[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
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Oh dude, man. I *love* those shows and most of them are on Netflix. If you got good 4G, you can watch that stuff on your Razr or better yet, use the hotspot to power your tablet or laptop to watch the shows. I am trying to think who my favorite is. I really was a BIG Cody Lundin fan, but did you see his meltdown on Discovery? The show, cast, or producer got him so ticked off that he didn't care anymore and on camera, he started throwing all the survival gear he and Joe had, into the bottom of a water pit instead of safely putting the matches and supplies into Joe's hand. He lost it and left the show. Man that sucked. Cody was a genuine survivalist and knew enough not to take necessary risks like Joe drinking his pee. Cody flat out told him no, you survive despite it, not because of it. Pee is toxic and unless it is very fresh and clear, pretty bad for you like seawater or worse. Joe wanted to skin that horribly putrefied large animal in the desert, crawling with maggots and rotten flesh. Cody said flat out NO and Joe went for it to get the skin and horns. The skin would be a good asset but you ever get close to a purified animal before? The stink immediately throws you back, you gag heavily, and stand a very high chance of puking. If Joe puked in that desert w/out water and food, he would have been a goner man. Cody was right, it was not worth it. And Dave Cantebury cutting his arm and cauterizing the flesh closed with gunpowder was nearly insane. His wound was not "so serious" in the amount of time they had to spend to ever do something like that. And man, that must have hurt like hell, I cannot imagine how Dave "took one for the team" like that. I would have told the producer to suck an egg and would never do that unless it was real and there was absolutely no other recourse.

I like Bear too, and I really believed that he was surviving for days and days in these really "Hell on Earth" places. Eating the most disgusting things you can imagine for the camera. Until, someone went to the same location in Hawaii where he had to "live on the lava flow for days, stranded and alone. The guys pulled back the camera zoom and showed a house about 200 yards behind him. He was not stranded anywhere and would film a few scenes, go back to the hotel, shower, relax, and eat. That blew his credibility as a survivor realist and the show put up the disclaimer that it was "a demonstration of survival techniques" instead of a man surviving on bugs and dung water for days and days. Les Stroud is genuine, but he like, "Never leaves Canada" or at least not often. How many times can you film the guy "surviving in his own backyard" and call it a new, exciting show? He did go to some harsh places but never hunts for food or fishes for real fish, hardly ever. It is roots, berries, grass, and maybe some snails or something he can pickup.

Ruth and Myke Hawke were really cool. It was so neat watching this beautiful, Posh English woman surviving in the wilderness with her husband. She drank pee, got sick, puked her guts out, and was medevaced out a couple of times. But Ruth was in it for real and Myke is a true survivalist. What was cool is that Ruth was serious about following her husband and truly surviving, but Ruth was "All Girl" and it was amusing to see her get scared and act like a girl sometimes. :)

Yeah, I really dig this stuff, Bob and I had a lot of fun talking about it with you. This was neat. You know, it is also really neat that we are using real avatar pictures now and using our real first names too. We all now have that bond of trust and cooperation and man, that is freaking awesome! Take care, Bob.

Oh, I just did the 10/29 build update OTA. Looks promising, will give a report after a day passes.

Paul :cowboy:

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I have seen that before and you know what it was? Not actual phone memory, but internal card free space. I looked and had less than 100Mb of free space. I could not install any OTA updates or bigger apps because I got that memory notice. When I went back into OTA and deleted all the downloaded updates, cleaned out anything I didn't need, and dumped the Tombstones files, I got over a gig of free space, close to 2 gig, and could then update again. Maybe this is your issue too? Check it out man. :confused: