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Hi people

I can't stop flashing new roms! It's like crack. I haven't come across any problems going between like 5 different roms and it's awesome. This is my first android phone and the experience is incredible. Thanks all you devs for all the hard work! I have to go find some thanks buttons and hand out some dollars now. Lol
Will wiping and flashing my phone too much have any negative effects?
Is there such thing as flashing too much?
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At very least, flash memory does have a limited lifespan (although flash memory should last for years if not more than a decade).

Haha you just ruined his day... he was planning on keeping the inspire for 5 years... Jk
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superspuds86 said:
I can't stop flashing new roms! It's like crack. I haven't come across any problems going between like 5 different roms and it's awesome. This is my first android phone and the experience is incredible. Thanks all you devs for all the hard work! I have to go find some thanks buttons and hand out some dollars now. Lol
Will wiping and flashing my phone too much have any negative effects?
Is there such thing as flashing too much?
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Welcome to the club noob
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Youll be fine- sometimes my phones get flashed 30-40 times a day, depending on what I'm working on.

Same way here, love flashing...just wait til you get into cuztomizing....yup, Android is Awesome.
I sadly had to get rid of my HTC Inspire today best phone I've ever had, but I needed the money....hopefully things will start looking up and I can buy another one soon.
Glad you like the phone

di11igaf said:
Youll be fine- sometimes my phones get flashed 30-40 times a day, depending on what I'm working on.
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Awesome sounds good. Loving your rom by the way di11igaf.
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Thanks for all the welcomes too!
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I work at cricket and flash phones all the time so I get my fix there but yeah it's always a rush lol I can't get enough of the Ginger beast rom

The At&T Preacher man says....
You all are the devil incarnate! Nay worse, his mistresses!!! .
Note: My late grandfather was one of those real life fire n brimstone all animated and captivating preacher men...so I imagine things...sorry :-o.

Have you flashed rcmix3d?

meiguoguizi said:
You all are the devil incarnate! Nay worse, his mistresses!!! .
Note: My late grandfather was one of those real life fire n brimstone all animated and captivating preacher men...so I imagine things...sorry :-o.
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Yes, yes I am

Have any of you tried the Ubuntu rom for the DHD? It works on the inspire!
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Infuse ROMs

Hey guys I recently got an infuse from a buddy. Its never been rooted or anything, I came from the inspire where I noticed there was a lot more activity with ROMs, skins,etc... I'm wondering if this phone doesn't have as much interest or its harder to do things with? Ik nothing of the programming that goes into these things...just wondering if there will be more to come or if it is what it is?
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shackman716 said:
Hey guys I recently got an infuse from a buddy. Its never been rooted or anything, I came from the inspire where I noticed there was a lot more activity with ROMs, skins,etc... I'm wondering if this phone doesn't have as much interest or its harder to do things with? Ik nothing of the programming that goes into these things...just wondering if there will be more to come or if it is what it is?
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I also came from the inspire. The ROM activity here is nothing compared to the that phones development. HTC phones will always be superior with development and thats just the way it is. Partly because of the strong following of HTC Sense.
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Yes there will be more to come. From what I've read, the dev's are waiting for Att to release gingerbread.
If you look in the dev section you'll find lots to play with.
Cranky...

Truckerglenn said:
Yes there will be more to come. From what I've read, the dev's are waiting for Att to release gingerbread.
If you look in the dev section you'll find lots to play with.
Cranky...
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Very good point. I remember the Inspire forums before the official GB builds came out. There was nothing happening and many people thought it was the start of a downhill path to the end of development for that phone. How wrong they were! Turned out all the devs didn't want to put in a lot of time to another build if GB was on the horizon. As soon as it hit, it was madness with all the new ROMs coming out. Hopefully the same happens here.

Cool I hope it all starts up soon... I will keep my eyes on the dev sections to see what comes up...fingers crossed
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shackman716 said:
Cool I hope it all starts up soon... I will keep my eyes on the dev sections to see what comes up...fingers crossed
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Me too. Its a tough call between Samsung and HTC though. Samsung has always had fantastic hardware and specs, HTC has always had fantastic software and vast dev community. Take your pick...
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Yeah. Pretty much what happened was:
Things slowed down as we all waited for Rogers Gingerbread, as few people wanted to put significant efforts into Froyo. A few (like Bedwa and myself) did so more as a learning experience. The lull gave some of us time to learn and play.
Then Rogers GB came out - there was a heavy flurry of development for a few weeks, including trying to correct the deficiencies of the Rogers Gingerbread release. Correcting some of these deficiencies seemed to be nearly impossible - after multiple attempts, HDMI was hosed, data speeds were crap, and camera performance was blah.
There was also all the *****ing people did at gtg over the data speeds issue which made a lot of devs nervous about posting stuff here. Nopcodex90 almost released a GB ROM but after seeing how many people complained about fundamental uncorrectable problems with Rogers GB, I believe he decided to hold off until AT&T released Gingerbread.
So people started getting frustrated with basing anything on the Rogers release, and we all decided to take a break and have some beers rather than bash our heads against the wall for little return. On top of that LinuxBozo had some stuff come up in RL for a few weeks, and similarly I had the following chain of events make me fall behind on phone hacking:
1) Family visiting for Labor Day
2) Epic flooding (4-6 feet above previous record) where I live - I was living at a friend's 40 minutes away for a few days, then no power for a few more, and no hot water for nearly a week.
3) Nasty sinus infection - I'm just recovering from this now.

Also, thanks to Hellrasier, A LOT of new ROMs have opened up to the infuse. So check out the android development for the Samsung i9000. I've played around with a few and they work really well.
After Gingerbread is officially released more will pick up for the Infuse specifically but until then it's fun to try some of the 10-15 that the i9000 give us.

Will the I9000 ROMs work seamless with our phones?
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shackman716 said:
Will the I9000 ROMs work seamless with our phones?
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Yes those are some of the best to use with hellraiser
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shackman716 said:
Will the I9000 ROMs work seamless with our phones?
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Hellraiser isn't quite seamless - there are known issues with it such as no audio on the first call without toggling speaker on/off, and all of the typical Rogers Gingerbread warts.
The other known Hellraiser issue consistent across many ROMs is that if the ROM has a "battery fully charged" notification, this notification will stick until the device is rebooted. Does not affect ROMs that nuke the notification in the first place such as Mikey's S7.
But so far nearly all I9000 ROMs work equally well with Hellraiser.

What is Hellraiser? As u can see im on my infuse from Rogers which must be what the I997R stands for.
Can I use this Hellraiser thing on my Rogers infuse?
Please advise...
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yiannisthegreek said:
What is Hellraiser? As u can see im on my infuse from Rogers which must be what the I997R stands for.
Can I use this Hellraiser thing on my Rogers infuse?
Please advise...
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Yes you can. It allows you to flash other samsung based roms. Ie the i9000 roms or others read the op
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[Q] hello guys, possible new G2X user. this or Nexus S?

hello sirs/madams, i am a current O1 user, and im looking at this beast, or the nexus S. i was on our sister subfourm (2X) and noticed i posted in the wrong one :/. does this phone have the exact same issues with BSOD, and black lockscreens?

some people have it not all... either way how much in a rush of getting this phone are you? Basically would you be willing to wait a couple months for the Galaxy Nexus.

mt3g said:
some people have it not all... either way how much in a rush of getting this phone are you? Basically would you be willing to wait a couple months for the Galaxy Nexus.
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No big rush, just don't want to pay out the ass for it.
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The wind version of the same as the T-Mobile one but doesn't have any of the issues. Except very minor screen bleed. You probably remember me from the u8100. I would recommend this phone to you unless you want to wait for the galaxy nexus.
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tahahawa said:
The wind version of the same as the T-Mobile one but doesn't have any of the issues. Except very minor screen bleed. You probably remember me from the u8100. I would recommend this phone to you unless you want to wait for the galaxy nexus.
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hey man hows it going? thanks for the info! (we have a pro dev in our presence) i will be getting this guy then.
see you guys soon!

joeyxl said:
hey man hows it going? thanks for the info! (we have a pro dev in our presence) i will be getting this guy then.
see you guys soon!
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I'm no pro compared to Faux123 and morfic and cm_arcee over here. They have God-like skills compared to me.
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I just picked up a g2x in near mint condition (one nick near the charging port) for $200.
Coming from a galaxy s 4g the only thing I miss is the super amoled screen.
Every nexus s I ever messed with failed to impress me, they all seemed slow and laggy, so I would say you made a good choice.
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Nexus S.
ICS can be easily ported to the NS. With the G2x you have the risk of an ICS not working properly because NVIDIA doesn't release drivers.

I've never used the Nexus but I'll give you my thoughts on the G2X.
I'm a wind customer, and I only twice in about 2.5months now had the phone randomly shut down on me.
However, the stock Android kind of sucked. It's great at the beginning but as you install some more apps and start using it more and more it would start to lag and lag. Turning on WiFi would always give a slow down for some reason. Using youtube was a pain, videos would always be choppy.
2 days ago I decided I couldn't take it anymore so I installed Cyanmogen and the phone has been fantastic. No slowdowns even when doing more demanding stuff.
It's great!

mackster248 said:
Nexus S.
ICS can be easily ported to the NS. With the G2x you have the risk of an ICS not working properly because NVIDIA doesn't release drivers.
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im not to worried about ICS, just that this phone is really fast. atm, my 2 deal breakers between the 2 is:
-nfc (nexus s
-amoled(nexus s)
-hdmi(G2x)
-dual core(G2x)
i just want fast, and snappy. is the tegra 2 worth it? or is the nexus s nothing compared to the G2x?

joeyxl said:
im not to worried about ICS, just that this phone is really fast. atm, my 2 deal breakers between the 2 is:
-nfc (nexus s
-amoled(nexus s)
-hdmi(G2x)
-dual core(G2x)
i just want fast, and snappy. is the tegra 2 worth it? or is the nexus s nothing compared to the G2x?
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I've seen the 2 screens side by side and the p999 is brighter on full than the nexus. The darks are slightly darker on the nexus but the whites are better on the p999. NFC isn't that big of a deal right now and I don't think many people or companies would use it in Canada for some time. The p999 is snappy ask the time, unless you are doing some really intense stuff. Battery lasts quite a bit for the usage compared to the u8100. I can't keep myself from using my phone. It is a joy to use.
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Only time phone lag is when phone installs apps from the market( not when downloading) And only happened on stock roms sometimes.
Also don't forget to let us know your final decision.
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Just got it today! Got cm7 and I'm loving it!
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joeyxl said:
Just got it today! Got cm7 and I'm loving it!
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Nice if you need anything pm me.

My g2x flies even with 650+ apps installed using link2sd. Im on phoenixblood rom with fauxs latest .0.4.8 ds kernel. Even tho that rom has been updated i dont see a need to flash the newer version because its been such a smooth great performing experience, especially with the stress i put my phone thru i dont see any lag. Glad to hear your loving your g2x see you around the forums.
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joeyxl said:
hello sirs/madams, i am a current O1 user, and im looking at this beast, or the nexus S. i was on our sister subfourm (2X) and noticed i posted in the wrong one :/. does this phone have the exact same issues with BSOD, and black lockscreens?
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NVidia is not very big on supporting their Tegra 2 platform and LG is terrible at supporting their phones. Screen bleeding issues seem common, I have a bleeding screen. I get the black screen of death occasionally. The black screen of death seems to be an issue with the OS and not the hardware.
If you don't mind third party support and likely a little screen bleed, this phone is worth every penny. Keep in mind that not every phone has screen bleed and that LG never said that the G2x will get an official ICS release, they just said that the Optimus 2X will. Many people think that includes G2x, but there really is no telling if that is true.
That said, once the Optimus 2X gets ICS (Q2 of 2012), a third party port for the G2x will probably come along whether LG releases ICS for the G2x or not.

Private Pyle said:
NVidia is not very big on supporting their Tegra 2 platform and LG is terrible at supporting their phones. Screen bleeding issues seem common, I have a bleeding screen. I get the black screen of death occasionally. The black screen of death seems to be an issue with the OS and not the hardware.
If you don't mind third party support and likely a little screen bleed, this phone is worth every penny. Keep in mind that not every phone has screen bleed and that LG never said that the G2x will get an official ICS release, they just said that the Optimus 2X will. Many people think that includes G2x, but there really is no telling if that is true.
That said, once the Optimus 2X gets ICS (Q2 of 2012), a third party port for the G2x will probably come along whether LG releases ICS for the G2x or not.
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All that really matters is that cm9 will be released for g2x and i doubt LG can do a better job then that!
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Getting a Nexus S 4G, any advice?

Hi, all. I currently have an Epic 4G. But it is broken, (mic and phone speaker don't work at all) so I am entitled to a warranty replacement. This was an Asurion replacement so I talked to them. I asked them to give me a Nexus S 4G instead and I got it without too much problem. The rep I was talking to said he couldn't do it but his boss said yes without hesitation (maybe I should have asked for an Epic Touch 4G instead and seen what happened but I digress). If I am lucky the phone will arrive tomorrow but probably the next day.
Anyway, I am hoping that I can get some advice on this phone. How to root it? What Roms/Kernels are the best. Ect.
Thank you very much!

About which roms or kernels are the best, there's not an easy answer to that. Being the developer phones, the nexus line has a lot of people working on the source. This is good and bad, because there are a lot of cool things you can get on your phone, but a lot of stuff will not work. Often times there will be a tradeoff between getting bleeding edge updates and having a stable system.
That being said, NANDroid backup is your best friend. Before every flash, backup your entire phone's state. Then if nothing works, restore your backup and it is like nothing ever happened.

Well to start off, and always a good impression, is to search for the first request. Shouldn't be hard to find a thread about rooting a NS4G or a YouTube video. Just looks better on you.
As far as ROMS go, well Cyanogenmod is a well respected name in that realm. Also you could pick from any of the other hundreds of ICS Roms. Just make sure you get it from the Nexus S "4G" forum.
Dig around in the forums. Shouldn't take long to find a thread with the topics you are asking about.
Good luck and welcome to the Nexus club.
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Best ROM hands down is gummy nexus. I promise you, you WILL not find a better ICS ROM for the NS4G. The kernel baked into the ROM is Mathkids 14.5 and works great.
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And the is currently a one click root method in the NS4G forums. Check it out.
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dtugg said:
Hi, all. I currently have an Epic 4G. But it is broken, (mic and phone speaker don't work at all) so I am entitled to a warranty replacement. This was an Asurion replacement so I talked to them. I asked them to give me a Nexus S 4G instead and I got it without too much problem. The rep I was talking to said he couldn't do it but his boss said yes without hesitation (maybe I should have asked for an Epic Touch 4G instead and seen what happened but I digress). If I am lucky the phone will arrive tomorrow but probably the next day.
Anyway, I am hoping that I can get some advice on this phone. How to root it? What Roms/Kernels are the best. Ect.
Thank you very much!
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Unlock boot loader as soon as possible because it will erase everything on your phone including SD card.
As far as ROMs you've gotta use a ICS ROM. There's lot of great GB ROMs but you're not getting a Nexus to be stuck on last year's OS. CM9 Is currently my favorite. Lots of other ROMs have more tweaks like quad and octo locks but CM9 is the smoothest for me. But try em all, why not?
As far as kernels there are a lot of good options. Personally I like Steve Garden's latest. Has the best colors without using Voodoo so there's no annoying green flash when locking. But again, try em all!
Oh... and how to root? Well, it's basically "fastboot oem unlock" "fastboot flash recovery whateverrecoveryyouchoose.img" and flash the SU binary in recovery. Or just flash a ROM.
*if you didn't wipe /system and /boot it is NOT A FULL WIPE* (relax, it's a signature)

Joshhayes801 said:
Best ROM hands down is gummy nexus. I promise you, you WILL not find a better ICS ROM for the NS4G. The kernel baked into the ROM is Mathkids 14.5 and works great.
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Agreed 1millon % that's what I run. Can't find anything better. Rom is super stable and battery life is insanely good.
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It is all depend on how much budget you have. If you have a high budget, I would say look at the Galaxy Nexus instead. Otherwise, the normal Nexus S is good enough. There aren't many 4G carrier available, and you won't need 4G in daily life.

I come from an epic. No regrets whatsoever. The only wins the epic has over the ns4g are the better camera, and speaker. Also the epic seems to get better 3g and 4g reception. Other than that everything else is so much better. Development included.
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+1 to what rush said. I had to bring my epic in for repairs but they didn't have any refurbs so the sent me a nexus. Check out shabby's one click root and there is also a one click unroot. Qbking has some good videos of various roms also.
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Great read! I too am a new comer here, coming from the misfit phone Droid X2, which was a decent phone, but with no unlockable bootloader, will never reach its potential, but we had great devs that made some decent roms with what they had. But anyways I'm really liking this phone so far, & with unlockable bootloader & so many roms, I'm feelin all goody like a fat kid in a candy store! Lol And seems like a good community here

GituSum said:
+1 to what rush said. I had to bring my epic in for repairs but they didn't have any refurbs so the sent me a nexus. Check out shabby's one click root and there is also a one click unroot. Qbking has some good videos of various roms also.
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One click roots ****ing pwn!! And yes, the nexus community seems a lot nicer and douchebag free unlike a few other forums. *cough* EVO 3d *cough*
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GummyNexus is good, I just don't like the visual changes. I would go with Bigxie's ICS Rom. That, combined with the Matrix 14.5 kernel set to lulzactive is perfect. 9 hours unplugged and I was at 86%.
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oICS v43 is good too, but I am thinking of giving gummy another try. I've been hearing that it's doing quite well and oICS hasn't been updated in awhile(although it is reportedly still in development.)

great phone! im coming from a evo 4g and didn't want to use my upgrade so I bought this phone off ebay. Loving it so much. I think I'm stuck on nexus phones from here on out (^_^)

Yeah advice is get an epic touch lol better phone. Better battery. But its not free like the nexus is right now. My advice, get free nexus from sprint online and then just grab the galaxy nexus when it drops later.
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The troll is heading back to his bridge!!

So I've received the HTC One S a few days ago (not the One X + because tmobile doesn't like nice phones) and I'm falling in love with it! So I guess this means goodbye, at least for a while. I'm sure this is good news for most lol. If it's any conciliation, the HTC one S development thread is horrible!! It has no personality what so ever and no one objects when others ask for ETAs which is something I've grown to genuinely love about this community Hopefully Bhundven and his team successfully port jelly bean (and have TV out working) but I'm sure a few weeks after, there'll be a mass migration back to ics in favor of a more "stable rom." lol Anywho good luck guys, the Samsung Galaxy S 4g will always be in my heart!
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Have fun.
You aren't a troll truly, but you had a lot to learn. U wish you loyal.
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airfluip1 said:
Have fun.
You aren't a troll truly, but you had a lot to learn. U wish you loyal.
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Thanks man I appreciate that
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I've also been eyeing that phone... I think the One X is too big, and the One S is much closer to the size of the GS4G, which I like very much. I've also checked out the One S forums, but am still on the fence, especially since my phone works so well with these custom roms, I really don't have a great reason to upgrade, other than trying something new..
please report back how you like it (or send a PM if you don't want to clutter up the board here).

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I've also been eyeing that phone... I think the One X is too big, and the One S is much closer to the size of the GS4G, which I like very much. I've also checked out the One S forums, but am still on the fence, especially since my phone works so well with these custom roms, I really don't have a great reason to upgrade, other than trying something new..
please report back how you like it (or send a PM if you don't want to clutter up the board here).
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Yeah honestly I can't stress to you how awesome this phone is! The display is super bright, the resolution is also pretty good so don't worry about qhd complaints specially since you're coming from the S 4g display. The camera is professional quality and it preforms well day to day. If you don't like sense you can always install apex or a stock aokp ics rom but I happen to like sense personally specially the widgets and customizations. The rooting method, like for most htc phones, is significantly harder. There is another thing called S-off which has hindered development for the phone. There are still plenty of roms to play around with (including jelly bean!) but the installation is pretty tricky so for instance, you'll need to use a command prompt to flash something called a boot image to install any time and it's easy to brick. There are other new terms you'll need to learn of course. Don't let this scare you. One of the best things is the battery life (Both onscreen and stand by). The sheer performance is out of this world for example it can be over clocked to 2.1 mhz! Trust me when I say you won't regret having this phone! I've even heard from some it's better than the one X
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Thanks for the info. I think I may get one off ebay when I come back from vacation. I remember being super scared about flashing my GS4G, but after lots of reading I now flash the phone without thinking, so I'll be sure to read up on the 1S.
if I do end up with a 1S, I'll be sure to offer up my GS4G here for development

mike-y said:
Thanks for the info. I think I may get one off ebay when I come back from vacation. I remember being super scared about flashing my GS4G, but after lots of reading I now flash the phone without thinking, so I'll be sure to read up on the 1S.
if I do end up with a 1S, I'll be sure to offer up my GS4G here for development
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Haha that's noble
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