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CascadeBeta posted:Is there a battery widget that gives a realistic estimate of how much time you have left that isn't just assuming you're not going to touch your phone until the battery drains? 3C Battery Monitor's widget can give both estimates based on the average power draw for the past couple hours combined with data it's recorded for weeks to months on your phone and estimates based on near-instantaneous measurement of your power drain over the past couple minutes. They offer the plain app as a free download so you can see if it works on you phone, and the Pro version removes ads and does more in depth tracking, as well as allowing you to use a widget bigger than 1x1 if you want.
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fishmech posted:3C Battery Monitor's widget can give both estimates based on the average power draw for the past couple hours combined with data it's recorded for weeks to months on your phone and estimates based on near-instantaneous measurement of your power drain over the past couple minutes. Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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My store just switched from iPod based salesfloor PDAs to Android devices and the difference is night and day. My only complaint is that were locked into using the Google keyboard.
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I'm probably dumb as poo poo, but how do you enable speed limit display in the Maps app? I know it's supposed to have that functionality but I'll be damned if I can find where to turn it on. (In the UK, if that makes a difference.)
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I'm trying to win concert tickets from a radio station and while it's not THAT big a pain in the rear end to dial, hang up, dial again, I was wondering if there were any apps that are designed for that very purpose. Searching the Play store I see a few that are out there, but with it needing phone/contact permissions I wanted to see if anyone had any recommended ones.
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Is there a way to disable part of the touchscreen (a rectangular area that is a subset of the whole screen) temporarily or while a particular app is in foreground? Or like create a small dead-zone strip along the left/right edges of the screen? I keep unintentionally activating presses on the edge of the screen from holding my 5X wrong.
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peepsalot posted:Is there a way to disable part of the touchscreen (a rectangular area that is a subset of the whole screen) temporarily or while a particular app is in foreground? Or like create a small dead-zone strip along the left/right edges of the screen? Um, well, no.
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Getting a case or thicker case on it would probably help that.
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peepsalot posted:Is there a way to disable part of the touchscreen (a rectangular area that is a subset of the whole screen) temporarily or while a particular app is in foreground? Or like create a small dead-zone strip along the left/right edges of the screen? Call me a bold pioneer but I'm imagining adding some kind of... tape to your android
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Flopstick posted:I'm probably dumb as poo poo, but how do you enable speed limit display in the Maps app? I know it's supposed to have that functionality but I'll be damned if I can find where to turn it on. (In the UK, if that makes a difference.) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pluscubed.velociraptor
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Here maps was actually good the last time i used it a few months ago and is worth checking out
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Waze has speed built in too.
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Google Maps is rumored to be rolling out that feature soon, but nobody's sure exactly when.
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I live in the Bay Area and Google Maps has been showing me the speed limit of the streets/freeways I'm driving on for months now.
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Are there any alarm clock apps that say something rather than making a noise? I'm thinking for when I have early meetings it would be nice to have it remind me so I don't act like I need to go in at the normal time.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are there any alarm clock apps that say something rather than making a noise? I'm thinking for when I have early meetings it would be nice to have it remind me so I don't act like I need to go in at the normal time. AMDroid, along with many others, will let you pick an MP3 file. So you can find/make a quick recording that says "You've got a meeting in 15 dummy" or something similar?
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are there any alarm clock apps that say something rather than making a noise? I'm thinking for when I have early meetings it would be nice to have it remind me so I don't act like I need to go in at the normal time. AlarmDroid uses Android's built in text to speech engine to have an alarm go off with a spoken message rather than a music track or sound effect:  It has a set of symbols you can use to have it automatically find the current values of various things, and you can just write text like "You have a meeting 15 minutes".
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Looking at the reviews for Alarm Drone, there's a lot of mentions of full screen ads that play music/loud sound effects even after purchasing ad free. Is that accurate?
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Jun 27, 2017 18:40
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Tweetings is currently on sale for $0.99.
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Kheldarn posted:Tweetings is currently on sale for $0.99. I've been having some issues with Flamingo and I've got surverybux so I'll bite. It sure looks good.
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Is there a way to add all the music I manually moved to my phone a while ago to my Play Music library, or is the only way to upload it via the web interface? The music on my phone shows up in the phone's music library, but not anywhere else.
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Hey I checked back a few pages and didn't see anything on this. I just got the Galaxy S8 and I love it and after spending so much time setting it up I'm looking for any apps/services I can use to do a full local hardware backup/restore for the phone's internal memory and the sd card in it. I want everything backed up. Ideally I can just plug it into my PC, run the app on my phone/PC or whatever and just have it back up everything physically to an external drive. I don't want cloud services or anything. Surely such a thing exists competently? beep by grandpa fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jun 30, 2017 |
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beep by grandpa posted:Surely such a thing exists competently? You'd think...but no.
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Splinter posted:Is there a way to add all the music I manually moved to my phone a while ago to my Play Music library, or is the only way to upload it via the web interface? The music on my phone shows up in the phone's music library, but not anywhere else. Like, be able to play the music now locally on your phone through the web, say on your computer? Not that I know of. I have the Google Play Music uploader installed on my computer and any music I buy gets automatically uploaded in the background, but that's all handled on the computer.
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Uthor posted:Like, be able to play the music now locally on your phone through the web, say on your computer? Yeah exactly. At least the stuff that is already in Google's catalog. Was hoping there would be a way to do it from the phone interface since what I added to the phone was a curated list of stuff I still actually listen to, even if it had to be done manually per artist or album, but it phone UI doesn't seem to give the "add to library" option for the local music even if it's not in my global library. I suppose my next best option is to copy everything from the phone to a computer and use the uploader (to avoid having to comb through all my music again to pick out what I actually want to upload).
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beep by grandpa posted:Hey I checked back a few pages and didn't see anything on this. I just got the Galaxy S8 and I love it and after spending so much time setting it up I'm looking for any apps/services I can use to do a full local hardware backup/restore for the phone's internal memory and the sd card in it. I want everything backed up.
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Splinter posted:Yeah exactly. At least the stuff that is already in Google's catalog. Was hoping there would be a way to do it from the phone interface since what I added to the phone was a curated list of stuff I still actually listen to, even if it had to be done manually per artist or album, but it phone UI doesn't seem to give the "add to library" option for the local music even if it's not in my global library. I suppose my next best option is to copy everything from the phone to a computer and use the uploader (to avoid having to comb through all my music again to pick out what I actually want to upload). This might not work if you don't control or own your router, but many offer local media streaming from whatever storage you plug into the router. Take a look: you'll have to connect an external HDD or plug in a USB stick, it's hardly perfect but it solves your cloud-avoidance preference at least. edit: seconding/thirding the "just install gmusic uploader" since it's not hard to manage sweart gliwere fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jun 30, 2017 |
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Yeah, probably. The uploader only looks at the folder(s) you specify, so it should be easy to keep those files separate from your entire library.
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beep by grandpa posted:Hey I checked back a few pages and didn't see anything on this. I just got the Galaxy S8 and I love it and after spending so much time setting it up I'm looking for any apps/services I can use to do a full local hardware backup/restore for the phone's internal memory and the sd card in it. I want everything backed up. Samsung Cloud and SmartSwitch should already come installed on your phone.
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Desk Lamp posted:Samsung Cloud and SmartSwitch should already come installed on your phone. I've looked at those but like I said I want to back up to an external HDD and Samsung smartswitch only let's me transfer/backup the internal storage to another Galaxy or to my own sd card (I want to back up both). Maybe the route here is to look for a Windows program that does this for me.
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beep by grandpa posted:Hey I checked back a few pages and didn't see anything on this. I just got the Galaxy S8 and I love it and after spending so much time setting it up I'm looking for any apps/services I can use to do a full local hardware backup/restore for the phone's internal memory and the sd card in it. I want everything backed up. Why is it you don't want to use the cloud? It's just too easy?
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beep by grandpa posted:I've looked at those but like I said I want to back up to an external HDD and Samsung smartswitch only let's me transfer/backup the internal storage to another Galaxy or to my own sd card (I want to back up both).
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Are there any dialer apps that can block outgoing numbers?
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hooah posted:Are there any dialer apps that can block outgoing numbers? Put your phone away before drinking?
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hooah posted:Are there any dialer apps that can block outgoing numbers? This might be the saddest question after "Can you just flush a miscarriage?"
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Haha, nothing drunken or whatever. I occasionally have reason to call my city's information number, which is 311. But I do it so infrequently that I can never remember if it's 311 or 411, and 411 is a $2 misdial on Verizon. They're not able (or more likely, not willing) to turn off that service for my number. Their best suggestion was to create an information contact, which is ok, but not rally great since it's a lot faster to dial three digits than to look up a contact.
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So... you'd rather install an app that can stop you from dialing numbers? Just add a contact you lazy bastard.
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hooah posted:Haha, nothing drunken or whatever. I occasionally have reason to call my city's information number, which is 311. But I do it so infrequently that I can never remember if it's 311 or 411, and 411 is a $2 misdial on Verizon. They're not able (or more likely, not willing) to turn off that service for my number. Their best suggestion was to create an information contact, which is ok, but not rally great since it's a lot faster to dial three digits than to look up a contact. Pro-tip: if you start typing the name of the contact with your "number keyboard" (honestly not sure wtf to call it) while in the phone app, it will find the contact. Maybe you'll need more than just 3 keys to get the unique contact you want, but at least this is only a minimal change to your workflow.
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Dancer posted:Pro-tip: if you start typing the name of the contact with your "number keyboard" (honestly not sure wtf to call it) while in the phone app, it will find the contact. Maybe you'll need more than just 3 keys to get the unique contact you want, but at least this is only a minimal change to your workflow. This is a good point and if you made the contact zzz you could just hit 99 and tap the contact to call
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I completely forgot that T9 typing lives on. Thanks!
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