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if you want to flash custom roms DO NOT do the OTA update to gingerbread… they (last I checked) have not found a new exploit yet. I wish I would have rooted my phone and just run a GB rom… Oh well. Gettin rid of my EVO later today!

^Yea, thank goodness i didnt do that yet.

Is there an App to transfer and save all of your txt messages from a certain contact?

gosms has an option to back up all of them…I don’t think theres an option for just one contact though

The beauty of these phones is even if you brick them, you can almost always fight your way back, I have bricked and boot-looped mine several times and I’ve always been able to get back to where I wanna be with minimal trouble, and all through my own experimentation and experience, I’ve never had to bug experts or tech people. My biggest tip is make sure you create a backup before flashing.

Also, Rom Manager is good to have, but don’t use it for flashing, it does a bit of a hack job of it behind the scenes, always flash manually through cwm, all you have to do is wipe the cache, user data, and dalvik cache, then install the ROM and reboot.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110815-706430.html

Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5B

yeah, big news there this morning

good move for google…their patent portfolio just got A LOT bigger

I like both companies, I like the acquisition.

I just bought an ASUS EEE pad transformer :smiley:

does anyone know if theres a way to take a screen shot on an htc evo? i havent heard of any andriod having screenshot ability

Free apps are in the market try one

most if not all you need to be rooted to use

They used to not require rooting.

I dont think I’ve ever seen one that didn’t require a root.

Really? Screenshot it ttrial was the one I used to use… it worked fine before. (Just tried it, and says it needs a root. wtf.)

on the evo 3d I can screen shot by holding power button and pressing home fwiw

Is anyone having problems with their navigation? I have the Droid Incredible and it’s telling me it can not find the route to my location.

UPDATE: The guy at Verizon today said that this is just a problem with the Buffalo area. Go anywhere else and you will have GPS coverage again. Too bad the guy last night made me reset my phone…

We went to Verizon today because my X and the fiance’s Incredible 2 are just searching for GPS. The lady at Verizon said something is wrong with there systems due too “Sun Rays” I laughed but she seemed dead serious. She also said it affecting garmin and tom tom. So right when we left I had to try our garmin and it works fine. Don’t know what to believe right now just want my damn navigation on my phone to work.

My HTC Thunderbolt thinks im in fucking Gazost, and Laluega, where ever the fuck either of those places are.

must be something up there my X’s nav works fine