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Best for little ones?

So yesterday morning at 5:36 am,my little daughter was introduced to this crazy world. I was wondering,whats phone would give the best experience for taking photos,videos,easy uploading. Stuff like that. What's the best dad phone lol. Only my daughter has me wanting to give up my inspire because it dies three times while trying to take pictures and videos. So what ya think?
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Come on I know we have some dads around here lol.
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I would suggest you xperia arc it has a very nice camera and its very great looking it has fps cap removed and bravia engine or you can look up for the xperis ray it just came out it isnt bad neither !
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Nokia C7, Nokia 5800, Blackberry (?), Samsung (deffo!), Sony Ericsson K800i (Cybershot, ammmmmaaaaazzzzinnng camera and fairly cheap).

How old are we talking here?
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mrrick said:
How old are we talking here?
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My daughter is newborn. 1 day old,I just found it irritatintg to get to the camera and it died while taking pictures. Uploading to Facebook got a little annoying also. I'm thinking about and WP7 device but I think that will be too boring lol.
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What carrier?
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Jbb3393 said:
What carrier?
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At&t. I've only used android,I'm hard core about it lol. I like the iPhone,but the screen just isn't big enough really. Also,I'm gonna be putting my inspire up for trade on here once I do decide what I want,so it will have to have the same value.
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If it were my child I would be less concerned with features and more concerned with safety. I would look into which phone emits the least amount of EMF and begin my search there.

Turducken said:
If it were my child I would be less concerned with features and more concerned with safety. I would look into which phone emits the least amount of EMF and begin my search there.
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I think so too.

Well I'd get a saliva proof phone. Defy anyone?
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Sry lg g2x

Thanks all the devs and thanks for trying to port ics. Just bought a prime
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Enjoy your nexus and good luck with it hope it treats you better then the g2x. And have a Marry Christmas
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No one cares that u have a galaxy nexus, this a g2x board

ridearoundsolo said:
No one cares that u have a galaxy nexus, this a g2x board
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You are right no one cares but you must have failed reading. He is thanking the developers on this phone for all there hard work that he enjoyed while using his phone. This is what is wrong with xda nowadays.
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ridearoundsolo said:
No one cares that u have a galaxy nexus, this a g2x board
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Jealousy perhaps anyone? No need to attack bud.
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I always announced my departure from a phone on threads and it always ends ugly. the last one ended up getting closed.
lol i announced that i was leaving the vibrant and these guys really tried to trash the g2x...
i don't see how someone moving to another phone can upset some? make no sense. plus op is thanking devs....
enjoy ur new phone dude...nothing like a new phone

Cool stuff, man. Update this thread and let us know how you like it. I've been considering purchasing one, as well.

So far battery drain like no other phone I had screen auto brightness kills the quality very horrible I think ics needs an update a bit sluggish compare when I installed alphav3 ics on the g2x
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54mins off the charger lost 10%off battery
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Intel_x said:
54mins off the charger lost 10%off battery
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This is why I'm really hoping they work on better battery management for phones coming out in 2012. Does anybody really need a 2ghz quadcore phone when there battery will just die in 3 hrs? I'm perfectly content on 1ghz cpu's(there fast enough) hopefully with any luck future phone displays,cpus,gpus,etc all work together on ICS to bring a couple days of real time use, instead of just a couple hours without having to buy extended batteries/charge etc..
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d12unk13astard said:
This is why I'm really hoping they work on better battery management for phones coming out in 2012. Does anybody really need a 2ghz quadcore phone when there battery will just die in 3 hrs? I'm perfectly content on 1ghz cpu's(there fast enough) hopefully with any luck future phone displays,cpus,gpus,etc all work together on ICS to bring a couple days of real time use, instead of just a couple hours without having to buy extended batteries/charge etc..
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That's what I'm saying man. They're moving too fast with these processor cores. I say, take a year off on engineering processors and spend that time on extending battery life and make better batteries. I'm more than content with dual cores as it is.
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Best way to extend battery life is to work on the cpu. If you shrink the cpu the it will use less watts per cycle. Also nvidia made a smart upgrade with its quad core by putting in a fifth slow main core. So work in parallel. Engineers work on making the cpu efficient and programmers should stop being lazy. It's not like these companies can't multi task
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They said the same thing about dual core saving battery life, that was a joke! Only way I get decent battery life is with my 3500mah extended.
Still I do agree that those 28nm krait s4 chips should take less battery usage, but I'm talking about more then just achieving much longer overall battery life from multiple factoring issues android has(better displays,gpu,cpu,larger stock OEM batteries,ui,etc) hopefully ICS and jellybean really step up to provide the ultimate android experience without having to charge our phones every 4-6 hr's lol
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I'm at 20 hours with 67% battery... just saying.
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lanlee212 said:
You are right no one cares but you must have failed reading. He is thanking the developers on this phone for all there hard work that he enjoyed while using his phone. This is what is wrong with xda nowadays.
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Failed reading? Check your spelling dude. You meant "their" not "there"
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unique77 said:
I'm at 20 hours with 67% battery... just saying.
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How are you doing that????
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unique77 said:
I'm at 20 hours with 67% battery... just saying.
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Really how can you do that?!?! Do you use your phone at all or do you leave it on standby??
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I am using eaglesbloods latest and using morfics elp kernel. I only get battery life like this when I'm in good service areas all day fyi. When I install a rom I really like, I erase the entire phone, reformat everything literally, then load the rom and kernel from USB mount in clockwork mod. I feel its best to have a completely clean flash. Then I charge the phone to 100 and calibrate battery stats. Some days I get battery life where I'm at 20% at 20 hours, others much much better. I'm always using the phone moderately. When I first read tthis and checked I was at 60% at 20 hours. Tried to post a screenshot bur it wouldn't work ... def. not pulling your left though. Also the only thing I sync is email every half hour. I uninstalled Facebook because it always runs in the background... makes me uncomfortable.
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Really how can you do that?!?! Do you use your phone at all or do you leave it on standby??
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So ya mostly idle then.
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No, as I said: I always use it moderately. Checking email, calling, or texting at least every hour or so.
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Heat

Does anyone's phone get really hot with very little use?
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It's the first batch so could be defective.
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My wife's Nexus One gets really hot too. I wonder if it is a side effect of being so thin, not much mass to act as a heat sink so the battery can't dissipate it anywhere except to the back wall of the device?

Mine. Isn't really hot ... I think it's an error of your device.
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Mine too, and now it just died on me and I can't get it on again :-(
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Taiko0 said:
Mine too, and now it just died on me and I can't get it on again :-(
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Black or grey?

My observation is that it runs much cooler than my NexusOne.

Mine gets a little hotter when doing something intensive with it...

jaywhy13 said:
Black or grey?
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Grey, why?
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Colors don't mater.

No, not really. It gets pretty warm when charged for a while, and once when I took a test video in the car (15 minutes ongoing 720p recording) - in normal use, I feel no warmth at all.

no major heating issue here, after playing games for 1-2 hrs...
just lukewarm

Phone getting very warm

Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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schinner16 said:
Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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If it's getting very hot with little usage then I'd exchange it for another.
Also, an update was released today that pretty much solved the lag issues..

Mine got pretty warm last night while playing a simple solitaire game...
It was also eating battery pretty fast.
I rebooted it and it seemed to go away.

schinner16 said:
Hello I just got my gs4 on Saturday and I have to say that im not as impressed as I thought I would be.
The phone gets quite hot during almost anything. Also is no where near as snappy as my rooted inspire (1.0 ghz single core with less than 1 gb ram). This phone is awesome as far as opening more draining apps like facebook.
I wouldn't think that rooting is needed to be quicker than a 2.5 year old phone...
At this point im considering trading it in for a gs3 or htc one....
And mine is definitely laggy
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Are there any services or apps that is causing the CPU/Stay Awake to drain your battery?
My first G4 was horrible laggy as well, but my new one is a dream. See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263015

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Thanks for the input guys Ive got a few more days so ill continue to run it. I just got the update so ill let you know if things change.
It does seem better as of right now but ill try it for a while.
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Well the update seems to have helped greatly...or im starting to get used to the heat. I haven't really used a smartphone with out a case really.
Is there anyways to get auto correct working with this keyboard?
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schinner16 said:
Well the update seems to have helped greatly...or im starting to get used to the heat. I haven't really used a smartphone with out a case really.
Is there anyways to get auto correct working with this keyboard?
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Go to the play store - download the stock jelly bean keyboard - it's awesome. EFF samsung.

Mine gets hot a lot too. . I'm going to keep my eye on this even after update.
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akira02rex said:
Go to the play store - download the stock jelly bean keyboard - it's awesome. EFF samsung.
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Which one there are a ton and none of them seem to be legit.
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schinner16 said:
Which one there are a ton and none of them seem to be legit.
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Just search for jelly bean keyboard and it should be the first one.

mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.

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mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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There is probably something wrong with your phone and the next one. Bad luck I guess. It never gets hot on normal use for me. The only time it gets hot for me is when playing high end games.

bori1030 said:
mine gets stupid hot for the smallest things I surf the web for about five mins and you cant even put up to your ear to make a call TO HOT.. I returned it and got it exchanged and that device is also getting way to hot. I might just return the GS4 seems like a big issue out there I googled the problem and see that most people are having the issue. IDK 7 more days and I.m stuck with it... any other phone would be a downgrade.
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Just get a note 2 trust me it will be an upgrade over this phone.
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Please post the CPU/Stay Awake statistics for some of your higher battery drain apps at the end of the day

sabre31 said:
Just get a note 2 trust me it will be an upgrade over this phone.
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Unless you dont mind being mocked for talking on a tablet I would avoid any phone larger than the s4. The note two has its place and it to me is only worthwhile if you carry a purse.... it's a great device but not practical in my opinion, I mean how do you carry that thing?
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In my pocket never had an issue fits perfectly. As far as what others think about it don't matter to me.
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In my pocket never had an issue fits perfectly. As far as what others think about it don't matter to me.
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I wish I wasnt as affected but I hate when ppl comment on how large my phone is...and I think its because I agree and wish it was smaller. A 4.5 or so with the the same build as this s4 would be mich nicer. And by that I mean a screen that efficiently uses the face of the phone.
Its really tough to determine what is the he perfect size screen and I think over time we will become more tolerant of the pocket consumption. I mean look at the inspire or other older 4.2...it was huge for its time but now its really not considered that anymore.
With that said for the time being I think 4.5 with the smallest possible chassis would be the best.
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all recent device getting hot quickly in 3G network

finnbass759 said:
all recent device getting hot quickly in 3G network
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Not mine. I am in LTE or 3G all day and my phone does not get hot in the least.

Benchmark scores after OTA?

So, I updated my M8 to the newest firmware and I notice that I am getting about 2500 points lower in AnTuTu Benchmark (34161)... I do know there is a checkbox in the Dev section now for cpu performance but I have tried with it on and off. My phone still feels fine as far as snappiness goes so I'm not worried at all more just curious about other M8's? Let me know what you experience?

shojus said:
So, I updated my M8 to the newest firmware and I notice that I am getting about 2500 points lower in AnTuTu Benchmark (34161)... I do know there is a checkbox in the Dev section now for cpu performance but I have tried with it on and off. My phone still feels fine as far as snappiness goes so I'm not worried at all more just curious about other M8's? Let me know what you experience?
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yuppp i am getting a lot lower scores and battery life! even with high performance on. this actually really bothers me.... i was getting about 37k before and now im getting 33k and worse batter life.

I wouldn't worry about a benchmark.
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1ManWolfePack said:
I wouldn't worry about a benchmark.
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i was beating the note 3... now nothin makes me sad

1ManWolfePack said:
I wouldn't worry about a benchmark.
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It's not really about worrying... But something changed with the update to skew it that much? I can see it being off by 1000 but 2500 points? That's a pretty big dip when u talk about a benchmark app that's fairly accurate to your device. Like I said, I have not noticed any performance drops I was just curious.

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It's not really about worrying... But something changed with the update to skew it that much? I can see it being off by 1000 but 2500 points? That's a pretty big dip when u talk about a benchmark app that's fairly accurate to your device. Like I said, I have not noticed any performance drops I was just curious.
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yea. agreed. and im getting worse battery life. a lot worse too.

Quadrider10 said:
yea. agreed. and im getting worse battery life. a lot worse too.
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I'm gonna give it a few days before I can judge anything but something def changed with that checkbox crap. Have not been on it that long to notice any other effects besides the one I pointed out. The M8 was delisted from several benchmark tests because it was caught "cheating" so this was the update to address that I assume.

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I'm gonna give it a few days before I can judge anything but something def changed with that checkbox crap. Have not been on it that long to notice any other effects besides the one I pointed out. The M8 was delisted from several benchmark tests because it was caught "cheating" so this was the update to address that I assume.
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An executive publicly said the device goes into high performance mode when running a benchmark. Don't think anything about that changed
I'm getting 3k less too.
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The update came out yesterday, how are people already judging battery life lol. It needs to "calibrate". Same benchmark scores for me after factory reset
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richii0207 said:
The update came out yesterday, how are people already judging battery life lol. It needs to "calibrate". Same benchmark scores for me after factory reset
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but when i put the phone in high performance mode, i get different scores. either its higher, lower or the same by a few points...

shojus said:
So, I updated my M8 to the newest firmware and I notice that I am getting about 2500 points lower in AnTuTu Benchmark (34161)... I do know there is a checkbox in the Dev section now for cpu performance but I have tried with it on and off. My phone still feels fine as far as snappiness goes so I'm not worried at all more just curious about other M8's? Let me know what you experience?
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I just ran this
Looks real good to Me. Plus I'm around 11 hours battery an got 68 % left
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Quadrider10 said:
i was beating the note 3... now nothin makes me sad
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Lol. I still am ?
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NoFanboy said:
An executive publicly said the device goes into high performance mode when running a benchmark. Don't think anything about that changed
I'm getting 3k less too.
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The update came out yesterday, how are people already judging battery life lol. It needs to "calibrate". Same benchmark scores for me after factory reset
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Tigerstown said:
I just ran this
Looks real good to Me. Plus I'm around 11 hours battery an got 68 % left
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I don't notice any battery drain like one guy posted but my score is def off a bit... I don't care though cause my **** is a beast! I just wanted to make everyone panic. Oh, and that score is weak! 37341 was my last one. lol

I'm actually getting about 600 points more since the update.
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Quadrider10 said:
but when i put the phone in high performance mode, i get different scores. either its higher, lower or the same by a few points...
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Performance mode keeps your cores maxed out. It's best to leave it off
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Wat Rom r u guys on getting these scores?
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Mine is 36368 stock rooted
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holla420 said:
Wat Rom r u guys on getting these scores?
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Stock modded off old based is what I'm running.
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And heres mine

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And heres mine
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What Rom r you running?
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