Hi guys,
I'd like to know whether you need to hard press the home/fingerprint button to go to home screen (while unlocked) or you can do it by a light tap.. coming from Xiaomi Mi5 and so used to this feature it would be a deal breaker for me if I had to hard press the button every time
Thanks
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Light touch is fine. It's a touch button and not mechanical
Hope that helps
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John Hoyne said:
Light touch is fine. It's a touch button and not mechanical
Hope that helps
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Thanks for the answer!
Btw by 'it's a touch button' it means that even when unlocking the phone it's light touched and not pressed?
That's nice!
Yes that's right. Just touch to unlock without PIN etc, once finger print has been set up. The first time after phone has been restarted it asks for PIN, but normally a simple touch is all you require
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John Hoyne said:
Yes that's right. Just touch to unlock without PIN etc, once finger print has been set up. The first time after phone has been restarted it asks for PIN, but normally a simple touch is all you require
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Yep I know the procedure and all, but on my Mi 5 you need to press the button to unlock and read the fingerprint. There is a sysfs trick to make it read with a light touch but the button is mechanical by default.
Thanks a lot mate, I'm not even bothered by the fact that the Nokia 8 is not (yet) unlockable so I'm probably getting it. I found a deal of around 300 EUR for a new device so it's a great price for a SD 835 phone.
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airlessproject said:
Yep I know the procedure and all, but on my Mi 5 you need to press the button to unlock and read the fingerprint. There is a sysfs trick to make it read with a light touch but the button is mechanical by default.
Thanks a lot mate, I'm not even bothered by the fact that the Nokia 8 is not (yet) unlockable so I'm probably getting it. I found a deal of around 300 EUR for a new device so it's a great price for a SD 835 phone.
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Go for it. It is a good deal. You will not be disappointed.
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Hey, I recently bought my note and I was playing around with the photo editor and noticed that when I use the s pen, I can tell that where the pen is touching and where dot is showing up is not at all accurate. It ends up being approx 2mm right of where the pen touches.
Is there a way to calibrate the pen? Is anyone noticing this on their note?
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Yes, this question has already been asked a thousand times and no, there is no way of calibrating so far, sorry.
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I guess we have to wait for the pen sdk then? Thanks for the reply btw. An admin can delete this thread if anything.
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I dont have a note but if you turn off and on rotation and turn the phone a few times or something like that it should fix it.
Ryanscool said:
I dont have a note but if you turn off and on rotation and turn the phone a few times or something like that it should fix it.
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Didnt work
I'm not sure if a mod like this exists already but a couple of days ago I realised that if the power button were disabled entirely on the lock screen and the user installed phone tracking software like lockout then it would be very difficult to steal.
Most thieves turn the phone off and remove the battery immediately once they have the phone so it renders the tracking software useless but if you couldn't long press the power button to shut down, get to the context menu to access shutdown/reboot or remove the battery then in theory the only way to disable it would be to have the sim-access pin on you to take the sim card out.
Is anyone interested in implementing this or has anyone done this already?
The only issue I see with this is if your phone freezes.
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droidmakespwn said:
The only issue I see with this is if your phone freezes.
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True... do you know if it would be possible to have an alternate way of turning the phone off that wouldn't be effected by a crash?
Perhaps some sort of button combination instead of long pressing power.
Alternatively just let the battery run out I suppose...
All someone has to do is put the device into fast boot mode and wipe userdata. Easy if you have a little know how.
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Put a gps tag in it, separate of hardware/software. That's the only way to track it. Otherwise there's always a way to get in if you have physical access to the device.
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All someone has to do is put the device into fast boot mode and wipe userdata. Easy if you have a little know how.
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Could you put it into fast boot if you're stuck on the lockscreen with the power button disabled though?
Also, highly doubt the average thief would have the know how.
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Put a gps tag in it, separate of hardware/software. That's the only way to track it. Otherwise there's always a way to get in if you have physical access to the device.
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Still, a small mod like this would make it all the much harder to steal and get away with.
Even if the power button were disabled in software, you could still long press the button to force a power off. As far as I know, this is a hardware failsafe feature.
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Even if the power button were disabled in software, you could still long press the button to force a power off. As far as I know, this is a hardware failsafe feature.
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You are correct. There is a microchip that disconnects power to the circuit when the power button is held. This mod would have to bypass that microchip and wouldn't be worth it.
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4.2.2 make you accept the RSA keys of the computer so you would need to get past that even in fast boot right?
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4.2.2 make you accept the RSA keys of the computer so you would need to get past that even in fast boot right?
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Are people really that afraid of their phone being stolen? Lost maybe? But a minor degree of caution prevents any theft (except maybe by force but those are rare)
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Censura_Umbra said:
Are people really that afraid of their phone being stolen? Lost maybe? But a minor degree of caution prevents any theft (except maybe by force but those are rare)
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Does it really matter if the phone is "lost" or "stolen"? Either way, you don't have it and someone else does.
I'd they take the sim card out ...
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Censura_Umbra said:
Are people really that afraid of their phone being stolen? Lost maybe? But a minor degree of caution prevents any theft (except maybe by force but those are rare)
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You must not go to places like gyms or health clubs. Those places can be bad for stolen phones.
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I'd they take the sim card out ...
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I have an app on my phone that will notify me if someone puts another sim card in my phone. It will send me all the sim information and I believe it can even take their picture. Of course this only works on stupid thieves. Luckily the majority are.
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You must not go to places like gyms or health clubs. Those places can be bad for stolen phones.
I have an app on my phone that will notify me if someone puts another sim card in my phone. It will send me all the sim information and I believe it can even take their picture. Of course this only works on stupid thieves. Luckily the majority are.
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And the name of said app is? This sounds really interesting. That it's the one advantage of CDMA... no sim
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Cerberus
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Cerberus
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Yep, that be it.
athani said:
Does it really matter if the phone is "lost" or "stolen"? Either way, you don't have it and someone else does.
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Exactly! This wouldn't make it theft proof. Doesn't stop the thief taking it out of your pocket.
As mentioned there are a number of apps that can track the phone, remote wipe etc etc.
Luckily I have never lost a phone or had it stolen. My main and really only concern would be people having access to the pictures of my children. As the nexus 4 doesn't have an SD card slot these are only stored on the phone. So if I remote wipe they won't have access to them. Plus as the storage connects to the PC as MTP most public data recovery tools won't work which is another safety net. Who would have though a phone with no SD slot would be the better option
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Your best bet is Cerberus, survives factory reset
Is there a way for me to make;
Back=Back
Long press back=Menu
HTC= Home
Long press HTC= Google Now
Home=Recent apps,
If someone could either do this for me or provide me with instructions I would be very grateful.
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Is there a way for me to make;
Back=Back
Long press back=Menu
HTC= Home
Long press HTC= Google Now
Home=Recent apps,
If someone could either do this for me or provide me with instructions I would be very grateful.
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I'm pretty sure the "htc" logo, is just a logo. There isn't any way to make it do anything.
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I'm pretty sure the "htc" logo, is just a logo. There isn't any way to make it do anything.
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I'm guessing you're not from around here.
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I'm pretty sure the "htc" logo, is just a logo. There isn't any way to make it do anything.
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The HTC logo has already been made as a menu button, and also is implemented in "logo2wake/sleep" and "sweep2wake". But to answer the op's question, yes it should be possible
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The HTC logo has already been made as a menu button, and also is implemented in "logo2wake/sleep" and "sweep2wake". But to answer the op's question, yes it should be possible
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Do you think HTC will role out an update to use the logo as a menu and get rid of the black 3 dot menu on some apps?
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Do you think HTC will role out an update to use the logo as a menu and get rid of the black 3 dot menu on some apps?
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I would highly highly highly doubt this
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I'm pretty sure the "htc" logo, is just a logo. There isn't any way to make it do anything.
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Happy Bornday
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MzGMpOeCTww#t=19s
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I'm pretty sure the "htc" logo, is just a logo. There isn't any way to make it do anything.
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lol :thumbup:
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It was explained by a member of HTC's support team in a Reddit Q&A that the HTC logo in fact does not have a sensor beneath it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/htcone/comments/1d6p8f/debunking_some_myths_and_answering_some_common/
Myth/Question #1: The HTC Logo is a capacitive key that can be programmed as an extra input option.
A: There is an XDA video showing a user who mapped this HTC logo to respond to button presses. Even with that video- this is false. There is no capacitive sensor located in that area. The XDA user programmed the final row of pixels (or a couple rows) located in the middle of the phone to be accessed as a keypress. There is no hardware supporting capacitive touch in this location (one of the engineers showed me the opened up device personally).
There is an image I found online and posted in this thread showing the capacitance locations
http://www.reddit.com/r/htc/comments/1czorr/xpost_randroid_htc_logo_on_one_can_be_used_as/
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It was explained by a member of HTC's support team in a Reddit Q&A that the HTC logo in fact does not have a sensor beneath it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/htcone/comments/1d6p8f/debunking_some_myths_and_answering_some_common/
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Cool...
...but it does work as a button, regardless if it's a capacitive one or not. Nobody here said it's capacitive, just asking if it could be used as a something other than a menu button which is does do in all custom kernels. The OPs request seems totally do-able with a custom kernel.
But no, HTC will likely never make it a feature. But that is why we have bad ass devs.
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I'm guessing you're not from around here.
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Lmao.... Touche, good sir. Touche
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eXplicit815 said:
It was explained by a member of HTC's support team in a Reddit Q&A that the HTC logo in fact does not have a sensor beneath it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/htcone/comments/1d6p8f/debunking_some_myths_and_answering_some_common/
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Looks like we got trolled by the dude who claimed it did lol.
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Cool...
...but it does work as a button, regardless if it's a capacitive one or not. Nobody here said it's capacitive, just asking if it could be used as a something other than a menu button which is does do in all custom kernels. The OPs request seems totally do-able with a custom kernel.
But no, HTC will likely never make it a feature. But that is why we have bad ass devs.
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Not to harp, but the logo is not a button, period. No matter what kernel you use, you will never be able to press on the logo itself and have the device respond. Every implementation of logo2wake or logo2menu will say to hit the area "above the logo" to activate the feature, since you're then close enough to the screen to trip those first few sensors.
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Looks like we got trolled by the dude who claimed it did lol.
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I mean, so long as it works, no one really got "trolled" per se.
I just have my logo or above it for the technical people as my menu button. Home is home, long press Google now, double tap for recent. That's ideal for me. I'd want my home as home not menu
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Not to harp, but the logo is not a button, period. No matter what kernel you use, you will never be able to press on the logo itself and have the device respond. Every implementation of logo2wake or logo2menu will say to hit the area "above the logo" to activate the feature, since you're then close enough to the screen to trip those first few sensors.
I mean, so long as it works, no one really got "trolled" per se.
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Man, all these kernel devs are lying to us, calling it "logo2wake" and stuff when it should be called "eversoslightlyabovethelogobutnotonthelogobecausethelogoisn'tarealbutton2wake"
I wonder why they don't call it that...Oh, because it sounds retarded, that's why.
I get it's the screens digitizer which is ever so slightly functional under the black border at the bottom of the screen and they simply remap the tiny sliver above the HTC logo to function as button.
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felacio said:
"eversoslightlyabovethelogobutnotonthelogobecausethelogoisn'tarealbutton2wake"
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Thats for little fingers and pencil dicks
large girth fingers actually hit the logo button (at least the top half) and it works :silly:
Said my share, going back to playing with my pencil :crying:
Hey guys I have a HTC one and due to its feather touch the phone call gets cancelled or connected in my pocket itself. Ian not sure what to do right now so any help would be great. I would like to pickup my phone without any problems. Thanks
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How does the phone move about so much in your pocket that it gets to slide the Answer Call button?? You need new pants bro
I'm impressed of forum.xda-developers.com , I need to say. Really not often do I encounter a phorum that's each educative and entertaining, and let me inform you, you have got hit the nail on the head. Your concept is outstanding; the difficulty is one thing that not sufficient people are speaking intelligently about. I'm very blissful that I stumbled throughout this in my seek for something regarding this.
It's not sliding it's touch for some reason
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paras said:
It's not sliding it's touch for some reason
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Touching doesn't answer calls. To answer phone calls screen lock you have to drag the Answer Call button. So you probably have the screen on while in your pocket.
It's not drag for my HTC One don't know why would I require to lock with pass?
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paras said:
It's not drag for my HTC One don't know why would I require to lock with pass?
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Nope, I don't have any lockscreens active. Mine is touch to answer only when the screen is on and unlocked, other wise I have to drag the Answer button to the middle to answer.
Don't know why even if i touch in the slightest it accepts call
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paras said:
Don't know why even if i touch in the slightest it accepts call
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You are certain that your homescreen is locked when you answer the call? Maybe record a video of you receiving a call?
Yup iam sure it's pretty irritating
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It's fixed thanks
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It's fixed thanks
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How did it fix itself? What was the issue?
It was that I had in the accessibility made touch and hold delay short so that was the problem. Now I have made it normal
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It was that I had in the accessibility made touch and hold delay short so that was the problem. Now I have made it normal
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I tried to change the touch and hold delay option to medium or even long, but nothing happen since this problem still made me crazy a lot. Does anyone else have the same problem with me that just tap anywhere on the screen to answer or end call in some case without slide the answer icon, I'm so crazy because most time I put my cell phone in the pocket.
I also had the problem but was fixed.
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I also had the problem but was fixed.
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It will be my pleasure if you can show me how to fix this problem, I tried with some modification in accessibility option but nothing happened. I think that many other people have the same problem with me and be waiting for your help.
firstly in accessibility make it long touch and i then am using a cover.Other options could be rooting and going to a different rom but i would never root my device but,if u are into rooting then u could try it.
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I tried to change the touch and hold delay option to medium or even long, but nothing happen since this problem still made me crazy a lot. Does anyone else have the same problem with me that just tap anywhere on the screen to answer or end call in some case without slide the answer icon, I'm so crazy because most time I put my cell phone in the pocket.
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Yes I have that same problem and find it extremely annoying. Same with unlocking it..just the slightest touch on the screen anywhere and it unlocks. Might as well not have a lock screen if its that easy 2 unlock. I want to have to slide the lock icon up to unlock. For answer/decline call its just touch answer or touch decline, no sliding anything. Id prefer the sense 4.1 lock screen with the ring
EDIT: Has nothing to do with short/long touch. I found that turning off accessibility services solves the lock screen problem. Don't know about calls yet. Haven't tested that. Only the lock icon would move, now they all do as they should and just touching the screen doesn't unlock it anymore. Have to slide up to unlock as it's suppose to be
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I didn't know so many had this problem.
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paras said:
firstly in accessibility make it long touch and i then am using a cover.Other options could be rooting and going to a different rom but i would never root my device but,if u are into rooting then u could try it.
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Thank for your quick reply. Firstly, I found that changing the touch delay option in accessibility become longer does not change anything.Secondly, I do not really want to you cover since I used the 1st cellphone until now. Therefore this problem is hard to fix until root my cellphobe. But the same with you, I think that I do not need to root my phone for this stupid reason. Just like you guys, I just hope HTC also quickly realize this problem soon and give some fix bugs in the next update. Anyway, thank for you help!
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HermanV0929 said:
EDIT: Has nothing to do with short/long touch. I found that turning off accessibility services solves the lock screen problem. Don't know about calls yet. Haven't tested that. Only the lock icon would move, now they all do as they should and just touching the screen doesn't unlock it anymore. Have to slide up to unlock as it's suppose to be
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Hi, can you show me how to turn off the specific accessibility service which related to screen lock option? I looked for this option in accessibility but I did not find it. Thanks!
Hiy folks.. Picked up the Flex a week or so ago and have a very hard time getting a screen capture using the vol down and power button. I think it has worked one time out of 50 or so. Anyone else have issued trying to capture screen with this method? Thanks.
Works fine on mine. It's a little tricky but once you get the hang of it it's no problem
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It's tricky, but there's an easy way to do it. Just take a quick memo of the screen. You can just use the pop up semi circle or the toggle. Super easy and works eveytime
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Had trouble the first few times, but got the hang of it. I posted my latest screenshot.
G Flex ftw!
I've been using gravity box's advanced reboot menu option in xposed installer to get a screenshot menu option when I long press the power key. I hate how tricky the factory way is. If the developers of this phone concentrated more on these user friendly features instead of bootloaders and patching Loki and depriving us from the full potential of our phones then maybe this thread would never have been started . And for that matter there would have been several happy customers not having an issue with the screenshot nor disgruntled customer pissed because they wanna create a dictatorship over how we use our phones. That I've paid ,as I'm sure many of you had, nearly $700 for. Sorry that rant just slipped out. Lmao
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