Samsung Galaxy Appeal I827
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- AnonD-164186
- ICq
- 11 Jul 2013
At first this phone really...sucked. It had a lot of pre-installed apps that I couldn't remove do to no root access. On certain days a fully charged battery would die after about 7 hours, probably because of one or more of the pre-installed apps. I finally found a method to root the phone on androidarea51.
Using superuser & App Quarantine I was able to Quarantine a bunch of apps. Now the battery last a good long while. (more than 24hrs with mild use)
Here's the list of crap I quarantined.
•AccuWeather
•AT&T Hot Spots
•AT&T navigator
•AT&T Social Net
•AT&T Software Update
•Blue Sea
•City ID
•Facebook
•Google+
•Google Play Books
•Kies air
•Live TV
•Maps (use NavFree)
•Movies
•News & Weather
•Quickoffic, inc
•Samsung Push Service* (not rooted)
•ShopMusic
•SNSAccountFb (Facebook)
•SNSAccountLi
•SNSAccountTw (Twitter)
•Social Hub
•Social Hub (twice for some reason)
•Street View* (not rooted)
•Swype
•TalkBack
•Vlingo
•Wacky clocks
•Yahoo! Finance
•Yahoo! News
After removing all that it seems to preform better as well.
This was a $89 refurbished smartphone which isn't bad at that price but if I hadn't rooted it the battery drain issue would have rendered this phone nearly useless.
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- BennyBear
- 0dI
- 11 May 2013
For the price, this phone exceeds most, if not all, of the competition--a smart phone with a slide-out QWERTY for $100 is hard to come by. For those of you who always complain about the "little things" the phone lacks (i.e. a flashlight?!@#$*), just dish out a few hundred bucks and have every feature you want. Otherwise, buy a flashlight and shut-up.
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- AnonD-77553
- NCa
- 14 Apr 2013
How is this a phone that can use Adobe Flash (SO VERY RARE), has Graphic Card, Great CPU, but no LED Flash in which one can leave without.
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- Lukong
- NCa
- 14 Apr 2013
I don't know who makes a Phone which can use Adobe Flash (So Rare), has a Graphic Card, Great CPU and not think to add LED Flash. Other that this a Better ZTE N762.
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- Kwabena-Skrach
- fmg
- 11 Apr 2013
Its cool but it does not have a flash light,
and a radio and the OS is also not upgradable,
does not support Bluetooth headset.
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- AnonD-131821
- LsL
- 04 Apr 2013
AnonD-63531, 19 Jul 2012Is this phone available in India???????????????????????????... morei Don't think so my friend. but if you need to know look for samsung's main site not here.
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- Anonymous
- 8xf
- 26 Mar 2013
only have 1gb of storage
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- Anonymous
- kCx
- 10 Mar 2013
Best basic Android QWERTY phone. One little software quirk. Volume for notification tones lowers itself on ocassion.
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- x-zach
- mZm
- 09 Mar 2013
love this phone omg ram, rom , storage, adobe, etc it's better than other phones but cheaper.
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- Anonymous
- K5h
- 10 Feb 2013
AnonD-92736, 24 Dec 2012is it available in Tanzaniayes....
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- DURLOV
- 9EX
- 02 Jan 2013
good one
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- AnonD-92736
- NXy
- 24 Dec 2012
is it available in Tanzania
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- abie
- NXy
- 24 Dec 2012
is it available in tanzania
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- abby
- NXy
- 24 Dec 2012
is it available in Tanzania?
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- Anonymous
- InY
- 09 Dec 2012
Anonymous, 02 Nov 2012Yes it can use instagram but only has a back cameraDoes it have the andriod market app??
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- Anonymous
- ftI
- 05 Dec 2012
A real intelligence unit
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- AnonD-85260
- XMV
- 04 Dec 2012
is this already available in the philippines?
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- Chii
- XMV
- 04 Dec 2012
Is it available now in the Philippines?
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- AnonD-81871
- I4@
- 02 Dec 2012
I also bought mine at Walmart but I didn't get a memory card.
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- RICHARD
- fsW
- 27 Nov 2012
its a very good phone. the internal memory is OK. my only worry is that its physical keypad has no predictive text, nevertheless I will surely recommend this phone to all and sundry.