[Q] Will Skyrocket be able to use the official T-Mobile SGS II ICS update? [Solved] - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727

Noticed that the T-Mobile SGS II is getting it's ICS update today. Considering both the phones are pretty much the same inside, can the T-Mobile ICS rom be able to be ported to our device the Skyrocket?

I'm sure the answer is yes.
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Hope it's not really 4.0.3, given our last leak was 4.0.4.

Yeah. I saw that too. But once we have kernel source all SHOULD be well.
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cschmitt said:
Hope it's not really 4.0.3, given our last leak was 4.0.4.
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But an official 4.0.3 with all features working will do until our official 4.0.4 is released. At least for me.

petrochemicals said:
But an official 4.0.3 with all features working will do until our official 4.0.4 is released. At least for me.
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I've been on a home brew UCLE2 based rom since it dropped and have been pretty happy with it. Only wish battery life was a bit better, but power save mode seems to make a big difference with that.

Its touchwiz. Don't know why everyone is hyped other than the kernel source being available.
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The tmo ics is 4.0.3
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Wouldn't it be amazing if AT&T blessed our ICS with TW UX? That would do some serious brand strengthening. Too bad it is very unlikely.

Lucidmike said:
Wouldn't it be amazing if AT&T blessed our ICS with TW UX? That would do some serious brand strengthening. Too bad it is very unlikely.
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Not really.
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Its still touchwiz :banghead:
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What WOULD be amazing is if the rom released with AOSP.
Not gonna happen. Although I like UX better, as nrm said: its still touchwiz.
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BaconStep said:
Its touchwiz. Don't know why everyone is hyped other than the kernel source being available.
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nrm5110 said:
Its still touchwiz :banghead:
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Were either of you expecting something else? If you thought it was going to be stock ICS then you're either on the wrong board or purchased the wrong phone.
It gets really old reading all of this whining about Touchwiz. This is the SKYROCKET forums. It comes with Touchwiz, always has and always will. Frankly if you two hate it so much why in the world did either of you purchase this phone?
Some of us are quite happy with Touchwiz and are excited to finally be seeing a complete and fully functioning ICS rom that could run on our phones.

First off I knew it would have touchwiz I'm not an idiot don't treat me like one. You have your oppinion and I have mine the only exciting thing for me is source the rest of it for me is just an update
Edit: and btw we have aosp roms which means I can like this phone and hate tw
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Oh man u guys well he's right it is touchwizz and the kernel source can change alot of thing$ underclock and new custom kernel the II can change to aosp and the 4.0.3 is compatible. With 4.0.4
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nrm5110 said:
First off I knew it would have touchwiz I'm not an idiot don't treat me like one. You have your oppinion and I have mine the only exciting thing for me is source the rest of it for me is just an update
Edit: and btw we have aosp roms which means I can like this phone and hate tw
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So even though you knew it had Touchwiz you purchased the phone anyway. That's great. Now we all know how much you hate it. Thanks for sharing this completely unneeded opinion.
I would like to ask, what exactly does this opinion have to do with the topic of this thread? As frankly it appears as if you just wanted to inject your negativity for no reason other than to rain on the parade of those that are excited about the update and are happy with their purchase of a Touchwiz skinned device.

For the sake of not creating a high school drama here which you clearly want.
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nrm5110 said:
For the sake of not creating a high school drama here which you clearly want.
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Not really, just tired of seeing useless posts by trolls such as yourself.

petrochemicals said:
Were either of you expecting something else? If you thought it was going to be stock ICS then you're either on the wrong board or purchased the wrong phone.
It gets really old reading all of this whining about Touchwiz. This is the SKYROCKET forums. It comes with Touchwiz, always has and always will. Frankly if you two hate it so much why in the world did either of you purchase this phone?
Some of us are quite happy with Touchwiz and are excited to finally be seeing a complete and fully functioning ICS rom that could run on our phones.
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Glad for you. We didn't knock you OR whine. Nor did we put down touchwiz.
Opinions were stated. That's all.
Now troll somewhere else.
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I wasn't trolling I said one thing and you got up in arms to attack me and Bacon don't tell me I'm the troll here when you created the argument I dislike touchwiz oh my God how could I say such a thing shut up dude you started it not me
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MIUI soon :)

RT @MIUImods: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 MIUI coming soon to a device near you! http://i.imgur.com/rdYnf.jpg Just to let you know its being worked on!
Being made for the T-Mobile SGS2 and its very similar to ours so we shall be able to flash this also
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XAviierG said:
RT @MIUImods: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 MIUI coming soon to a device near you! http://i.imgur.com/rdYnf.jpg Just to let you know its being worked on!
Being made for the T-Mobile SGS2 and its very similar to ours so we shall be able to flash this also
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that will be great, we just got a AWESOME themer "ee" if he has time he makes asstastic themes. i followed him while we had the infuse miui themes as well.....so i will keep my fingers crossed.
I think our device deserves its own
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If it needs tweaks for ours ill add the tweaks and maintain it here if needed too
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I can't wait I miss miui
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Is this better than CyanogenMod?
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To some it is due to its highly customization
GalaxySkyrocket500 said:
Is this better than CyanogenMod?
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Depends on taste......CM7 i think has better performance, but Miui is the must have anyone that loves to customize there phone. it lets you change everything piece by piece but it has no app drawer unless you use a launcher to get it back otherwise all your apps will just be on the front pages.
there both great, but cm7 still has my vote on sheer smoothness and tweaks. but again i loved "ee"'s themes for Miui so who knows
GalaxySkyrocket500 said:
Is this better than CyanogenMod?
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IMO...CM is better. MiUI too iPhonish for me.
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XAviierG said:
RT @MIUImods: T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 MIUI coming soon to a device near you! http://i.imgur.com/rdYnf.jpg Just to let you know its being worked on!
Being made for the T-Mobile SGS2 and its very similar to ours so we shall be able to flash this also
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Scott951 posted MIUI ROM for 989 a couple weeks ago. Doesn't work too well yet though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1363402
cue_32 said:
IMO...CM is better. MiUI too iPhonish for me.
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It is very "iPhonish" when you first use MIUI; throw a lancher on it, though, and it's back to business as usual. Very slick, very smooth, very customizable (if that's a word). Oh, and it's based on CM 7.1 sources. I've tried all sorts of ROMs on my Inspire, but I always end up going back to MIUI, it's just too damn nice. Getting a SR soon, and I'd love to see a MIUI build for it.
cue_32 said:
IMO...CM is better. MiUI too iPhonish for me.
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I agree with this. Almost every aspect of MIUI is iPhone ripped. Throwing a launcher over top of it kind defeats the purpose of MIUI (IMHO).
I have used MIUI and it had horrible battery life, right up there with CM7. Personally I would never use MIUI or CM7 ever again (on one of my phones).
That being said
I have MIUI on my daughters phone because she loves the iPhone and since I am giving her my Captivate for Christmas and she really wants an iPhone, I decided to put MIUI on it to ease the pain. LOL
agreed,
women seem to love miui though......hence why i am trying to put it on my old cappy to give to my GF.
but am having issues with the drivers.
i dont mind CM7, with the right kernel the battery drain is not that bad......but yes it can get annoying to have plug your up to the wall every couple hours as a preemptive strike on your phone dying.
the2rrell said:
agreed,
women seem to love miui though......hence why i am trying to put it on my old cappy to give to my GF.
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same reason I put it on my Cappy for my daughter. She loves that iOS look and I am NOT buying her an iPhone, so this should do great for her.
Mortem Tuam said:
same reason I put it on my Cappy for my daughter. She loves that iOS look and I am NOT buying her an iPhone, so this should do great for her.
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Lol why not?
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cashyftw said:
Lol why not?
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I have had iphone3 3gs and 4. I don't like them and this captivate is already paid for. So I'm not buying a new phone when this one works fine. Especially since she's 14 and this captivate is a huge upgrade for her.
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Ok. So what would it take to get MIUI ported onto SR? What's the process? I tried everything on my HD2 and i always ended up with MIUI. And now i upgraded to SR and would love to install MIUI on it. How to we initiate it?
It boots but no data, someone said they fixed data and will give me the zip but haven't received anything
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Gotta ask

Why is everyone using touchwiz and adding launchers??? The stock roms are huge. I understand ics is on the way but why has no one gotten at least a nice stock 2.3 rom no I'm not a noob no I'm not flaming but it makes no sense to me when we could drop a huge chunk of bloat by compiling cm7. I've seen a couple attempts that have since been locked or abandoned. Makes me sad. And now for the trolls lol
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I have I don't wanna flash Tmo stuff yes I know close to the same cyanoTOUCHWIZ is cool but still x started but his phone up and crapped on his dreams lol I know what I'm talking about. Its just strange.
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Usually the Sammy roms are more stable
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Thank you that I can understand I'm gonna try and compile this weekend
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Because custom roms have custom problems.
What does the size of the rom matter.
My phone out performs any other phone I've had.
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I'm using QuickWiz right now because I need mhl support.
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nrm5110 said:
Why is everyone using touchwiz and adding launchers??? The stock roms are huge. I understand ics is on the way but why has no one gotten at least a nice stock 2.3 rom no I'm not a noob no I'm not flaming but it makes no sense to me when we could drop a huge chunk of bloat by compiling cm7. I've seen a couple attempts that have since been locked or abandoned. Makes me sad. And now for the trolls lol
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I really wish AT&T would stop screwing around it's customers. Don't get me wrong I love AT&T but they release SGS2, then the Skyrocket, and now next the Skyrocket HD. That right there maybe messes with alot of devs. They get started on one, then an upped version comes out.
I have to say though, the Skyrocket i727 is thankfully getting some love. Look up this guy "seanzscreams". He is truly awesome. He has pumped out about 3 roms, keeps them updated and replies to people having trouble with them. I'm running one right now and have not had any problem. Very stable and great speeds+battery life.

Real port of ICS

My wife and daughter have the skyrocket. Is there a real port of ICS that will work on there phone?
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Not yet
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rest asured . If there was an ics rom. That was somewhat functional. You would not have needed to post your question. It would be the hot ticket.. and impossible to miss. Im stoaked about ics. Cant wait to start brewing up some ics goodies....its great on my galaxy nexus. But skyrocket ics will blow the nexus away performance wise.
armoguy94 said:
Not yet
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Offtopic, but wow, a fellow armenian who likes technology past Apple O_O
I thought I'd never see the day ^_^
silver03wrx said:
rest asured . If there was an ics rom. That was somewhat functional. You would not have needed to post your question. It would be the hot ticket.. and impossible to miss. Im stoaked about ics. Cant wait to start brewing up some ics goodies....its great on my galaxy nexus. But skyrocket ics will blow the nexus away performance wise.
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I was always curious about how are we gonna know whether an update, say ICS, is out for skyrocket? Is there a feature on our phone that will notify us like iOS? Or do we have to always look for the answer online?
NooBLesS said:
I was always curious about how are we gonna know whether an update, say ICS, is out for skyrocket? Is there a feature on our phone that will notify us like iOS? Or do we have to always look for the answer online?
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Yes. We have ota updates which you can see in settings. I think you can update over kies too.
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wasabiman123 said:
Offtopic, but wow, a fellow armenian who likes technology past Apple O_O
I thought I'd never see the day ^_^
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Hi mates
Thanks yea I can't wait till someone ports ICS for skyrocket.
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The skyrocket will not need a port it is going to get official ics. Supposidly q1 which actually att said the vivid and skyrocket would recieve ics q1
..so really soon unless att or sammy are dragging ass.....lol which has been known to happen on occasion
hate to say it but q1 is almost over, two weeks lol. We've been shafted... again
Ics from Sammy people don't seem to like it. I love touch wizard and didn't mind it I just installed trebuchet launcher on my epic 4g touch trust me guys when it comes if you like touchwiz you will be happy if not you will be very sad. I'm in love with my skyrocket
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Ics was just released in alot of countries over seas for the original SII, so we know it's there. Now just play the waiting game with AT&T
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kannonball2290 said:
Ics was just released in alot of countries over seas for the original SII, so we know it's there. Now just play the waiting game with AT&T
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Different phone entirely. Means nothing for skyrocket/Hercules
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ICS to come in July/August?

Found this on HTC's side, it's being reported on Droid-life, as well:
http://www.htc.com/www/help/android4faq/?cid=android4blog
They are claiming July-August for ICS. I'll believe it when I see it.
They did say earlier this year it would be near the end of q3 when they pushed the ota out. I would say if they are honestly trying to get the update out then it will be at the end of august or later. They almost always delay by 2 months usually.
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I know there is no actual for this, but, is there an about time frame for leaks before they release official? I guess I mean, is it feasible to say that there may be a leak by the end of June? I know, purely speculation. But fun to guess.
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There is no way to know that because if we get a leak then we get a leak. The only way we can get a leak is if someone puts it out there for us.
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Awesome, only four months before I get a new phone lol....better late than never I suppose.....praying for leaks with working ril that's all the devs need!
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That's what I'm waiting for, the leaks to start rolling out. All it takes is one good one!
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I've accepted it will never be here. Same with my SGT10.1
It will be here, but stock 4.0 aosp just aint that great imo. With sense, maybe
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I played around with sense 3.6 and ics on a tmobile phone (sensation maybe?? Lol I dont remember -_-) and it wasn't much different than sense 3.5 with a couple additions. Althoigh I do like how the folders open ))
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donnyp1 said:
It will be here, but stock 4.0 aosp just aint that great imo. With sense, maybe
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Man, I disagree wholeheartedly. Stock ICS blows any of our roms out of the water...in power management and usability. Add in the features in, say, AOKP and wrap it up in Apex Launcher and it's pretty much the best mobile experience I can imagine.
If only that Nexus I had for a month got better reception...loved the software.
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Man, I disagree wholeheartedly. Stock ICS blows any of our roms out of the water...in power management and usability. Add in the features in, say, AOKP and wrap it up in Apex Launcher and it's pretty much the best mobile experience I can imagine.
If only that Nexus I had for a month got better reception...loved the software.
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How do you get that with no ril? Been runnin it on wifes dinc for 5 months, it all works, pretty smooth, but not fantastic
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someone please make a sense rom for skyrocket

So, I love my skyrocket, yet I have always wanted to have an HTC phone. I have seen that there is a sense rom for the gs2 but I'm smart enough not to flash a gs2 rom on my phone, so if someone could please make a sense rom for gs2 Skyrocket or help me in making my own rom.
You know, people will flame and get upset and stuff over this request but I totally feel you. I'd like the same thing. I'd totally bbe down for a Sense Tom
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Don't hold your breath on this request. Buy an HTC Phone to get sense. Don't mean to come off like an a$$
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Building a sense ROM is insanely difficult and problematic
There ARE ways to make it feel like sense though.
Also, came across this in my travels but not sure if useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707177
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Questions? look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php
You could look into porting SENSE4ALL...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1712223
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Eugene had sense booting at one point
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It's funny; I've spent most of time with Android trying to get away from Sense and other OEM skins. To each their own, I know. Good luck.
Sense has deep integration into HTC phones last I heard I'm sure its possible but I bet its gonna be a pain
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Sense has deep integration into HTC phones last I heard I'm sure its possible but I bet its gonna be a pain
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Well, at best you're probably going to get a launcher that looks like Sense but the deeply-integrated stuff is never going to be there. If you want a true HTC experience ultimately you're going to need to buy an HTC phone. Odds are you'll end up flashing an AOSP ROM eventually though.
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Well, at best you're probably going to get a launcher that looks like Sense but the deeply-integrated stuff is never going to be there. If you want a true HTC experience ultimately you're going to need to buy an HTC phone. Odds are you'll end up flashing an AOSP ROM eventually though.
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I bet most features can be ported lol but some will require the build prop to show an HTC phone and some may never work
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Sense 4.0 Rom for skyrocket
Why can't y'all make a sense 4.0 rom. Please make one
Want sense? Buy an HTC phone.
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Im working on a sense rom. But it will probably take a few more days. Ive been working on it for weeks
skyrocket23 said:
Im working on a sense rom. But it will probably take a few more days. Ive been working on it for weeks
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You never really make roms. You post links to roms someone else made and don't usually work for our phones!
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skyrocket23 said:
Im working on a sense rom. But it will probably take a few more days. Ive been working on it for weeks
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Oh boy here we go again.
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Im actually working on this one. Ive been working on this one with a few more friends for weeks now
skyrocket23 said:
Im actually working on this one. Ive been working on this one with a few more friends for weeks now
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I'll believe it when I see it
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Don't get yourself banned...
Also, get us screenshots i'm curious
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Don't get yourself banned...
Also, get us screenshots i'm curious
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+1 for screenshot request.

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