How do I run OS, and rom loaders on a MAC. I would like to load a rom that fixes the wifi problem with my Verizon XV6800. Please can someone help. Thanks
You don't.
Unless your Macintosh has an intel processor and has some sort of Windows emulation (bootcamp parallels, wine, etc.), you can't. There isn't a way to do this straight from OS X.
Syncing your PDA with Mac is easy with the help of The Missing Sync or PocketMAC but updating your firmware, you'll have to use the next best PC in your area.
Good luck
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Can anyone send me windows XP so I can duel boot and flash my XV6800 rom? I have parallels but no windows. Thanks
tgantt said:
Can anyone send me windows XP so I can duel boot and flash my XV6800 rom? I have parallels but no windows. Thanks
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No. That's asking for wares which is against forum policy. You can download a trial from Microsoft and use it that way.
Be careful when running ROM upgrade tools within a VM on a mac. I got stuck in bootloader and the VM wouldn't see my phone at all. I had to find a PC in my closet to break it out I can only say this is true with Parallels though - VMWare may work better in this case but I've got no way of knowing.
try flashing from your microSD card
allanak said:
Be careful when running ROM upgrade tools within a VM on a mac. I got stuck in bootloader and the VM wouldn't see my phone at all. I had to find a PC in my closet to break it out I can only say this is true with Parallels though - VMWare may work better in this case but I've got no way of knowing.
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I had the same trouble.....funny my old treo could be flashed in a Parallels VM with no problem, and ESN repairs on sanyos also work in it.
I noticed that if you keeep the mouse moving, it will be more likely to complete the flash....however that makes no sense!
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Thanks for the replys. Sorry for asking for wares.
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I am in an all VISTA house...
Has anyone found a way to upgrade using vista as of yet?
The information and driver located at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=291723 works for me in doing a mtty upgrade. As for doing an entire ROM update using the full utility, I don't know... MTTY is faster, thus why I do it.
My problem is with my Cingular 8525 I need to first flash to a previous rom.
Need to use the EXE to do that and that USB driver appears to ONLY work with RUU or MTTY.
rgreenpc said:
I am in an all VISTA house...
Has anyone found a way to upgrade using vista as of yet?
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It would be ALOT safer to not brick your device, it you dual-booted your PC and had XP available. I wouldn't want to take a chance on bricking device unless I REALLY had too, dual boot is not that hard.
Sadly... you can't install XP after VISTA because of changes to the bootloaders that Vista Uses.... you can do XP then Vista but not vice versa.
Learned this the hard way during the beta.
rgreenpc said:
Sadly... you can't install XP after VISTA because of changes to the bootloaders that Vista Uses.... you can do XP then Vista but not vice versa.
Learned this the hard way during the beta.
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Good to know if I get ahold of Vista.
Good news... my sister-in-law still hasn't used the upgrade to VISTA that I got her, so I guess I can at least roll bacK, SuperCID, then flash to the new rom.
That way I can use POF's new v3 unlocker later when someone comes up with a magic WM6.
The one thing I hope is that the programmers out here do get their hands on VISTA as more and more people are going to get PCs that come with Vista on them and will have little choice to use it.
I am just glad I was able to do this for now....
The final version of Windows Mobile Device Center has been released and I have not had any issues doing ROM updates with the final version.
Secondly, you can use a utility call Easy BCD to modify the Windows Vista bootloader so that you can dual boot Windows XP on a computer that already has Windows Vista installed. You just install Windows XP on a separate partiotion from Vista. The computer will then only boot to Windows XP. Put the Windows Vista DVD in and do a repair and the PC will now just boot into Vista. You can then run the Easy BCD tool in Vista and tell it where you installed XP and it will modify the bootloader so that Windows XP will show up in the boot menu. The bootloader changes can also be done manually but the utility is much simplier (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529)
The link to the Easy BCD software is: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
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The final version of Windows Mobile Device Center has been released and I have not had any issues doing ROM updates with the final version.
Secondly, you can use a utility call Easy BCD to modify the Windows Vista bootloader so that you can dual boot Windows XP on a computer that already has Windows Vista installed. You just install Windows XP on a separate partiotion from Vista. The computer will then only boot to Windows XP. Put the Windows Vista DVD in and do a repair and the PC will now just boot into Vista. You can then run the Easy BCD tool in Vista and tell it where you installed XP and it will modify the bootloader so that Windows XP will show up in the boot menu. The bootloader changes can also be done manually but the utility is much simplier (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529)
The link to the Easy BCD software is: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
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Are you saying that you have done ROM updates in Vista through WMDC Final? I tried this but it did not work. If you have done it then I may try again.
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The final version of Windows Mobile Device Center has been released and I have not had any issues doing ROM updates with the final version.
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Perhaps I need to look at it again then... when I tried it I had no luck.
I don't want the hassle of modifying windows if I dont have to.
What updates have you done with WMDC?
@rgreen: if you're keen on buying everyone vista, i'll take a copy
Has anyone tried it? Ever since moving to a MacBook Pro, I no longer have a PC at home or work. I've got WinXP running just nicely with the few apps I need for work under Parallels. It's brilliant.
But I've got my HTC TyTN and was wondering if anyone has tried upgrading under Windows running on Parallels? Parallels' USB support seems to be fabulous, but when you're talking about blasting ROMs... well, figured I'd ask first.
You can also upgrade from OS X:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296436
Lovely! You're the man, pof... oops, haven't installed dev tools yet. Gotta wait for that download!
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Has anyone tried it? Ever since moving to a MacBook Pro, I no longer have a PC at home or work. I've got WinXP running just nicely with the few apps I need for work under Parallels. It's brilliant.
But I've got my HTC TyTN and was wondering if anyone has tried upgrading under Windows running on Parallels? Parallels' USB support seems to be fabulous, but when you're talking about blasting ROMs... well, figured I'd ask first.
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I have updated a number of times on my 8525 from an XP VM on a Macbook 2GHZ with 2GB of RAM. I would advise that you close all Rosetta aps before running an updater -- I was worried about system hangs due to resource allocation issues. No problems for me at all with the last 3-4 builds of Parallels.
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Has anyone tried it? Ever since moving to a MacBook Pro, I no longer have a PC at home or work. I've got WinXP running just nicely with the few apps I need for work under Parallels. It's brilliant.
But I've got my HTC TyTN and was wondering if anyone has tried upgrading under Windows running on Parallels? Parallels' USB support seems to be fabulous, but when you're talking about blasting ROMs... well, figured I'd ask first.
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I was not able to flash with parallels. OSX would take over the USB, and won't release to parallels when the phone reboots in bootloader mode. Bootcamp with XP worked perfectly for me.
I just went ahead and tried it under Parallels for S&G's... I'm using the latest version of Parallels and have the "connect USB devices automatically" option checked on my VM config. That option might be why it works. Oh, and I successfully updated to Cingular 2.06.
Yesterday, I upgraded my new white dell streak to from 1.6 to 2.2 using the QDLtool. BTW, its easy as pie, it took about 30 mins, even with the extra task for using a 64-bit OS!!! I used the phone as i would normally yesterday and everything, GPS, internet, Facebook, etc worked perfectly.
Today, I try to do anything web related (i.e. Market, internet, Facebook, etc.) and I get 'A network error has occurred' message. I have tested the phone service and it seems to be working fine.
Has anyone else ran into this or have ideas of what I might try? Thanks in advance, cheers.
SOLVED
****PROBLEM SOLVED****
I FEEL LIKE A NOOB FOR THIS...
At any rate, I solved this problem by resetting the APN to default.
Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Access Point Names > Press the 'Menu' key > Reset to default > check the radio button under ATT US.
Data network seems to be working fine at this time. I will post if anything changes.
How much experience did you have before using the QDL tool with installing custom ROM's? I just got a Dell Streak White and haven't had any success. Although I haven't messed with the QDL tool after hearing of some folks bricking their phone, and not having a way out. This is my first android phone and I am a little nervous and inexperienced with hacking/installing custom ROM's.
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How much experience did you have before using the QDL tool with installing custom ROM's? I just got a Dell Streak White and haven't had any success. Although I haven't messed with the QDL tool after hearing of some folks bricking their phone, and not having a way out. This is my first android phone and I am a little nervous and inexperienced with hacking/installing custom ROM's.
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No experience at all for me. I had never even touched an android phone prior to the streak.
I haven't heard of anyone bricking their phones with QDL when following the guide, many have bricked them by other means though. It took 10 minutes from unzipping the download to rebooting into 2.2 for me. The software did all the work. I have heard of several people successfully unbricking with QDL.
Some people have issues with getting drivers installed but the tool will not act without the correct drivers so there is little risk there. If stock 2.2 is your goal there is no easier way that I have seen. After QDL is done I think the process on to 1.5.5 is easier also.
There is a guide at streakdroid.com
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How much experience did you have before using the QDL tool with installing custom ROM's? I just got a Dell Streak White and haven't had any success. Although I haven't messed with the QDL tool after hearing of some folks bricking their phone, and not having a way out. This is my first android phone and I am a little nervous and inexperienced with hacking/installing custom ROM's.
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Qdl is simple. Its mostly automated. I havent seen anyone brick it with qdl yet. Drivers can be a pain, but fairly simple if your familiar with windows at all. Easier with vista/seven in my opinion.
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Qdl is simple. Its mostly automated. I havent seen anyone brick it with qdl yet. Drivers can be a pain, but fairly simple if your familiar with windows at all. Easier with vista/seven in my opinion.
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
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that's good to know. I have quite a few options. I have a linux machine with ubuntu, an older win XP with 32 windows, and a W7 64 bit machine. The XP machine is hella slow though, so the W7 machine is my preferential option. A smidge concerned about the extra step since it's a 64 bit machine. I'm going to look into it tomorrow since I am off work for the rest of the year for the holidays. I'll report back with my results.
I'm coming from rooting my G2..Now I'm gonna try to root my girls streak. I advised her to get the phone and now feel bad shes still stuck with 1.6. I'm gonna attempt this tomorrow as it sounds easy. Just wondering why you don't have to root in order to update. Is there no root necessary to update?
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that's good to know. I have quite a few options. I have a linux machine with ubuntu, an older win XP with 32 windows, and a W7 64 bit machine. The XP machine is hella slow though, so the W7 machine is my preferential option. A smidge concerned about the extra step since it's a 64 bit machine. I'm going to look into it tomorrow since I am off work for the rest of the year for the holidays. I'll report back with my results.
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The extra 64-bit steps were easy to do. I did install the wrong driver at first. I installed the 'Modem 9002' driver instead of the 'Diagnostic tool 9002'. I just went back to 'Device Manager', removed the wrong driver and installed the correct one. After that, make sure you install ADB drivers and then use the QDL tool. As stated previously by others, the tool does all the work. I hope this helps. let us know how things go.
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How much experience did you have before using the QDL tool with installing custom ROM's? I just got a Dell Streak White and haven't had any success. Although I haven't messed with the QDL tool after hearing of some folks bricking their phone, and not having a way out. This is my first android phone and I am a little nervous and inexperienced with hacking/installing custom ROM's.
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My previous experience comes from hacking a few iphones, then I switched to android devices. The biggest difference I have seen is that the android hack require more command line tasks than the iphone. DO NOT FEAR THE COMMAND LINE, MAKE IT YOUR B****!!!!!
But a tip I'll give is, ALWAYS follow the guides STEP BY STEP, and make sure you know where the files you are working with are!!! A lot of the bricks come from poor file management i.e. the fastboot or update.pkg file not in the correct directory or file name is wrong and needs to be changed.
The QDL tools was suggested for the white streak as it slightly different from the black unit in the form a of preventative hacking measure, at least that is the only different that I am aware of.
Do your research and good luck, cheers
keep us posted
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I'm coming from rooting my G2..Now I'm gonna try to root my girls streak. I advised her to get the phone and now feel bad shes still stuck with 1.6. I'm gonna attempt this tomorrow as it sounds easy. Just wondering why you don't have to root in order to update. Is there no root necessary to update?
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Nothing I have read required the streak to be rooted before hand but my device was rooted. i have not rooted the build yet either. If she isnt going do anything that really requires rooted then she may not even need it. But 2.2 is pretty smooth so far and she will most likely benefit from having the better device with 2.2 than being rooted, IMHO.
The entire process took about 30 minutes and after fixing the APN issue the only other problem I had was what UI i was going to use.(Currently running Laurncher PRO - with the purchased key...AWESOME!!!!!)
QDL Tool how to (I used the streakdroid guide):
http://streakdroid.com/?page_id=92
http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=8214
For 2.2 rooting use the z4root downloadresearch first as I have not used this)
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/z4root_ngtp.html
Good luck, cheers
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The extra 64-bit steps were easy to do. I did install the wrong driver at first. I installed the 'Modem 9002' driver instead of the 'Diagnostic tool 9002'. I just went back to 'Device Manager', removed the wrong driver and installed the correct one. After that, make sure you install ADB drivers and then use the QDL tool. As stated previously by others, the tool does all the work. I hope this helps. let us know how things go.
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Since I've tried other methods of installing ROM's previously by using the W7 machine it wouldn't work. So I did a system restore to get rid of the previous stuff. Now it won't even let me install the the ADB drivers can be downloaded from Dell: ftp.dell.com/Handheld/R288920.exe
It just say's error on install. So I tried it on my super old XP machine which was brutally painfully slow. And it won't even update the driver manually. It just says "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." I will say that under device manager on the XP machine it just lists it in other, like it should, as a Generic Volume instead of the Qualcomm stuff. Weird.
So just outta curiosity, since this froyo build puts your baseband at "00", wouldn't it be possible to then use's dells officially 2.2 unlocked rom and flash it through recovery? I mean using the update.pkg file from your sd card?
It sounds like it worked, but did it? If so which method did you end up using?
In the streakdroid guide there is a command line task you needed to execute before doing anything. To the best of my knowledge that task set WIN 7 to run in a testing mode which allowed for the ADB drivers to be installed properly.
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It sounds like it worked, but did it? If so which method did you end up using?
In the streakdroid guide there is a command line task you needed to execute before doing anything. To the best of my knowledge that task set WIN 7 to run in a testing mode which allowed for the ADB drivers to be installed properly.
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I was wondering if you had to do the command line portion prior to installing the ADB drivers. Going to give that a go. Wish I could just get it to work with the XP machine, but I can't get it to recognize in the device manager that it's plugged in without turning the device on. It makes the sound as if it realizes a device is connected, but nothing ever shows up in the device manager. grrrrrrrrr
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that's good to know. I have quite a few options. I have a linux machine with ubuntu, an older win XP with 32 windows, and a W7 64 bit machine. The XP machine is hella slow though, so the W7 machine is my preferential option. A smidge concerned about the extra step since it's a 64 bit machine. I'm going to look into it tomorrow since I am off work for the rest of the year for the holidays. I'll report back with my results.
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good deal. if you need any help with anything you can catch me on google talk. [email protected]
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I was wondering if you had to do the command line portion prior to installing the ADB drivers. Going to give that a go. Wish I could just get it to work with the XP machine, but I can't get it to recognize in the device manager that it's plugged in without turning the device on. It makes the sound as if it realizes a device is connected, but nothing ever shows up in the device manager. grrrrrrrrr
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What kind of machine are you using? xp/vista/7?
This sounds easy...I will try tonight using Streakdroid guide...good to hear from someone doing this with a White Dell Streak and being successful.
I have read that others have flashed the 2.2 *.pkg with success. The QDL installs dell's 2.2 during its process. I stopped there and have had no issues othe than the APN. Now that I think about it, I think that the QDL 2.2 is meant only to write over the device itself with out any of the specific carrier bloatware. And because of that it did not know what APN to the use until I re-registered.
At any rate, I think this link may help you out:
http://www.streaksmart.com/2010/11/how-to-get-official-android-22-update-on-dell-streak.html
Let me know.
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I was wondering if you had to do the command line portion prior to installing the ADB drivers. Going to give that a go. Wish I could just get it to work with the XP machine, but I can't get it to recognize in the device manager that it's plugged in without turning the device on. It makes the sound as if it realizes a device is connected, but nothing ever shows up in the device manager. grrrrrrrrr
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I did do the command line portion before the ADB install. But that portion is meant for the 64-bit win 7. what happened when you tried it on win 7?
the streakdroid guide:
http://streakdroid.com/?page_id=92
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What kind of machine are you using? xp/vista/7?
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using the W7 64bit machine. This is where I am at.....at about 8 hours in at this point. I've pretty much given up for today though.
Just copied and pasted from another forum:
Ok so I have the option of 2 machines to try this on.........and I'm going on about 7 hours with no luck with either of them. One is a hella old laptop with Windows XP on it. The other is a newish laptop with 64 bit W7 on it. I originally tried it with the XP machine. I can get the drivers DLed and installed successfully on the XP machine, on the W7 machine is immediately says failed when I try an install. I should preface this with saying that I previously had the Dell PC suite installed on the W7 machine using a different version than what's listed in the streakdroid guide. Then onto plugging in the phone on the XP machine if I do that battery out the volume up/down method it makes the sound as if something is plugged in, however it isn't visible in device manager. Not that is matters since I can't even get the drivers installed on the W7 machine, but it's the same. Makes sound as if something is plugged in, but nothing under device manager. When going through the guides it say's it should fail on install when hooking up the device for the first time........wel nope not on either machine. It installs it correctly as a mass USB storage device. Dammit.
Either i'm a complete muppet or there isn't a way to get firmware updates to my sgs2 because i have a mac. kies mini doesn't work. does anybody have any ideas?
i would use bootcamp but i don't have a spare copy of windows knocking about.
cheers.
hancock22 said:
Either i'm a complete muppet or there isn't a way to get firmware updates to my sgs2 because i have a mac. kies mini doesn't work. does anybody have any ideas?
i would use bootcamp but i don't have a spare copy of windows knocking about.
cheers.
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So far Bootcamp has proven the only way. I know it doesn't work under Parallels (which requires Windows as well...so either way you're stuck). Of course you could always resort to borrowing a friend's Windows PC.
yeah i think that's probably my best bet. bloody mac. cheers.
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So far Bootcamp has proven the only way. I know it doesn't work under Parallels (which requires Windows as well...so either way you're stuck). Of course you could always resort to borrowing a friend's Windows PC.
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Kies does work in Parallels with SGS2 but I have had problems with drivers for some reason, I could not get it to work with Odin as its not fast enough when connecting to load the initial drivers required, I had to resort to using my company windoze laptop to root and update.
Nowadays, I use my Asus Netbook with WinXP to run RSD. But my girlfriend stole my netbook and now, I only have my macbook pro and I don't want to run Windows with boot camp.
So, the question is: Any of you already tried to use parallels with Win7 64 bits to flash SBF files and do all the other stuffs? I know we must not do some tasks on a virtualized environment, but RSD is running OK and I would like to hear your opinions about this.
I found on other threads people saying that there is no problem flashing roms using parallels, but we are on a motorola environment.
I just want to make sure that I'm not going to brick my phone because of this.
thanks.
I have used RSD using Windows XP & parallels no problem.
I've always paid close attention to the prompts for where to connect the new USB device and have never had any problems. I have done the SBF to unlock the bootloader as well as flash to 1.8.3.
I use moto-fastboot-osx32 for all my fastboot needs.
My version of Parallels is: 6.0.12090 Revision 660720, Windows XP 32 bit SP3 SP3, RSD Lite 5.3.1
Host is a Macbook Pro 6,1 i7 2.6ghz, OSX 10.6.8 (10.6.7 also)
I've always been running on battery when I flashed not that it should make a difference.
Presumably, Windows 7 should function as well.
Hope this is helpful.
I am currently running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a Macbook Pro
I use VirtualBox (free, www.virtualbox.org) and I run Windows XP in a virtual environment on my Mac
I can do EVERYTHING you would ever need to do regarding the Atrix -> RSD, fastboot, adb, androidSDK, run scripts from command prompt to apply mods (such as the wake on volume keys and webtopmodhack install.bat files)
Nice to hear that. Don't want to brick my phone because of a stupid thing. It is always good to ask. Thanks for replying.
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my girlfriend stole my netbook
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Sure she is the girlfriend and not you? LOL
Go get it back playa!
I haven't had any issues using Parallels 7 w/ Lion / Win7. We're working on Android and iOS though. Not sure about Motorola but I suspect it will work. Good to be sure though.
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Sure she is the girlfriend and not you? LOL
Go get it back playa!
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hahahaha!!
i'm sitting alone in a lounge/bar having an early dinner and I just started cracking up. people staring at me weird now.
haha. thanks.