[POLL]Did you know that holding power will do a hard shut down? - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Why bother taking your case off, or wearing out the battery cover clips, or move more the necessarily?
This has never failed me.

Yes. To be honest, though, I always thought that it was power+volume up.

nope, just one button.

badname said:
nope, just one button.
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Good to know. Might give my volume buttons another couple minutes of life in the long run...haha

and knowing is half the battle...

badname said:
and knowing is half the battle...
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G.I. Joooooooooe!
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did not know that

I actually just assumed it did.. Every other piece of computer technology I own does this.
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I don't believe you

Holding it down for around 10 seconds will also do a soft reboot.
You can also open up your dialer and punch in *#350# to do a full reboot.

Thanks for the tip, as a new E4GT and Droid user all these tips and tricks are helpful!

you would think this would be a universal feature on all electronics by now.

badname said:
Why bother taking your case off, or wearing out the battery cover clips, or move more the necessarily?
This has never failed me.
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Wait, what? This is news to people? Every phone and computer I've ever owned does this. And it's listed in the manual for our phone. I'm sorry, is this supposed to be a joke I'm missing or something?

I'm sure it's to inform people who didn't know.
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beezar said:
Wait, what? This is news to people? Every phone and computer I've ever owned does this. And it's listed in the manual for our phone. I'm sorry, is this supposed to be a joke I'm missing or something?
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When people are shocked that you can "quickly and easily" adjust the brightness of your screen by sliding your finger across the notification menu, then yes, this is definitely ground-breaking news.
Any owner's manual typically holds a few nuggets of awesome like this.

blackroseMD1 said:
G.I. Joooooooooe!
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I thought I would be the only one to get that reference! Lol
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Considering Netflix locks the phone up all the time, yes, I knew this day 1.

Is this for real?

JohnCorleone said:
I thought I would be the only one to get that reference! Lol
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Mr. Body Massage machine, GO!

there is so many little things this phone can do that completely amaze me lol still finding out more to, coming from a samsung moment

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Where is the flashlight?

Hello,
This may have been asked already or not needed to be asked because it is right in front of me but where is the flashlight app for the ET4G?
+1 Good Question.
Market place..........
;p
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nate420 said:
Market place..........
;p
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nate...yer such an arse
Yup, sometimes the obvious answers are the best answers
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devuni.flashlight
Bandage said:
nate...yer such an arse
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Haha I dont try to be.....
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nate420 said:
Haha I dont try to be.....
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Do you remember our "True 3D" conversation from the 3Vo Forum?
/3boobsmotorboatin
for those curious look HERE
Bandage said:
Do you remember our "True 3D" conversation from the 3Vo Forum?
/3boobsmotorboatin
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edit nvm! HahH now I remember
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nate420 said:
Nah that was months ago... Did I get violent? Lol
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lmfao...
Who gets violent over a 3 tittaed sci-fi babe?
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lmfao...
Who gets violent over a 3 tittaed sci-fi babe?
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I thought it was the great debate I had with a few people on how the 3d effect would be like... Vs what people wanted it to be like... Got pretty violent
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nate420 said:
Haha I dont try to be.....
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To be fair before I even clicked on the thread I read it. "Where is the flashlight?" and the first thing I thought was "in the market"...
Have I said it's good to have you back man? It's good to have you back man.
daneurysm said:
To be fair before I even clicked on the thread I read it. "Where is the flashlight?" and the first thing I thought was "in the market"...
Have I said it's good to have you back man? It's good to have you back man.
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Haha thanks bro its good to be back... Im trying to mellow out on the arrogant posts but it was helpfull in this case... I think...? Lol
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the Tiny Flashlight app works great... This phone has one bright flashlight!!!!1
i360 said:
the Tiny Flashlight app works great... This phone has one bright flashlight!!!!1
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Yeah, that is what I'm using. I was curious if there was a Samsung one without the advertising like HTC had (which btw does not work on the ET4G).
i360 said:
the Tiny Flashlight app works great... This phone has one bright flashlight!!!!1
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Tesla LED is much better.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.flashlight&hl=en
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133393
No ads, no unnecessary permissions. Tons of options and customizability and widgets.
How do I prevent the flashlight from auto shut off
I have my screen set to turn off after 30 seconds of inactivity. I'd like to leave it that way but the flashlight also turns off after 30 seconds. Short of rocking the volume or something is there a way to make a program override the 30 seconds?
I'd probably like to set it for about 5 minutes to autoshutoff for the flashlight.
boe said:
I have my screen set to turn off after 30 seconds of inactivity. I'd like to leave it that way but the flashlight also turns off after 30 seconds. Short of rocking the volume or something is there a way to make a program override the 30 seconds?
I'd probably like to set it for about 5 minutes to autoshutoff for the flashlight.
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5min ur gonna burn out ur led .......bcareful.....
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I had a blast with the law enforcement feature, the one with the red/white/blue flashing screen. At night damn it can be seen a long ways off.
Wizard220 said:
I had a blast with the law enforcement feature, the one with the red/white/blue flashing screen. At night damn it can be seen a long ways off.
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Carefull my buddy has strobe lights in his headlights on his show car (92 caprice) & almost got impersonating a officer when he turned them on while driving on night
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[Q] Epic won't turn on, high pitched whine when charging

I think the title says it all. I've got an Epic that produces a high pitched whining noise (reminiscent of an old CRT monitor) when plugged into USB without a battery in. When I try and turn on the phone, there's a very faint, intermittent clicking sound coming from the top area of the phone's back. If I put the battery in with USB in, the clicking sound resumes.
Since the phone won't turn on, I'm guessing something's wrong with the power circuitry? Is this anything that could be taken care of by me, or is the phone a lost cause?
I think your diagnosis is correct. Sounds like it is oscillating. To diagose further you would probably need an oscilloscope and a schematic. I believe Sprint takes care of non-insured repairs for $35.
could sell it to someone with a stray dog problem too!:}
Woah! Never heard of that. You have a real brick! Congrats! 1 in a million!
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You have a real brick! Congrats! 1 in a million!
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I'm honored? Anyways, confirmed: it's not responding to a download mode dongle, so it's really quite dead. Off to eBay to sell it for scrap.
redct said:
I'm honored? Anyways, confirmed: it's not responding to a download mode dongle, so it's really quite dead. Off to eBay to sell it for scrap.
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Not really...
There are people who work on solid bricks they take apart the phone and hook it up straight to the pc and will bring it to download mode and restore it.
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drunkskunk said:
Didn't you read? Gezzz! noobs need to read! His phone has a whinnniiinnnng hymn to it when power is introduced. That's LOS. No pc will bring that from the dead.
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Noobs need to read? Really your one to talk ya know?
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Biggoron said:
Noobs need to read? Really your one to talk ya know?
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Yeah but this time he's right...dude's phone is fried. Capacitors and transistors are singing a bad song man.
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kennyglass123 said:
Yeah but this time he's right...dude's phone is fried. Capacitors and transistors are singing a bad song man.
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Yeah I read that but I was refering to his "brick" situation that even solid bricks aren't an issue and is possible to be fixed... I never mentioned that this would fixed the squeal you can't quote me saying that
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redct said:
I'm honored? Anyways, confirmed: it's not responding to a download mode dongle, so it's really quite dead. Off to eBay to sell it for scrap.
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What?! Why not go to sprint and tell them it randomly turned off when you plugged it in and now it squeels? Maybe they can give you a refurb for $35
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drunkskunk said:
I was going to suggest that but was afraid the calvery was going to run me over.hoofs all over mag face. You know... The high horse anti fraud trolls. "immm soo ohffended at your ideah! So fraudtroll! Can't believe u even suggest it! Ban forevaa! That's why I pay a gazzillion for mah redoubtable! Burn in a pot of used motor oil! Ohhhmaaahhgaaawwwd! "
Yeah them... The calvery.
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I don't know about all of that, but I'll lead the grammar police and let you know you spelled cavalry wrong...twice
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drunkskunk said:
Lol.....lol.
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Haha I am the grammar police
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drunkskunk said:
Oh... I remember. I even corected you to teach you grammar nazis that you cannot oppress us forevah!
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I laugh every day on here because of your posts. Try not to get banned again
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drunkskunk said:
Didn't you read? Gezzz! noobs need to read! His phone has a whinnniiinnnng hymn to it when power is introduced. That's LOS. No pc will bring that from the dead.
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I actually had an issue where my phone could not turn on at all and still restored it to stock and got it to sprint. But that does seem like like a hardware issue...
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To the original poster, if you were looking to sell it, how much would you want for it? I would be willing to buy it off you. Please PM me if interested.
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drunkskunk said:
I was going to suggest that but was afraid the calvery was going to run me over.hoofs all over mag face. You know... The high horse anti fraud trolls. "immm soo ohffended at your ideah! So fraudtroll! Can't believe u even suggest it! Ban forevaa! That's why I pay a gazzillion for mah redoubtable! Burn in a pot of used motor oil! Ohhhmaaahhgaaawwwd! "
Yeah them... The calvery.
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Please, please, please turn off autocorrect. Now that you are less annoying I really would like to read what you post to see how you have grown.
kennyglass123 said:
Please, please, please turn off autocorrect. Now that you are less annoying I really would like to read what you post to see how you have grown.
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Well.... according to my infinite knowledge of electronics, he has a blown fuse on that thing. Loud whine is more like a fuse that popped. Kinda like when you have the iron plugged in while your room heater is at Max and you put in a hotpocket in the microwave. In about 30 seconds all the lights. Go off. Gotta go pop the breaker. But once you are at the breaker box, there's a hmmmm whine to it. That's exactly what's going on his epic. Unfortunately, there's no breaker build in the epic, even with all its glory, galaxy s devices are prone to fuse popping.
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any supercurio news folks?

just like the tittle says, any updates?
Nope.
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Glad i didnt donate . Somethin like this might've happened
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mickeycobra04 said:
Glad i didnt donate . Somethin like this might've happened
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he did look into it.
jim93 said:
he did look into it.
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its been like over 3 months lol =/ soo sad, especially since it was supercurio, i trusted the guy =/
It has nothing to do with trust. He clearly stated his agenda and never gave a timeframe. He even stated a few times he was working on the note abd other phones first since they were easier fixes than our "black sheep" of a phone. He is well know and i wouldnt think that hed take a phone just to take it and not evetually work on it.
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its been like over 3 months lol =/ soo sad, especially since it was supercurio, i trusted the guy =/
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It has nothing to do with trust. He clearly stated his agenda and never gave a timeframe. He even stated a few times he was working on the note abd other phones first since they were easier fixes than our "black sheep" of a phone. He is well know and i wouldnt think that hed take a phone just to take it and not evetually work on it.
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yea hell work on it eventually
jim93 said:
yea hell work on it eventually
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eventually lol that could be 6 months from now, i wont own this device by then lol
HRodMusic said:
eventually lol that could be 6 months from now, i wont own this device by then lol
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Who cares ? You made a weeping farewell speech from the T989 months ago, what happened ? Be gone already...........
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eventually lol that could be 6 months from now, i wont own this device by then lol
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The blobs that everyone donated for was clearly a possible hardware issue which means that nobody would be able to fix it without mods made by hand. At best all he could do was look into it. Its not his fault people paid for a new phone just to look into it.
The whole situation is analogous to if Samsung released a new phone where a quarter of them had bad search buttons. It could be a software issue but likely a hardware problem with QA. Instead of exchanging the phone people then proceeded to setup a bounty to buy a new phone to get this fixed. Its looked into and it turns out its just a bad solder connecting the search button. This would of been likely in the first place and people should of just exchanged their phone rather than setting up a bounty for something which has a fair likelihood of being a hardware issue.
You have a hardware issue then exchange your phone.
If the blobs bother you exchange your phone. If the blobs only bother you when you have to follow a page of instructions on how to see it, really. If you need to follow a multi step guide to see it then its not that big of a deal. If it is then exchange your phone.
Just curious...
Anyone play the game Osmos....that will really show off your lines and blobs if you play it in a low light enviornment or at night.
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G1ForFun said:
Just curious...
Anyone play the game Osmos....that will really show off your lines and blobs if you play it in a low light enviornment or at night.
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I play it I notice it with auto brightness on mines so it doesn't bother me. Since my lines are not visible with auto brightness off. It doesn't bother me. Auto brightness is buggy on this phone. Anyway doesn't seem to accurate.
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Killbynature said:
I play it I notice it with auto brightness on mines so it doesn't bother me. Since my lines are not visible with auto brightness off. It doesn't bother me. Auto brightness is buggy on this phone. Anyway doesn't seem to accurate.
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Yeaaa I turned brightness all the way up and it is much better of course but it is just unfortunate that this bandaid is the end all solution. The battery when playing a game and having the brightness all the way up gets effed.
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Yeaaa I turned brightness all the way up and it is much better of course but it is just unfortunate that this bandaid is the end all solution. The battery when playing a game and having the brightness all the way up gets effed.
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I don't have to do that when auto brightness is on for me I have lines. When it's off at the lowest brightness no lines. If I can't see in the sun I just slide my fingers across the status bar to adjust.
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Hmmm is it safe to say that the supercurio project for the t989 is dead???

You may not have known.

ICS !! LMAO, only kidding.
I see many of you saying in many instances you needed to do a battery pull for whatever reason.
You guys know that holding the power button down for about 30 seconds is the same as a battery pull right?
This works even when your phone is totally frozen and unresponsive. I personally have known this since I had my vibrant, and have used this method several times on my GS2. I think its most Sammy phones..
anyways,, hope this helps you guys,
Its amazing how many people don't know this. Always saying how they hate having to do battery pulls and it sucks having to take out your case...yadda yadda.
But more realistically it is only 10 seconds of holding down power button: )
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Yeah I know. Kills me so I figure why not re. - let people know. Lol
I said 30 seconds for those who would hold it for 3 and say it didn't work for them.
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PJcastaldo said:
ICS !! LMAO, only kidding.
I see many of you saying in many instances you needed to do a battery pull for whatever reason.
You guys know that holding the power button down for about 30 seconds is the same as a battery pull right?
This works even when your phone is totally frozen and unresponsive. I personally have known this since I had my vibrant, and have used this method several times on my GS3. I think its most Sammy phones..
anyways,, hope this helps you guys,
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Think you meant gs2 lol...other than a very good post ppl need to learn this pulling the battery isnt good.
k786 said:
Think you meant gs2 lol...other than a very good post ppl need to learn this pulling the battery isnt good.
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HAHA.. fixed. yeah i meant gs2
PJcastaldo said:
HAHA.. fixed. yeah i meant gs2
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yeah i was like damn how did he get the s3 when it isnt even released yet..lol
Doesn't work in. all cases...i've known about the long press...however mine randomly goes black...whether while on it or sitting in my pocket...I'll try powering it up with no response..long press beyond 30 sec with nothing... I can't do anything unless I physically pull out the battery.
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bobby3306 said:
Doesn't work in. all cases...i've known about the long press...however mine randomly goes black...whether while on it or sitting in my pocket...I'll try powering it up with no response..long press beyond 30 sec with nothing... I can't do anything unless I physically pull out the battery.
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Then your not holding it long enough.
And I'm not trying to sound like that reads.. but this is the same as a battery pull. Its built into the hardware. It always works. Bottom line.
Hell I didn't know about it (maybe cause its my first samsung) and yeah I hate taking my case off lol but now I know :thumbup:
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So how do I take screenshots in ICS again??
Press power and volume down simultaneously for a second or two.
Why?
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PJcastaldo said:
Press power and volume down simultaneously for a second or two.
Why?
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It was a joke hopefully some will get it
jim93 said:
It was a joke hopefully some will get it
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I could tell it was a joke
mostly because of the
LoL
jim93 said:
It was a joke hopefully some will get it
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Oh.. haha. Well I don't get it.. lol.
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jim93 said:
It was a joke hopefully some will get it
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I could tell it was a joke because you're Jim
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Then your not holding it long enough.
And I'm not trying to sound like that reads.. but this is the same as a battery pull. Its built into the hardware. It always works. Bottom line.
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Bro I could hold it for 5 min and its unresponsive no joke...have gone thru it many times and was pissed when long press wouldn't work..the phone locks up randomly, like atleast once a week. Nothing but a battery pull, waiting about 20 sec then putting it back in and then it'll start up.
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Just FYI guys..Its true for any modern device, phones, laptops, computers, GPS, etc all power off forcefully if you keep holding the power switch for some seconds. Its basically fail safe switch since many devices don't have removable battery anymore..
Lol. Yep I though I was the only one who didn't know I figured it out the day I rooted my GS2 back in November when I was in download mode. Got cold feet couldn't pull the battery do I hold the power button and wala. This is my fist Samsung smart phone coming from Hd2 and maybe my last until GS4 LOL.
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I didn't know this tech either, pretty cool. I haven't really had to do a battery pull anyhow, phone has been running smooth on juggs since day 1 (which isn't that long ago).
This is useful for people who has a case that takes time to remove it, especially 2-step ones (like me). It saves me time by using this force shutdown method.

There's an app for that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7OadDz3Ums&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Good thing I'm poor and never keep anything valuable in the car!
What the heck!!!!
Well at least there are cameras around my house, but this is still ridiculous. You can't keep anything safe with these people.
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soon phones will be used like in watchdogs the game
What is this world coming to..? Thieves are getting smarter and smarter... Absolutely atrocious..
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XxSilent.NightmarexX said:
soon phones will be used like in watchdogs the game
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Soon? , it already happened in the video. LOL
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Team SXTP
that dude broke into Doi's SUV and took everything except that giant fucking camera mounted on his windshield?
cnstarz said:
that dude broke into Doi's SUV and took everything except that giant fucking camera mounted on his windshield?
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They'll probably announce some type of new security system that costs over $1,000 and it added onto the price of new vehicles. The device used to break into cars is a device made by the car manufacturers. I call conspiracy!
And that's why I'm glad I have manual locks that you have to individually open. Screw power locks!
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Frostacious said:
And that's why I'm glad I have manual locks that you have to individually open. Screw power locks!
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it has nothing to do with power locks. it's the remote locks that are vulnerable.
cnstarz said:
it has nothing to do with power locks. it's the remote locks that are vulnerable.
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Remote as you stated thus requiring power........
Watch the video again please. Hacks cars computer system to release the power locks. Thank you.
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wow
Frostacious said:
Remote as you stated thus requiring power........
Watch the video again please. Hacks cars computer system to release the power locks. Thank you.
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I agree power locks alone aren't enough if there simply isn't a way to REMOTELY use them.. My 94 civic doesn't have a remote but then again. I (nearly) never leave anything of value in it anyway for this reason. Even without remote, a hammer can do the job. I don't want to tempt anyone to begin with.
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I agree power locks alone aren't enough if there simply isn't a way to REMOTELY use them.. My 94 civic doesn't have a remote but then again. I (nearly) never leave anything of value in it anyway for this reason. Even without remote, a hammer can do the job. I don't want to tempt anyone to begin with.
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