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I don't know about you folks, but I like being able to root my phone!

I use my Droid as my main Bible reading tool, as well as for other e-books, and it would be unbearable if I wasn't able to use a root-only hack to shut off the LED lights along the bottom. My poor eyes were almost bleeding when I would try to read in the dark.

Of course, there is no option on the 'approved settings' to turn off the LED lights.

1 posted on 07/15/2010 12:15:48 AM PDT by TeachableMoment
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To: TeachableMoment

BTW, any one else so used to ebooks now, you get annoyed at old-timey style books that don’t glow in the dark?


2 posted on 07/15/2010 12:18:03 AM PDT by TeachableMoment
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"...and it would be unbearable if I wasn't able to use a root-only hack to shut off the LED lights along the bottom."

I have absolutely no idea what you just said.....

.....but then I'm just a bias ply guy in a steel radial world.....
3 posted on 07/15/2010 12:20:44 AM PDT by shibumi ( "Tsuru no Sugomori")
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Oh noes! The sky is falling! First the Iphone antenna and now this! What’s a techno-slave gonna do? How about get some work done or play some basketball or spend time with the kids? Nah, we’ve got more important things to do like view porn and tweet everyone on the planet!


5 posted on 07/15/2010 12:32:49 AM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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What Bible tool do you use?

I am a Logos owner and use library.logos.com. It syncs with my Bible and book reading plans. I can get to about 400 books from the logos library, which is about half of them.

I also have loaded LiveBible powered by biblegateway.com, but I have not had occasion to use either heavily for Bible reading like I did my Palm Pilot.


6 posted on 07/15/2010 12:33:20 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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Try duct tape


9 posted on 07/15/2010 12:54:46 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder." Oliver North 6/25/10)
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To: TeachableMoment

I’m typing this on a rooted Droid. I’m running a custom version of Android 2.2. My processor is overclocked to 1.25Ghz from 550Ghz, and I have Wi-Fi tethering. Rooting is the way to go.


14 posted on 07/15/2010 2:48:06 AM PDT by Keeper of the Turf (Fore!!!)
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According to the Mac crowd, a little duct tape can fix the antenna problem. It would probably work to cover the annoying LEDs as well.


15 posted on 07/15/2010 2:57:07 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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How about a strip of black electrical tape to cover the led’s... you could nickname your droid “Wendy O”...


16 posted on 07/15/2010 3:46:22 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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I have an “X” coming soon and have read a lot about rooting them - there’s apparently an app out there that makes it one-button easy.
Looking forward to trying it.


21 posted on 07/30/2010 7:12:24 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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