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I started with an Atari 800 xl in later 1980s started a bbs and I've been Komputin ever since.

Tabonga said:
I started with an Atari 800 xl in later 1980s started a bbs and I've been Komputin ever since.
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Same here, welcome to XDA

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Waiting for My Beast!

I will have my Droid 3 tomorrow! I am upgrading from a rooted Incredible, and I am super stoked! My husband got a Blackberry Bold with his upgrade because he wanted a physical keyboard, but with the BOGO for the D3, plus the fact that it has a slide out keyboard and the HUGE QHD screen, he is coming back to Android!
Honestly, the only reason I was rooted was to overclock, but there will be no need with the D3 (for now). I researched the benchmarks on this device, and they are amazing!
Anyway, here I am, from the Eris forums to the Incredible forums, and now on to much bigger and better things in the D3 forums! WOOOOO!
Right there with you!
Except mine arrives today, Waiting impatiently for the UPS fella. I live a mile from the UPS sorting facility where they load up the brown trucks, It's been out for delivery since 7 this morning. Tisk tisk.
Umm. I can't seem to grasp it on why people think that the moto droid 3 is a beast. Mu cuzz has one and my stock LG G2x makes it look slow. Then I fire up my faux123 kernel and oc to 1500. And well you know... sry for the response. Plus your battery life is gonna really suck...lol
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butterbeam said:
Plus your battery life is gonna really suck...lol
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12 hours of heavy use and still have 20% left. Bad battery life? What?
Just ordered mine today, eagerly awaiting it's arrival.
This is my first smartphone too, upgrading from a MOTORAZR2.
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I was waiting yesterday for 12 hours, I left to donate plasma, and it arrived 10 minutes after I left. I was sooooo annoyed. Anyways I love this beast. Smartbench I get Productivity: 3500 and Games: 2500. It is an amazing phone.
Umm. I can't seem to grasp it on why people think that the moto droid 3 is a beast. Mu cuzz has one and my stock LG G2x makes it look slow. Then I fire up my faux123 kernel and oc to 1500. And well you know... sry for the response. Plus your battery life is gonna really suck...lol
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Umm butterbeam, really?
Everything's a competition.
butterbeam said:
Umm. I can't seem to grasp it on why people think that the moto droid 3 is a beast. Mu cuzz has one and my stock LG G2x makes it look slow. Then I fire up my faux123 kernel and oc to 1500. And well you know... sry for the response. Plus your battery life is gonna really suck...lol
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butterbeam said:
Umm. I can't seem to grasp it on why people think that the moto droid 3 is a beast. Mu cuzz has one and my stock LG G2x makes it look slow. Then I fire up my faux123 kernel and oc to 1500. And well you know... sry for the response. Plus your battery life is gonna really suck...lol
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I looked up stock benchmarks for the G2X, and I've gotten a few Quadrant scores that are close to it (only about 20 points less at my max, and 90 points less at my minimum), and of course I'm still stock since there's nothing for our phone yet. So yes, this phone is indeed a beast. And the battery isn't that bad, with a decent amount of usage today (downloaded a few apps, played Cut the Rope for about 30 minutes, texted quite a bit, made a quick phone call), I'm still at 80% after almost 11 hours. Choose a better (or worse, really ) phone to argue against next time please
EDIT: Looked up some Linpack scores for the G2X, the Droid 3 kills it in both single- and multi-threaded modes
Lol... I had to do it.
Lol I love getting things stirred up. I just thought I would aggrivate a few people. But really, my cuzz phone dies in 5 hrs. Must have been a bad batch.
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escalavee said:
I will have my Droid 3 tomorrow! I am upgrading from a rooted Incredible, and I am super stoked! My husband got a Blackberry Bold with his upgrade because he wanted a physical keyboard, but with the BOGO for the D3, plus the fact that it has a slide out keyboard and the HUGE QHD screen, he is coming back to Android!
Honestly, the only reason I was rooted was to overclock, but there will be no need with the D3 (for now). I researched the benchmarks on this device, and they are amazing!
Anyway, here I am, from the Eris forums to the Incredible forums, and now on to much bigger and better things in the D3 forums! WOOOOO!
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I wish my wife was a tech geek too
butterbeam said:
Lol I love getting things stirred up. I just thought I would aggrivate a few people. But really, my cuzz phone dies in 5 hrs. Must have been a bad batch.
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Depends on how you use it. Any higher end phone will choke in five hours if playing a lot of Flash and other high resource apps, non stop.
Haha! I think my husband secretly loves it!
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Just ran a benchmark.... 34.94 mflops with half battery and a few things going on in the background. Not bad considering my rooted Eris never hit 6 and my rooted Incredible never hit 20.
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Try smartbench, again I get 3500 productivity, and 2500 games, I do task kill about a minute before I run smart bench.
fusion2004p said:
Just ordered mine today, eagerly awaiting it's arrival.
This is my first smartphone too, upgrading from a MOTORAZR2.
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Wooohoo! Welcome to the wonderful world of Android
One must note that using live wallpaper drains the juice!
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butterbeam said:
Lol I love getting things stirred up. I just thought I would aggrivate a few people. But really, my cuzz phone dies in 5 hrs. Must have been a bad batch.
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You like getting people aggravated? Why would you post a comment just to tick people off? Relax.

Calendar upto 2030 only

Did anyone notice that the calendar in almost all mobile phones is only till the year 2030!! Strage huh!!
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Update: I just set my date to 3/11/2030 and my phone started lagging and froze...
Can anyone else try and report...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Could be related.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Could be related.
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It will be interesting to see if this will turn out to be just a conspiracy or this will prove to cause major system damage.
Hahaha pretty interesting.... Learn something new everyday
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Update: I just set my date to 3/11/2030 and my phone started lagging and froze...
Can anyone else try and report...
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Dates ending 31+ are treated as 19xx
Open excel and type in 05/05/34 and you'll get 05/05/1934
thakur90 said:
Did anyone notice that the calendar in almost all mobile phones is only till the year 2030!! Strage huh!!
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if you think about it.... your are unlikely to keep the phone for more than 4 years
google keeps releasing software updates every few weeks
and some of us might not even be alive by 2030
I can't honestly see this as a viable concern, but it's pretty interesting nonetheless. If I have this phone in 2038 though, something must have seriously went wrong.
johnston9234 said:
It will be interesting to see if this will turn out to be just a conspiracy or this will prove to cause major system damage.
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Major issue. Easy to rectify, but if not addressed, all our electronics will not recognize years after 2038...
Just like y2k, could be a major issue, but it won't be because people recognize it and will fix/patch it. 64bit computers already mitigate this, but phones, watches, etc. all would need to be 64bit as well...
Major problem is that most devices have one 32-bit register to hold time. Ether need to ADD another register to get two 32-bit registers to hold time, or increase the single register from 32 to 64 bits.
or...?
On my ST15i the calendar it's up to 2100. But if i try to set an event using that year, the date goes back automaticaly to 1970...
Non issue; once the world ends in 2012 there will be no need for smartphones.
In all seriousness though, I'm sure we'll have another Y2K scare and they'll manage to fix it rendering all the people who stock up on water by the jug and jars of pickled eggs feeling empty.
Until next time..!
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I can goto the end of 2036
Oh No! The mobile industry must know when the end is coming! Everyone start planning now...for our demise will come in 2030!
TheRomMistress said:
Oh No! The mobile industry must know when the end is coming! Everyone start planning now...for our demise will come in 2030!
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OMG! THE WORLD IS GOING to END!!!
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/13may_2004mn4/
this is why, there won't be a 2030 could be a good day hope im alive to see it 1-in-60 chance
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/26jul_nt7/
check this one out 1-in-250,000 chance
upichie said:
I can't honestly see this as a viable concern, but it's pretty interesting nonetheless. If I have this phone in 2038 though, something must have seriously went wrong.
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Or seriously right!
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Ok i use my desire up to 2030 and throw it away.
In 20 years i have a new phone whose date go upto 2050...
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really bad battery drain .. since firmware update?

Hey guys,
I have a really bad battery drain the last days. Today, my phone is unplugged for about 12h and I only have 16% left. the screen was activated for about 15min and it was "awake" for about 2 minutes. I should have at least 50% left. Today, after I unplugged my phone I left it alone for about 2 hours.. when I unlocked it I lost 20%! I usually need 20% for wachting a 2h+ movie. A week ago it would still be at 95-99%. I don't know what's the problem, I installed what I do always and the sync. settings are the same as always. I made my phone S-Off and updated the firmware to 2.24 a few days ago.. could that be the reason? I had no issues. That's the third day with this bad battery drain.
I installed wakelock detector and it shows that Facebook would be the problem (and google services also) so I turned off the auto sync. .. maybe that's because of the update 2-4 days ago. My phone also has been fallen from 40 cm height but no recognizable issues Can someone confirm that the firmware update or facebook update are causing such an awful battery drain? I guess it happened after I installed Maximus7 v10.. I'm now on Viper.. same settings as always and I´m using them for months. That's weird, I hope somebody can help me to find it out.
Same here... Ever since the 4.2.2 update my cpu gets stressed a lot, battery hot, and battery life worse than before. Especially on custom kernels I noticed. Different governors don't help, and if I underclock it will use more cores at the new max. frequency and lag a lot
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Rachorid said:
Hey guys,
I have a really bad battery drain the last days. Today, my phone is unplugged for about 12h and I only have 16% left. the screen was activated for about 15min and it was "awake" for about 2 minutes. I should have at least 50% left. Today, after I unplugged my phone I left it alone for about 2 hours.. when I unlocked it I lost 20%! I usually need 20% for wachting a 2h+ movie. A week ago it would still be at 95-99%. I don't know what's the problem, I installed what I do always and the sync. settings are the same as always. I made my phone S-Off and updated the firmware to 2.24 a few days ago.. could that be the reason? I had no issues. That's the third day with this bad battery drain.
I installed wakelock detector and it shows that Facebook would be the problem (and google services also) so I turned off the auto sync. .. maybe that's because of the update 2-4 days ago. My phone also has been fallen from 40 cm height but no recognizable issues Can someone confirm that the firmware update or facebook update are causing such an awful battery drain? I guess it happened after I installed Maximus7 v10.. I'm now on Viper.. same settings as always and I´m using them for months. That's weird, I hope somebody can help me to find it out.
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thom109 said:
Same here... Ever since the 4.2.2 update my cpu gets stressed a lot, battery hot, and battery life worse than before. Especially on custom kernels I noticed. Different governors don't help, and if I underclock it will use more cores at the new max. frequency and lag a lot
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What R U Guys ROMs on?
I was getting some bad battery drain for a while around the time I moved to 4.2.2. Assuming you're getting a lot of Google Services wakelocks, this might help (it solved my issues). Force stop and clear data on these apps:
-Google Services Framework
-Google Play Services
-Maps
-Google+
Then delete your Google account and sign back in (you need to do this or your account will be borked by clearing data).
I think the update may have created some issues with the services framework so that it syncs more than it needs to.
I'm on Renovate M4. Completely clean install, so I don't think the above is relevant, but I'll try anyway
I already had this ever since I tried viper 1.0.0
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thom109 said:
I'm on Renovate M4. Completely clean install, so I don't think the above is relevant, but I'll try anyway
I already had this ever since I tried viper 1.0.0
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My post was aimed at the OP, actually. Your issues sound like bad kernel settings. By any chance are you turning off mpdecision?
Guys, never mind for me! I did a system wipe and flash a few hours ago, to see if it helped..
Worked for some reason!
Though I'm not gonna use custom kernels anytime soon anymore...
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My post was aimed at the OP, actually. Your issues sound like bad kernel settings. By any chance are you turning off mpdecision?
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I switched it a few times to see different results.. but no succes. I only want a custom kernel for Logo2Menu tbh so I don't really miss a lot
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thom109 said:
Guys, never mind for me! I did a system wipe and flash a few hours ago, to see if it helped..
Worked for some reason!
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Well, doing that would clear out your GSF data.
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Well, doing that would clear out your GSF data.
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To be very honest, I never thought about those... Could be the problem, though it's not probable. I've done lots of clean flashes and kept on having this, and now I think about it, I always used custom kernels. This one time that I don't, it's ok
But every single custom kernel having this issue also seems a bit odd, to say the least.
I tried every single kernel available for 4.2.2, with and without OC and UV
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But every single custom kernel having this issue also seems a bit odd, to say the least.
I tried every single kernel available for 4.2.2, with and without OC and UV
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That is odd. Are you giving them time to settle in? Often when flashing a new kernel, I see increased battery drain for the first day or so.
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That is odd. Are you giving them time to settle in? Often when flashing a new kernel, I see increased battery drain for the first day or so.
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I usually give it 2-4 days, depending on how bad it is and if I have much time to flash. So far faux was the worst, I used his recommended battery saving settings and it resulted in heat (44-47℃ light use) and instability, so that kernel was gone the next day
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Are you tracking wakelocks? I didn't really get to the bottom of my battery drain issues until I installed Better Battery Stats and monitored what was going on behind the scenes.
iElvis said:
Are you tracking wakelocks? I didn't really get to the bottom of my battery drain issues until I installed Better Battery Stats and monitored what was going on behind the scenes.
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I have both betterbatterystats and gsam. Both point me to the system (android-system and kernel)
Edit: and audio-out is also at the top a lot, but that'd be the music player I guess
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thom109 said:
I have both betterbatterystats and gsam. Both point me to the system (android-system and kernel)
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Hmm, that narrows it down. What firmware are you on? Did you upgrade to 4.2.2 or are you still running 4.1.2?
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Hmm, that narrows it down. What firmware are you on? Did you upgrade to 4.2.2 or are you still running 4.1.2?
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4.2.2, also flashed the extra recommended firmware pack to be sure
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4.2.2, also flashed the extra recommended firmware pack to be sure
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Which "recommended" pack? Do you mean the 2.17+2.24 combo?
From this page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182823
The 2.24.401.12 pack
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thom109 said:
From this page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182823
The 2.24.401.12 pack
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Hmm. That is what I'm running (minus a modded hboot). I'm out of ideas. Sorry.
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Hmm. That is what I'm running (minus a modded hboot). I'm out of ideas. Sorry.
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Same here, totally don't get it. Thanks for the effort though
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so what does everyone think of.......Lollipop?

Well, its official.
The next android will be called Lollipop.
Here is a write up explaining the new features.
http://lifehacker.com/updating-all-the-new-stuff-in-androids-l-release-prev-1595928268
I'll let you know as soon as its on my M8. Hurry up HTC/SPRINT!
I'm waiting to
method1911 M8
within 90 days, lol
O.M.J said:
within 90 days, lol
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Yes, the original promise of 90 days or less it's very impressive...until you actually have to wait for it. Lol.
AarSyl said:
Yes, the original promise of 90 days or less it's very impressive...until you actually have to wait for it. Lol.
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Exactly, lol. Seems like 90 days ago L was announced and now we wait more. I have a feeling it won't be that long though, technically HTC has had L for some time for the nexus 9, so hopefully they have a head start.
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O.M.J said:
Exactly, lol. Seems like 90 days ago L was announced and now we wait more. I have a feeling it won't be that long though, technically HTC has had L for some time for the nexus 9, so hopefully they have a head start.
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Very true... Plus year or so ago Google noted it was giving manufacturers the code preview way early to help transitions and one of those was HTC.... Doubt it takes 90days....
Only way I can see it taking that long is if HTC needs/wants to change/add something decent in size/structure...
I am very excited for this update! But I agree with people above, I am sure we will have it before the 90 days
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Very true... Plus year or so ago Google noted it was giving manufacturers the code preview way early to help transitions and one of those was HTC.... Doubt it takes 90days....
Only way I can see it taking that long is if HTC needs/wants to change/add something decent in size/structure...
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Yeah, but they will formally say 90 days once Google releases just to CYA....we're suppose to get 4.4.4 also, so I would think that update will be soon
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Yeah, but they will formally say 90 days once Google releases just to CYA....we're suppose to get 4.4.4 also, so I would think that update will be soon
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Yeah 4.4.4 with the eye stuff supposed to be here by early november... Mo confirmed that the other day.
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Yeah 4.4.4 with the eye stuff supposed to be here by early november... Mo confirmed that the other day.
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must be close, it's in the certification stage according to http://www.htc.com/us/go/htc-software-updates/#device-content
I'm more excited about a w8.1 port lol
whenever that may be.
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I'm more excited about a w8.1 port lol
whenever that may be.
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Never, most likely.
So, you'll have to be satisfied with
Lollipop I guess .
Damn for real?? The rumors about them using the same bootloader were false?
edit: lost all hope after more research lol
I think Lollipop looks like Sense Six!

Holy lolipop update!?!

Ok so I came home a couple minutes ago and my note 4 downloaded a software update fingers crossed it's andriod 5 lolipop
Looks a bit small to be Lollipop
catire said:
So you are installing custom roms and stuff like that? what if something goes wrong, the captivate wont boot normaly and the only way to revive it is to go into recovery mode?
I'm pretty sure the official jh7 firmware update is supposed to fix that, it did for a lot of people. have you tried that?
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i doubt it at only 150mb... it should be around 1.7gb if its similar to the S5
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Damn it so is it just a minor update to kit lat from Samsung then
so stupid so close to lolipop release yet they tease us with this
Don't get your hopes up, it ain't Lollipop haha
Oh look, another one of these posts.
No, that is not Lollipop.
Maybe ota for lollipop needs this to pave the way. Stilleaple shouldn't rush with the premature threads
I'm checking Sam mobile daily it just some update propably based on 4.4.4 there are some updates for February on the octa one last I checked....
Close thread.....[emoji35]
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+1
So no one else has this update?
Damn guess I got trolled n btw I don't have an octa core exyonos I have the Canadian Rogers note 4 with Qualcomm 805

			
				
Are we really doing this again? Come on people, read before you post....
JZ666 said:
Ok so I came home a couple minutes ago and my note 4 downloaded a software update fingers crossed it's andriod 5 lolipop
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note-4-canadian-thread-t2891613/page75
JZ666 said:
So no one else has this update?
Damn guess I got trolled n btw I don't have an octa core exyonos I have the Canadian Rogers note 4 with Qualcomm 805
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I have the same phone.
JZ666 jizzed before time, I think.
Noobs here lol
BWAHAHAHA! says the picture above.
https://twitter.com/HugoAllOver/status/562246104503562240
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Got excited reading the thread topic-> reads every post-> finishes with "holy disappointment"
Close please . Thank you.

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