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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I tried hangouts for SMS about a year and a half ago, and for some reason my phone randomly failed to notify me of new messages. I gave up and went back to the stock SMS app (It was a Motorola Razr M at the time, so nothing crazy) and eventually switched to Google Messenger. I had the same experience as you, I tired Hangouts for a long time. One day Hangouts stopped telling me when I got a new message and I ended up going back to my lovely TouchWiz SMS, then Google Messenger after they released that. I still have the notification issue with Hangouts, which I still use for gchat conversation. If I could figure out how to get it to work well again that would be great.
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TwistedNails posted:I had the same experience as you, I tired Hangouts for a long time. One day Hangouts stopped telling me when I got a new message and I ended up going back to my lovely TouchWiz SMS, then Google Messenger after they released that. In your time and date settings, is network time turned on? I have a coworker for whom Hangouts stopped notifying on her Samsung S5 Active and the reason was because some update turned off network time. Turned network time back on and the problem was instantly resolved.
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I noticed that with Hangouts, and occasionally Messenger, if you managed to close the window just as the message was coming in, you wouldn't get a notification.
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This probably only appeals to a small subset of those of you here in the US, but the best nerd-level radar tool just got a big update. RadarScope 3.0 introduces a much better material design layout and split panels for Pro users. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.basevelocity.radarscope New layout makes it Google-Maps style to toggle layers on and off and the split panels makes it easier to look at velocity+reflectivity.
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I think Messenger is the absolute best Google-designed app available on Android. It:
...so I won't be surprised a single little bit when it's turned into a Fit-integrated social video livestreaming service at I/O this year, and abandoned before I/O next year
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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spincube posted:I think Messenger is the absolute best Google-designed app available on Android. It: I agree with this, but there's always Textra.
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Are there any good apps that monitor batter usage that don't require root? I uninstalled Facebook, so I want to see what else is making my battery last less than a day when I barely use the phone.
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spincube posted:I think Messenger is the absolute best Google-designed app available on Android. It: The look and feel of it sucks if you don't like the look of that ecosystem
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Mar 22, 2016 22:55
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What does Messenger do that the stock Android SMS app doesn't? (Serious question.)
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Mar 22, 2016 23:13
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Messenger is the stock Android SMS app.
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LastInLine posted:In your time and date settings, is network time turned on? My update seemed to turn those off too, I will let you know tomorrow if it fixed it. Thank you for the tip, hopefully this helps because I get a lot of chat messages throughout the work day and have just been opening the app up on my own to check them.
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So will Messenger handle GV text messages when my GV number is not my phone's actual number? I imagine it'd receive them, but will it let me send from my GV number too?
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Luceo posted:So will Messenger handle GV text messages when my GV number is not my phone's actual number? I imagine it'd receive them, but will it let me send from my GV number too? Nope, only hangouts works with Google Voice unless I've missed something big. You could probably forward your Google Voice messages to your regular phone number, but that is not fun just going from memory.
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FunOne posted:This probably only appeals to a small subset of those of you here in the US, but the best nerd-level radar tool just got a big update. RadarScope 3.0 introduces a much better material design layout and split panels for Pro users. This update is great and very welcome heading into the storm season here in the central plains.
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New to Android with a 5X; is there a recommended app that gives you multiple profiles for "Do Not Disturb" settings or a better way to approach that (like if I have different concepts of what's a priority when I'm at work vs. asleep)?
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:New to Android with a 5X; is there a recommended app that gives you multiple profiles for "Do Not Disturb" settings or a better way to approach that (like if I have different concepts of what's a priority when I'm at work vs. asleep)? If you head to your phone's Settings menu, then 'Sound & notification', then 'Do not disturb', you can choose what Priority means to you - so between normal (makes noise) and silent (doesn't make noise) modes, you can allow SMS' or calls from starred contacts through but silence everything else. You can also set up automatic rules, so if there's an event scheduled on your Google Calendar it'll go into Priority mode, and/or when it's a weekday between 22:00 and 05:00 it'll be completely silent.
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Something started recently that makes me want to fastball my phone. I'll go to hangouts via notification, start typing my reply, and all of a sudden in the middle of typing it flips to the Hangouts splash screen and says "signing in" and drops me back into the conversation list instead of the conversation I was in the middle of typing in. Anyone else have this start happening recently?
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Thermopyle posted:Something started recently that makes me want to fastball my phone. Not that specifically, but for me, I'll go to hangouts via notification, and the splash screen never goes away. I've gotta back out to the conversation list and find whatever I was trying to look at, which is marked read now... Hangouts loving blows, and I feel like an idiot for ever using Google Voice. 
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I've been perfectly fine with Hangouts with Google Voice until this issue so I'm not quite ready to say it blows.
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spincube posted:Priority rules
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spincube posted:I think Messenger is the absolute best Google-designed app available on Android. I switched away from it after I realized it was compressing any pictures I tried to send to a ridiculously small size with tons of jpg artifacts
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Thermopyle posted:Something started recently that makes me want to fastball my phone. Can't say I've had this on my phone but the desktop app does this to me a LOT.
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Thermopyle posted:I've been perfectly fine with Hangouts with Google Voice until this issue so I'm not quite ready to say it blows. I was being a bit harsh, but to be honest, I can never remember a time when I thought Google Voice worked as well as just using my phone's number. There has always been something that didn't work well, or just didn't work at all.
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Thermopyle posted:Something started recently that makes me want to fastball my phone. Maker Of Shoes posted:Can't say I've had this on my phone but the desktop app does this to me a LOT. I use Hangouts a lot, both on the desktop and on mobile, and I've never seen anything like this. And I mean I use it a lot, like every few minutes every minute I'm awake. This is on Mac and Windows, Chrome app and extension, and of course Android.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Yeah, I mean is there something that lets me define and switch between a few different sets of those priority rules? I use this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=netroken.android.persistfree I don't play around with sound enough to know if it'll work for you, but they have a free and paid option. I just like it because it makes muting everything easier.
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Mogomra posted:I was being a bit harsh, but to be honest, I can never remember a time when I thought Google Voice worked as well as just using my phone's number. There has always been something that didn't work well, or just didn't work at all. That's weird. For me it's always been better, except for the Sprint / Voice MMS fiasco. Fortunately for me I hate most of the MMS message people send me.
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Mogomra posted:I was being a bit harsh, but to be honest, I can never remember a time when I thought Google Voice worked as well as just using my phone's number. There has always been something that didn't work well, or just didn't work at all. I started using GVoice when it was actually GrandCentral and up until a couple years ago I felt the exact same way. Then Google got it integrated with Hangouts and then got it working right in Hangouts and then it's been so well integrated across desktop and mobile that I forget that not everyone lives in the glorious Google Voice world I live in. Until it got lovely for me a couple days ago. But now maybe it's better? I haven't had a problem in a couple hours...
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Thermopyle posted:Something started recently that makes me want to fastball my phone. This has been happening to me too off and on for a couple weeks. Figured it was just my phone screwing up.
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I don't know if I was just never using Pushbullet to its fullest capabilities, but Join is so amazing. A must have for Android. Buying as quickly as possible once it reminds me after the trial ends.
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Join seems pretty good, thanks!
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Thermopyle posted:I started using GVoice when it was actually GrandCentral and up until a couple years ago I felt the exact same way. Then Google got it integrated with Hangouts and then got it working right in Hangouts and then it's been so well integrated across desktop and mobile that I forget that not everyone lives in the glorious Google Voice world I live in. I've loved having gvoice for calls as an option, until a few weeks ago. I don't think it was directly tied to the network changes (iirc it preceded that update) but now I sometimes get skips and echoes like there's a drunken old-timey operator messing with the call connection. Still great for having a backup/screener number and fine for texting+VM, but live voice calling is no longer 100% reliable for me on wifi or LTE like it was.
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Any recommendations for a widget to switch between stereo and mono audio? I can only have one earphone on at work so it would be nice to not have to jump into the settings every time I'm done.
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Thermopyle posted:But now maybe it's better? I haven't had a problem in a couple hours... Mogomra posted:I was being a bit harsh, but to be honest, I can never remember a time when I thought Google Voice worked as well as just using my phone's number. There has always been something that didn't work well, or just didn't work at all.
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Thermopyle posted:Something started recently that makes me want to fastball my phone. I cleared cache, uninstalled and reinstalled it. Works fine now.
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zerocrash posted:Any recommendations for a widget to switch between stereo and mono audio? I can only have one earphone on at work so it would be nice to not have to jump into the settings every time I'm done. I don't know that one exists. Apparently, Mono accessibility wasn't added until pretty recently, actually, and it looks like people who were hard-of-hearing in one ear didn't even have a third-party system-wide substitute. If you're rooted, though, you can manage two different profiles for the same app. If it has a setting for mono, then... Maybe you could have a work-version and an elsewhere-version.
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Are there any good places to see other people's Nova Launcher setups? I like the functionality, but I'm too uncreative to put it to use
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Yeah, I mean is there something that lets me define and switch between a few different sets of those priority rules? I've just started using Llama to do this. It does it via location and can do a lot more. Ugly old interface but works really well.
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Deeters posted:Are there any good places to see other people's Nova Launcher setups? I like the functionality, but I'm too uncreative to put it to use Lifehacker features some from time to time. Some require a bit more customization that just Nova Luancher allows, but you can get some ideas. http://lifehacker.com/tag/featured-home-screen EDIT: some of the crazy ones require Themer, which I've never used. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mycolorscreen.themer Uthor fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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What's a good app for taking down handwritten/drawn notes? Something like Keep but with a bigger canvas would be ideal.
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flatluigi posted:What's a good app for taking down handwritten/drawn notes? Something like Keep but with a bigger canvas would be ideal. You mean something like OneNote?
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