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Maybe many people already know this... but Kevin Lynch, Adobe's chief technology officer, said "Adobe expects to release Flash Player 10.1 on Google's Android operating system in May and then for it to be on general release in June. "
BBC new post where I found this... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10093314.stm
sounds goody...
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That means we'd be another step ahead from others...
Lets hope next CM build includes this
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sounds goody...
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Hey dude, seriously, there has been a big discussion over this Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk thing... requesting you to please turn it off through your settings...
has been mentioned in threads here already. Im not sure if the bbc story was mentionned, but you might be better off looking for that thread and posting in there instead of starting a new one
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glad to hear the quick news about flash, maybe that means froyo will be showing up this month too...
and, at y2whisper, the other thread was closed, because it was made perfectly clear that most people would like it turned off. the tapatalk notification is annoying as sin
Thats fine that they would, I opt to keep it on, only out of gratitude for the program and that about 10% of my posts are done via the program. should that percentage increase or simply just over time (unless there is some kind of upgrade) I will shut it off.
Mind you my motivation with it is that its xda specific and its how i found out about the application in the first place.
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glad to hear the quick news about flash, maybe that means froyo will be showing up this month too...
and, at y2whisper, the other thread was closed, because it was made perfectly clear that most people would like it turned off. the tapatalk notification is annoying as sin
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I agree it's annoying and all, but I believe that's how a lot of people know about the program. If everybody turns it off, I bet there's gonna be a bunch of thread asking what this program is. lol
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That means we'd be another step ahead from others...
Lets hope next CM build includes this
Hey dude, seriously, there has been a big discussion over this Sent from my Nexus One using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk thing... requesting you to please turn it off through your settings...
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glad to hear the quick news about flash, maybe that means froyo will be showing up this month too...
and, at y2whisper, the other thread was closed, because it was made perfectly clear that most people would like it turned off. the tapatalk notification is annoying as sin
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You can always block people who don't disable the signature.
Admin is working with the developer to change the spam that the application places in the body of the post which is what annoys most people. They did not specify what would be done but apparently relief is on the way.
need to make it so you can assign a sig to it your self, or not at all.
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need to make it so you can assign a sig to it your self, or not at all.
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But, if you reply with it, doesn't it just use the sig you already have specified in the forum?
They didnt say what they were going to do. What bothers most people is that it is amended into the body of the post and as they surf the forum they end up reading it over and over and over.... It sounded like a line break such as before the signatures to move it out of the body of the post would be a front runner. We'll see.
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Thats fine that they would, I opt to keep it on, only out of gratitude for the program and that about 10% of my posts are done via the program. should that percentage increase or simply just over time (unless there is some kind of upgrade) I will shut it off.
Mind you my motivation with it is that its xda specific and its how i found out about the application in the first place.
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It was just a request...
and I'm sorry if it hurt your xda patriotic sentiments...
/tapatalk discussion
back to the talk about flash, lol
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/tapatalk discussion
back to the talk about flash, lol
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Who cares about Flash? Tapatalk is the new big thing!
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Flash, love it. Last summer a girl flashed me out on the freeway, heart tell of it happening but first time for me. Er, wait. What were we talking about?
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OMG, again with the bloody taptalk thing. Why do people get so angry over something so little. Im glad non of those people are in a position on great power...
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It was just a request...
and I'm sorry if it hurt your xda patriotic sentiments...
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ha no worries man. just wanted to make sure you knew i wasn't doing it to spite you.
overall we should just put the flash talk in the original thread that talks about it and close this one off we should have went on about it via pm i see there are more posts about it here now haven't taken the time to read them)
here is the older thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=671619&highlight=adobe+flash
I feel like this should be posted under development, but since I just created a new account, I am unable to post it under that particular subject. So, if one of you kind moderators are reading this, please don't delete this.
I just simply wanted to ask if there was a possibility of porting a Windows Phone 7 rom to the HTC Evo 4g. If so, then could somebody do it for me? I'm a n00b at pretty much everything except for rooting and flashing roms to phones, so I need a little help from the people that know how to do these things.
yeah give me a few minutes, I'll whip up a WP7 rom for you.
I'm pretty sure you'd be sued off the face.of the earth by msoft. Wp7 is closed source, android is open.
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I feel like I should be searching for the answer to this question, but since I just created a new account, I am too lazy to do that. So, if you all would indulge my laziness I'm just going to ask the question and wait for one of you to find the answer for me.
I just simply wanted to ask if there was a possibility of porting a Windows Phone 7 rom to the HTC Evo 4g. If so, then could somebody do it for me? I'm a n00b at pretty much everything.
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Fixed that for ya'.
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Fixed that for ya'.
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You my friend win "post of the day"
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I feel like this should be posted under development, but since I just created a new account, I am unable to post it under that particular subject. So, if one of you kind moderators are reading this, please don't delete this.
I just simply wanted to ask if there was a possibility of porting a Windows Phone 7 rom to the HTC Evo 4g. If so, then could somebody do it for me? I'm a n00b at pretty much everything except for rooting and flashing roms to phones, so I need a little help from the people that know how to do these things.
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The only phone that has been successfully ported from WM6.1 to Android and WP7 is the HTC HD2, and that is GSM so it won't work with Sprint.
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You my friend win "post of the day"
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I have so many people to thank...
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I'm pretty sure you'd be sued off the face.of the earth by msoft. Wp7 is closed source, android is open.
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I'm sorry, I didn't know that it was closed source. I don't really pay attention much to it. I just like the UI, however I dont like that Launcher 7 has like 2 live tiles. Sorry for the trouble.
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I'm sorry, I didn't know that it was closed source. I don't really pay attention much to it. I just like the UI, however I dont like that Launcher 7 has like 2 live tiles. Sorry for the trouble.
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Perhaps you should purchase a WP7 phone?
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Perhaps you should purchase a WP7 phone?
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I just wanted to experiment around with it, not have it for daily use. But I understand why I sound stupid for asking about it xD
Does window phone 7 come with symantec?
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I just wanted to experiment around with it, not have it for daily use. But I understand why I sound stupid for asking about it xD
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Not stupid for asking....just that the question has already been asked. Therefore you either didn't search first, or if you did, you didn't like the reasons behind why it hasn't happened yet so you optimistically created a new thread thinking that a different response would occur.
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Is there a version of the ICS in development for Xoom?
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yes ics will be released for the xoom early 2012 according to motorola but the devs here will have it done before then I'm sure of it
Team tiamat are doing it.
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Like 4 threads below this is the ICS thread, if you had clicked it you would have answered your own question...
Elysian893 said:
Like 4 threads below this is the ICS thread, if you had clicked it you would have answered your own question...
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Posts like these irritate the hell out of me. Op is obviously a new poster, they didn't want to go digging for one quick answer so they asked, yes next time maybe they should read the rules or use the search but to go out of your way to make a comment like this even after another poster was kind enough to answer the question is just uncalled for. Not a good way to build a strong community.
Excuse me, does not appear in Tapatalk this option to the Windows!
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Posts like these irritate the hell out of me. Op is obviously a new poster, they didn't want to go digging for one quick answer so they asked, yes next time maybe they should read the rules or use the search but to go out of your way to make a comment like this even after another poster was kind enough to answer the question is just uncalled for. Not a good way to build a strong community.
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OP has been a member since 2009. Low post count not withstanding, the OP is not a new member.
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OP has been a member since 2009. Low post count not withstanding, the OP is not a new member.
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Well as long as you think that is reason enough to act that way then have at her!
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Posts like these irritate the hell out of me. Op is obviously a new poster, they didn't want to go digging for one quick answer so they asked, yes next time maybe they should read the rules or use the search but to go out of your way to make a comment like this even after another poster was kind enough to answer the question is just uncalled for. Not a good way to build a strong community.
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There really is no reason to beat on people like this..I understand there is another thread that explains this but not everyone is as savvy as the next person and we are supposed to be a friendly community. All i have to say is lets be civil, everyone is excited to get ICS up and running, it is a huge improvement and will hopefully bring some performance improvements to our Xooms, which we are all here to talk about (all though I think the HC to ICS jump is much less then the GB to ICS) Ok thats all I have to say lets be nice.
Just wanna the ICS in my Xoom!
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Posts like these irritate the hell out of me. Op is obviously a new poster, they didn't want to go digging for one quick answer so they asked, yes next time maybe they should read the rules or use the search but to go out of your way to make a comment like this even after another poster was kind enough to answer the question is just uncalled for. Not a good way to build a strong community.
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I had never seen that...it's terrific! Thanks for sharing.
Any news?
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Any news?
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Well we know for a fact that solarnz is working on it. There are certainly others, too. With this stuff we'll hear when we hear. The developers don't like it when we press them for an E.T.A.
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Any news?
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Even after my earlier post you're still not even trying. Being welcoming and friendly is one thing, complete lack of effort is another.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346657
Follow that thread, you'll have your answer.
I don't see the rush to get ICS on the Xoom... The difference between HC and ICS isn't enough to warrant immediate installation for me. I'll be happy when a dev finally does it, but until then, we still have good old Honeycomb, so let's count our blessings, eh?
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That was fantastic! Thank you for the laughs
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I don't see the rush to get ICS on the Xoom... The difference between HC and ICS isn't enough to warrant immediate installation for me. I'll be happy when a dev finally does it, but until then, we still have good old Honeycomb, so let's count our blessings, eh?
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For one thing, because it's the latest version of Android, and there may be fixes for things that are broken 'Good old Honeycomb'. We all want to have the latest thing on our devices, and we don't necessarily want to wait on VZW to test and approve it.
For another thing, we want this because it's actually open source, unlike Honeycomb. Since the source code for HC was unavailable, there was only so much the devs could do as far as making a ROM that was as feature rich as what they would like to offer to the community. Having the code laid out bare allows them to do cool stuff that we all benefit from.
Also, that XDA Noob video was awesome.
And let's not get lost in the fact that honeycomb ain't that great.
Saw ICS on workmates mobile today... It's a HUGE step up!
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XDA Video is all sorts of win :-D .... now get the hell off my lawn!
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Anyone install the consumer preview yet? Your opinions and did your phones drivers work with it? IMO its disgusting and worse than vista I am not looking forward to its release and me having to install it on all my clients pc's.
There's forum for it already... at least the devz preview I'm sure you can ask around there.
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Big Goron said:
There's forum for it already... at least the devz preview I'm sure you can ask around there.
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Dude honestly you need to not reply to people. You are never on topic or answer anyones questions. I'm asking people of which I know in this sub forum not the entire community. Thanks
been running windows 8 since developer preview came out and installed consumer preview day it came out. phone drivers installed with no problems. used odin the other day to get a clean install of cm9beta. it took some getting use to but i love it now.
s89281b said:
been running windows 8 since developer preview came out and installed consumer preview day it came out. phone drivers installed with no problems. used odin the other day to get a clean install of cm9beta. it took some getting use to but i love it now.
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I hate the look of it and just how scattered everything feels. Nothing is in a logical place anymore. To get to the control panel is tough at first to figure out and is trying to shutdown.
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Dude honestly you need to not reply to people. You are never on topic or answer anyones questions. I'm asking people of which I know in this sub forum not the entire community. Thanks
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K thanks... I thought it would have been more beneficial had you went there... and I'm off topic? Windows 8 in a phone forum okay... I'm completely off topic.
Oh and I don't answer ANYONES questions? You get 580 thanks being a ****?
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K thanks... I thought it would have been more beneficial had you went there... and I'm off topic? Windows 8 in a phone forum okay... I'm completely off topic.
Oh and I don't answer ANYONES questions? You get 580 thanks being a ****?
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That's just you thanking yourself from your other account get lost TROLL.
jbadboy2007 said:
That's just you thanking yourself from your other account get lost TROLL.
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no thats me completely different person if you want i can prove it to you. i thanked him because he's right and you could be more appreciative of him, going to the main W8 thread will get you better results HENCE MAIN THREAD.
XxLostSoulxX said:
no thats me completely different person if you want i can prove it to you. i thanked him because he's right and you could be more appreciative of him, going to the main W8 thread will get you better results HENCE MAIN THREAD.
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I asked here for the reason which both of you OBVIOUSLY MISSED in my op which makes it relevant here. Which is did our DRIVERS INSTALL AUTOMATICALLY ON windows 8. So just let people that are actually helpful respond instead of your negativity. Also I don't ever look beyond this forum as I am not interested in anything else beyond this phone. So like I said this has full rights here.
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I asked here for the reason which both of you OBVIOUSLY MISSED in my op which makes it relevant here. Which is did our DRIVERS INSTALL AUTOMATICALLY ON windows 8. So just let people that are actually helpful respond instead of your negativity. Also I don't ever look beyond this forum as I am not interested in anything else beyond this phone. So like I said this has full rights here.
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Okay and again its not negative at all its positive thinking, For the drivers to work i would assume most likely, and which Windows 8 do you have theres 2 versions one looks like crap the other looks like this windows 8 tablet style is for phones and tablet windows 8 right screenie is for desktops the good version haha
It'd be better not to derail this thread with arguments before it gets started, yes?
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K thanks... I thought it would have been more beneficial had you went there... and I'm off topic? Windows 8 in a phone forum okay... I'm completely off topic.
Oh and I don't answer ANYONES questions? You get 580 thanks being a ****?
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he asked about our phones drivers working on w8. im sure that is on topic.
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Okay and again its not negative at all its positive thinking, For the drivers to work i would assume most likely, and which Windows 8 do you have theres 2 versions one looks like crap the other looks like this windows 8 tablet style is for phones and tablet windows 8 right screenie is for desktops the good version haha
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I only played with it for 10 minutes last nite. How did you get enable that desktop mode without metro?
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Okay and again its not negative at all its positive thinking, For the drivers to work i would assume most likely, and which Windows 8 do you have theres 2 versions one looks like crap the other looks like this windows 8 tablet style is for phones and tablet windows 8 right screenie is for desktops the good version haha
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I only played with it for 10 minutes last nite. How did you get enable that desktop mode without metro?
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Anyone install the consumer preview yet? Your opinions and did your phones drivers work with it? IMO its disgusting and worse than vista I am not looking forward to its release and me having to install it on all my clients pc's.
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Since we like to be "right" why are all these questions in the general forum.
Also you took my post completely wrong I simply gave a suggestion... you blew it way out of proportion. Please I would love you to ask a moderator to check and see if there is two accounts using my IP.... if you wanted to have a truly productive thread you would have ignored my post and marked it as irrelevant... rather than what this has become.
I do rather appologize from taking away any value from this thread.
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At least things are being posted, so as users we can answer first complain later. Everyone has a complaint about the wrong section, but the day nothing's being posted people will have a complaint just the same.
I've yet to fiddle with the Win8 consumer preview myself but my laptop is suffering hard drive failure lol so I can't do too much but wait, however today's my birthday so I may go get a new laptop in an ideal world.
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At least things are being posted, so as users we can answer first complain later. Everyone has a complaint about the wrong section, but the day nothing's being posted people will have a complaint just the same.
I've yet to fiddle with the Win8 consumer preview myself but my laptop is suffering hard drive failure lol so I can't do too much but wait, however today's my birthday so I may go get a new laptop in an ideal world.
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im helping him out gave him a link for his question, just because we yell and argue doesn't mean we all cant help at the same time.
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That's just you thanking yourself from your other account get lost TROLL.
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100% wrong-----Goron seems to be a great guy, I have seen him bending over backwards to help anyone that asks a question or has serious issues with their phone, even offering to help by remote access......Just sayin'
Back on topic though, is Windows 8 going to be an improvement over Windows 7? I never cared for 7, I am still using XP on most of my boxes & Vista on one laptop.
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100% wrong-----Goron seems to be a great guy, I have seen him bending over backwards to help anyone that asks a question or has serious issues with their phone, even offering to help by remote access......Just sayin'
Back on topic though, is Windows 8 going to be an improvement over Windows 7? I never cared for 7, I am still using XP on most of my boxes & Vista on one laptop.
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Absolutely correct! Biggie has been a big help to everyone who needs it and has earned every thanks he has gotten.
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My first reply to goron I did read the wrong way. End of that.
@ lost soul > that's a lot of work to just have desktop only and to use the task scheduler is gay.
Hi,
I've just got this phone today and i'm actually quite impressed with it, my last Sammy was an S3, i've had HTC and Sony ever since, I go the gear fit with my phone too which works quite well too.
One thing i'd like to know, is there a way to root the device so that it can be unrooted and no one will tell, not even samsung, I don't care for a custom rom i'd just like to be able to use a few mods.
Plus will the gear fit still work with the device if it's rooted ???
Many thanks
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is there a way to root the device so that it can be unrooted and no one will tell, not even samsung
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Yes.
My question to you in turn would be why, after 3,597 posts, you don't try searching the forum first before posting a question? Or peruse a few threads at the top, either of which would have readily answered such a common query.
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Christ my first post and I'm shot down in flames.. to answer your question I was in work and extremely busy. I had no time and a lot on. Thought I'd come home to a welcome to the s5 forum. Obviously I was wrong. Thanks for answering..
If i could offer some advice, perhaps you could practice not saying things like that to people, q and a is for questions and answers, it isn't an excuse to act like a ****.
Close this thread please mod.
I literally give up on xda.
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Christ my first post
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3,597 posts = first post?
It's clear that you are looking to be spoon fed and firmly believe that your time is so much more valuable than ours.
Thank you for making your position clear.
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Wow you are pathetic, do me a favour and never answer any of my posts.
First of all ill explain a little deeper as regards to my question as you obviously didn't get my point.
Q1) is there a root method that is reversable without losing warranty or anyone knowing about it namely Samsung?
Secondly does rooting mess with the gear fit..
Thirdly, why do you have little man syndrome? Is it because you are a little man? No reason to take it out on me, I was polite and courteous to whomever answered me but your response is both rude and uncouth, not to mention presumptuous. I think you should quit while you are ahead, my question was bespoke, you need to but out and stop typing.. bottom line here is that you wouldn't be talking to me like this if I was speaking to you face to face. For that reason alone, I suggest you don't reply..
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Wow you are pathetic, do me a favour and never answer any of my posts.
First of all ill explain a little deeper as regards to my question as you obviously didn't get my point.
Q1) is there a root method that is reversable without losing warranty or anyone knowing about it namely Samsung?
Secondly does rooting mess with the gear fit..
Thirdly, why do you have little man syndrome? Is it because you are a little man? No reason to take it out on me, I was polite and courteous to whomever answered me but your response is both rude and uncouth, not to mention presumptuous. I think you should quit while you are ahead, my question was bespoke, you need to but out and stop typing.. bottom line here is that you wouldn't be talking to me like this if I was speaking to you face to face. For that reason alone, I suggest you don't reply..
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stop hating and flaming my friend , it might be misunderstanding.
and about the root thing, yes there is a way and its an app called towelroot , you can download it from the site towelroot.com/tr
and about the gear fit thing I dont know because I dont have one but I dont think that if you root your phone it will mess with it.
anyway if anything goes wrong you can always unroot with SuperSu app
hope that I helped
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stop hating and flaming my friend , it might be misunderstanding.
and about the root thing, yes there is a way and its an app called towelroot , you can download it from the site towelroot.com/tr
and about the gear fit thing I dont know because I dont have one but I dont think that if you root your phone it will mess with it.
anyway if anything goes wrong you can always unroot with SuperSu app
hope that I helped
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Cheers m8, appreciate it. Sorry for going off on one..
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Cheers m8, appreciate it. Sorry for going off on one..
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no problem mate , never mind and you are welcome
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no problem mate , never mind and you are welcome
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Sometimes its not what someone says, but how it is said that may annoy some people
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Sometimes its not what someone says, but how it is said that may annoy some people
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That's very true, different cultures clashing sometimes causes issues like that whereas one won't see any problem with saying something in a particular way but it wasn't that, I've literally just got the device, didn't want a slanging match, just wanted a bit of advice, if someone knew then it'd be a lot less hassle to just say it rather than attempt to police the forum.
There's nearly 6 million users on XDA and that's registered users, even if a sixth of those people repeatedly ask questions by the time you've told each and every single one of them that they should search first, you'd more than likely have aged 20 years.
As for the original question, I ended up rooting using towel root, the gear fit still works as expected so all is well, many thanks for all the input, it's appreciated. And lol don't worry i'll be searching in the future, was just very rushed at the time and had a lot going on.
Cheers