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Are you guys more jealous of the evo or evo shift, I'm asking in the epic section because I want an unbiased opinion thanks
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Troll anyone?
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lol. neither. the epic blows them both away hardware wise.
is this some lame troll attempt?

lovespancakes96 said:
Are you guys more jealous of the evo or evo shift, I'm asking in the epic section because I want an unbiased opinion thanks
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No, both suck! Shift is a cheap plastic piece of crap with only an 800 Mhz processor. It felt like I was holding the old Sidekick. My Mother-in-law has the EVO and playing with that versus my Epic, I prefer my keyboard to the on-screen one. The EVO screen was a little bigger but that was about it.

Evo who? Na I would buy another epic over the evo!
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To actually answer op...
Would you be jealous if I dated your mom AND your sister?
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lovespancakes96 said:
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Why do you assume anyone would be jealous? Are you projecting your own feelings upon us? It's common, but something you should look into because it's not emotionally healthy to do that. It will make relationships very difficult until you truly take ownership of your projected feelings.
I'm jealous of neither. They simply exist as other options which appeal to people other than myself at various levels of desire.

lovespancakes96 said:
Are you guys more jealous of the evo or evo shift, I'm asking in the epic section because I want an unbiased opinion thanks
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No
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you guys know he started this same thread in the evo and evoshift forums too and not that surprising, he got nothing but positive healthy discussion on the pros and cons. maybe we are the trolls.

austin420 said:
you guys know he started this same thread in the evo and evoshift forums too and not that surprising, he got nothing but positive healthy discussion on the pros and cons. maybe we are the trolls.
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it's not the fact that he asked the question, it's how he assumes we are automatically jealous of one of the phones. I am not jealous of either phones, so, I said no.
That being said, of the 2, I would rather have the regular evo... I guess.

austin420 said:
you guys know he started this same thread in the evo and evoshift forums too and not that surprising, he got nothing but positive healthy discussion on the pros and cons. maybe we are the trolls.
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True - however, various version of this question have been asked ad nauseum here.

lovespancakes96 said:
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I am not jealous of either, especially the shift. Each phone has its own ups and downs. And from my personal preference the Epic is by far the best. I played with them both and my biggest reasons are the display and speed. To me the Epic wins both hands down. The Evo screen is bigger but for me I find the Epic to be the perfect size. I also like gaming which is another hands down win for the Epic, imho. The point is, you will get tons of people that vote for each one. It all depends on the person. So if you really want an answer you need to use them side by side and make your own choice.
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Epic> EVO & EVO Shift
Hardware Keyboard
Super Amoled Screen
Hummingbird Processor
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davidrules7778 said:
Epic> EVO & EVO Shift
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This
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This is a stupid question, stupid post, stupid OP. Someone please close this thread.
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Got my Epic in late december. If I was gonna be jealous of either I would have bought the evo. The shift came out under my 30 days so I coulda switched. No jealousy here. To each his own but I love my Epic.
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I just kind of meant more like if you had to pick one of the two which one
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I currently feel I have the best phone on the market at the best price power month. I have not one reason to be jealous. I've been without a computer since February and the Epic has filled in just fine until I ordered my ideal computer.
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If you ask me, the evo its better if you are not into rooting or messing with your phone, however with all the support we got here from our devs, the epic has become one of the best phones out there on the market
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latindor17 said:
If you ask me, the evo its better if you are not into rooting or messing with your phone, however with all the support we got here from our devs, the epic has become one of the best phones out there on the market
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How is the evo better stock???

Android 2.3.x only available for new customers

http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/ne...-4g-android-23-gingerbread-lucky-users-12662/
It seems that Android 2.3.x is only available for new customers with new devices.
We should have an uproar! We should be running the beta of Ice cream Sandwich as their should always be a beta available to everyone who wants it. Heck I want Android Version 5 just because outside of google no one knows about it.

sigh
10ch

Already debunked. Thanks for playing.
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abrognlie said:
Already debunked. Thanks for playing.
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read the article...
i guess its time to switch back to the evo 4g again. Been on the epic again for about a week. Gonna trade tomorrow for a white one i hope with evo 3d software. Cant wait

still going to say it's a total load of bologna. even if that would be true (it's not), there would always be custom roms and/or odin versions as soon as it's released.

Thats is some false info
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not quite
I just got a new Epic 4G less than a month ago with a new contract and it was not loaded with Gingerbread, patience it will come out soon enough.

Pause................................. Not. : )

htc_joe said:
read the article...
i guess its time to switch back to the evo 4g again. Been on the epic again for about a week. Gonna trade tomorrow for a white one i hope with evo 3d software. Cant wait
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this is already old news and NOT true.. new GB leak will be out this week. hopefully with source = MIUI > Sense 3.0

omair2005 said:
this is already old news and NOT true.. new GB leak will be out this week. hopefully with source = MIUI > Sense 3.0
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What's makes you think there will be a leak this week?
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Wizard Knight said:
What's makes you think there will be a leak this week?
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Samfirmware said they might have one this week for the epic and vibrant
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G.

Lame... This doesn't mean anything. Just another stupid rumor posted on another stupid website.

I'm not even waiting anymore

Another thread to either delete or merge into the central rumor thread. Yay for rubbish to sift through.
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They're just making **** up to go along with the 2. Typo.
- Ron

OP, you might want to find a different news source.

zanderman112 said:
Samfirmware said they might have one this week for the epic and vibrant
Posted by Mr. Z's Epic 4G.
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Lol, which generally means yes /joy
Love that website
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Oldbluesman said:
I just got a new Epic 4G less than a month ago with a new contract and it was not loaded with Gingerbread, patience it will come out soon enough.
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well thats because it just started to ship with gb in the last few days. So again its only for new phones at this point. We may never have an official update for the epic as an ota.

cds0699 said:
OP, you might want to find a different news source.
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my crystal magic eight ball says "it is so" when i asked if gb is for only new epic 4g's...

htc_joe said:
my crystal magic eight ball says "it is so" when i asked if gb is for only new epic 4g's...
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I bought a new epic for my sister today and no gb..... you a d*mn lie.....

Ok quick Questions Ladies and Gentz

My wife has the epic 4G and was wondering
1. if you guys were affected by the OTA update?
If so..
2. Are you guys still able to root?
And...
3. What version should you have on your epic to root?
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infamousteeboy said:
My wife has the epic 4G and was wondering
1. if you guys were affected by the OTA update?
If so..
2. Are you guys still able to root?
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3. What version should you have on your epic to root?
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1. What OTA is it
2. Probably
3. So far all of em
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wtf OTA update today? So weird, unless he bought an older epic and just got the old EC05 OTA

Art2Fly said:
wtf OTA update today? So weird, unless he bought an older epic and just got the old EC05 OTA
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I didn't know how to respond to this either...what update?
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Ok my bad idk anything about the epic maybe its a lil different than the Evo but the Evo got an OTA update a couple months back and I wasn't sure if she had gotten the same thing on her epic
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1. No, she probably got an old OTA update
2. Yes
3. You can root any baseband version with the lastest one click method (EC05 is the latest official).

shane6374 said:
1. No, she probably got an old OTA update
2. Yes
3. You can root any baseband version with the lastest one click method (EC05 is the latest official).
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Ok cool thanks
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Sorry for confusing you guys with the OTA
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infamousteeboy said:
Sorry for confusing you guys with the OTA
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They were confused because our Gingerbread official release appears to be around the corner, and you were mentioning an OTA update lol.

So man... how can you live letting your woman get the better phone? I mean I can't see any reason why unless she cooks and cleans constantly....

When gb comes out though u will root using odin or heimdale. Our phones are not locked down by the bootloader like the evo is.
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Art2Fly said:
So man... how can you live letting your woman get the better phone? I mean I can't see any reason why unless she cooks and cleans constantly....
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Dude are you serious? Ahaha you know how many keyboards, power buttons, camera buttons, and speakers I've gone through fixin that damn phone? It's horrendous bro come on you can't come at me like that! thinkin I don't know lol she's on her 5th speaker and you know what I'm talkin about lol don't play dumb lol I've sent her phone in 4 times cuz the damn screen wouldn't let her unlock her phone I have never sent my phone in once and we've had our phones since the beginning of the year she's on her 2nd keyboard and her 4th phone 3rd camera button Wthell she does with it I have no clue but seriously that's a lot of **** I replaced in 7 months bro so you better knock it off lol
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nikon120 said:
They were confused because our Gingerbread official release appears to be around the corner, and you were mentioning an OTA update lol.
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I see what your saying again sorry bout that fellas
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Don't take things personal...I have never seen any Evo love around here. Its definately a hate/hate relationship.lol. I personally like the Evo. My friend has one. I think its a good phone but you have to expect everyone around here to say the Epic is better.
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JohnCorleone said:
Don't take things personal...I have never seen any Evo love around here. Its definately a hate/hate relationship.lol. I personally like the Evo. My friend has one. I think its a good phone but you have to expect everyone around here to say the Epic is better.
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I'm not takin it personal at all lol I promise I guess I'm jus wonderin what the f$%k is up wit your guys buttons bro? Lol
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DON'T GET ME WRONG I LIKE THE EPIC I like the epic I had a gay ass blackberry before my Evo and she had the epic before I decide to get the Evo a week after she got her epic I was messin around with her epic and for some reason it encouraged me to get the Evo idk why lol
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infamousteeboy said:
DON'T GET ME WRONG I LIKE THE EPIC I like the epic I had a gay ass blackberry before my Evo and she had the epic before I decide to get the Evo a week after she got her epic I was messin around with her epic and for some reason it encouraged me to get the Evo idk why lol
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You get the best of both bro, that's cool
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My roommate has a Evo & he had to replace the phone 8X!!! Ive had my Epic & never once had to go to sprint to fix anything & he had never had it rooted my epic 4g is rooted to the max thanks to my epic mafia crew everyone whos help me with my noob ? I'm only a month & 2 weeks in to this wonderful
World of rooting thanks xda!fam
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Killasmoke said:
My roommate has a Evo & he had to replace the phone 8X!!! Ive had my Epic & never once had to go to sprint to fix anything & he had never had it rooted my epic 4g is rooted to the max thanks to my epic mafia crew everyone whos help me with my noob ? I'm only a month & 2 weeks in to this wonderful
World of rooting thanks xda!fam
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Oh well that's real cute boast away lol this guy didn't even answer one question lol grant it the questions were answered does it seem like I'm interested in how much your phone is rooted? Lol I wanna know what I gotta do to root my wives epic guy thanks for not paying attention lol
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ac16313 said:
You get the best of both bro, that's cool
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Anywho so how do I go about rooting MY WIVES epic? I'm sure your able to help not like the other guy lol
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[Q] Epic or Evo Shift?

Hey all. I've been looking to buy a new phone for a few weeks now, and have been leaning towards the Evo Shift. But my choice was the Epic months ago. So my question is; which would all of you prefer? Epic of Shift?
I've done much research, but I'd like to hear insight from some actual Epic users. I know the Epic offers Samsung's Super AMOLED display, and the shift doesn't. The Epic also has a bigger screen. But I believe the Shift has a faster processor? I've also heard that the sliding mechanism on the Epic can become loose fairly quickly with heavy use? Is this even true? I also know how the Epic doesn't have a fully functional Gingerbread build build yet. The Shift does, but there's only temp root at this time. I really do like Sense, but I've never tried Samsung's TouchWiz UI. Also, I know this is also a bigger phone, but is like, a brick? I definitely wouldn't want a phone to be pulling my pants down when it's in my pocket haha.
I'd really like to outweigh all the pros and cons before I go through with any purchase. Thanks!

Omg the epic wins on ALL fronts. CPU is faster, gpu is faster, keyboard is better, bigger screen, amoled over lcd (spliech!), its thinner, the cameras better, the speaker phone is louder and not tinny. The shift has absolutely nothing on the epic.
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My roommates boyfriend has one sonics had plenty of time to play with one. Not blowing smoke just in case. Also I forgot to mention, the Evo shift doesn't have gorilla glass
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Epic has superior hardware in every way, but shift has aosp, sense 3.0, stable miui and stable cm7, whereas we don't. So Shift has more ROMs and dev support + they have stock gb too.

Overall = EPIC ; Developement = Shift ....... personally , I think EPIC is WAY Better

Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
Be cool and get evo 3d or photon. If you don't have the top of the line flagship then you aren't crap and should be asshamed of yourself and move to a remote island with no cell service.
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moto_google said:
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
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The shift is too

moto_google said:
Epic is end of life now so why even get it?
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Because I can't really deal with an all touch screen phone, so I want a full keyboard. That's why my choices are the Epic or Evo Shift.

masaidjet said:
The shift is too
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When people see my end of life epic I get laughed at and told no self respecting cellphone user would be caught dead with an end of life flagship phone. They say you ain't crap unless you have evo 3d or photon.
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moto_google said:
When people see my end of life epic I get laughed at and told no self respecting cellphone user would be caught dead with an end of life flagship phone. They say you ain't crap unless you have evo 3d or photon.
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I could care less what people would say about me because of what phone I have. A phone is a phone, and everyone has different opinions. I don't need a brand new, top of the line phone to make me happy. I just want somethin that works, and gets the job done with what I need it for

I have an Epic... and love it! It's fast as hell (running RandomROM EG22 "HAWK"), and I use it for work so it takes plenty of abuse. My wife has a shift stuck on 2.3.3, and it's a dog. Even she complains about how slow it is, but hopefully (someday) permanent root will be found and I can flash a different ROM to speed it up.

rompnit said:
I have an Epic... and love it! It's fast as hell (running RandomROM EG22 "HAWK"), and I use it for work so it takes plenty of abuse. My wife has a shift stuck on 2.3.3, and it's a dog. Even she complains about how slow it is, but hopefully (someday) permanent root will be found and I can flash a different ROM to speed it up.
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Yeah was gonna add no root for shift right now.

xjayman said:
Yeah was gonna add no root for shift right now.
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What do you mean? They have custom roms.

xboxfanj said:
What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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Yeah they do. They have the. Newest Miui and CM7. You should check out qbking's videos. He has both phones in his growing arsenal and has videos on both. I had to stop the Shift Miui 1.8.19 (maybe wrong #) video before he started showing the features...I was getting pissed! Lol EDIT...Shift has Miui 1.9.2...my mistake!
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Syst3m Deadlock said:
I could care less what people would say about me because of what phone I have. A phone is a phone, and everyone has different opinions. I don't need a brand new, top of the line phone to make me happy. I just want somethin that works, and gets the job done with what I need it for
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If a phone is a phone then you should be happy not getting the promotion and the raise and the not new trophy wife.
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xboxfanj said:
What do you mean? They have custom roms.
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I mean a new shift with
2.3 update, only temp root right now
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Get the Epic hands down over shift yea they have more devs but we got Great devs are self the epic got better everything cpu gpu humming bird processor super amoled etc. etc. the evo camp got more devs there like the army but the Epic like the marines!! Support the troops USA!!
Super SRF 1.2/Genocide 2.0 OC 1.4GHZ/Honeycomb Fusion v 1.1

I have an epic, and my brother has the shift.
My epic surpasses it in everyway. Better screen, battery life, and keyboard.
Plus, you might end up with a non rootable shift because most of them in stock are aleady on 2.3.
Epic hands down
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Avelnan said:
Phones are going to come to life someday. Take note: LG Optimus line. ASUS Transformer. And now the Nexus Prime.
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My Epic runs circles around the Shift regardless of what rom it's running
Forget dev support, no matter how far you push it a Shift will never be an Epic, so I'd say the Epic.
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Zeinzu said:
My Epic runs circles around the Shift regardless of what rom it's running
Forget dev support, no matter how far you push it a Shift will never be an Epic, so I'd say the Epic.
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That's what I have been told as well.
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Favorite Devs that moved on

Just wondering, for those of you that have been around for a while. Who were your favorite developers that moved on to a different device?
Mine is probably Calkulin, way ahead of the times and never really got the credit he deserved.
thoughts?

Stawberry_Yogurt was a great developer when i had my moto razr

Damage he was the best from my hero to the EVO best dev ever
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O yeah and he also taught virus everything he knows and virus is one of the top dev's out right now so u do that math
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Netarchy however lithid came but seems he has moved on also ms (made sbc) kernels
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Koni, but who knows where he went

HipKat said:
Koni, but who knows where he went
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Yeah. What is with him vanishing? Guess he didn't like GB
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I liked vetvito, who worked on my TP (Touch Pro). He did some amazing work.
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Definitely Calkulin. His mods, radios etc. Always very reliable work.
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Yeah that's true Koni moved to the iPhone. I have a couple favorite ones mostly from the WM days like Mighty Mike (he went iPhone also), Juicy, Herg62163, indagroove (don't know if he is still devving anymore but he is still around the Evo forums time to time), Whosdaman (had the sickest Manila 2D Diamond ROM for the Vogue), & there are a few others also.
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Yea man used to rock the hell out of Indagroove's stuff... but must put another vote in for Caulkin... Solid and reliable...

HipKat said:
Koni, but who knows where he went
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alaman68 said:
Yeah. What is with him vanishing? Guess he didn't like GB
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revol.epic said:
i guess he got taken into the apple iphone world. last i heard from asking siri he is now on an iphone 4s.
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from what i heard koni is gonna come back with a new update on the elite.

delman420 said:
from what i heard koni is gonna come back with a new update on the elite.
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When did you hear this, because he said that in August, then disappeared again.

delman420 said:
from what i heard koni is gonna come back with a new update on the elite.
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He moved on to the iPhone 4S
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Damaged, Calkulin, Netarchy, Decaednce, koni, treve, and a few other I can't remember.

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Damaged, Calkulin, Netarchy, Decaednce, koni, treve, and a few other I can't remember.
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Damageless & TrevE are on the 3D with Team Synergy, Calk I last seen was on the Photon with Yay 4 Juggs ( I almost got a Photon cuz of them 2), & Dec is over on the Epic making CM7 a reality for it
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list can get pretty long if you want to add myn and virus too. Now that we have some really good (nostalgic / retro) sense ROMS rolling through, Netarchy is missed. Only kernels that could take a beating and last 2 days on one charge.