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Lblitzer posted:I like this Friendcaster much more than the stock FB app. If I delete the stock one, will that mess with my contacts I've synced or does Friendcaster do the same exact thing? Friendcaster can sync your contacts too, you'll just have to re-do any that you did manually if some of them have different FB names than contact names.
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Jewce posted:I've been using GV for a couple years now and the one thing that bothers me is the fact that texts from GV cannot fully replace the stock messenger app. EDIT: This will use SMS instead of data to send messages, if you pay-per-SMS, this is not free like using the GV app. Open GV -> Menu -> Sync and Notifications -> Receive text messages Change that to "Via the Messaging app." Now all of your texts go to the stock messenger. If someone texts your GV number, it will come from a weird number that GV assigned to that contact, and if you reply to that number, your text will come from your GV number not your actual number. This way all texts show up in one place and you can use SMS popup or whatever, but GV will still notify you for voicemail. 900ftjesus fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Wagonburner posted:For serious, and the way they call it a widget, deviating from what widget means in their own OS seems weirder yet. Thermopyle posted:But yeah, using "widget" was dumb. There's actually no contradiction. In ICS what used to be known as "Shortcuts" and placed via a long press on the homescreen are now just 1x1 widgets with no distinction. The reasoning probably was there's enough overlap between the two that it doesn't really make sense to class them as a whole separate thing since the only difference from a user perspective is whether they can be placed in a folder or not (which saw little use pre-ICS). All the widget/shortcut separation did was make people use shortcuts less. Since it looks like nobody noticed (or at least, I've never heard anyone complain they can't find shortcuts in ICS), it was probably the right call. Just think of it as "Shortcuts" being retconned into "Shortcut widgets". I suppose the real crime is Google Play not detecting when it's running on a pre-4.0 device and switching the string back to "Shortcut". Then again you could argue that would lead to more confusion because then it wouldn't be consistent device to device which carries its own set of problems. I guess they decided the lesser evil overall is just to momentarily confuse power users on older versions who know the difference between Shortcuts/Widgets and aren't yet familiar with the "Stuff on the homescreen = widgets" convention. Vagrancy fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Apr 20, 2012 |
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900ftjesus posted:Open GV -> Menu -> Sync and Notifications -> Receive text messages If you're on Verizon DO NOT DO THIS. You will be charged for outgoing messages if you don't have a messaging plan. I took 16 outgoing messages up the rear end because I thought "Oh hey I can just use the stock messaging app, cool", nope, You HAVE to use the GV app.
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Hey guys I'm having a really strange issue with Groove IP and I was hoping someone could help me out. I set up Groove IP on my friends phone so that she could make free calls when she's on her wifi network. It seems to be working just fine, except when you call her phone. If I call her phone, the call will go through her stock dialer, and then it will route into Groove IP (I have no idea what the gently caress). To better explain this, if I call her phone and let it ring through to voice mail, it will ring through the native dialer, and then it will switch over and ring through groove ip, and then it will go to google voice. Why the gently caress are incoming calls routing through GrooveIP after the native dialer? This doesn't happen on my phone, and I can't figure out what the hell it's doing. Alternately, if you want to ignore a call, you must first press ignore on the stock dialer, and then ignore a second time on grooveip, before it finally goes to google voice. How do I cut grooveip out of the loop without deactivating it?
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Hey Thermopyle, I've not been reading your beta change logs for woofi, so apologies if its been done, but can you tie into the ICS profiles with woofi, so that when I connect to my work network, it automagicaly jumps into my silent work profile? Or would this be something outside of the scope of woofi and be more of a tasker kind of function? Either way, it seems that woofi works just as well with CM7 as with CM9, so thanks for programming it correctly to start heh. The only thing that I've seen is that it does not remember profiles that were restored via TitaniumBackup. Very minor issue, but figured i'd mention it. It will let me have multiple profiles with the same name of my home network, so it doesn't cause any problem. I just have to hit remember once more.
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Holy Toledo, the Spotify preview's interface lags horribly and I'm running it on an Amaze 4G. This better get fixed when it officially gets released or I will Spotify someone's face off
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deong posted:Hey Thermopyle, Glad to hear it! I don't really know anything about ICS profiles, but I'll definitely look in to it.
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Facebook for Android updated today (1.9) and it's got faster news feed loading and some other optimization or something. Also they added icons for FB Messenger and a Camera app. They built the messenger into the app itself so apparently the standalone app is useless.
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I'm looking for a VOIP solution to make calls to the US while I am traveling in Europe and receive cheap calls from the US. I'll have a sim card there with data. Looks like GrooveIP would be a solution but i rather pay $0 than $5 for the mobile data version. Any suggestions?
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Skeezy posted:Facebook for Android updated today (1.9) and it's got faster news feed loading and some other optimization or something. Synopsis: dumb as gently caress
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I don't get the point of a stand alone FB camera app. It has less features than even AOSP and its much easier to share using the Android share API's. About the only point is if they roll in instagram and really hammer home that Android/Facebook gap. Facebook just has to be a special snowflake. See also: contact sync. I'm guessing it's part "make Facebook your online hub" strategy, part lovely programming.
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Auron posted:If you're on Verizon DO NOT DO THIS. You will be charged for outgoing messages if you don't have a messaging plan. I took 16 outgoing messages up the rear end because I thought "Oh hey I can just use the stock messaging app, cool", nope, You HAVE to use the GV app. Oh yeah, I've been on Sprint so long I don't even think about texts/month. This completely kills the benefit of bypassing your carrier SMS to use data and save money. Sorry about that, I'll edit my other post too so people realize this. If you're on Sprint or have enough SMS per month, this is a great way to use one SMS app for all messages, otherwise you're stuck with the GV app limitations.
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900ftjesus posted:Oh yeah, I've been on Sprint so long I don't even think about texts/month. This completely kills the benefit of bypassing your carrier SMS to use data and save money. Sorry about that, I'll edit my other post too so people realize this. Well if you're happy using the GV app there is still a benefit of using Google Voice for texts to save money. This is what I do...I'm perfectly fine using the GV app instead of paying $20/unlimited texting just so I can use the stock messenger/GO SMS/etc. The only downside is no MMS...well you can get MMS if you feel like getting annoyed with an e-mail every time you get a text message. It does feel a little neutered but oh well. Also is the Facebook app worth getting now with the update? I uninstalled it from my GNex immediately as it used to like to suck battery, be slow, and be a pile of poo poo in general. Auron fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Auron posted:Also is the Facebook app worth getting now with the update? I uninstalled it from my GNex immediately as it used to like to suck battery, be slow, and be a pile of poo poo in general. No, it annoys the gently caress out of me. 1) It adds a stupid "Camera" app to your app drawer that directly shares with Facebook. Not like you couldn't already do that with Android's native sharing API's. 2) It rolls Facebook Messenger into the suite so it's no longer a separate app. Neat, right? Except it breaks push notifications (just like the rest of the Facebook app) making it completely worthless as a reliable chat medium. 3) People are saying that the app itself seems smoother. I'm not seeing it. It's still a clunky piece of poo poo that forces GPS lock to even browse your news feed so you're stuck looking at a white screen forever if you're indoors and it finally decides OH I'M INSIDE and uses aGPS. As always, Facebook proves they have no loving clue what they're doing before pushing something to production. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:No, it annoys the gently caress out of me. To be fair you can take that off in the settings now. But I don't think it really works. So uhh, yeah pointless.
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Okay, this annoyed the hell out of me, but I realized I might just be missing a setting. I'm using the stock Music Player with an unrooted Galaxy Nexus. I uploaded some of my music to Google Music and downloaded it to my phone using the built-in sync - for both convenience and backup purposes. I went to grab the MP3s from the file system and it turns out all the filenames have been renamed to just numbers (which is fine), but it also stripped all the ID3 tags, leaving these MP3s completely useless unless I'm using them with the Google Music app. Any idea how to preserve the tags so I could use those synced MP3s as a backup or with other Android music apps?
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hedgecore posted:Okay, this annoyed the hell out of me, but I realized I might just be missing a setting. You're not going to be doing it with the official app, that's for sure and as far as I know despite the API for it being opened there aren't any apps yet that can sync with Play Music.
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From what I've heard DoubleTwist now supports Google Music but I hate that app with the burning fire of a 1000 suns and am not about to try it.
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:Hey guys I'm having a really strange issue with Groove IP and I was hoping someone could help me out. Anyone? The problem seems to be that on my phone, calls that get sent to google voice go STRAIGHT to voicemail. On my friends phone, calls that go to google voice ring through 5-6 times and then go to voicemail. How can I get her calls routed through GV to go straight to Google Voicemail? Why is this so complicated? Stupid Google! Penguissimo posted:Do you have "Do Not Disturb" mode enabled in the settings? I don't, and they go straight to google voice for me still. Literally every setting I have is mirrored on my friends phone, except when someone calls me it doesn't also ring through grooveip's dialer after the native dialer. The Shep fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 21, 2012 |
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:Anyone? Do you have "Do Not Disturb" mode enabled in the settings?
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lelandjs posted:I'm not sure why you'd need that? While its true that mobile sites used to suck, most of them have evolved to offer the same functionality as the desktop one. The AV Club, The Verge, and ARS Technica all have fantastic mobile sites. Mobile sites typically suck balls when viewed on a tablet.
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Dunno where else to ask this but why in the gently caress does the Amazon Appstore keep an apk from every version of every app you've ever gotten from it in /sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.venezia/cache/? I only have seven apps from them and the cache was taking up 360MB.
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Is there a widget/app or some way of pulling the current this month's data usage from the ICS native data usage monitoring? I used to use 3g watchdog on gingerbread, but I'm hoping there's a way to just read the already-gathered data without having to run another app that'll sit there watching my network traffic for a second time, generating unnecessary wakelocks.
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Trypsin posted:Mobile sites typically suck balls when viewed on a tablet. Yeah I didn't even consider that possibility. Good point.
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I think the latest facebook update turned off the GPS polling when you check your news feed. I haven't seen it talk to the GPS since the update, at least. App still works great for me 
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The Facebook app update did finally fix the photo viewer so that you can now like individual comments from the app now. That was probably my biggest annoyance next to the GPS thing.
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LastInLine posted:Dunno where else to ask this but why in the gently caress does the Amazon Appstore keep an apk from every version of every app you've ever gotten from it in /sdcard/Android/data/com.amazon.venezia/cache/?
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I don't believe the most recent version does this anymore.
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LastInLine posted:I went ahead and deleted them all but why would it do it in the first place?
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I remember using a Facebook widget with Launcher Pro (I think) that was 4x4 and let you scroll through your news feed. Is there something equivalent to that?
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Vertigus posted:I remember using a Facebook widget with Launcher Pro (I think) that was 4x4 and let you scroll through your news feed. Is there something equivalent to that? Not sure how close the Facebook widget is specifically, but Android Pro Widgets is generally considered one of the go-to LP widget replacements. It's got a Facebook widget as well as a combined FB/Twitter widget, all with the skinning support of LP.
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I just moved from the galaxy S to an HTC Vivid. My Galaxy had an option for a smart alarm, it would start some ambient type noise a few minutes before my regular alarm and wake me up slowly, it was really nice. Any apps for that? "Smart Alarm"'s on the actual market seem to be things that measure how you sleep (really?) and wake you up at optimal times in your cycle.
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Gentle Alarm will handle that and a lot more.
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Looks perfect, thank you!
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Is there any way to get ICS music controls to work with Widget Locker?
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Tunga posted:Gentle Alarm will handle that and a lot more. I assume this is also still the preferred alarm app in general?
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Red_Fred posted:I assume this is also still the preferred alarm app in general?
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Red_Fred posted:I assume this is also still the preferred alarm app in general? Yeah it's a great app. Penguissimo posted:Not sure how close the Facebook widget is specifically, but Android Pro Widgets is generally considered one of the go-to LP widget replacements. It's got a Facebook widget as well as a combined FB/Twitter widget, all with the skinning support of LP. Thanks, looks like just what I want. It's so weird how worthless some of the default widgets are - a tiny, 1x2 rectangle for tasks that shows one word of one upcoming task? A calendar widget that only shows you one event that's happening today? A Facebook widget where you tap through status updates one by one? Geez. Vertigus fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Apr 23, 2012 |
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Skeezy posted:It's about a couple seconds after I get a notification on the site. It works for what it is and either way it's better than the official app.
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