Is there a way to debloat the completely stock rom without rooting, or is there a way to temp root a device just to debloat and then put it back to normal?
Sorry for newbie questions, I've been on an HTC for the past 3 years and haven't messed with any Samsung stuff since before then.
selfinfliction said:
Is there a way to debloat the completely stock rom without rooting, or is there a way to temp root a device just to debloat and then put it back to normal?
Sorry for newbie questions, I've been on an HTC for the past 3 years and haven't messed with any Samsung stuff since before then.
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Majority of apps can be disabled. Just go into the app manager select the app and hit disable.
Illogi.xbone said:
Majority of apps can be disabled. Just go into the app manager select the app and hit disable.
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I was looking to get rid of it altogether, the thing has over 6gb of junk in storage. Is that just common with Samsungs now? Seems like a lot.
selfinfliction said:
I was looking to get rid of it altogether, the thing has over 6gb of junk in storage. Is that just common with Samsungs now? Seems like a lot.
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Welcome to Samsung lol and so far as long as you took OTA there is no root method, like I did.
Illogi.xbone said:
Welcome to Samsung lol and so far as long as you took OTA there is no root method, like I did.
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ok thanks, I seen the warnings not to put the OTA on, but stock roms are pretty much good for me the only reason I switched form that 3 year old HTC DNA was that the battery was dying out pretty fast now when playing games on it. Had to get back to something with a swappable battery.
selfinfliction said:
ok thanks, I seen the warnings not to put the OTA on, but stock roms are pretty much good for me the only reason I switched form that 3 year old HTC DNA was that the battery was dying out pretty fast now when playing games on it. Had to get back to something with a swappable battery.
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That is always a plus, having a removable battery that is. The OTA isn't terrible but they could have weeded out some of the bloat -_-
Best way is by using Debloater tool for PC
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ravenmk said:
Best way is by using Debloater tool for PC
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Never used it but I am assuming it requires root yes?
Illogi.xbone said:
Never used it but I am assuming it requires root yes?
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It doesn't
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ravenmk said:
It doesn't
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Might have to give this a try! Thanks!
Illogi.xbone said:
Might have to give this a try! Thanks!
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Ok I have had my photon for a few months now and I am coming from a evo and a hero before that. Those phones needed to be rooted to get the best out of them. I was looking around the development section and while I know there isn't a lot of roms, I just wanted to get everyone's opinion on rooting. I really have no need for wireless tether, and while I would like to remove some of the bloat, I just don't know if its worth it on this phone.
Just throwing it out there to get some input from other photon users.
Thanks guys
For me, it was worth it just to run an adblocker. That's all I use it for.
It's a very fast and easy process.
The photon runs great as it is, but like willysp said just the ability to use adfree makes it worth it.. and of course if you like modifying little things here and there to make the device more yours
And to me was actually the easiest device I have rooted thanks to the one click root script.
There's a couple of other ways to root it but that was the first I found.
I came from Hero and EVO as well. This phone is great as it is. No need to do anything else. I have to said beside Nokia, Motorola is the best phone in term of reception.
Which method did you use? Did you flash a rom after rooting or did you just keep it stock and just use ad blocker?
kbrn said:
The photon runs great as it is, but like willysp said just the ability to use adfree makes it worth it.. and of course if you like modifying little things here and there to make the device more yours
And to me was actually the easiest device I have rooted thanks to the one click root script.
There's a couple of other ways to root it but that was the first I found.
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I root for adfree and LED's hack mainly but also quite a few other that I can't think of. Editing the build.prop is also a huge plus gotta have my GAMELOFT fix lol
You can use the one click method which takes 5 minutes.
One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
So what is the process? Root and then flash a custom recovery? I just need a step by step of what to do.completely forgot about setcpu. But don't you have to have a custom kernel in order to use setcpu?
ronnienyc said:
You can use the one click method which takes 5 minutes.
One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
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.....One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
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That's incorrect.
SetCPU requires more than root. Needs a custom kernel, which requires unlocking. And we don't have a fully functioning unlocker.
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One good reason to root is to use SetCPU, which easily doubles your battery life by letting the CPU slow down when not in use.
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Slowing down your CPU (underclocking) doesn't save any battery life, undervolting however does.
And yes a custom kernel is required to undervolt and to flash one we need to unlock the bootloader.
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stricklerjosh said:
So what is the process? Root and then flash a custom recovery? I just need a step by step of what to do.completely forgot about setcpu. But don't you have to have a custom kernel in order to use setcpu?
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qbking77 has made video tutorials, subscribe him on youtube.
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Isn't the bootloader unlocked, but 4G is borked?
The bootloader is perfectly fine, the 4g issue is because sprints security keys for wimax look at the bootloader state. Not even the official test phones have 4g.
Android 17 said:
Isn't the bootloader unlocked, but 4G is borked?
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moonzbabysh said:
I root for adfree and LED's hack mainly but also quite a few other that I can't think of. Editing the build.prop is also a huge plus gotta have my GAMELOFT fix lol
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What led hack?
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LexLuger82 said:
What led hack?
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An old app that was removed from the Market a year ago
The one that turns the green led into kryptonite, sorry i had to.
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What led hack?
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if i rooted than i factory reset, does it make unroot again ?
Or it can cause error ?
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An old app that was removed from the Market a year ago
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Could u provide a link to this app
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zeguym said:
if i rooted than i factory reset, does it make unroot again ?
Or it can cause error ?
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No factory reset won't make it unroot or cause any error.
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No factory reset won't make it unroot or cause any error.
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Thanks. Now i can try factory reset.
Read someone had it. Didn't know if it was posted anywhere? I take all the battery life I can get haha
stkiswr said:
Read someone had it. Didn't know if it was posted anywhere? I take all the battery life I can get haha
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http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/1493-unofficial-update-612181xt912/
Thanks for the link but that seems old. I may hold off until I see some screen shots.
stkiswr said:
Thanks for the link but that seems old. I may hold off until I see some screen shots.
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Yes, it was leaked awhile ago.
If you want screen shots take a look at your phone now. Because there isn't much difference between this and 6.12.173. Nothing obvious anyways. I've been running it for awhile.
Jackdog89 said:
Yes, it was leaked awhile ago.
If you want screen shots take a look at your phone now. Because there isn't much difference between this and 6.12.173. Nothing obvious anyways. I've been running it for awhile.
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Looks like they upgraded 4G to 3G on your phone
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Looks like they upgraded 4G to 3G on your phone
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Hence the increase in battery life.
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Hence the increase in battery life.
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That's how they 'optimized' device performance. Lol. XD
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I got the update today and backed up root with voodoo OTA and lost root again! But oh well maybe ill just let it run stock from now until the boot loader gets bypassed!!
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I got the update today and backed up root with voodoo OTA and lost root again! But oh well maybe ill just let it run stock from now until the boot loader gets bypassed!!
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You didn't save it?
Tried no dice!
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Edit: I used Mattlgroff Droid Razr 1.40 utility and restored back to .173 didn't lose anything all apps stayed first time I've seen it do that usually erases everything for me back to stock. Re-rooted, updated SU binary files, then installed voodoo OTA! Worked this time kepted root don't know what i did before did everything exactly the same as before!!!
I just rooted my gs3. Who else?
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I just rooted my gs3. Who else?
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Rooted on Friday.
Rooted mine as soon as I got it home
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ILA970JOSH said:
Rooted mine as soon as I got it home
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Ditto bit yesterday haha
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Rooted mine sometime in the future if a new nexus is not out soon.
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Doing it now!
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why ask?
friday
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nabbed said:
why ask?
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Just curious... Once development really kicks in I will be spending a lot of time in the development forums and was getting a head start getting good idea who was going to be there with me.
Taking roll. You might say.
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I had root the day before it was 'official'
Just rooted yesterday. Just worried cuz there is no unroot method to date. If there is an update, we may not be able to take it. Is it true that it might brick our rooted phone if we take an update?
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Just rooted yesterday. Just worried cuz there is no unroot method to date. If there is an update, we may not be able to take it. Is it true that it might brick our rooted phone if we take an update?
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Do you mean an ota update? No your phone get bricked so long as your not s custom ROM that heavily changes the phones internals your good for an update
Did it the same time i saw the first how to post......I just wish all my saved wi-fi locations got restored from my old epic4g titanium backup....no luck so far. All my other titanium backed up apps restored just fine except Launcher Pro I had to start clean with that one....lol
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Did it the same time i saw the first how to post......I just wish all my saved wi-fi locations got restored from my old epic4g titanium backup....no luck so far. All my other titanium backed up apps restored just fine except Launcher Pro I had to start clean with that one....lol
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I had problems restoring saved WiFi access point data on my Nexus S when going from Gingerbread to ICS. If you're up to the challenge, you can easily open the backup in a text editor. If you hadn't set the backups to be encrypted that is.
Then on the GS3, with WiFi off, copy and paste the values into the following file:
/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
You can use Root Explorer or something similar. If you run into any issues, just go ahead and delete the file. It'll get recreated automatically on reboot. Good luck!
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I just rooted my gs3. Who else?
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So you're over here now? See ya in a couple of days
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Done and done.
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Did it Sat night lol 3AM.....Is there a way to stop ota from automatically happing.
I havent but its only because I really dont see a reason to at this point. As soon as there are some nice custom ROMs, Ill be hanging in the dev section as well. I just dont see the need to root for the sake of having root at this point.
Did mine on Sat. It is nice to be able to remove a bunch of the bloatware.
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Root S3
Where are the instructions to root the s3, all i found were the ones for the non usa s3
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Herp derp, found it
Hooked on phonics and a little bit of tinkering worked for me
First, in looking through the phone storage, 32g, I see a spot marked "other". It started out at 6g being used and is now up to 10. What is the deal with that and how do I clean it up? I've already removed most of the bloatware, but I have a feeling this is Rom related.
Second: Using Rom Toolbox I try to move certain apps to system from data, mainly my Power Toggle app. I get it moved but then I have to go back in and re-enable the notification widget portion of it. No big there. But after a reboot, the app completely disappears from the phone so I have to reinstall it from Play. Might this have anything to do with the S-on? Or is this related to it being the stock rom and not a custom?
Some ideas would be much appreciated/
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First, in looking through the phone storage, 32g, I see a spot marked "other". It started out at 6g being used and is now up to 10. What is the deal with that and how do I clean it up? I've already removed most of the bloatware, but I have a feeling this is Rom related.
Second: Using Rom Toolbox I try to move certain apps to system from data, mainly my Power Toggle app. I get it moved but then I have to go back in and re-enable the notification widget portion of it. No big there. But after a reboot, the app completely disappears from the phone so I have to reinstall it from Play. Might this have anything to do with the S-on? Or is this related to it being the stock rom and not a custom?
Some ideas would be much appreciated/
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Are you using a kernel that enables write to the system?
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Are you using a kernel that enables write to the system?
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No. never needed one with my LG Mytouch. I've had the original HTC Mytouch but the LG is my first time modding, if the difference of phones makes any difference.
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No. never needed one with my LG Mytouch. I've had the original HTC Mytouch but the LG is my first time modding, if the difference of phones makes any difference.
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Well unless your on a custom rom that allows write to system then whatever you change pertaining to the system will revert upon reboot.
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godfirst said:
Well unless your on a custom rom that allows write to system then whatever you change pertaining to the system will revert upon reboot.
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And no idea on the "other" that is taking up 10 of my 32gigs of space?
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And no idea on the "other" that is taking up 10 of my 32gigs of space?
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I have no such folder as that on my internal storage. Have you tried deleting it?
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godfirst said:
I have no such folder as that on my internal storage. Have you tried deleting it?
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Not a folder. Go in settings, storage and that's where it is.
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Not a folder. Go in settings, storage and that's where it is.
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Part of that is the preinstalled stuff, looks like maybe pics or so and probably data of some sort.
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godfirst said:
Part of that is the preinstalled stuff, looks like maybe pics or so and probably data of some sort.
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I deleted a butt ton of that...
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I deleted a butt ton of that...
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It will come back if you reboot your phone.
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It will come back if you reboot your phone.
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Um.... They don't and won't. I flashed a tweak for permanent removal
Disabling Super SU and OEM Unlock checkboxes let me add my card without restart but it will not work at checkout even with restart. It beeps but gives me an error that says something about not being able to verify security or something.
Any ideas?
I have LG-H901 (T-Mobile V10), bootloader unlocked, rooted w/ TWRP and Super SU installed. Factory ROM has not been changed. Only other changes is using Ti Backup to uninstall bloatware including T-Mobile My Account and com.tmobile.pr.adapt.
Or, could I set-up my stock ROM the way I want it, then unroot so I can use AP?
I've already deleted all the bloatware and everything is working really well. I dont see a reason to stay rooted all the time.
Apache0c said:
Or, could I set-up my stock ROM the way I want it, then unroot so I can use AP?
I've already deleted all the bloatware and everything is working really well. I dont see a reason to stay rooted all the time.
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Yes you only need root at all times if you want xposed and use greenify, servicely ect.. But if you just wanted to debloat then it is not necessary to keep root... Unroot with SuoerSU, uncheck OEM unlock and reboot... That should fix you up...
Not every reader is active though... Try places that you know have previously worked with Android Pay
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bdorr1105 said:
Yes you only need root at all times if you want xposed and use greenify, servicely ect.. But if you just wanted to debloat then it is not necessary to keep root... Unroot with SuoerSU, uncheck OEM unlock and reboot... That should fix you up...
Not every reader is active though... Try places that you know have previously worked with Android Pay
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Thanks but did you read the OP? If I'm understanding correctly, I did what you are recommending and it didnt work.
Apache0c said:
Thanks but did you read the OP? If I'm understanding correctly, I did what you are recommending and it didnt work.
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Yes, that's why I had suggested going somewhere you are 100 percent positive it works. It verified the security too add the card, so go to McDonald's, somewhere you know with confidence it works.. It may be the terminal you tried to use it at
Edit* only thing you could try next is relock the bootloader, unchecking OEM doesn't relock the bootloader
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bdorr1105 said:
Yes, that's why I had suggested going somewhere you are 100 percent positive it works. It verified the security too add the card, so go to McDonald's, somewhere you know with confidence it works.. It may be the terminal you tried to use it at
Edit* only thing you could try next is relock the bootloader, unchecking OEM doesn't relock the bootloader
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Thanks. I did use it at a terminal I had used successfully with AP before. I wonder how long we have to wait for 6.0...
Apache0c said:
Thanks. I did use it at a terminal I had used successfully with AP before. I wonder how long we have to wait for 6.0...
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I know I can't find any information on it as well. This phone is like a ghost, it exists, but the carrier doesn't treat it like that, no marshmallow information like the G4
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I know I can't find any information on it as well. This phone is like a ghost, it exists, but the carrier doesn't treat it like that, no marshmallow information like the G4
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Yup, the V10 is a very unique device. It doesnt show up in the recognized devices in the TWRP app either. I never thought I would find a phone I liked better than my G3 and now I feel like the V10 makes it look like a cheap little toy. The V10 is such a beautiful, powerful and somewhat enigmatic device imho
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Yup, the V10 is a very unique device. It doesnt show up in the recognized devices in the TWRP app either. I never thought I would find a phone I liked better than my G3 and now I feel like the V10 makes it look like a cheap little toy. The V10 is such a beautiful, powerful and somewhat enigmatic device imho
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Yea I agree, which is why it is weird to me that it gets treated like it does not exist
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Yea I agree, which is why it is weird to me that it gets treated like it does not exist
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It's sort of a trade-off. On one hand there is less support. On the other, our device is more unique and sexy
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It's sort of a trade-off. On one hand there is less support. On the other, our device is more unique and sexy
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Yep absolutely