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EVOReviews Wants to expand testing

Mods please delete this post, this didn't turn out at all how I wanted it to. I wasn't trying to get a new phone from anyone or anything like that, sorry I came off that way. I also wasn't trying to make any monetary gain. I just shot this thread up real quick before I went somewhere today and I obviously didn't think about how it would be perceived to everyone.

Are you kidding me, you come here and ask us to pitch in money to buy you a phone?
Please go back to the other side. We support our own developers and moderators who put in countless time and energey to develop, publish, and
answer. This is who we should support, and don't always properly do so.
And they don't come with their hands out telling us if we give them this, they will do that.
Go back to you little site and quit trolling here.

So you want us to buy you a phone so you can review and post about kernels/roms/boot animations on your Comcast At Home site?
I mean....we do this here for free... I'm not sure exactly what service you offer, but other than putting out an opinion that is probably incredibly biased by your personal taste....doesn't seem like anything anyone would be interested in...

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This looks like something xda frowns upon, and why would we buy you a new phone. I will gladly donate and help developers who bricked there phones to help the community. But this is like a homeless person begging for money..
Donating to get a review of stuff, uh no...

are there people out there stupid enough to fall for this?
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SAShady said:
are there people out there stupid enough to fall for this?
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Not anyone here, almost everyone here, is someone intelligent, or maybe not..

Wait, I got a great idea, why don't y'all buy ME another Epic, then I will travel all around taking pictures of the donated Epic with my Epic, then I will post them to my new, slightly unknown website!
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wow. . .
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Come on, people, be nice. It never hurts to ask.
At the same time, if what you're asking is ridiculously laughable, then...well...never mind. Carry on, people, until the thread's deleted. This might prove fun for an otherwise boring work day.

Sure, I'll gladly reciprocate if you don't mind first contributing towards the needed hardware for my website soon to be called porsche911review.net
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TO BE CLEAR sky deaner is the village idiot at the evo boards..
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Will someone chip in so I can start a 60inchplasmareview.com website?
Seriously dude, nobody's going to buy you a phone so you can "review" it and put links to roms and stuff on your free Comcast website. If you were a developer, and wanted to help the community, maybe.

ydoucare said:
stuff on your free Comcast website.
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This is what gets me....hell Domains are CHEAP, hosting is CHEAP. As many hits as you don't get a day, you could probably run a site for less than $50 a year.

Wow, I didn't mean to offend anyone, I just can't afford the phone to do the testing on, so I thought I would throw it out there. If someone I knew had the phone I would just borrow it from them every time a new kernel dropped for updating. Mods can remove this thread, offending people was the last thing I wanted.

$450? The hell?
Look on Craigslist, in my area Evo and Epic 4G's go for around $200-250
Edit: Not to mention that you could get one with a bad ESN for even less.

That reminds me, I wonder if my Angelfire website is still around.....

[Q] THANKS! stuck on boot screen, using vista, nothing u lot said has helped!

thank you for telling me how to ruin my phone! Downloaded 2 different ROMS niether run, have a folder full of different tools and I'm ****ing pissed off!
AN IDEA - 1 DOWNLOAD THAT WORKS! ALL INCLUDED! TOO MUCH TO ASK??
GOT AN APPOINTMENT AT 02 SHOP TOMORROW! IF THEY CAN'T OR WON'T DO IT I BIN IT DO I???
****S!

Its no ones fault but yours. No one held a gun to your head and made you do anything with your phone. How rude.
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piss off **** head, your phone working is it? PRICK!

Lol is all I can say
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You really started a thread of this nonsense. Flashing custom roms is for experienced users with knowledge of what they are doing. You barked up that tree, and foul language is unneccesary , actimg like this will never get you any kind of help. You gotta learn to walk before you run, further disrespect to others and devs will be a recamendation or risk of banded of your account.
Edit: Simplt stating you risk a moderator shutting you down. No matter new acct or what. Man. If you change email, You bettet change your ip addresses to.
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You're warned, "do this **** at your own risk!" Nobody forced you. I'm sure you screwed up, because these guys have taught me everything and have transformed me from a noob to a flashoholic. Stop pointing fingers at people when you screwed yourself. Plus, you think with that attitude anyone is going to help you again?
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Custom or original, I don't care, I tried the nice approach 2 days ago, no replies. I swear and look, REPLIES! wow huh?
how do you get experience to know what your doing? Why is there no simple download to recover my phone?
Had I been told ANYWHERE on here that its near impossible to DOC reset or whatever its called I would not have bothered, it was my brothers who is a know all like some of you &^*^%*

Na, I download, I run, and I have ****ed phone. Tell me where I'm going wrong????

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You really started a forum of this nonsense. Flashing custom roms is for experienced users with knowledge of what they are doing. You barked up that tree, and foul language is unneccesary , actimg like this will never get you any kind of help. You gotta learn to walk before you run, further disrespect to others and devs will be a recamendation of banded of your account
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Recommend they ban me? haha and leave me with a knackered phone?
I'm telling you now if that happens I will (seeing as I will have so much spare time not being on my phone) create e-mail account after e-mail account and then keep signing up to this site and fill every possible space with ANGRY WORDS! DAILY!
I have a XDA EXEC, 64MB and it was unlocked using an 02 sim with wm6.1, if 1 of you can actually see that I tried the nice approach 2 days ago to no avail and this is my last option and thenwould actually tell me how I can get my phone back I would be greatful and appologetic of course.
NOOB? yeah maybe, why not help me change that???
How is it so hard to get 1 download to help me?
1 download broke it, 1 can fix it no?

All you need to know about Uni is on my sig links
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[Info]Can't use Megaupload anymore, shut down by feds

I'm pretty upset that megaupload was shut down by the feds. I had a very important rom uploaded on there and now I can not access it. Rom devs if you have used this site to upload your rom(s) to, your pretty much screwed:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...egauploadcom/2012/01/19/gIQAJPIRBQ_story.html
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As long as mediafire doesn't get shut down I'm safe
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blahbl4hblah said:
As long as mediafire doesn't get shut down I'm safe
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Yeah dude but it still sucks, megaupload was a great site
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well obviously it doesn't matter to them whether SOPA passes or not
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well that blows, now i have to redownload all my **** from mediafire to be safe it doesnt happen to them too. thanks for the info

Yup. Good thing I never signed up for an account with them. I almost did.

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Yup. Good thing I never signed up for an account with them. I almost did.
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yeah i had some stuff stored on there but luckily nothing linked to it on any sites so atleast i dont have to hunt down and fix any links

Yes this is total BS. It just proves that the powes that be aren't interested in following the same guidelines they set forth for others. This particular action isn't just an infringement of rights, it's a clear abuse of power. They have no interest in fair and just. This is a clear indicator that if we let them continue down this path, one day we shall all be asking for permission to use our once freedom of speech. They hide their attack of our rights by saying that certain individuals were pirating. But in reality it's the same as confiscating your home, and every house in your neighborhood. Because a person three blocks over might be stealing cable. In essence it is downright ludacris.

prboy1969 said:
Yes this is total BS. It just proves that the powes that be aren't interested in following the same guidelines they set forth for others. This particular action isn't just an infringement of rights, it's a clear abuse of power. They have no interest in fair and just. This is a clear indicator that if we let them continue down this path, one day we shall all be asking for permission to use our once freedom of speech. They hide their attack of our rights by saying that certain individuals were pirating. But in reality it's the same as confiscating your home, and every house in your neighborhood. Because a person three blocks over might be stealing cable. In essence it is downright ludacris.
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So is the war on drugs.

Well guys , just to share info it looks like Anonymous decided to retaliate this check it out
pastebin.com/WEydcBVV
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notsointeresting said:
Well guys , just to share info it looks like Anonymous decided to retaliate this check it out
pastebin.com/WEydcBVV
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Good someone needs to keep them in check.
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The FBI site didn't even go down, basically, they're not as amazing as they thought. In a way I want to see them prevail but it's inhumanly possible, I can only imagine that they'll eventually be found and arrested, sparking conversy and if anything that'll light the fire for the fight against these bills, and overall a new outlook on human rights.
Might prove me wrong though
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Fire n mage said:
The FBI site didn't even go down, basically, they're not as amazing as they thought. In a way I want to see them prevail but it's inhumanly possible, I can only imagine that they'll eventually be found and arrested, sparking conversy and if anything that'll light the fire for the fight against these bills, and overall a new outlook on human rights.
Might prove me wrong though
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Yea FBI.gov I saw still works, but come on now they got the others down and that's hell of a lot better than what anyone else would've done...everyone makes mistakes xD
And others have seen it down according to other articles
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They were shut down but they(the gov) got it up and running shortly after

Yup, the whole reason they attacked megaupload was because of all the sites like this one protesting against SOPA. Hello even google protested against it. It just goes to show how much of a bully our government can be when people speak their minds. It's like them saying "you don't have rights to free speech or to decide what we the fed government do" or "we make the laws not you the people".
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Yup looks like even sites that are US based can/will get shut down by the US. Over the years i've come to hate us(america) and all the bull**** we "stand for" I see why everyone hates us and i'm really thinking about moving to Canada or some place else in the upcoming years

Sending an attack directly to fbi.gov is really dumb and childish. It's also a great way to get caught. I'm pretty sure they'll get traced back pretty quickly.

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Sending an attack directly to fbi.gov is really dumb and childish. It's also a great way to get caught. I'm pretty sure they'll get traced back pretty quickly.
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Yeah but the problem is most of them are located in other countries hiding behind proxies. And a lot of isp's don't want to co-operate, and tech they don't have to if they are in certain countries. That's why they call themselves anonymous because it's really hard to find them. Trust me they've gotten smarter since the last time people got arrested. I've done my research on it.
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Yeah but the problem is most of them are located in other countries hiding behind proxies. And a lot of isp's don't want to co-operate, and tech they don't have to if they are in certain countries. That's why they call themselves anonymous because it's really hard to find them. Trust me they've gotten smarter since the last time people got arrested. I've done my research on it.
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It only takes 1 bot on a US or UK address and they're done.

That's why I use multiupload, hopefully they don't shut down it or all the sites it uploads to.
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Some Random Thought. Do not read if I were you :)

Beware of too much phone obsession.
Are you experiencing this?
1. Spending most of your time in the forum pressing F5 to see some new updates to flash?
2. Asking repeated ETA?
3. Feeling frustrated waiting for the new release?
4. Cant sleep thinking about the new ROM.
5. Holding your phone the whole day?
If you feel some of those symptoms then be very aware.
Remember that we control the device not the device controls us.
Dont ever exchange the precious happy moments you should have to spend with your family and friends rather than stressing yourself at the forum.
We do all the fun here for free, so it should be done as well in our free time.
We do all of this stuff also for fun, so it should be fun, not hurt feelings nor frustration.
Most of us didnt understand that dev/mods are people too, they are not paid they do service for free.
If someone troll/flame we react as well harsely, should it always have to be harsh? cant we speak nicely? What is the difference when you say it in a nice way rather than the other way?
If you feel anger/annoyed about what you read then stay away on your pc/laptop/mobile. Deep breath will help or a lil walk.
If you feel tired, then rest and work again if you regain strenght.
Life is short so dont let machine rule us. I know we feel happy and fun about this stuff but too much is dangerous.
The no. 1 rule I guess here in the forum is "TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM TREAT YOU".
If you troll/flame then dont expect that people will help and be nice at you.
If you ask nicely and help, well there will be so much help for you when you face problem.
Am I saying any sense here? Hahaha just random thought.
Good day earthlings.

Uh... I think I have symptoms 1 & 5...
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how bout this?
or this?

Guilty as charged!
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Guess its too late to quite...oh well, this IS the future so...
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I am getting there ..

Does using the phone while taking a shower count ???
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Can we get a tl;Dr?
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Yeah, all things
But I do other things too
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I won't bother on the first things about "obsession", but on your thoughts about behaviour.
First of all, there are actually people here who are devs and they speak to people far worse than the usual "trolls". Yet no one says anything exactly because they are devs, even though there are some examples of them acting like this before even posting anything worthy.
Next, I will never agree with the "devs do this with no money blah blah" yes ok, we do understand that, we respect that, we utterly appreciate that, but that doesn't mean that they are above criticism.Don't forget that it was their choice to post their work in public, so justified criticism must be expected.
Having said that,I also say I really appreciate people that are not devs, yet they do make roms but they behave people with some humility.
If someone annoys us, it's not always us that have to "take a breath", it may be that the person is really annoying.
And last, no, the device doesn't control us.It affects us though to the extent of lagging, for example, when you mostly need it. Imagine having to make an extremely important phone call, and then it decides to lag as hell and fc everything.This is why I don't think people that press F5 to see if there's development on their favourite rom, are obsessed.

Hi Vicky,
Thanks for your sentiments
I know what you are trying to say on your first paragraph. I know some people do speak maturely, I wrote it in general so that message is for everyone and thanks for emphasizing your observation.
If your talking about donations involved well arent they worthy? But if your doubting maybe you could ask them. Heres the truth. The benefit of being "Recognized Developer" here in the forum is just the tag itself if we are talking about money here. Aside from that nothing except on the donations they got from there work. I dont know if I understand you well ("devs do this with no money blah blah") correct me if Im wrong.
One thing we cannot please every people thats why were created uniquely
Ofcourse its always us. Why? Coz simply we cannot control nor mandate on the "annoying person". If they are pure evil they will just laugh at you which causes more annoyance and worst anger on you. So as long as you can run from it run.
The setup of our device actually depends on us. Take note that device has limitations if you exceed on that certain limitations then expect that there will be problem along the way. We will not experience any lags, error etc if we do not over push our device to its extent. Whos to blame the device, the rom? I dont think so
We do this to improve our device yes thats why its up to us to pick with suites on our needs.
Again Im happy to read some people who do care
Thanks,
with love,
deedii

Hej!
First, I was not talking about donations.I believe that every one who is able to donate to the devs, should do this, simply because devs spend time from their life to make these roms. I was trying to say that, while I really appreciate these people, that doesn't mean we should always hush on things they say, and mistakes they make...
i don't really agree with you on the part that we push out devices...It's not that much to ask from a phone to make a call or send an sms, when you have minimum apps installed and no other apps running... I am saying this because I have experienced this, this is clear, and there where times where the rom simply failed to do so while others managed.
That's why I am saying that, for example, when people are on MiniCm9 thread all day is because it is very good so far, there's only on big thing missing, and since weeks ago we had news that camera is working, partially though, it's not that weird that people are all over it...
Not to take account how much people had been waiting for a fully working ICS.
Finally though, I do have to agree about many people being so completely obsessed and also asking too many things from poor X8. The device itself is amazing, considering that it was released 1.5 year ago and with a small price, and it's a born survivor(this device has been through everything-falls, sand, water, not to mention endless messing with kernels and such), but we have to accept that we won't get fireworks from it...
ps.Nice to have such conversation, you know, with disagreements but with class

Oh well we agree on certain things.
Imagine joining a horse race and your ridding on a donkey.
Simply choose what is best for you

deedii said:
Oh well we agree on certain things.
Imagine joining a horse race and your ridding on a donkey.
Simply choose what is best for you
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That sounds like something i would do
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You forgot to say when you stay on WC for 1 hour playing on phone I do this...now i like to go to take a s**t.
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CosminAdriaan said:
You forgot to say when you stay on WC for 1 hour playing on phone I do this...now i like to go to take a s**t.
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...Omg...you're in my mind.
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CosminAdriaan said:
You forgot to say when you stay on WC for 1 hour playing on phone I do this...now i like to go to take a s**t.
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I view XDA from my point of pleasure. Don't take that the wrong way.
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IrishStuff09 said:
I view XDA from my point of pleasure. Don't take that the wrong way.
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Hehehehehe......
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I view XDA from my point of pleasure. Don't take that the wrong way.
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Hey shane, ir forgot to say, your sig needs updating, its needs to say xperia play in it

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Hehehehehe......
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Hey shane, ir forgot to say, your sig needs updating, its needs to say xperia play in it
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Oh ya! I never got round to doing it on my PC yet.
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Oh ya! I never got round to doing it on my PC yet.
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Ahh, ok, remember to do it
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Petition To Unlock/Root Phone??

Now I'm sure this has been posted before, but after searching for like 20 minutes I could only find one to unlock a phone to go to a different carrier, not for root.
If no one knows of one, I would like to start one on We The People's website so people like us on Verizon can have the same opportunities as others do on other carriers that don't lock down this so dang hard.
Now of course, being the sh***y administration that Obama's is, last year they changed it from 25k signatures to 100k (and from 5k to 25k back in 2011) to be taken seriously. But I KNOW there is more than 100k Verizon users on here on XDA.
The only tough part would be spreading the word in the 30 days we have to achieve this to everyone who wants this. Maybe XDA can work with us and somehow create a pop-up to when you are on the site or app notifying them of this petition to sign? I know a lot of people would also shrug it off and think it's just spam, so maybe even a PM to everyone?
Now, to get Verizon to take this seriously as well, we would need to have a foolproof plan. We would need to put rules on this for them to even consider this. Such can include (but not limited to, add any you think should be added):
•soon as you root/unlock your device you have now voided your warranty (as it already is) and therefore would need to pay full price for a new phone IF you bricked your device or any other NON physical damages (Water, drops, cracks, etc)
•maybe even pay a small time fee of $50-$100 per phone for this root so they can actually earn some extra money (don't be cheap, you pay $200-$600 dollars per phone, and donate money here so it's the least you could do for freedom).
•That's all I've got for now, but I've been up since 8pm last night working, so my brain isn't fully functional right now so please add!

I'm sorry, but I don't think we will ever have the same abilities as other carriers. If we want to stick it to the man, we will have to do it how we have always done it. Behind their backs and find ways around the locks for what we want. Them giving us the ability outside of a Dev device, won't happen. They don't want us having any more power than that they will allow.
I like the thought, but I really don't see it happening bud.

Nice thought, Dennis but I doubt this would work. Many reasons, but probable the biggest is Verizon has heck of a lot more lawyers (working for them) than we do
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Nice thought, Dennis but I doubt this would work. Many reasons, but probable the biggest is Verizon has heck of a lot more lawyers (working for them) than we do
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lol i'm not sure the relevance of the lawyer comment? i'm not saying we need to force verizon to do this, just something to make them aware that out of over 100 million users on their network, a nice little portion would like this option. they can still make plenty of money out of it, whether it be that one time fee i suggested, or if something happens to your phone other than physical damage, you have to buy a phone at full price.

This thread has been cleaned of all talk of warranty fraud. That is not only illegal, but also against XDA rules. No further discussion on the matter will be tolerated.

Stryke_the_Orc said:
This thread has been cleaned of all talk of warranty fraud. That is not only illegal, but also against XDA rules. No further discussion on the matter will be tolerated.
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I must've missed what was said, can you PM me?
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Dennisg34 said:
I must've missed what was said, can you PM me?
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You replied to what was said, basically stating the same thing I said.

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You replied to what was said, basically stating the same thing I said.
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Oh OK I remember now, thanks!
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