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Hurlin Merlin posted:I'm afraid of the weird looks I might get on the bus. You should probably use a different wallpaper then!
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Hurlin Merlin posted:I'm afraid of the weird looks I might get on the bus. Hey, at least you're getting looks
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Hurlin Merlin posted:I just made the switch to Android on Saturday, and spent way too much time last night playing with my setup. This is where I ended up with some advice from a friend. I feel like it could use a giant "PHONE" in the middle.
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Apr 28, 2015 08:46
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I won't be impressed until someone makes a truly minimal phone that is nothing but a black screen and things are accessed by arcane gestures and tapping in the right spot. The rest of you are just minimalism poseurs.
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Apr 28, 2015 13:44
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vyst posted:Unless you have a Google play edition you can't modify the lock screen really That makes me a little sad. Oh well.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:07
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Endless Mike posted:I won't be impressed until someone makes a truly minimal phone that is nothing but a black screen and things are accessed by arcane gestures and tapping in the right spot. The rest of you are just minimalism poseurs. The true minimalist just has a digitizer on top of a satin-finished aluminum plate (brushed aluminum is so 2010). Who needs a screen cluttering everything up?
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Aranan posted:Okay, so I want to start making my S5 look pretty but I'm not really sure where to start. I snagged Minima Live Wallpaper and that's helped a bit, but I'm looking to try and modify my lockscreen and maybe try out a launcher (is Nova the go-to for a first time tinkerer?) Widget Locker is made by the same guys as Nova and does an OK job of replacing Samsung lock screens. Not completely seamless but better than nothing.
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Apr 28, 2015 19:58
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Aranan posted:That makes me a little sad. Oh well. Don't worry, you can. There's tons of lockscreen replacements on the Play Store, it's just a matter of finding the ones that aren't horrible.
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Apr 29, 2015 01:08
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KillHour posted:The true minimalist just has a digitizer on top of a satin-finished aluminum plate (brushed aluminum is so 2010). Who needs a screen cluttering everything up? This... is stupidly intriguing. You could easily get a two week battery life with no screen, and voice controls have gotten better in the last five years.
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Apr 29, 2015 01:35
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I would love to carry around a featureless metal slab that has smartphone functionality.
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Apr 29, 2015 02:15
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If you ditched the screen, you could probably fit a smartphone into an earbud form factor.
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mango sentinel posted:I would love to carry around a featureless metal slab that has smartphone functionality. What smartphone features do you like?
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Apr 29, 2015 04:02
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Reverse Centaur posted:What smartphone features do you like? Between gestures and voice you could make a fascinating gimmick device that can still do phone calls, play music/podcasts, do turn by turn navigation, and some really clunky voice only text correspondence.
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Apr 29, 2015 04:34
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:This... is stupidly intriguing. You could easily get a two week battery life with no screen, and voice controls have gotten better in the last five years. Get a smartphone, never turn the screen on, and run it all off your pebble. The new one has a microphone. I'd be intrigued by the idea of an ePaper smartphone, actually. I mean you'd get barely any power use over your no screen idea with much better usability. Or maybe something with those new Sharp Memory LCDs. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Apr 29, 2015 09:20
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Here you go, here's the phone you're looking for:
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Apr 29, 2015 09:53
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Scudworth posted:Here you go, here's the phone you're looking for: If you're gonna make the obvious 'just get a dumbphone' joke at least link a Nokia.
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Apr 29, 2015 09:59
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MikeJF posted:Get a smartphone, never turn the screen on, and run it all off your pebble. The new one has a microphone. Honestly there's a market for something like this and it's olds who are scared of smartphones but could really benefit from some of the features. There is a way to make one in such a way that it could work but there simply isn't a company interested or capable of doing it right. It's a really intriguing mental exercise thinking about it though.
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Damnit, what did I do? Edit: It's a smartphone for the blind.  Double Edit: Ah crap, I figured it out. Future HMDs (i.e: Google Glass) are going to communicate with a featureless slab with a digitizer via bluetooth that houses all the processing power. Most stuff would work fine via gestures and Swype could be modified for the format pretty easily. Who needs a screen on your phone if it's strapped to your face? Someone distract my boss while I run down to the patent office.... KillHour fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Apr 29, 2015 14:00
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Wouldn't e-ink not work at all for a smartphone? If I understand it correctly it uses next to 0 power to display a static image, but a lot of power to change the pixels. Perfect for a book, but horrible for web browsing or anything with lots of screen changes and animations.
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Apr 29, 2015 14:50
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Well there's already these things
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Because I love turning my phone into a gimmick for a few days, and because this was surprisingly easy to do
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May 1, 2015 11:31
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WeX Majors posted:Because I love turning my phone into a gimmick for a few days, and because this was surprisingly easy to do Did I do this right? 
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May 1, 2015 14:16
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You know how we were just talking about screenless phones? Turns out those will be a lot easier to make after I/O. If I had to guess, this is probably to put a good framework in place for third party apps for Android Auto primarily, but it would make possible Star Trek TNG-era communicator devices operable entirely by voice which is essentially what a screenless phone would be.
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May 7, 2015 12:30
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KillHour posted:Did I do this right? Depends what your definition of "right" is
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May 7, 2015 13:17
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It isn't right to be honest, it's left, his left wrist 
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May 8, 2015 16:15
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Are there any nice looking flashlight widgets? I just want a toggle for the LED flash on my homescreen. The default widget that (I think?) comes with lollipop is exactly what I want, it's just kind of ugly.
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May 9, 2015 23:13
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The one I'm using is the widget that comes with Nova Launcher, and it's a simple black circle with a light icon when off, and an android green when on.
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May 9, 2015 23:17
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That's not bad. Is there a way to get it to turn on/off with Nova gestures? It'd be pretty nice if I could double tap or whatever to toggle the light.
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May 9, 2015 23:32
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Would anyone have the white minimal "get out" frog that people use for the awful app? I got my S6 the other day but I seem to have misplaced the icon to have everything matching again. edit: Sort of forgot to add my picture. I need something else to do with the screen but I don't know what else to do. I like to keep it pretty simple though.  Using nova launcher, with one home screen and 3 slides on the hotbar with the most used icons, Whicons for the icons I found on the play store. Teaches of Peaches fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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I did a thing with my S6 also. All icons are swipe up for folder, even dock. KLWP for bg.
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I asked on the Android thread but I suppose it'd be a better fit here: What icon packs do you guys use? I'm trying Elun and Zolo, but neither is perfect. Elun makes unrecognized apps tiny as gently caress and Zolo barely has any apps. Any suggestions? If anyone knows a round icon pack that fills the circle with stock icon instead of making it tiny, that would be cool
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Inacio posted:I asked on the Android thread but I suppose it'd be a better fit here: I like Flatro. It supports a crazy number of apps (including Awful), and does exactly what you say with unsupported apps.
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Inacio posted:If anyone knows a round icon pack that fills the circle with stock icon instead of making it tiny, that would be cool Cryten does that - as long as the stock icon isn't too small, if it is you can see it sitting on a white circle. And there's not that many unrecognised for me. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Up until yesterday, I did not own a smartphone and only recently emerged bewildered and afraid from my cave dwelling. Not sure what I should be doing to spruce this up, because I have zero loving visual aesthetic.
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Solid Poopsnake posted:Up until yesterday, I did not own a smartphone and only recently emerged bewildered and afraid from my cave dwelling. Not sure what I should be doing to spruce this up, because I have zero loving visual aesthetic. It's fine and you should leave it as it is.
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FAUXTON posted:It's fine and you should leave it as it is. Then that is precisely what I will do. Thanks!
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Jul 4, 2015 00:58
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Solid Poopsnake posted:Then that is precisely what I will do. Thanks! No problem. No sense in making it look like overwrought bullshit.
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Seems to be the general sentiment nowaays. Multitasking, notifications, folders, and a good lock screen has nullified all desire for me to run a custom launcher, rom, or, really, anything. This should become the wallpaper thread.
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Jul 7, 2015 02:07
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Is this minimal enough yet? Am I minimal enough to be cool? 
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No. You need the MIN theme from the Play Store and then your audio controls need to be smaller. This is required to be cool.
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