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I have an extremely specialized and nerdy request: is there an app that can read the sensors and make a notification appear when over a certain threshold, like if the magnitude of acceleration is over a limit? I know there are apps that can read a phone or tablet's sensors, but I'm looking for one that can specifically post a notification message or send an alert or something. If Tasker can do this I'll just go get that!
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CLAM DOWN posted:Solid Explorer is extremely good and my fave Blue Train posted:Thirding solid explorer owning tho Kaiju Cage Match posted:Seconding this, it's a very solid app. Is SE that much better than just Explorer? Already installed the latter but if it's like, that much better I can swap out.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:17
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Johnny Truant posted:Is SE that much better than just Explorer? Already installed the latter but if it's like, that much better I can swap out. I've tried most of the major file managers for Android and they've all annoyed me in some way, except Solid Explorer, it's really that good.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:31
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I switched to Solid Explorer when EZ started putting bullshit in their app, zero complaints.
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xtal posted:Pocket Casts has a terrible UI but in my experience it's the least-worse I like it 
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Nov 29, 2016 19:43
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Johnny Truant posted:Is SE that much better than just Explorer? Already installed the latter but if it's like, that much better I can swap out. Basically I suggested it because it's free. Solid isn't necessarily worse but it's not better and the Root Explorer guy (same as Explorer minus root) at least isn't making a bad product. Plus it's nice that it includes everything you'd need, cloud/SMB built in rather than through extra apps. Given how seldom you should be touching the file system (I bet I haven't opened Root Explorer in 2016) really anything's fine. FYI, the Nexus *should* have a file explorer built in, it's just not very good and hard to get to. If you go to Settings > Storage & USB, at the very bottom is Explore. It's very bare-bones, don't expect much.
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Nov 30, 2016 15:25
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48 Hour Boner posted:I have an extremely specialized and nerdy request: is there an app that can read the sensors and make a notification appear when over a certain threshold, like if the magnitude of acceleration is over a limit? I know there are apps that can read a phone or tablet's sensors, but I'm looking for one that can specifically post a notification message or send an alert or something. If Tasker can do this I'll just go get that! Tasker only has these in the sensor category: 
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Nov 30, 2016 15:39
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Tamba posted:Tasker only has these in the sensor category: Oh poo poo that reminded me that I actually purchased Tasker way back in the day but haven't used it. Is there still a Tasker specific topic here on SA?
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Nov 30, 2016 15:43
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48 Hour Boner posted:I have an extremely specialized and nerdy request: is there an app that can read the sensors and make a notification appear when over a certain threshold, like if the magnitude of acceleration is over a limit? I know there are apps that can read a phone or tablet's sensors, but I'm looking for one that can specifically post a notification message or send an alert or something. If Tasker can do this I'll just go get that! Before you go down this rabbit hole. I don't think there are APIs to trigger on these kinds of conditions. If there are no APIs then the only way to monitor is to constantly poll the sensors, which requires an actively running app. This would kill your battery.
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Nov 30, 2016 16:53
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FunOne posted:Before you go down this rabbit hole. I don't think there are APIs to trigger on these kinds of conditions. If there are no APIs then the only way to monitor is to constantly poll the sensors, which requires an actively running app. This would kill your battery. The Moto double-twist camera or karate-chop flashlight work by doing exactly this within specific gesture ranges, I'm pretty sure modern SoCs can handle it but it's probably at a level where you'd have to reassign some phone manufacturer features with hacky crap. Like a sideways approach to the problem. It does sound like a nightmare without APIs, though. Edit: Doubleday Boner man, is the device expected to be plugged-in during this usage? Or just restrained like in a car cradle, or what? sweart gliwere fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Nov 30, 2016 17:33
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Holy loving poo poo, the latest Hangouts updates seems to have fixed both the "custom named group contact icon not displaying correctly" bug AND the "sms contact photos not displaying within the chat thread" bug. Maybe Trump's American isn't that bad...
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Nov 30, 2016 18:19
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Johnny Truant posted:Oh poo poo that reminded me that I actually purchased Tasker way back in the day but haven't used it. Is there still a Tasker specific topic here on SA? Technically yes, if you enjoy threads that haven't been touched in over six months.
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Nov 30, 2016 18:43
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sweart gliwere posted:The Moto double-twist camera or karate-chop flashlight work by doing exactly this within specific gesture ranges, I'm pretty sure modern SoCs can handle it but it's probably at a level where you'd have to reassign some phone manufacturer features with hacky crap. Like a sideways approach to the problem. I kind of figured it was complicated. I picked up a Chinese smartwatch for  , and you can send any notification you want to it provided it's only text. Currently I get work email and texts on it, I thought it would be cool if I could get a watch message when something triggers the sensors over a threshold. It looks like that would technically work albeit at a significant battery cost. Thanks thread! 
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Nov 30, 2016 19:17
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Blue Train posted:Loads of ads and pop-ups now, it's bad. Thirding solid explorer owning tho Never ran into any popups myself, but yeah, adsadads, you can't kill the (ad-enhanced) "home" window that is mainly useless, no more dark theme option (unless it was added very recently), and gently caress YOU ES I DON'T WANT A GODDAMN NOISE FOR EVERY TOUCH OR SCREEN-WIPE. I still use it (updates turned off) because I like the handling of streaming media over SMB, and that it can stream pictures over SMB without individually downloading them to my tablet first - they don't make me choose an image, download it to storage, display the image, and oh hey repeat for any other pictures you want. ES is select image, view, swipe for next/previous. The old pre-adfucked versions are still better, though.
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Dec 1, 2016 01:19
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Is there a generally good cleaning/housekeeping app? I've tried a handful but I'm not sure which is better or if they're really doing anything at all (e.g. 360, Power Cleaner, etc)
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Dec 1, 2016 05:40
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XIII posted:Holy loving poo poo, the latest Hangouts updates seems to have fixed both the "custom named group contact icon not displaying correctly" bug AND the "sms contact photos not displaying within the chat thread" bug. Maybe Trump's American isn't that bad... Holy poo poo!
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Dec 1, 2016 06:49
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96 spacejam posted:Is there a generally good cleaning/housekeeping app? I've tried a handful but I'm not sure which is better or if they're really doing anything at all (e.g. 360, Power Cleaner, etc) They're all useless poo poo and if you tried any your phone is full of Chinese viruses now, congrats.
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Dec 1, 2016 08:07
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96 spacejam posted:Is there a generally good cleaning/housekeeping app? I've tried a handful but I'm not sure which is better or if they're really doing anything at all (e.g. 360, Power Cleaner, etc) SD Maid works for me and is well regarded, regularly updated.
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Dec 1, 2016 08:52
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On a similar note is there a good housekeeping app for actual housekeeping? Set up weekly chores and things that need to be done?
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Dec 1, 2016 09:01
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Spermanent Record posted:On a similar note is there a good housekeeping app for actual housekeeping? Set up weekly chores and things that need to be done? Couldn't you just set up recurring events in google calendar? If you use a computer to log on you can even create a new, uh, calendar category thing for them to go under so you can disable them on other devices if you want. I use this a lot for weekly stuff I'd forget otherwise.
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Dec 1, 2016 09:21
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I have a bunch of Google Now recurring reminders for that too
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Dec 1, 2016 12:41
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Changelog Droid appears not to work on Nougat. Is there another good changelog app? I found Changelogs, but it's not very good about showing only the apps with updates.
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Dec 1, 2016 14:03
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Spermanent Record posted:On a similar note is there a good housekeeping app for actual housekeeping? Set up weekly chores and things that need to be done? Like what are you looking for it to do. If you need a reminder, I'll second the alarms, but if it's more of a habit tracker, I have Habit Hub although I haven't been using it for the last few months.
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Dec 1, 2016 14:09
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I don't know if this is on Android or only a web app but Habitica is a dumb little RPG where you level up by doing poo poo on your to do list. For a lot of people it's pretty stupid and I don't use it but have a few friends whose dopamine buttons are properly activated by little "+3 XP!" messages whenever they take out the trash or whatever, might be worth a shot.
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Dec 1, 2016 17:29
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Wrist Watch posted:Couldn't you just set up recurring events in google calendar? If you use a computer to log on you can even create a new, uh, calendar category thing for them to go under so you can disable them on other devices if you want.
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Dec 1, 2016 18:28
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Spermanent Record posted:On a similar note is there a good housekeeping app for actual housekeeping? Set up weekly chores and things that need to be done? Open Google Calendar, hit the floating + and choose 'Goal'. It'll present you with a few suggestions like 'clean', 'exercise', 'call your parents you wretched ingrate', or 'add your own'. Tell it how often you want to do that, when you want to do that and for how long, and it'll find a time for you.
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Is the YouTube app not saving your spot in videos anymore? It used to do it automatically when switching between the app and desktop but now whenever I watch a video, it just starts from the beginning.
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Dec 1, 2016 21:20
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i like tacos posted:Is the YouTube app not saving your spot in videos anymore? It used to do it automatically when switching between the app and desktop but now whenever I watch a video, it just starts from the beginning. Mine seems to be forgetting my place a lot when I switch away to do something else. When I come back, it'll autoplay from the beginning. It will also automatically play the last video I watched if I don't manually close the video, which is super annoying if I just want to look around the app and not watch anything and all of a sudden my phone starts emitting audio. I think it's getting kicked out of memory and losing my place when that happens.
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Dec 1, 2016 21:36
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Uthor posted:It will also automatically play the last video I watched if I don't manually close the video, which is super annoying if I just want to look around the app and not watch anything and all of a sudden my phone starts emitting audio. Especially annoying when you have Youtube Red and it starts blasting audio in the middle of a meeting, requiring you to press back 500 times to close it as the home or power button just keeps it playing in the background.
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Dec 1, 2016 22:16
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So all SwiftKey themes are free for Christmas.
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i like tacos posted:Is the YouTube app not saving your spot in videos anymore? It used to do it automatically when switching between the app and desktop but now whenever I watch a video, it just starts from the beginning. It's always been unreliable for me. Sometimes it works perfectly between my phone/ipad/pc/roku tv, sometimes not. It feels like it's gotten a lot better lately, but it's still a bit of a crapshoot too often for me to trust it completely.
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Been giving Google Play Music a try for the past week or so. I managed to get it to play some songs that don't make me want to tear my ears off, but the interface feels so clunky, unresponsive, requires way too many taps to do simple things. For example, can't vote up/down on a song from the lock screen. I've also found the connection to be absurdly unreliable, I mainly use it in my car during commute and it seems to get through 3 or 4 songs before giving up, just going silent. I have to unlock the phone, open the app, click play, wait 10 seconds or so, can't tell if its doing anything or not, click play again, oh, it looks like it might be loading a song now? Ok the light is green again, drop the phone and continue driving... and its still not playing... wait for the next stoplight to gently caress with it again.... The whole time my signal is showing like 75% LTE connectivity, I'm driving around in a major city, not the bermuda triangle. I really was hoping it would be good because I think I read that its supposed to have a much larger library of content than Pandora, but the user experience is abysmal in comparison.
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You might want to try Spotify. The free version of that always seemed kind of OK, where you can even play specific albums on shuffle. Of course the real benefit these things have over Pandora is the premium version where you just have access to everything, but you probably already knew that.
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Dec 2, 2016 01:49
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peepsalot posted:Been giving Google Play Music a try for the past week or so. I managed to get it to play some songs that don't make me want to tear my ears off, but the interface feels so clunky, unresponsive, requires way too many taps to do simple things. For example, can't vote up/down on a song from the lock screen. Interesting, you're describing my experience with Pandora except saying it's GPM.
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I am trying out firefox for the adblock, but the way it handles bigger text and zoom seems to be pretty bad. I tried one of the add-ons on that's suppose to fix this but it made things worst i think. is there a good addon for this problem?
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I recently switched back to Android from a Win phone and I don't care much for the keyboard. In some apps a double tap on a word will select it, in other apps it does nothing, in some apps it asks if I want to select everything. It doesn't anticipate that I want to paste something I just cut or copied from another tab. Sometimes double tapping or press and hold does nothing useful. Adding words to the dictionary isn't as quick. In general the keyboard just isn't as polished and doesn't work as well. Are there alternative keyboards that are better? And before anyone feels the need to defend it, I'm more happy with Android. Swipe works much better. It has apps that work and get updated more than once a year or two. Just not 100% happy with the keyboard.
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wormil posted:I recently switched back to Android from a Win phone and I don't care much for the keyboard. In some apps a double tap on a word will select it, in other apps it does nothing, in some apps it asks if I want to select everything. It doesn't anticipate that I want to paste something I just cut or copied from another tab. Sometimes double tapping or press and hold does nothing useful. Adding words to the dictionary isn't as quick. In general the keyboard just isn't as polished and doesn't work as well. Are there alternative keyboards that are better? The context menu behaving inconsistently between apps is, unfortunately, because apps control how that works rather than the keyboard (which can't really see into the text field). Anyway, the default keyboard varies by device. Manufacturers have their own, you should generally avoid these. Google would like you to use their keyboard, which is the one I like/work on, but may be the one you're unhappy with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Other good keyboards include Swiftkey, which touts its learning capabilities and has a free theme promo going right now. Fleksy if you need easy access to gifs. Swype, known for swiping I guess? Nintype if you're feeling unconventional and want to try for wpm highscores.
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Femur posted:I am trying out firefox for the adblock, This is a lot easier to answer if you elaborate on what exactly "pretty bad" and "fix" mean.
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wormil posted:I recently switched back to Android from a Win phone and I don't care much for the keyboard. In some apps a double tap on a word will select it, in other apps it does nothing, in some apps it asks if I want to select everything. It doesn't anticipate that I want to paste something I just cut or copied from another tab. Sometimes double tapping or press and hold does nothing useful. Adding words to the dictionary isn't as quick. In general the keyboard just isn't as polished and doesn't work as well. Are there alternative keyboards that are better? As Steely Glint says, it's impossible to know what you want until you tell us what you have. In general, people seem to be happy with Swype, SwiftKey, or the Google Keyboard depending on your preferred method of typing. Actually this is a good time to ask something: I was in the official Philips Hue app and noticed they disable swiping in their renaming fields. How loving annoying! Has anyone else has ever seen this before? I've seen it for password fields but I could of course see the letters and I wouldn't suspect you could have one without the other. This was on the Google Keyboard if that makes a difference.
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LastInLine posted:Actually this is a good time to ask something: I was in the official Philips Hue app and noticed they disable swiping in their renaming fields. How loving annoying! Has anyone else has ever seen this before? I've seen it for password fields but I could of course see the letters and I wouldn't suspect you could have one without the other. This was on the Google Keyboard if that makes a difference. iPhone ports seem to be doing this. ibird is an example, and yes it's annoying as heck.
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