Neki
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Homsar
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Not like a thief is going to return the fucker, just making a bunch of paperweights ect unless you want to buy the boards and put in a new one like im doing. Im sure there will be ways around it in the next yeah
Crone
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Except jailbreaking your iPhone is leaps and bounds easier to do than rooting your Android device. From there you can change just about anything on the iPhone you would want?
The Dauntless One
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fastboot oem unlock
fasboot flash recover recovery.img
restart in recovery
flash desired rom
Yeah... jailbreaking is "leaps and bounds" easier than Android. Yes I'm talking about a Nexus device, but anyone who's not using a Nexus is doing it wrong.
opiate82
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Yeah, I don't know how easy or hard it is to jailbreak and iPhone, but I know on one of my Motorola phones (Bionic maybe?) unlocking/rooting was as simple as downloading an app and clicking 1 button within that app. Don't see how it gets much easier than that.
I won't deny that some manufacturers make it much more difficult than others, but that is on them, not Android.
I won't deny that some manufacturers make it much more difficult than others, but that is on them, not Android.
Homsar
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I dont care for the nexus lines and people are always having issues with them as far as jailbreaking it doesnt get much easies than plugging your phone in and clicking jailbreak. Rooting the galaxies is a lot more of a pain. Put the phone in developer mode, then get odin, get the proper .tar then you need the apps like super su and clockwork mod. There is a lot of phones with easy 1 click root
Enjoy making calls/doing anything with your phone while your in town I suppose. Some of us want a carrier that works.
The Dauntless One
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Other than Verizon I wouldn't say much. But they've been pretty pants on head retarded about not carrying the Nexus line + doing their best to lock down and deny root, su, custom bootstrap, etc... to their other devices. With enough effort you can do it, however my understanding is that with T-Mo, AT&T, and Sprint most of the one click apps still work. It isn't like manufacturers are taking much of a hardline either though.
Vaclav
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Verizon sucks ass plenty of places, so if they were referencing Verizon being harder to root being the cost of good service - they're quite misinformed as well. (And it's not just city vs rural either - area I'm looking at in Florida has the worst connectivity reports from Verizon and it's very rural - TMobile being #1 and Sprint being #2 there [its an odd market near Cape Canaveral, I guess])
Crone
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I will not deny, some phones are very easy to root. Other phones, like most on the Verizon network that I'm on, are a pain in the ass, imo. I was surprised at how easy it was on the iPhone, regardless of what carrier you were on. Was able to jailbreak, and bring back my quick reply text messaging I had on my Android through Handcent. Sweetness.
Homsar
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Joeboo
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Nokia Lumia 1520 Outperforms Samsung Galaxy S5 in Basemark X Gaming Benchmark
tl;dr: Windows phones using DirectX perform better than Android phones using OpenGL, given same/similar hardware
And Windows Phones have finally moved into 3rd place in global market share, overtaking blackberry (mostly thanks to BBs decline, not that Windows Phone is rapidly growing or anything)
tl;dr: Windows phones using DirectX perform better than Android phones using OpenGL, given same/similar hardware
And Windows Phones have finally moved into 3rd place in global market share, overtaking blackberry (mostly thanks to BBs decline, not that Windows Phone is rapidly growing or anything)