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I find the auto brightness works better on lux, but the night mode is nicer with cf.lumen as it uses a display driver (needs root) Luckily Lux has plug in support so you can make Lux use cf.lumen for its night mode. You don't need cf.lumen running in the background either, it just needs to have the driver installed
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Skarsnik posted:I find the auto brightness works better on lux, but the night mode is nicer with cf.lumen as it uses a display driver (needs root) Oh my god thank you for this.
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I'm looking for an android app that provides similar functionality to iOS's "Find my iPhone". Any suggestions?
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vulturesrow posted:I'm looking for an android app that provides similar functionality to iOS's "Find my iPhone". Any suggestions? Googles own Device Manager can do that. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm&hl=en_GB
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vulturesrow posted:I'm looking for an android app that provides similar functionality to iOS's "Find my iPhone". Any suggestions?
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Guys I'm looking for an app that can remotely locate and/or wipe my device. Any suggestions?
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FAUXTON posted:Guys I'm looking for an app that can remotely locate and/or wipe my device. Any suggestions? Find My iPhone should already be pre installed. Swipe over all your home screens to find it.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Find My iPhone should already be pre installed. Swipe over all your home screens to find it. Or don't be an idiot and install Find My Find My iPhone instead of hunting around like a scrub
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Anyone else using Tweetings? I installed it last night to check out and I kinda dig it. I'm a big fan of Fenix, but Tweetings allows you to schedule tweets, which means I could uninstall the app I'd been using for that. I like being able to consolidate apps. I'm going to give it a shot, but I might end up sticking with Fenix, just because I'm so used to it at this point.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Find My iPhone should already be pre installed. Swipe over all your home screens to find it. Is there a notification shade toggle? I have a Droid Note.
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FAUXTON posted:Is there a notification shade toggle? I have a Droid Note. Only on the Turbo MAXXXXX model (remember the MAXXXX with 4 X's is the international one).
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XIII posted:Anyone else using Tweetings? I installed it last night to check out and I kinda dig it. I'm a big fan of Fenix, but Tweetings allows you to schedule tweets, which means I could uninstall the app I'd been using for that. I like being able to consolidate apps. I'm going to give it a shot, but I might end up sticking with Fenix, just because I'm so used to it at this point. Tweetings also has push notifications if you like that stuff.
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Skeezy posted:Tweetings also has push notifications if you like that stuff. I really don't know the pros and cons of Tweetings' notification system vs Fenix's
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XIII posted:I really don't know the pros and cons of Tweetings' notification system vs Fenix's The most I know is one is push and the other constantly polls. That's about it.
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Evil Vin posted:I'm also having this problem with Movie Mastery and been looking for what causes it and ending up with similar results. Yeah, your example acts exactly like mine, including the non-existing cover art. I wonder if there's a standard way to let Pocket Casts know about this, since it does look like a misconfiguration on somebody's end.
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Skeezy posted:The most I know is one is push and the other constantly polls. That's about it. I believe tweetings uses an intermediary server to poll twitter and push to your device whereas Fenix just polls twitter directly
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Only on the Turbo MAXXXXX model (remember the MAXXXX with 4 X's is the international one). Mine says "Apple iPhone 6" on the back. I think that means it's a MAXXXXXX. I'm on Verizon by the way not sure if that changes anything.
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hey santa baby posted:Yeah, your example acts exactly like mine, including the non-existing cover art. I wonder if there's a standard way to let Pocket Casts know about this, since it does look like a misconfiguration on somebody's end. I asked one of the guys from movie mastery about it in another thread and he said theironjef posted:No, I'm afraid that's to do with Wordpress. A lot of podcasters that host on wordpress are getting basically the same issues. It's not fixable by us, it's some sort of issue between Wordpress and the most recent version of the Android OS. The best I can tell you is that it's a known issue on both sides so hopefully one of them fixes something soon, it's been driving us nuts.
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Can anyone recommend a good, no faff reader app for an Android tablet, one that can do epub3 format? I don't particularly like having to go online to use Play Books every time I want to read a book in that format.
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If you need to read interactive ebooks (that's epub3 right?) then Gitden reader is pretty solid.
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:Can anyone recommend a good, no faff reader app for an Android tablet, one that can do epub3 format? I don't particularly like having to go online to use Play Books every time I want to read a book in that format. You can pin your books to your device the same way you can pin your music 
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Since I've gotten the Hangouts 5.0 update, it's been nothing but a pain in the dick. Every once in awhile (multiple times a day), when I open Hangouts from a new message notification and go to respond, I get a message about message history is on and do I still want to send the message. When I hit "send" I get "the message will be sent shortly", and then never sends. If I back out from the conversation, my conversation list just sits with a white screen with the loading circle forever. The only way I can get past this is to hit the app switcher and close Hangouts. When I reopen it, it signs in and I can send messages again. What the gently caress is up with that?
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Google finally announced YouTube Red. Remember when Google Play Music started including the ability to stream videos with the screen off, have no ads, and save videos offline? Well now it's officially titled YouTube Red and it's $9.99/mo. It does all of those things and also comes with an additional subscription to Google Play Music. Along with all of this, Google has partnered with YouTubers like PewDiePie, Tobuscus, iiSuperwomanii, MatPat, and CollegeHumor to make original YouTube Red-exclusive series and movies. If you already have a subscription to Google Play Music, then you get YouTube Red for free. However, if your subscription lapses, you will not have Red anymore AND you will be ineligible to get a trial access of Red (and presumably of Play Music). YouTube Red launches on Oct 28th. https://www.youtube.com/red http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/10/red.html http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/10/red-originals.html Along with this announcement, which will also launch on Oct 28th, is YouTube Music. This is basically an app like YouTube Gaming that lets you only watch music-based stuff. So basically we will have multiple YouTube apps in 7 days: YouTube YouTube Kids YouTube Gaming YouTube Music You can also toss YouTube Red subscriptions in and you can even put Google Play Music in too since they're bundled. This feels like the multiple messaging apps Android had all over again. I look forward to YouTube Cats and YouTube Podcasts in 2016. 
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ninmeister posted:Since I've gotten the Hangouts 5.0 update, it's been nothing but a pain in the dick. Every once in awhile (multiple times a day), when I open Hangouts from a new message notification and go to respond, I get a message about message history is on and do I still want to send the message. When I hit "send" I get "the message will be sent shortly", and then never sends. If I back out from the conversation, my conversation list just sits with a white screen with the loading circle forever. The only way I can get past this is to hit the app switcher and close Hangouts. When I reopen it, it signs in and I can send messages again. What the gently caress is up with that?
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ThermoPhysical posted:words it's so microsoft bundling the only feature people would actually want behind a paywall along with a bunch of poo poo nobody asked for, and by that I mean saving videos to watch later offline
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ThermoPhysical posted:This feels like the multiple messaging apps Android had all over again.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I look forward to YouTube Cats and YouTube Podcasts in 2016. Wish they'd call it Red Tube, just rolls off the tongue better. ..
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Meldonox posted:I apologize for asking, but the OP is super out of date and I didn't notice this question in some pages, but is there a short one size fits all list of apps that are straight up worth buying? I've got more than $50 from Google surveys and I have no idea what to blow it on. Here was my take a half year back. I messaged the OP but didn't hear back. Any way, some of you might get value out of this. Keyboards Google Keyboard is fine for most uses, but hey, you’re going to be using this constantly so you’d best find a fit.
Launchers Launchers control the home screen of your phone, which may be a bit underfeatured. If you like customizing your phone, check these out.
Wallpapers Watch out for device permissions when installing anything not listed here. This category has a high concentration of malware.
Widgets Widgets used to be a very strange beast on Android, with Zooper and UCCW widget languages taking over. They’re bitches to use, but have basically infinite flexibility for any widget you might want to make. With the advent of material design, there are actually some good native ones, though.
File Browsers You’d think it’s easy to get a file browser right. You’d be wrong.
SMS/MMS Messaging What, not happy with the Galaxy SMS app’s pink bubbles and Comic Sans? Okay, fine, but be warned that some of these apps might have issues with MMS, depending on your carrier.
The Gmail app is pretty great, and almost certainly better than your manufacturer’s “Email” app. Still...
Alarms / Timers / Clocks Your phone has one preloaded that works just fine, but here are some others:
Website / Social Media Readers
Podcasts i swear, if one of you asks for any other recommendations, so help me God...
Music Players There are entirely too many. Some of them have outdated design but good functionality (PowerAmp, PlayerPro), some look great (Shuttle+), some are subscription-based (Google Play, Spotify). There is no silver bullet, but let me break some stuff down:
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Finance
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f#a# posted:The Google Play Music app doesn’t require an all-access pass ($10/mo), and will show you local music in its player. All access buys you space to upload 50,000 songs to the cloud and access to everything else there. The 50,000 song upload thingy is free...
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I like Smart Launcher (phone only) because I am a huge sucker for categories. Chronus Widget supports DashClock extensions within a clock/weather/other crap widget. Personally I think it looks nicer than Dashclock.
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Haven't seen it mentioned much here but if you use SwiftKey then definitely give their Swiftkey Neural Alpha a shot: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey.nn 'Original' Swiftkey does pretty well just analyzing the last couple of words you had typed to offer predictions, but that still led to word suggestions that didn't make much sense sometimes. Neural uses a (surprise) neural model to analyze the full context of what you are typing and offers way better predictions for me already. https://blog.swiftkey.com/neural-networks-a-meaningful-leap-for-mobile-typing/ It is US English only right now. When my 5X arrives tomorrow I'll just be installing Neural as my keyboard. I presume the next full release of Swiftkey will roll this tech in.
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All this keyboard talk, and no one mentions the finest keyboard ever crafted by human hands... http://www.8pen.com/ fake edit: I guess they've pulled it from the play store anyway. 
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f#a# posted:words I would just add: Root Explorer (and its free little brother, Explorer) is an excellent file browser that I highly recommend. QKSMS is my new favorite SMS app. It feels faster than anything else I've used so far, and it integrates with Yappy, which is kind of like PushBullet, except it's more reliable on the texting-from-your-computer front (at least, for me, PB has been incredibly unreliable recently on that front) For reddit, I much prefer Sync or Now over Relay. Regularly is a decent app for tracking/reminding yourself to do things you do regularly (e.g. washing your sheets, changing your toothbrush, etc.) based on an interval instead of on a fixed schedule based on day of the month or week. It's definitely not the prettiest app (it could definitely use a design overhaul) but it's the best app for what it does that I know of. Also throw in lux and/or CF.Lumen if you want better auto-brightness and night-mode (a la F.lux) on your phone. Mogomra posted:All this keyboard talk, and no one mentions the finest keyboard ever crafted by human hands... jesus christ this is the most confusing thing i've ever seen. i want it. dik-dik fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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I've wound up leaning towards Authy in this space.Yes, there is a danger in having more than one device be able to use your two-factor authentication.It does device-side encryption, so that they don't transfer your TFA seeds except in encrypted blobs There are also PC apps and Chrome extensions, but I haven't gone for either of those yet.
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f#a# posted:bunch of app stuff Make a new thread. I'll close this one, and you'll live in fame as the OP of the new Android App Thread.
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ThermoPhysical posted:YouTube shenanigans So from all this, what I take from it is that if I am an existing subscriber to Google Play All Access, I now get ad-free Youtube? That would be pretty sweet.
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Teeter posted:So from all this, what I take from it is that if I am an existing subscriber to Google Play All Access, I now get ad-free Youtube? That would be pretty sweet. I originally signed up for GPMAA with a new Google account like thermopyles_family@gmail.com so my wife could use it too, but since I never browse signed in to that account, I miss out on the YT stuff. With the new family accounts stuff coming, I guess I'll just switch over to that.
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Gmail handles two-factor Outlook and Yahoo mail now. In case you actually use either of those. Google also made their own SMS client (Google Messenger) and their own clock app (Google, uh, Clock) which are both your standard spartan-but-slick Google stuff. Just a heads up. maltesh posted:I've wound up leaning towards Authy in this space.Yes, there is a danger in having more than one device be able to use your two-factor authentication.It does device-side encryption, so that they don't transfer your TFA seeds except in encrypted blobs Yay, let's put even more account security stuff in the hands of companies who aren't licensed and bonded to handle it! Did SMS codes stop being a thing at some point? Alternately, if you use KeePass2 databases, the dude behind the PC clients is pretty okay with the Android fork (which can access and edit your cloud database directly) and it also has built-in TOTP support. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Yay, let's put even more account security stuff in the hands of companies who aren't licensed and bonded to handle it! I use both. The nice thing about authenticaters is that you can use them in places that you don't have cell phone service. And they're faster than waiting on an SMS to come in. I'm not certain how to handle things if I lose my phone, however. It'd be kind of hard to log into Google if I'm away from home when that happened. With SMS, I could theoretically hop into a T-Mobile store, buy a new burner phone and SIM card, get those swapped to my account, and get SMS messages again. I tend to like using SMS better as it feels like less hassle on my part.
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