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T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in::T-Mobile has been sued again for failing to protect consumer data after an employee at one of its Washington stores stole nude images off of a customer's phone.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep the previous generation as a backup

This is what I thought I could do with my old devices, an S4 and an S5, but shortly after moving my data to each upgraded device the internal EMMC failed on each.

The s4 powers on into some OEM flashing mode (nothing on the screen, just appears as a Qualcomm something when plugged into usb), and the S5 shows this horror inducing message

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, they discontinue bands, so yeah, my 2g phone got the axe.