdrom/hdd keyboards mice blah blah.... you need to compile the drivers for a external usb drive (i think some people are working on this) but then you could totally use a external usb drive on your hero. maybe for torrents?? maybe for????

wonbattlelost said:
offtopic of your offtopic, but have you checked out andtorrent? id tried all the torrent apps available, and was verrrry surprised when i found one that ACTUALLY worked
love the new flobots album
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have you tried saving them off your phone onto a usb external hard drive attached to the bottom of your phone?!

wonbattlelost said:
cant say that i have
"and from the barren wastelands of naked trash
we stitched together a shelter from fallen nation flags
and chose to build a future from an ancient past"
*ahem* sorry
"defend atlantis" is the new "handlebars" though
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that was off-off-off topic

I miss mah hero!!! :(

I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS

gunnyman said:
I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
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Hey, we won't tell anyone if it happens to fall in-front of that truck tire...

What don't you like about the Moment? I've heard good things...with exception to the horrible placement of the space bar on the physical keyboard.

gunnyman said:
I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
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Please, Please, Please make a thread about how you want to purposely brick your moment so you can make the switch.
I love love love! watching the brick police come in and throw hissy fit temper tantrums claiming you're ruining modern society by making false phone insurance claims.

When man has bricked the last cell phone only then will we realize we cannot eat refurbs

Well, if you decide to break it, please think up something creative and video it for us to see. Do something cool like the guy who got angry at his lawn mower and shot it in public with a shotgun. Please

I just my hero in February and I want to get the Evo. My phone is prestine I have the invisible shield on it and the otter box shield on it and its rooted also running the 2.08 Damagecontrol Rom. What would be a good price to sale it for. I was offered 85.00. I feel that's to low.
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I hear thermite bricks phone pretty easily.

My main problem with the moment is this: Radom Airplane mode and EVDO lockups for no apparent reason. Only way to fix is to reboot the phone. Other than that the thing ways a freakin ton. I like the keyboard and the AMOLED screen though. Also, I miss you guys and installing a new ROM or theme every day

gunnyman said:
My main problem with the moment is this: Radom Airplane mode and EVDO lockups for no apparent reason. Only way to fix is to reboot the phone. Other than that the thing ways a freakin ton. I like the keyboard and the AMOLED screen though. Also, I miss you guys and installing a new ROM or theme every day
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yeah my buddy just got the moment the other day, had it for less than a day and it was stuck in airplane mode lol if you have insurance then just tell them you lost it???

Gunny, do you not have 30 days to return it?

(rant)this is why I posted a straight trade for my hero from that buggy ass hardware in the moment...some sucker took the bait and did a trade for that pos..
been loving my hero ever since..things to hate about the moment..no matter what rooted rom you use that phone always locks up into airplane mode or random reboots..samsung should be ashamed of that phone they put the android name on
if you blow the phone up or anything make sure you youtube it and post a link..my buddy is going to make a video of what a moment looks like after getting blown up by a 50 caliber round by his service spier riffle at 300 meters....it will be an epic video lol.well when he gets back state side...almost makes me want to buy another moment just to annihilate one...that phone pissed me off so bad...(/end rant)
I'm so close to running this moment over with a truck and getting a Hero. THIS PHONE SUCKS
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nebenezer said:
Gunny, do you not have 30 days to return it?
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since it was a replacement, I don't know. I'm ching into my options today.

microfire21 said:
my buddy is going to make a video of what a moment looks like after getting blown up by a 50 caliber round by his service spier riffle at 300 meters....it will be an epic video lol
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There will be nothing left to video. I wonder if the tiny bits and pieces will even be identifiable as a Samsung Moment..

Hell they been doing trades on Craigslist for those for the last couple months if you lived near I'd give you my girlfriends. Don't know why but she wants one. Good luck.
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Hell yes it does
The Moment really sucks. Check the Sprint community forums at their official website, there's a known issue with the Moment experiencing fake-airplane/CDMA modem lock ups. The only way to get the connection back when it happens is to shut the phone down and turn it back on. I went through six Moments. The last time I swapped it, I just hung out at the bookstore next door until the data connection would break, then take it back over there so they could vainly try to fix it, then replace it with another Moment; rinse and repeat until they finally agreed to give me a Hero like I asked when I first walked into the store. When I went in last time, they said that if I had came in in May, and not June (the third in this case), they could've swapped it then with the hero (said something about swapping for a different device if there are so many swaps within a 6 month period). PITFA.
Anyway, I have my Hero now, and it works wonderfully, and has way better battery life than the moment. -AND- multitouch works on the Hero, which it won't on the Moment, even with the 2.1 update... I'm never buying Samsung ever again.

yeah you should definitely just go back to the Hero

Found someone who wants to trade back to the Hero for me

Found someone who wants to trade back to the Hero for me
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Yay, gunny is back!
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microfire21 said:
if you blow the phone up or anything make sure you youtube it and post a link..my buddy is going to make a video of what a moment looks like after getting blown up by a 50 caliber round by his service spier riffle at 300 meters....it will be an epic video lol.well when he gets back state side.
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only 300 meters? better be open sights

Help my vibrant get front facing camera mod

Anyone who lives in the bay area who can knows how mod my vibrant for the front facing camera willing to pay!!!! ; )
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Quit fixating on this stupid gimmick. If you want a dumb front-facing camera, go buy an iPhone4.

I like my vibrant tho im tired of all the hype of a iphone 4 if its a mod for my ffc im getting it
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raduque said:
Quit fixating on this stupid gimmick. If you want a dumb front-facing camera, go buy an iPhone4.
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Dude, if he wants an FFC, let him try to get one installed. What's it to you?

I live in SJ and I have two cameras coming. How much are you willing to pay for the mod?

raduque said:
Quit fixating on this stupid gimmick. If you want a dumb front-facing camera, go buy an iPhone4.
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A piece of hardware that was only removed because TMO didn't want it on their network is hardly a reason for someone to get an iphone. Samsung covered up the camera hole with some paint and left the mounting brackets in place. This is simply putting your phone back to the way the manufacturer intended it to be.
If people want to make video calls or take myspace pics (are they still called that even though pretty much no one uses myspace anymore?), then let them. We've got three Vibrants in the house & for $20-25 each, we can get a FFC, so I'll probably be doing this mod as well, even if I never actually use it. You'll still have something unique that 99% of the other phones out there will not have.
For the people that don't want apps sharing their GPS location without their consent (even though they gave it when they installed the app), that's a reason to go to iphone. For people that just want the phone "experience" to be magical out of the box, that's a reason to get an iphone (the rest of us LIKE that Google made it so pretty much everything is customizable).

tjhart85 said:
For the people that don't want apps sharing their GPS location without their consent (even though they gave it when they installed the app), that's a reason to go to iphone. For people that just want the phone "experience" to be magical out of the box, that's a reason to get an iphone (the rest of us LIKE that Google made it so pretty much everything is customizable).
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Well said.......

tjhart85 said:
or take myspace pics (are they still called that even though pretty much no one uses myspace anymore?),
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huh? I think you meant to say self-portraits. What does Myspace have to do with taking a picture of yourself?

androidmonkey said:
huh? I think you meant to say self-portraits. What does Myspace have to do with taking a picture of yourself?
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It's A Saying, Or A Phrase

I'm stay in cali, riverside if any one wants to pich in!
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Bspence415 said:
Anyone who lives in the bay area who can knows how mod my vibrant for the front facing camera willing to pay!!!! ; )
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I live in Tampa and we can get to a deal. You know that the only sell 3 at the time $17 each. Send me an email if still interested.
[email protected]

Sell your vibrant and get the international galaxy s and then unlock it and root it

Another option which I plan on doing when I get the loot, is to pick up an iPod Touch 4G and wifi tether it to my Vibrant. Plus this way il have the best of both worlds. Android Market and iOS Market.

tjhart85 said:
Samsung covered up the camera hole with some paint and left the mounting brackets in place. This is simply putting your phone back to the way the manufacturer intended it to be.
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Yeah, too bad Samsung didn't redesign the board to fix that. The camera was removed because T-Mobile didn't think it was necessary (and I agree), and to keep costs down.
If you REALLY want the device to be "how the manufacturer intended it to be", stop rooting, flashing roms, hacking it, and do a factory reset to JFD firmware and leave it alone.
Otherwise, you're just a hypocrit.
BTW, I truly believe that an FFC is a completely useless gimmick, and nothing more than a check on the box and something for people to ***** about it not being there. Nobody thought they wanted one till it wasn't there.

raduque said:
Yeah, too bad Samsung didn't redesign the board to fix that. The camera was removed because T-Mobile didn't think it was necessary (and I agree), and to keep costs down.
Is you REALLY want the device to be "how the manufacturer intended it to be", stop rooting, flashing roms, hacking it, and do a factory reset to JFD firmware and leave it alone.
Otherwise, you're just a hypocrit.
BTW, I truly believe that an FFC is a completely useless gimmick, and nothing more than a check on the box and something for people to ***** about it not being there. Nobody thought they wanted one till it wasn't there.
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Okay you wrote this because? Nothing is perfect outta the box. You get a laptop and instantly get firefox or chrome, you order food at a resturant and add salt. Who said we hated our phones cause we mod them? I like the vibrant, I also like video chat, so if I can have both why not? No one is telling you to do it, you just keep running sammy's knock off ios touch wiz and leave the customization for people who understand what android is about. Better yet get a nice feature phone so I dont have to skim past your narrow minded crap. A hypocrit posts in xda about not modding a phone. Shove off troll. Help or leave.
Edit the ffc is built onto the i9000 cam prob costs an extra $5 tops in bulk, who here would not have paid a lincoln more for there phone?
Tmo removed it so the mytouch line would be the first to get it.
Sent from the best phone from TMO... Vibrant

OK, yes, maybe I'm trolling a little bit, but seriously, you people didn't even know you wanted this stupid gimmick till it wasn't there.
I wrote my last post because the guy said that putting in an FFC is "returning the device to the way the manufacturer intended". Well, the manufacturer intended you to use it with the unrooted stock UVJFD rom. Anything else (all the community roms, leaked roms, rooting, flashed GPS files from leaked roms, "lag fixes", etc) isn't the "way the manufacturer intended". Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
PS: I never said anybody hated their phone. Don't put text onto my keyboard that I never typed. For the record, I'm running LP+ on JI6 with a custom-modded Framework-res.apk and "/data/data to NAND" hack. So don't tell me I don't know anything about modding a phone.

Duly noted sir. I will hush. Lol
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jamboy5590 said:
Sell your vibrant and get the international galaxy s and then unlock it and root it
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Yeah, except for the whole lack of AWS bands, so you would get a ffc and no 3G whatsoever.

I live in atlanta ga I will pay someone to do this mod for me. I will pay pm me or email me at [email protected]

I live in the bay area and am willing to do this for you for $638.12

who actually uses ffc daily?

So to anyone who modded their vibrants to have ffc, do you use it daily or just use it for show and tell everyone you have a ffc and they don't? Lol I just wanna know cause even in public I don't ever see anyone, not even facetime for iPhone, uses it. Not at home or anywhere else.

Honestly in the 5 months I've had it I have never used it. No one wants to video chat and no one has a FFC I guess I just have it because I can you know what I mean. I like to mod as much as I can

I use mine to check to see if I have boogers mainly. I used the ffc the first night I installed it with a video call on oovoo just to test it. Other than that, it's mainly a mirror for me for the boogie check. Hard finding friends with a ffc to use it with while I'm out. And when I get home, I just use my laptop.

Iphone users can't unless connected to wifi. And if you did see them use it, it would just be another congratulatory circle jerk.
As for me, I use it often. Nothing like flashing my junk on screen in the middle of a call.

da_dragon2k3 said:
Iphone users can't unless connected to wifi. And if you did see them use it, it would just be another congratulatory circle jerk.
As for me, I use it often. Nothing like flashing my junk on screen in the middle of a call.
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Now this is funny

I don't know about daily, but I will say I use mine weekly. Tango ftw
Beware of angry gingerbread

I do alot, talk to my wife quite a bit on it

I am also in the camp of "I mod because I can." My wife also has the latest iPod, so I call her on it every once in a while for kicks.

Weekly opposed to daily, I suppose. I'm making it more of a habit to video chat friends and family I haven't seen in some time. It's always fun to show off to friends who even have the Vibrant, but of course not the FFC.

Haha, sadly I have done the same. :-[
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Honestly mine broke from using it so much.
I like to do random video chats and just play with my junk on it... i was finding myself touching myself too many times a day so i had to remove the camera.
Cheers
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Lol not even kidding, I only installed it because the sgs4g had one, and I didn't want to get that "Oh your phone is old" feeling.

Just used it this morning in the shower. Oh yeaua
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I'm expecting to get my FFC mod in the next few days. Don't know if I'm going to use it or not, but just want to have it.

In the month I have had mine I have used it twice. I like to mode too and i think that is the main reason I did it, and to shut my friends up that have EVO's...lol

I don't even use my rfc daily

I think its more along the lines of "something thats nice to have and may use once in a while." I mean, its not like its a hefty investment and you're allowing your Vibrant to do something its capable of.

I’m wondering the same thing. I’m considering adding an FFC and would like some input from the community. For those with an FFC, is it worth the time, money and effort? Is it simply a “nice to have” or do you find it practical being used regularly?
I thank you in advance for your comments.

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Lol not even kidding, I only installed it because the sgs4g had one, and I didn't want to get that "Oh your phone is old" feeling.
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Same here, haha.. I was around when it first was found out.. got one after almost a month... I have used it one time and that was just to make sure it worked, haha.
Danielpc said:
I’m wondering the same thing. I’m considering adding an FFC and would like some input from the community. For those with an FFC, is it worth the time, money and effort? Is it simply a “nice to have” or do you find it practical being used regularly?
I thank you in advance for your comments.
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It totally is one of the have it if for some reason I ever need it type things.

I use it to shut up iphone 4 users.
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Goodbye.

Well now my old vibe has a bad usb port and it was time to upgrade, so im on the gs3 now, and I love it. Ill be on here occasionally to help but now I shall be with the s3 crowd. Im gonna miss a lot of you. See ya
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Don't let the door hit ya in the azz!

iKoolkid said:
Well now my old vibe has a bad usb port and it was time to upgrade, so im on the gs3 now, and I love it. Ill be on here occasionally to help but now I shall be with the s3 crowd. Im gonna miss a lot of you. See ya
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I'm going to the GS3 soon. Have you flashed enough to see if there are any annoying bugs that we have, like GPS and 911? Not saying the GS3 will have the same problems, but I'm wondering if there's anything on that level of discomfort.

You can donate the vibe to a developer, it wouldn't cost so much to replace the port.
joe98200 said:
I'm going to the GS3 soon. Have you flashed enough to see if there are any annoying bugs that we have, like GPS and 911? Not saying the GS3 will have the same problems, but I'm wondering if there's anything on that level of discomfort.
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Don't worry, new phones like the Note and S3 have aGPS and Glonass, so they are very quick at picking up GPS signal. Infact I haven't had much GPS problems for SII and onward models.
As for 911 issues you might want to confirm at the SIII section.

joe98200 said:
I'm going to the GS3 soon. Have you flashed enough to see if there are any annoying bugs that we have, like GPS and 911? Not saying the GS3 will have the same problems, but I'm wondering if there's anything on that level of discomfort.
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I don't know if I'm lucky, but this is my gps working on my jb vibrant:
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Damn bro, nice GPS stats! It seems that the vibe is more prone to GPS issues, except for this guy. My cappy gets a lock in less than thirty on hellybean.
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My GS3 came in today. Very nice phone. I went from G1 -> Vibrant -> GS3. On my 4th year of android. A lot has changed over those years. I changed over to Verizon and moved under the family share plan with my wife and daughter. Anyway, enjoyed the forum..

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My GS3 came in today. Very nice phone. I went from G1 -> Vibrant -> GS3. On my 4th year of android. A lot has changed over those years. I changed over to Verizon and moved under the family share plan with my wife and daughter. Anyway, enjoyed the forum..
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Guess ill be stuck with an iphone 4s since it will take one month to change my data plan and she doesnt trust me so I have to use an iCrap. Anyway I use the gs3 at home and iphone at school. Ill also be here mostly cause of mah warranty.
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Well looks like my Vibrant is also no longer charging or connect to the PC due to broken USB port also. I opened it but it seems the contact points are too extremely small and close together to manually solder it back properly with my ability. A regular microUSB connector only have a few solder points, this one have so many and they are like 1/10th mm large. It seems this design is bound to fail overtime due to the placement on the board.
So I bought a broken Vibrant on ebay for $35 with a front facing camera. With luck its motherboard and USB port are still working. Otherwize I'll have to do external charging and transfer files wirelessly. It seems everything is easy to replace on this phone except the USB port which is also the most fragile design.

Well sorry for hijacking the thread more, but the broken phone I bought arrived, apparently the reseller didn't realize it was the S 4G, not the Vibrant. Things I've found:
1. Switching the S 4G camera onto the Vibrant is possible, but one have to use something metal and pointy to carve a transparent hole through the Vibrant black paint on the inside so the front camera can see through outside. Now I just have to find a rom that is compatible with ffc.
2. Switching the S 4G mobo onto the Vibrant turned the Vibrant into a S 4G.
3. The connector for the headphone jack of the S 4G is incompatible with the Vibrant. The headphone jack is tried to the earspeaker with the same cable, it is possible to remove them if careful.
4. The 'slim slot + sd card' module of the S 4G and Vibrant are compatible with each other. The sim slot has adhesive to stick ontop of the shielding, removing it needs some care. The S 4G and Vibrant sim slot are not compatible with the Captivate (i897) sim slot, they use different connectors. (Also the sim slot module for the S 4G and Vibrant also has the connector for the speaker, while Captivate's sim slot do not have connector for the speaker.)

If you're getting rid of the Vibrant I'd be happy to send a SASE for it. Obviously only if you were going to throw it out. I'm just getting started trying to develop and I have another vibrant that I could charge and swap batteries. Anyway, PM me either way. Thanks
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