Slacker radio issues - Epic 4G General

Just curious if anyone had issues with slacker closing it self out after about 30 minutes of play. Pisses me off, because the app won't reopen from the recently used apps list, have to launch it back from the app drawer. It also closes out of the notification bar. I dont think this is normal because my hero would play all day. If others are having the problem, I want to write the dev and see what they have to say about it.
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Which ROM? DK28 has horrible RAM management.

Slacker, once a great app that is now pure garbage. I uninstalled that thing months ago. Would open by itself in the background, ate batteries for lunch, and too many ads.

Kcarpenter said:
Just curious if anyone had issues with slacker closing it self out after about 30 minutes of play. Pisses me off, because the app won't reopen from the recently used apps list, have to launch it back from the app drawer. It also closes out of the notification bar. I dont think this is normal because my hero would play all day. If others are having the problem, I want to write the dev and see what they have to say about it.
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It almost seems as if Slacker watches for user interaction with the device and after about a half hour it will close if you don't interact w/ your device.
Really gets on my nerves too. It does the same thing for me but I've never paid attention to how soon it will shut down.
I've been using Pandora quite a bit lately.

daddymikey1975 said:
It almost seems as if Slacker watches for user interaction with the device and after about a half hour it will close if you don't interact w/ your device.
Really gets on my nerves too. It does the same thing for me but I've never paid attention to how soon it will shut down.
I've been using Pandora quite a bit lately.
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Yeah, this seems to be it - if I don't use the device at all, it closes down. Which sucks, I usually lay it on my desk while I roam the server room and listen to music.
It's funny sometimes I don't even realize it if I get busy on a project. But as soon as I do I have to go back and turn it back on. Pisses me off. I think Ill switch back to pandora...they both have their ups and downs. But I thought slacker was good for general background noise where pandora was good if I wanted something specific.

Kcarpenter said:
Yeah, this seems to be it - if I don't use the device at all, it closes down. Which sucks, I usually lay it on my desk while I roam the server room and listen to music.
It's funny sometimes I don't even realize it if I get busy on a project. But as soon as I do I have to go back and turn it back on. Pisses me off. I think Ill switch back to pandora...they both have their ups and downs. But I thought slacker was good for general background noise where pandora was good if I wanted something specific.
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I normally don't notice right away when mine shuts down too.. still upsets me though that they do that..
Pandora FTW

Ever try Tune In Radio? It broadcasts actual radio stations. I use it mostly for sports talk in my car. I use Pandora sometimes in my car also, but it's not a fav for a variety of reasons

running_the_dream said:
Ever try Tune In Radio? It broadcasts actual radio stations. I use it mostly for sports talk in my car. I use Pandora sometimes in my car also, but it's not a fav for a variety of reasons
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I also use TuneIn to listen to out of state radio stations, however, I prefer to pick artists that may not always be mainstream in one way or another..
Pandora is above average for this requirement, however, it does lack in others LOL

It amazes me how many people have problems with this app!
I use slacker at work and in my car for multiple hours every day and I've never had an issue. I do have a premium account, but I don't see how that would matter...
I've run stock, Syndicate, Midnight, & Viper roms and I've received nothing but excellent performance every time (streaming over bluetooth btw).
I guess it just really shows you how your mileage may vary from device to device, lol.

rockrerun said:
. I do have a premium account, but I don't see how that would matter...
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Can you test something for us since you're the only person that I'm aware of that has a premium account ??
Creat a free account and try it out for a week or just a few days and see if you experience similar problems. Maybe it works 'indefinitely' since you're a paying subscriber.. Seriously though, I was about to pay for premium because I like the caching option for times when I don't have a good signal or whatever.

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Vibrant - tango video chat app...

Can you use the TANGO CHAT app with the SAMSUNG VIBRANT it doesn't have a front facing camera. Just wondering...
Yes, it'll use the back camera. Doesnt help if you want to show your face but handy if you want to show somebody something.
So it means you can use a mirror. Thanks for the info...
locoarmo said:
Yes, it'll use the back camera. Doesnt help if you want to show your face but handy if you want to show somebody something.
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Okay, that almost made coffee come out my nose this morning!
I use Tango from my Vibrant to a friends IPhone regularly.
A bit choppy at times with 3g, but very excellent quality using WiFi.
I just use the mirror
hospo said:
Okay, that almost made coffee come out my nose this morning!
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lol It's great for Chatroulette!
kuhan said:
lol It's great for Chatroulette!
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LMAO! (I had to Google that one)
If my wife has a my touch 4g can we video chat using this app or is there a different
way?
Yes, you can chat with a MT4G as long as you both use this app.
However, the app runs in the background and drains quite a bit of battery power.
I went from not having to charge my phone overnight to it dying on me halfway through when I installed the app.
It's very useful, so I don't want to remove it... But I don't think I can deal with the battery drain.
N8ter said:
However, the app runs in the background and drains quite a bit of battery power.
I went from not having to charge my phone overnight to it dying on me halfway through when I installed the app.
It's very useful, so I don't want to remove it... But I don't think I can deal with the battery drain.
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Yes, it is very useful, and yes, it does startup in the background and run.
I kill it with each phone reboot (settings, apps, running services, stop) and after each use.
That's too much work, IMO (this isn't the only app that starts up and commences it's batter drain agenda).
Utilizing C2DM and not having the application run in the background would be the obvious best solution, because then it would only start up when you got a Tango Call in (or initiated one) and then shut down until it is told to do so.
This is part of the issue with multi-tasking.
It's not only about running multiple applications concurrently, but when everyone thinks their app needs to run as a service, it doesn't really serve to enhance the usability of the device.

Music interruption?

Has anybody run into issues with audio cutting off while multitasking? I'm listening to music and refresh Twitter and the music playing breaks for a second. It seems as if playing music uses a lot of resources and that creates the interruption.
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Thats because the twitter refresh plays a sound. The music breaks for a moment to play the notification.
Yea thats not an issue, it does that on my G2.
JRG1392 said:
Yea thats not an issue, it does that on my G2.
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Well, it IS an issue, in my opinion, and the opinion of many pthers. The behavior is common across many Android versions, though. There's a substantial number of complaints about this in the Google help/bug report site.
I encourage anyone that is bothered by this to go STAR this issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5012
Don't add frivolous "me too" comments when starring, an email is sent to everyone who has starred an issue and some people un-star an issue because they're sick of stupid emails flooding their box.
The iPhone does it much better. When music is playing and a notification tone plays, the music volume decreases a bit while the alert sound is played, but it is not interrupted. With Android it stops. It's very annoying, to me, and one of the few things I don't like about any of my 5 different Androids.
I don't even think it should lower the volume of your music -_-.
Time to take Nexus S source and fix this ... at some point
Starred it. Oddly my Nexus One doesn't do it. I wonder if it's because I'm running cm6.1 on it.
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Memnoch30 said:
Starred it. Oddly my Nexus One doesn't do it. I wonder if it's because I'm running cm6.1 on it.
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Yes, Cyanogen seems to have fixed it, though it was fixed, not fixed, fixed a few times as I recall.
Mind boggling that Google doesn't.
if you put your phone on vibrate then it won't skip. you shouldn't need to hear the notification sound anyways if you're listening to music.
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Very strange. My nexus one just lowers the music volume while the alert plays too. Using cyanogen 6.1 but they also added in these extra audio options, so that's prob why it works right.
jaker.the.skater said:
if you put your phone on vibrate then it won't skip. you shouldn't need to hear the notification sound anyways if you're listening to music.
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LOL, thank you for telling the rest of us what we should and shouldn't need to hear while listening to music.
RogerPodacter said:
Very strange. My nexus one just lowers the music volume while the alert plays too. Using cyanogen 6.1 but they also added in these extra audio options, so that's prob why it works right.
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Didn't I say that just two posts above?
The fact that it can be fixed by 3rd party ROM devs shows it's a Google "bug" or "design feature" that they've chosen not to address in the last year. If it's a design feature, it doesn't make sense to most people; if it's a bug, considering how much Google "borrows" ideas from the 3rd party people in its later Android builds, the fix could easily be copied from CM.
Yeah especially since standard email notifications don't do it. It lowers the volume to play them. I'd rather have it like keyboard presses, those still play normally.
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LOL, thank you for telling the rest of us what we should and shouldn't need to hear while listening to music.
Didn't I say that just two posts above?
The fact that it can be fixed by 3rd party ROM devs shows it's a Google "bug" or "design feature" that they've chosen not to address in the last year. If it's a design feature, it doesn't make sense to most people; if it's a bug, considering how much Google "borrows" ideas from the 3rd party people in its later Android builds, the fix could easily be copied from CM.
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Heh yeah I read your post which is why I wrote that I see the same thing to just confirm it to everyone that it could be fixed with software update.
Send an email to twitter and tell them to a) add an option for refresh sound b) change their sound method to notification instead of media c) remove that stupid refresh sound altogether.

Words with Friends: laziest iOS port evar?

Srsly, I'm blown away by how rushed and buggy this port seems. It's as if they did the minimum possible to get the thing to "run" on Android.
I've been playing Wordfeud for a long time, and I was excited about finally getting to play a Scrabble-ish game with my friends who have iPhones.
So far I have experienced:
Force closes,
Notifications that it's my turn when it's not,
No notifications when it is my turn,
Random letters showing up on the board that were never played but cannot be removed,
Scores changing randomly,
Games where neither player can play a turn,
Games where I see one score and my opponent sees another,
Having to view multiple ads before I can exit,
and More!
Srsly, wtf. I'm uninstalling this crap. Anyone else have similar problems?
yes all of these ...
A few months for a full iOS port with ads thrown in at the worst parts to make a statement. What did you expect from Zynga?
words with friends blows. seriously.
I get the force closes all the time, I noticed using dev tools that it runs almost constantly even though the person who I downloaded it to play with hasn't played in over a day(meaning I rarely open it). I get the stupid notifications when it isn't my turn.
Wordfeud is sooo much better, way to go zynga!
I had to revert to the old version after updating because every old game I finished and deleted showed back up on the current games list as me waiting for them to play. Then after reverting, it won't stop searching for an opponent. The worst part is its been searching for 2 days and still hasn't found one. So its eating my battery like a fat kid at a buffet. I wouldn't call it the laziest ios port ever though. How much could you really expect from an iPhone app on android? If you take the kid that eats his own boogers and put him in the gifted class, he won't exactly be rackin up the gold stars.
meeklo062704 said:
I had to revert to the old version after updating because every old game I finished and deleted showed back up on the current games list as me waiting for them to play. Then after reverting, it won't stop searching for an opponent. The worst part is its been searching for 2 days and still hasn't found one. So its eating my battery like a fat kid at a buffet. I wouldn't call it the laziest ios port ever though. How much could you really expect from an iPhone app on android? If you take the kid that eats his own boogers and put him in the gifted class, he won't exactly be rackin up the gold stars.
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Other applications have made the move much more successfully, i.e. Angry Birds.
That sucks that its not working for u guys. I've been playing it a lot with no problems. At least u didn't pay for it.
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When I updated, all of my finished games came back in the "not my turn" section, with no way to delete them. Really poorly done port, very irritated that they rushed this to market just to beat the iOS wordfeud. 20 bucks says the iOS wordfeud is flawless and sadly, nobody will notice because so many are switching to words with friends. I hope the World Wildlife Fund sues them like they did to the World Wrestling Federation for making a thing that can be abbreviated as "WWF."
Wordsmith free is much better, no force closes, and no freaking ads, which it's why I got rid of words with fiends.
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What is words with friends? All I hear is people complaining about it.
game doesnt work for me. i don't even use ad free and the opening page has this ad that cannot be displayed so i cant click my games
I only got it because I have some iPhone friends who can't play Wordfued with me. worst part is I finally bought WordFued also, and don't touch it.
I wish WordFued would port to iOS.
ive been playing on my gingerbread Hero and it works perfectly. the only downside to this game is the frustration when u cant think of a word
i just wish there was a ios port all together lol. SO MANY APPS!
I played Words with Friends once right after it came out, and I haven't touched it since. I just got so angry at seeing ads BETWEEN EVERY TURN. Seriously, an ad every 5 turns would have been annoying enough, but EVERY TURN? I was going to try the newest update again, but after reading the comments here, I might just uninstall it.
Rally187 said:
That sucks that its not working for u guys. I've been playing it a lot with no problems. At least u didn't pay for it.
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Same here. This morning was the first time i got a force close..... Wordfued has ads too. Just press home after you play your turn, then you dont even notice the ads, on either app.
WordFeud > Words with Friends

Rooted Droid 2 GB

I havent seen this anywhere on here so I thought I would post it.
www [dot] droid-life [dot] com/2011/03/29/how-to-root-gingerbread-on-droid-2/
I may jump to this to check it out.
You obviously did not look very hard. Been on rooted gingerbread for almost a week
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Sorry... Didnt see anything on THIS forum.... My bad....
On the note of Root GB... How are you liking it? I really hated the original Blur so I am apprehensive to go back to it....
I"m running Liberty now.
BDC1980 said:
Sorry... Didnt see anything on THIS forum.... My bad....
On the note of Root GB... How are you liking it? I really hated the original Blur so I am apprehensive to go back to it....
I"m running Liberty now.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1013290
The new blur is far far far superior to the old blur. Much smoother and snappier. GB in itself is very smooth, even without overclocking. Its worth a try.
Agreed. Sorry to come off that way. Between folks semi bricking their phones and posting a thread about it. I kinda was like o_0 . I used to not like blur. But now stock GB at 1.25 GHz is great.
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Put my phone on GB this morning. Cant comment on its battery life. I came from fission 2.6.1 and this seems alot smoother. I also got a 300point boost on quandrant. I have not OCed it yet but I am sure I will soon.
Exchange setup is different that before which threw me for a little loop but got it figured out.
Hope Pandora works ok this. on 2.6.1 after I unplugged my headphones pandora would pause and if I waited several hours before pluggin headphones back in and playin pandora again it would play the cached song then would close. Wouldn't give me a FC but just close out and then I couldn't get it to work again unless I rebooted phone..
nolimit208 said:
Put my phone on GB this morning. Cant comment on its battery life. I came from fission 2.6.1 and this seems alot smoother. I also got a 300point boost on quandrant. I have not OCed it yet but I am sure I will soon.
Exchange setup is different that before which threw me for a little loop but got it figured out.
Hope Pandora works ok this. on 2.6.1 after I unplugged my headphones pandora would pause and if I waited several hours before pluggin headphones back in and playin pandora again it would play the cached song then would close. Wouldn't give me a FC but just close out and then I couldn't get it to work again unless I rebooted phone..
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i never had this issue on any of the fission ROMS, it may have been the version of Pandora you were running. the only recent issues i've experienced with Pandora is how it will sometimes kick out of the "station" and go back to the selection list. if you're walking along, you don't know if it's buffering or quit or what!!
new blur is big improvement. still hate the app force-feed of backup assitant and city ID, but nothing a little rooting can't take care of.
Ya that is what my pandora is doin. but it wont let me select a channel then. well it does but it kicks back out to station selection.
On GB haven't had that issue yet. I have had it close. so I am sure its Pandora's problem.
Has anyone got Corperate Sync to work on this GB. I can not get it to work I get failed to logon message everytime.
OC'd GB and got 2235 on Quandrant FYI 400 higher than I seen with fission i was getting 1800's at 1350.
But I run underclocked/undervolted just needed to try it out
when pandora acts like that (can't choose a channel), i usually quit it and open it again, seems to fix it, for a little while at least. not sure if it's a network issue.
pandora hasn't FC'd on me yet (knocking) and the headphone/phone call "coordination" seems to work better (unplugging headset pauses music, etc.). something weird that seems to happen is after i plug in a headset, pandora pauses, but only eventually. i don't think it's instant, usually it's like 30s or something.
Bluetooth and regular media volume are know linked together vs before headphone jack and bluetooth were seperate. Use headphone jack for car and bluetooth for my S9's. Kinda a bummer since I blar my music on S9's because i use them at the gym and then when I go to plug it into my car my car speakers about blow up LOL..
Has anyone seen the keyboard and botton 4 buttons not light up. Its a hit or mis if they light up on me. I noticed it last night when I was tryin to type in the dark. the lights are lighting up today but early this morning they did the same thing.
Looking for the best guide to root Droid 2. Any links please thanks.
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What guide did you use to root the Droid 2 Gb?
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Words with friends

I tried this at the request of my friend and am never touching it again. I am pretty sure it's full of garbage pretending to be scrabble. F Zynga. Damn. Caused lag and has no exit button. Won't close except by force. Bad app. Bad app.
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It is pretty horrible that you can only close it by force.
No I will not make out with you.
Caused my phone to lag as well.
A...lot...of apps...have no exit button. Are we using the same Android?
The stock browser, GMail, Google/Amazon app markets, YouTube, and a BUTTload of games all require you to back out, rather than use a distinct exit function.
Words is pretty laggy, and it's not as well rated as Wordfeud, but it's the most used cross-platform Scrabble game in the mobile space, and frankly, if your phone is getting jittery from it, you're doing something else in the background. While it's clunky for me, too, it doesn't bog my entire phone down.
We set a lot of apps up in the background on our phones and have a wonky habit of blaming the most recently installed app for whatever problems we encounter, and the simple reality is that it isn't always just the tylenol causing organ failure when there's the binge drinking you did five minutes earlier.
Just sayin'.
wordsmith
I've been playing wordsmith free with a few of my friends and it hasn't been particularly laggy or spammy, though their server slows down from time to time. It's not in the market at the moment but you can still find it on the Amazon app store.
Yeah I am currently on stock rom and play it daily with no issues at all. I actually never had issues with it bogging down with my phone just had ingame issues before. And correct me if i am wrong but doesn't just hitting the back button out of an app pretty much close it?
difrent7 said:
Yeah I am currently on stock rom and play it daily with no issues at all. I actually never had issues with it bogging down with my phone just had ingame issues before. And correct me if i am wrong but doesn't just hitting the back button out of an app pretty much close it?
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It should, but when I go into task manager, it's still running. I'm on an ad free rom and this still forces ads.
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josidhe said:
A...lot...of apps...have no exit button. Are we using the same Android?
The stock browser, GMail, Google/Amazon app markets, YouTube, and a BUTTload of games all require you to back out, rather than use a distinct exit function.
Words is pretty laggy, and it's not as well rated as Wordfeud, but it's the most used cross-platform Scrabble game in the mobile space, and frankly, if your phone is getting jittery from it, you're doing something else in the background. While it's clunky for me, too, it doesn't bog my entire phone down.
We set a lot of apps up in the background on our phones and have a wonky habit of blaming the most recently installed app for whatever problems we encounter, and the simple reality is that it isn't always just the tylenol causing organ failure when there's the binge drinking you did five minutes earlier.
Just sayin'.
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You trust zynga to sit in the background and not actively collect data? It didn't ask that permission for nothing. It doesn't close when you back out. It also breaks ad block on custom roms. That's aggressive, in my book for being scrabble.
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The Root said:
I tried this at the request of my friend and am never touching it again. I am pretty sure it's full of garbage pretending to be scrabble. F Zynga. Damn. Caused lag and has no exit button. Won't close except by force. Bad app. Bad app.
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ive never had a problem. youre probably doing it wrong.
Although you are totally right about the lack of an exit button.
I have been runnig it for a while now, with no lag or lockups or such, and I exit the same way as most of my android apps, by the back button
From what I can tell, the reason it runs in the background is so it can keep checking to see if it is your move yet or not, which may be a battery drain, if you have to worry about that sort of thing
It doesnt break AdFree, as I beleive AdFree has been modified to allow Words with freiends to get ads so wwf will work, after massive requests to AdFree to do so.
AdFree will still block all my other ads, but seems to allow the stuff for WWF through, so the game works
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I have been runnig it for a while now, with no lag or lockups or such, and I exit the same way as most of my android apps, by the back button
From what I can tell, the reason it runs in the background is so it can keep checking to see if it is your move yet or not, which may be a battery drain, if you have to worry about that sort of thing
It doesnt break AdFree, as I beleive AdFree has been modified to allow Words with freiends to get ads so wwf will work, after massive requests to AdFree to do so.
AdFree will still block all my other ads, but seems to allow the stuff for WWF through, so the game works
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I know how to close an app normally, thanks. You shouldn't have to force apps closed. I can understand with a beginner developer, but this is Zynga. They also have gotten in trouble for looking too far into peoples' info with Farmville. Was just warning people of a possiblity. Didn't know everyone owed their life allegiance to Words With Friends.
Words with Friends does not work well on any overclocking or undervolting kernel on my phone. It is too much crap, Wordfeud is WAY better. Nice, simple and runs on any kernel.
Wordfeud
I tried Words With Friends a few months ago and uninstalled bc I couldn't send pm's nor could I exchange letters. I have had Wordfeud ever since and have had no problems (other than getting my friends to play ).
The Root said:
Didn't know everyone owed their life allegiance to Words With Friends.
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I didn't realize that either, until I looked into it, and found out it is the most popular scrabble type game on the Android platform
The Root said:
You shouldn't have to force apps closed.
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I have never had to force WWF to close, it always exited easily via several clicks of the back button
kennyglass123 said:
Words with Friends does not work well on any overclocking or undervolting kernel on my phone.
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I am running SRF 1.1.0 with the Twilight Zone kernel. No issues or lag. I wonder if it could be a theme/ROM issue, rather than a kernel one, as I don't even have my phone OC'ed
I haven't had any major problems with the app. I'm not overclocked or anything. Running midNIGHT Rom v5.3.

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