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		Jach on Feb 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Google, I Have More Than 10,000 Contacts You don't need the source! Just find where 10,000 limit is in the binary and change it to some other larger number. Assuming it's a normal 4-byte signed integer, it can go a lot higher..

steve-howard on Feb 26, 2011 [–]

Aaah, but it's in "the cloud," and the user of the software can't change even the binaries.

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