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PRL Rollback initiated by Sprint

Here's something weird....not sure if any of you have experienced this but....
I had downloaded PRL 60672 last week or so and it was working fine. The other day I receive a text from Sprint saying that there is an Important Roaming List update and to do a manual Update. Thinking that a new one came out, I did it and it put me back to 60671. Not sure why that happened. Its not really affecting me much, but just wondering if that happened to anyone else.

I haven't gotten that message.

reigndropz said:
Here's something weird....not sure if any of you have experienced this but....
I had downloaded PRL 60672 last week or so and it was working fine. The other day I receive a text from Sprint saying that there is an Important Roaming List update and to do a manual Update. Thinking that a new one came out, I did it and it put me back to 60671. Not sure why that happened. Its not really affecting me much, but just wondering if that happened to anyone else.
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sounds like they are watching you. better wear a tin foil hat for a couple months.

I just went to manually update to confirm this and indeed it pushed me down to 60671...
weird.

Me Too
I got the message as well, I updated, but i am not sure what PRL i was on before but I am on 60671 now

egzthunder1 said:
I just went to manually update to confirm this and indeed it pushed me down to 60671...
weird.
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+3. was just on 60672 and after manual update it changed to 60671. weird is right.

Same here
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rutter9 said:
sounds like they are watching you. better wear a tin foil hat for a couple months.
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from the responses so far....it sounds like maybe you should be wearing a football helmet

Earlier this week I was doing updates on my phone and the PRL would not get higher than 60671 (which is what I am still at), and this was back on Sunday or Monday.

Im thinking for whatever reason, they dont want that 72 out yet

not here and why is this here in the dev section ?

I live in kind a kind of crappy area for Sprint service, and after I flashed to Fresh 3.3 last week I also update radio and wimax (of course) and manually check for a PRL update too (I only update when I want to, and have the time to update everything, and fix it if I become stoopid, but so far XDA has saved my from myself)
Anyways I went from 60669 to 60671, is there a 60670 I missed out on? With my old Sprint phones (Treo650&Centro) I would usually jump PRL revision numbers. It's gotta be a Sprint thing.

reigndropz said:
from the responses so far....it sounds like maybe you should be wearing a football helmet
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or a tinfoil hat.

Why don't I ever get messages about prl updates?
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jkinnison90 said:
Why don't I ever get messages about prl updates?
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Nobody likes you.
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well, I never could get 60672 anyway, so ha ha to all those who did, we're even again now.

Didn't even realize this. Thread moved to General.

lath19 said:
Nobody likes you.
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I figured that was why :'(.
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Unless you guys live in an area where Sprint coverage sucks and you are roaming all the time, this is not a significant update that you need to worry about. PRL (preferred roaming list) updates local towers from another carrier (most likely Verizon) and tells the phone if certain towers have been added/removed or what not.
Perhaps the 60672 PRL had bad information that was causing people not to roam correctly and Sprint pulled it. I have a feeling another PRL update will be available sooner than later.

jkinnison90 said:
Why don't I ever get messages about prl updates?
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If your phone is rooted you won't get update notifications from Sprint. I have full root and have never seen an update message from Sprint.

Sprint prl still erroring?

I've scavenged xda and google, tried the few method's of fixing prl update error's, including the custom activity shortcut one. I still receive "Unknown Error."
Anyone else in this same boat? I'd perfer to NOT manually update it. =(
oh and i'm still on prl 60676

Shoulon said:
I've scavenged xda and google, tried the few method's of fixing prl update error's, including the custom activity shortcut one. I still receive "Unknown Error."
Anyone else in this same boat? I'd perfer to NOT manually update it. =(
oh and i'm still on prl 60676
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Up, I am. When I had my screen replaced I mentioned it to the Sprint tech. He told me not to worry about it because updates come OTA. I couldn't say much after that obviously.
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JohnCorleone said:
Up, I am. When I had my screen replaced I mentioned it to the Sprint tech. He told me not to worry about it because updates come OTA. I couldn't say much after that obviously.
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He's full of bs, I've had this damn prl since I bought this Epic. Same for a friend, who's had it since release date.
oh and it seems I get both internal and unknown error's.

I was just about to start a thread about this. I even went back to di18 let it do the ota update and I'm still getting the error. It's really starting to piss me off.

The next MR will correct this issue.

Korey_Nicholson said:
The next MR will correct this issue.
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Its so funny that this doesn't affect everyone. My prl update to the newest one just fine 2 days ago.
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G via Tapatalk

zanderman112 said:
Its so funny that this doesn't affect everyone. My prl update to the newest one just fine 2 days ago.
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Maybe its funny to you Zander...lol
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JohnCorleone said:
Maybe its funny to you Zander...lol
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I didn't mean "haha" funny lol. I should've said something like interesting.
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stupid ass sprint. I decided to update via QPST. It was actually easier than it looks =)
though error is still persistent.

I had the same problem so I followed the steps to manually update the PRL myself.

zanderman112 said:
I didn't mean "haha" funny lol. I should've said something like interesting.
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Oh, I know. I was just playing. I actually have good data speeds and full bar 4G service so I don't have much to be complaining about.
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JohnCorleone said:
Oh, I know. I was just playing. I actually have good data speeds and full bar 4G service so I don't have much to be complaining about.
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I live in an area with no 4g, and at my house i get 2-3 bars 3g. Needless to say, I'm on wifi 95% of the time.
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I've had the PRL and profile update error since it first started 3+ months ago? I've tried everything on the forums to fix it, flashed every stock ROM release etc but nothing fixed it.
I'm leaving for a cross country trip next week and wanted to make sure I had current PRL while going cross country. I ended up putting stock EC05 back on it and took it in to Sprint and they tried several things to fix it but couldn't. Because i was leaving so soon they swapped me out for a brand new unit instead of making me wait a week for a refurbished unit. Cost $35 for the swap and has fixed my PRL/Profile issues as well as my sensor issues so I'm pretty happy.

zanderman112 said:
I live in an area with no 4g, and at my house i get 2-3 bars 3g. Needless to say, I'm on wifi 95% of the time.
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call sprint tell them you have crappy coverage in your house they will send you a Airrave for free did wonders for me.

I had this issue occur about a week ago. I noticed it after I Flashed EF02 and upgraded my radio to EF10, then downgraded to EF02 and I couldn't upgrade again.
- Then I started getting the PRL and profile error. I called sprint support and they tried to rebuild my network profile but it still didn't work.
They told me to take it in to a sprint store to have a tech look at it. The tech said the reason it errors out it because there are network issues here locally and the towers are down. He also said that i will get that error when there isn't a PRL to update to.
I know both of those are bull**** because I have updated my PRL many times and it doesn't give an error when there is no update.

How to downgrade PRL?
I manually (using Settings>About Phone>System Update) updated the PRL from 60676 (whatever it was earlier) to 01120. I am having a lot of issues with 3G connection now. I haven't come across a way to downgrade my PRL back to the previous one, or manually flash the previous PRL. Does someone know how to do that? Googling this issue did not lead to any ehlpfl threads. Thanks.

sacwoo said:
I had this issue occur about a week ago. I noticed it after I Flashed EF02 and upgraded my radio to EF10, then downgraded to EF02 and I couldn't upgrade again.
- Then I started getting the PRL and profile error. I called sprint support and they tried to rebuild my network profile but it still didn't work.
They told me to take it in to a sprint store to have a tech look at it. The tech said the reason it errors out it because there are network issues here locally and the towers are down. He also said that i will get that error when there isn't a PRL to update to.
I know both of those are bull**** because I have updated my PRL many times and it doesn't give an error when there is no update.
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My wife's phone has done the same thing since it was new, won't update the prl or profile after all the stuff happening to my Epic and being on the 4th one I wonder about the Epic. I think Sprint tells everyone they have towers down in their area. I called them Saturday because my epic got stuck in roam and I had no data connection and the first idiot I talked to told me that. After the wife got home with her epic and it wasn't roaming I called back and the second person said they had no idea why they told me that, anyway long story short the repair center I had to go to said the same thing, which is total BS. Maybe thats their standard answer to not knowing or admitting they have no clue.

PRL 60683

Looks like we have an update. So far so good in my area. Went from 500kbps down to 1110.

I'm getting 1275kbps down 516kbps up, thats a hell of a lot better than what I was getting a couple of weeks ago.

Sure thing! Confirmed, no speed results here as I don't really pay attention, Sprint is usually slow in my hometown. Thanks for the heads up!

You guys always do this.
PRL has nothing to do with speed. It's just updated tower info.

HipKat said:
You guys always do this.
PRL has nothing to do with speed. It's just updated tower info.
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updated tower info can lead to better reception and faster speeds because your phone will do handshakes with towers it never did before (in some cases) and any updates to the towers will reflect on the phones.
I do agree that it doesn't 100% = to speed, but it's an important part of the equation.

Hope somebody upload it.
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The only thing that will improve, if at all is cell signal, not data.
All a PRL does is update the information on which towers to connect to, basically
Jeez.....
This happens every time a new PRL comes out, people buying into some placebo effect that doesn't exist.

vasiaeva said:
Hope somebody upload it.
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Hope no one gets their feelings hurt for me uploading this BUT here it is....

HipKat said:
The only thing that will improve, if at all is cell signal, not data.
All a PRL does is update the information on which towers to connect to, basically
Jeez.....
This happens every time a new PRL comes out, people buying into some placebo effect that doesn't exist.
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True, but if you're connecting to a less crowded tower it can help data

Just wanted to direct you all to https://network.sprint.com/

xHausx said:
True, but if you're connecting to a less crowded tower it can help data
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The other posts are correct. You are going to connect to the same Sprint towers as you did before on the old PRL. A new tower does not need a PRL update to allow you to connect.
If this was true they would have PRL updates everyday due to new towers and new airaves coming online.

You did it
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How do I get the update if I'm rooted?

dwelder said:
How do I get the update if I'm rooted?
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Just update like you normally would. Or you could manually update it via ##775#
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JDM Civic EG8 said:
Just update like you normally would. Or you could manually update it via ##775#
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I'm running the Decks 1.3 Rom which I don't think gives me the stock update option. If so I can't find it. I tried doing the 775 trick but it didn't do anything. Is there anything else I can do?

dwelder said:
I'm running the Decks 1.3 Rom which I don't think gives me the stock update option. If so I can't find it. I tried doing the 775 trick but it didn't do anything. Is there anything else I can do?
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Use QPST. Since you are writing a prl I would go ahead and put 11115 on it though for 3g roaming.

dwelder said:
I'm running the Decks 1.3 Rom which I don't think gives me the stock update option. If so I can't find it. I tried doing the 775 trick but it didn't do anything. Is there anything else I can do?
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Ahh I should have asked which rom you are using. On AOSP you have to use what he said below. Or you could do what I did. Have a sense rom saved in a nandroid backup.
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Thanks guys. I will give that a try. Thank you for your help.

rushco said:
Just wanted to direct you all to https://network.sprint.com/
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This is awesome! Not sure why I didn't know about this before. Interesting in the last 6 months there have been no network improvements in my area. But in the next 6 months I'll see 4 data capacity upgrades, 1 data speed upgrade and 1 voice upgrade.

In alot of the areas ive been in, they say theres been a ton of upgrades. But I still get awful data speeds.

Sprint Turns On Enhanced 3G In Atlanta

http://phandroid.com/2012/02/29/spr...e-first-cities-to-receive-4g-lte-by-mid-year/
Who lives in Atlanta? How's the speed?

Thats funny, I was just complaining to some friends about the signal the last 2 days, it as turned on the 27th.
http://db.tt/i4iY041F
http://db.tt/q5sKEqqP
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it would be great if anyone in Atlanta could post up some speed test results substantiating these claims.
I have been waiting patiently for sprint to finally make a move and if people ate really seeing better speeds it may be worth keeping.
So anyone from a great data area able to share?

TeamERA said:
Thats funny, I was just complaining to some friends about the signal the last 2 days, it as turned on the 27th.
http://db.tt/i4iY041F
http://db.tt/q5sKEqqP
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If you're in the affected area, maybe update your PRL and see if that gets it back on track? Or maybe it's just all the new speedy users in Atlanta sucking the bandwidth from the rest of us ;]

Heres the thing I live in McDonough (metro ATL) and work in ATL, since this service has been turned on, it seems like the penetration is so much worse, no signal in any building. I'm no noob, so I have done everything I know how to reset the signal, nothing works, 3 phones. And many other friends have the same problem. I'll be complaining to Sprint soon. Now when I'm outside I get a great signal, with the same speed as before this service was turned on, so take that as you will.
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What modem are you on? Try FB15
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Good to see they are actually catching up with their 3G network also
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Fatonuseni said:
What modem are you on? Try FB15
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Actually I have all the modems on my sdcard, and now the fb27 thanks to calkulin. Ive always had the best results for signal strength with eg31, best speed with fb21. Just installed fb27, but it hasnt helped the problem Im seeing, this is with my touch and 3 og epics (brother, mom, my og epic). Im also seeing when indoors and use an internet speed test app its choosing out of state servers, but when outside and I have a signal it is choosing a close location, but still jumps from 3/4/5 bars to no bars, and internet speeds drop out about every 15secs for 5 secs. Everything Im saying is well tested on 4 phones, and 1 in 2 places by me, still seeing the same thing. This is either being worked on or just the way the new signal is pulsing.
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TeamERA said:
Actually I have all the modems on my sdcard, and now the fb27 thanks to calkulin. Ive always had the best results for signal strength with eg31, best speed with fb21. Just installed fb27, but it hasnt helped the problem Im seeing, this is with my touch and 3 og epics (brother, mom, my og epic). Im also seeing when indoors and use an internet speed test app its choosing out of state servers, but when outside and I have a signal it is choosing a close location, but still jumps from 3/4/5 bars to no bars, and internet speeds drop out about every 15secs for 5 secs. Everything Im saying is well tested on 4 phones, and 1 in 2 places by me, still seeing the same thing. This is either being worked on or just the way the new signal is pulsing.
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****, its similar to my town. I'm outside chicago and the network has just been **** for me. Its been getting worse like they have been taking transmitters down each day or something.
Where did you get the other modems? i thought we only had fb15?!?

jeeps, I hope they increase their 3g speeds because this has been hard to deal with. Sometimes I wonder how they get off charging people so much a month for utter crap.
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Fatonuseni said:
****, its similar to my town. I'm outside chicago and the network has just been **** for me. Its been getting worse like they have been taking transmitters down each day or something.
Where did you get the other modems? i thought we only had fb15?!?
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You can use any of the modems we have for the og epic, around 11, I didnt count, but close to that. Look for the modem thread qbking77 has on the dev page.
Edit, sorry, forgot this was the og epic thread for a minute lol
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TeamERA said:
You can use any of the modems we have for the og epic, around 11, I didnt count, but close to that. Look for the modem thread qbking77 has on the dev page.
Edit, sorry, forgot this was the og epic thread for a minute lol
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Yeah, I've used the modems. sadly EC05 and EI22 are the best for me. This F series modem has been an overweight blind date for me.
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b16flybye said:
Yeah, I've used the modems. sadly EC05 and EI22 are the best for me. This F series modem has been an overweight blind date for me.
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I always loved the dk28 modem.
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New PRL 60792

New PRL 60792 is out. I just Updated. Getting really great reception in areas I wasn't before. Most of the time I'm holding 4-5 Bars no matter where I am. Just wanted to give you guys the heads up .
EDIT: I am adding this statement to clarify for some. I am not saying that updating your PRL ( Preferred Roaming List ) will give you reception ( coverage ) where you had none before. I only state that in areas where I was already getting reception it improved.

Ahhh nice! Time to download a stock rom. Lol
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You will not get more sprint pcs coverage with this prl update or just about any prl update.
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digiblur said:
You will not get more sprint pcs coverage with this prl update or just about any prl update.
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No one stated that anyone would get "more" coverage. I very simply stated that in areas where I already had signal ( coverage ) it improved. I did not state that I now had coverage in places I did not before. But thank you for the information, and the link.
EDIT: I have edited the OP. So as to make sure no one misunderstands.
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Thanks prboy1969. I've been using it this week but in my area I haven't really seen a change. I need to brake down and update my radio...

prboy1969 said:
No one stated that anyone would get "more" coverage. I very simply stated that in areas where I already had signal ( coverage ) it improved. I did not state that I now had coverage in places I did not before. But thank you for the information, and the link.
EDIT: I have edited the OP. So as to make sure no one misunderstands.
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Improved signal would be more coverage. PRLs do not do this for native coverage except for when 800smr is activated.
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I've been using this prl and I have noticed an improvement in signal when roaming for sure. Not sure about regular coverage yet but so far it seems better. Thanks for pointing out the new prl prboy1969. I wouldn't have thought to check on that without this post.

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Digiblur has been an authority on PRLs across XDA for as long as I have known
and it is a known fact that the Preferred Roaming List does nothing for towers in network.
Let's keep this about the PRLs and not continue cluttering up the thread arguing about whether cell signal increased
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I thought that the way the prl worked is, if tower type one was unavailable then it would try tower two on the list. Then if one and two were unavailable then try number three on the list and so on. With this prl I have been having very good signal while roaming. Much better than before. Is this because Sprint has changed the companies I roam on?

It is not a list of towers. I only saw some roaming preferences in the Northwest that changed. Very minor update for non 800smr capable devices.
It's very very rare that Sprint native coverage will be affected by a prl update as the SIDs and channels were defined long ago in the prl. The exception to that rule is when 800smr is added in areas.
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Could somebody upload the 60792 prl. Thanks in Advance.

raj7065 said:
Could somebody upload the 60792 prl. Thanks in Advance.
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Flash a Sense ROM or if you already using one, go to settings/ system updates/ update prl

I was trying to avoid reloading a sense rom

raj7065 said:
I was trying to avoid reloading a sense rom
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Sorry dude, unless you really know what you're doing I don't think you can avoid it.

raj7065 said:
I was trying to avoid reloading a sense rom
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It's easier to just load a Sense rom, unless you want to otherwise run the risk of bricking your phone
Just make a nandroid, flash Sense and then restore you backup after doing it, it really doesn't take long
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CNexus said:
It's easier to just load a Sense rom, unless you want to otherwise run the risk of bricking your phone
Just make a nandroid, flash Sense and then restore you backup after doing it, it really doesn't take long
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+1

I actually keep a sense rom on the sd just in case. Big sd, really convenient.
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asaladinojr said:
I actually keep a sense rom on the sd just in case. Big sd, really convenient.
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Me too, got newICSense on permanent backup.

bilgerryan said:
Me too, got newICSense on permanent backup.
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newICSense?

Chad The Pathfinder said:
newICSense?
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RC-1 has two themes by -somebody- newICSense black and white. I keep a nand of both lol.