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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (78373)	4/16/2012 5:43:27 PM
From: vireya	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110654

from your link: "* When you compromise on the cost, quality cannot be guaranteed. The longevity of a cheap battery is nearly half of that of a standard battery. * Cheap cell phone batteries do not get charged properly, and hence occasionally show 'battery low'." SO, having recently bot a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, I asked Verizon for an extended batt They gave me a 2600, which did not give me an adequate amt of time. My previous phone was an Incredible with a 3200 off mkt batt, which never gave me any trouble...just that the screen was smaller than the Nexus I went to a 3200 which seems to be good, reliable, holds huge charge and was $20 for the batt and the expanded back

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (78373)	4/16/2012 6:16:40 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 110654

I guess I've been lucky, but I have noticed the phone gets pretty hot in some instances. I thought that was kind of too good to be true. I'm getting ready for a new phone anyway...........and am actually one of the few people left that is eligible for a $100. credit.

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (78373)	4/16/2012 6:31:38 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 110654

I had the weirdest issue with a customer's PC a week after I thought I fixed it. The original issues were BSODs and freeze ups related to a Nvidia driver. It started after a Windows update in Feb. and it progressively got worse. Oddly enough I had the same problem about 6 weeks ago from presumably the same update. I uninstalled all the Nvidia software with Revo-uninstaller, removed the adopter in Device Manager and cleaned the registry with CCleaner and I/OBits reg cleaner. After rebooting I tried drivers from last year and the newest drivers, still BSODs and freeze ups so I tried swapping vid cards with another PC. Solved, both PCs work fine. So instead of wasting time trying to solve the same issue I couldn't solve on my own PC on somebody else's I swapped their video card with a comparable one. Everything worked fine for a week then I got a call and here's where it got strange the monitor was staying blank when plugged in to the VGA port but worked fine from the DVI and HDMI ports. Also as soon as the power chord was plugged into the tower the computer would immediately boot which it never did before. The customer originally told me there were no other issues besides the BSODs and freeze ups, the PC has a quad core CPU and 8 GB of RAM so it was as fast as could be so the 1st time I had it I didn't check for malware, also the PC had the pay edition of Malwarebytes and free Avira so there was no reason to suspect malware. When I got the PC back, on a whim I ran Combofix. It found & deleted ~12 temp files in the My Documents folder and it required a reboot to complete the removal which usually means it nailed something very malicious. After the reboot I switched the monitor from the DVI port with a VGA adopter to the VGA port and it worked! I shut the computer down and unplugged and replugged the power chord into and it didn't boot up by itself like before. I'm baffled how malicious temp files in the My Documents folder could effect what happens when the power chord is plugged into a tower. I always thought Windows wasn't involved until the bios finishes it's job and hands over control. Edit: I did verify both the vga and power up on plug in issues 1st.