Recent content by BitRifle

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    Post Verizon Galaxy S5 Developer Edition

    My experience with the backorders: Weds May 28: in stock Thurs May 29: said backorder, but I refreshed periodically throughout the day. Eventually it changed, and I got an order in at 1:15pm Eastern Time -- I received an immediate order confirmation email with an order number. Mon Jun 2: at...
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    Post [Q] Square Trade with Verizon S5 Dev Edition ..?

    DR4LUC0N, thanks for the response, I appreciate it! It looks like per their ToS they will repair as you mentioned, swap with refurb, or do a cash settlement. My skepticism is simply that they may not be exposed to many developer-edition devices and would be inclined to swap it with a consumer...
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    Thread [Q] Square Trade with Verizon S5 Dev Edition ..?

    Has anyone purchased SquareTrade for a developer edition of a device? What was your experience? Do you have any recommendations other than SquareTrade for dev edition devices, since they are purchased direct from Samsung without any protection plan? To be clear, I'm trying to ensure a broken...
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    Post What to spend your $25 on?

    I've never given mobile devices a real "chance" as being a movie/book entertainment device. The $25 will go towards experimenting with ebooks and perhaps whatever I find that Netflix doesn't provide.
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    Post POLL: do you have the screen separation problem?

    No problems with my 7.. fortunately!
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    Post [Verizon]How do you freeze OTA updates from occurring?

    Regarding the OTA Blocking, see this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28942354&postcount=5 The long and short is that freezing those 1 or 2 APKs doesn't do the trick, and can make your phone start crashing when its missing what you froze. One solution is a one-click app...
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    Post [Verizon]Will Freezing FWUpgrade 1.2.0 Prevent OTA?

    Hey, just a heads up, freezing the APKs alone isn't the right solution. If you freeze just FWUpgrade then it isn't actually disabled. (Notice by clicking software update in settings) and unfortunately if you freeze the other APK then you will cause your phone to crash randomly AND you can get a...