Luckily, a community fostered fix seems pretty simple too -- XDA user RyanZA has already created a patch to modify write permissions on affected devices -- though Galaxy S III users are reporting that the fix cripples the phone's camera app.

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London, UK: 1st August 2011 T-Mobile today announces the launch of You Fix, a unique new mobile phone plan that combines the benefits of pay monthly with the flexibility and spend control of pay as you go.

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At the time, the athlete tweeted that his wife was the aggressor and the aunt was in the home merely to fix his phone.

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Developers have to constantly issue updates to apps in order to fix bugs and add features based on the phone or tablet's new capabilities.

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Oberheide also points out that despite the fix, Google still allows installations of Android apps from the Web interface without warnings on the phone.

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"There could be a million distractions around him -- he could be on a bad phone connection, in an airport, running for a plane, and he'd immediately grasp a complex story as five of us shouted it into a speaker phone, and he'd have the fix, " she said.

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They can email the list to the store and fix an appointment with a store associate using their smart phone.

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Another fix to the program will be to apply streamlined processing to all offers (sometimes substituting a phone call instead of mail, for example).

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The company admitted there was a problem, explained that they were trying to fix it and are providing phone bumpers for users.

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