Recent content by JonDeutsch

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    [Closed] Nexus 7-a-day giveaway - Dec. 22

    My fianc?e Brenda is pretty spiffy... She tries hard to make everyone she knows happy.
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    mystery battery drain?

    I have found that I get massive battery drain in my office at work, and have no such problems in other areas. The difference? Cell signal. This happened on my Captivate as well. It seems to me that with Samsung phones (perhaps others as well?), they go battery drain central when they have to...
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    Captivate, Froyo and WiFi

    Hey Slappy, I would, but it requires a rooting of the device. Believe it or not, I've been trying so hard not to root my phone because I come from WinMo6.5 and I "rooted" myself to death. I changed OSs in part so I could get out of the rooting business and get into enjoying a more effort-free...
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    Captivate, Froyo and WiFi

    Sadly for me, FXR did NOT work! I still get an "error" status about 1/2 the time I turn WiFi on. Sometimes, cycling through again will remove the error. Sometimes, I need to reboot. Any other ideas?
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    Captivate, Froyo and WiFi

    WiFi problems after Froyo Upgrade Ever since upgrading to Froyo, my WiFi functionality has started acting flaky. Sometimes, when I get home and turn on WiFi, it just "hangs." And requires a reboot. Sometimes, when I get home and turn on WiFi, I get an "error" and I have to toggle WiFi on...
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    How's your Battery Life?

    I have found that certain apps that have no business sipping at the battery had a direct impact on my battery life. For instance: Pulse news reader... once I uninstalled it, my battery life improved remarkably. So, you might need to uninstall certain apps that are like little battery...