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  I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-04 12:11 -0700
    Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-04 19:16 -0500
      Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-05 15:17 +0000
      Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-05 11:17 -0700
        Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-05 20:53 -0500
          Re: I'm done with Twitter Michele <eatshitanddie@spammers.com> - 2016-07-05 22:34 -0500
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-06 15:46 +0000
              Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:35 -0700
          Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:38 -0700
            Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-06 19:23 -0500
              Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 22:11 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-07 15:28 +0000
                  Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-07 12:05 -0700
                  Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-08 15:38 +0000
                    Re: I'm done with Twitter barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-07-08 20:36 -0500
                    Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-09 02:19 +0000
                    Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-09 11:35 +0000
                      Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-09 18:50 -0700
                      Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-10 04:36 +0000
                        Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-10 11:20 +0000
                          Re: I'm done with Twitter core <core@pt40.net> - 2016-07-10 11:11 -0500
                        Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-11 00:55 +0000
                          Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-11 19:05 +0000
                            Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-12 14:31 +0000

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#3577

On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:20:15 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Esquibel
<bje@ripco.com> wrote:


>> I was waiting for some magic updae to allow FM radio on the galaxy s5, but 
>> it never seeme to happen. Can't say that I really miss the radio, unless 
>> it's the dusties AM station.
>
>I still don't think enabling them is just a software fix. 
>
>To me, unless they designed the phone to use that feature at some future
>date, I really don't think it's likely it would work if they did patch the
>firmware.
>
>The ones that do have it (FM radio), the headphones act as the antenna and
>can only be used with the headphones. Unplug the headphones to use the
>internal speaker, you'll just get hiss.
>
>They way they are trying to shrink the phones, make them thinner while
>extending battery life and adding in other things, that one foil trace
>between the chip and jack might not be there at all. It seems to me it would
>be the first one to go or never put there in the first place unless they
>were planning on it later on.
>
>I'm not even sure that article is correct, when I read about that Broadcom
>or Qualcomm chip having the fm radio in, I thought they said it was the chip
>for the wifi/bluetooth stuff, not the LTE/GPS one. The only product in the
>Apple lineup with the FM radio enabled is an iPod, which doesn't have any
>cellular in it at all.
>
>So if they got that wrong, the bit about it just being a firmware update to
>enable it isn't right either, unless there is a mechanical modification
>made.
>
>Besides I never read or heard about an FM radio mod from the guys that do
>the jailbreaks for the iPhones (or rooting on the andriod stuff). Usually
>those guys examine all the hidden shit in there so there are apps that do
>things people didn't think were possible.
>
>-bruce
>bje@ripco.com

Works on Sprint, in my Samsung Note 3 which is not rooted.

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#3578

Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
> It looked like this twiter shit was founded in 2006. I'm a late phone 
> adopter and I know for a fact even an old phone from then could do group 
> texting with no problem and that unlimited (or just a huge number of them) 
> wasn't expensive or hard to get. If twiter was from 1996, some of this 
> might make sense. Even my 1997 phone could receive text messages. You 
> could not reply, and could not see where they came from, but they did show 
> up, many years after I got the phone.
>
> Not trying to call you a liar, but like how a TIF district works, it just 
> never makes sense.

it wasn't just group texting, you could subscribe to someone and you'd get an
SMS for anything they sent out.

> I was waiting for some magic updae to allow FM radio on the galaxy s5, but 
> it never seeme to happen. Can't say that I really miss the radio, unless 
> it's the dusties AM station.

goog sez the Sprint S5 works, but the other US ones don't.

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#3582

Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>> It looked like this twiter shit was founded in 2006. I'm a late phone 
>> adopter and I know for a fact even an old phone from then could do group 
>> texting with no problem and that unlimited (or just a huge number of them) 
>> wasn't expensive or hard to get. If twiter was from 1996, some of this 
>> might make sense. Even my 1997 phone could receive text messages. You 
>> could not reply, and could not see where they came from, but they did show 
>> up, many years after I got the phone.
>>
>> Not trying to call you a liar, but like how a TIF district works, it just 
>> never makes sense.
> 
> it wasn't just group texting, you could subscribe to someone and you'd get an
> SMS for anything they sent out.

who the hell did that though? Receive nonstop text messages from nonsense 
content on a website? And according to bje, that was a time before 
unlimited texting anyways.

None of it adds up.

>> I was waiting for some magic updae to allow FM radio on the galaxy s5, but 
>> it never seeme to happen. Can't say that I really miss the radio, unless 
>> it's the dusties AM station.
> 
> goog sez the Sprint S5 works, but the other US ones don't.

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#3586

Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>>> It looked like this twiter shit was founded in 2006. I'm a late phone 
>>> adopter and I know for a fact even an old phone from then could do group 
>>> texting with no problem and that unlimited (or just a huge number of them) 
>>> wasn't expensive or hard to get. If twiter was from 1996, some of this 
>>> might make sense. Even my 1997 phone could receive text messages. You 
>>> could not reply, and could not see where they came from, but they did show 
>>> up, many years after I got the phone.
>>>
>>> Not trying to call you a liar, but like how a TIF district works, it just 
>>> never makes sense.
>> 
>> it wasn't just group texting, you could subscribe to someone and you'd get an
>> SMS for anything they sent out.
>
> who the hell did that though? Receive nonstop text messages from nonsense 
> content on a website? And according to bje, that was a time before 
> unlimited texting anyways.
>
> None of it adds up.

we were already old in 2006.  it was the kids, man, the kids.

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