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Is the N6 still the go-to phone when looking to buy off-contract?
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LastInLine posted:Yes if you can afford it. Affordability isn't so much the question as whether or not that $700 or so is best spent, phone-wise, on the N6 at this point in time. Curent phone is an N5 and while it's probably lollipop issues, it's starting to show its age.
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Feb 4, 2015 09:13
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nimper posted:Didn't know that!  I remember seeing this in all those "first look" videos and being like "huh, what a great idea" and yep, it is pretty awesome. Shame you missed out.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:23
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They don't know pain. The shitstorm that was the US Galaxy S variants saw them not being updated with Froyo until drat near the release date of Gingerbread.
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Feb 22, 2015 18:21
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Eej posted:I wasn't aware it was kosher to start downloading apps and signing into your Google account to do actual phone stuff on demo units. I wasn't aware touchwhiz required any of that in order to identified as garbage.
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Feb 23, 2015 01:42
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Reverse Centaur posted:Plus complaining about lollipop even though it's by far the best version of Android yet. It's the Vista between XP and 7.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:39
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Ugh I meant Honeycomb was Vista. I'm not good at posting. Honeycomb is some wack-rear end hardware-specific version. Like the Windows CE that the Dreamcast used.
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Feb 23, 2015 07:41
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LastInLine posted:100% correct. More like 400% correct. Uninstall Facebook Messenger and suddenly things are OK. The memory leak is still present but I only get launcher redraw when I do poo poo like go to a webpage that's full of flash poo poo and background music and embedded video.
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Mar 5, 2015 23:16
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CLAM DOWN posted:In fairness the facebook app is fine, the facebook messenger app is poo poo garbage. How many times does this need to be some mindblowing epiphany for people before it goes in the thread title
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Mar 7, 2015 21:20
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hooah posted:Until there aren't people like me, I guess. I got frustrated with the Facebook app changing my feed preference (recent, dammit!), so I uninstalled it and started using the mobile site. Basically the same problems, but it's one less app to possibly run amok. On the other hand, I haven't had any problems with Messenger, but to be fair I use it maybe once a week. It's not you so much as it not being in the OP since Messenger is a dumpster fire.
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Mar 7, 2015 23:33
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Internet Explorer posted:God drat I feel bad for anyone still using a Galaxy Nexus. I have three people in my family who are still using Gnexes on Ting. I've tried over and over to point out that phones like the Moto G are cheap as hell but they like Ting and don't want to switch.
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Mar 8, 2015 09:49
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Manky posted:So is there a reason that neither my N7 or Moto G changed their clocks? I had to turn off automatic time zone and network time and flip both back manually. Barbaric. You in Arizona?
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Mar 8, 2015 11:25
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kitten smoothie posted:Ting does GSM now, so that should convince them. Just buy an $8 SIM from them and you're good to go. They do T-Mobile GSM which is, "eh" at best in my area.
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Mar 8, 2015 23:12
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ThermoPhysical posted:So it works here now? It "works" in the sense that you can get a number from another market area because you can't port a 402 area code number in. I tried it with Net10 a while back and it had passable service in the civilized parts of town but once you got west of about 90th you started getting spotty, especially if you were anywhere north or south of Dodge. That village of inbred hicks out Southwest towards like 170th is a complete dead zone.
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Mar 9, 2015 15:02
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I wonder if we'll soon be seeing phones that have an internal battery with something like 700 mAh, and a removable/replaceable battery with a more standard 2500 mAh that can be hotswapped. I'm not assuming they'd come from mainstream manufacturers since most people don't have that kind of use pattern, but the concept would probably have a niche with those who are on the road a lot. You'd have some kind of charger boot for the spare battery, if not a straight-up microUSB port to charge. Basically it'd be an insertable version of a power brick, except the juice is instantly available rather than needing to trickle charge. Again, it'd make for a relatively bulky phone unless they figure out a way to compact all the extra connectors for both batteries down to a much smaller size than present. Build it in to some shenzhen special with a 1080p screen and bargain specs otherwise, sell it for $500 a pop, and you've probably got a phone purpose-made for watching animes while riding the bus to the call center or whatever.
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Mar 9, 2015 17:44
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Tunga posted:This sounds like the opposite of what you have proposed. You'd need to leave a giant battery pack connected to the phone permanently instead of the current system of just connecting an external one for an hour. Yeah, it would be the homunculus evolutionary dead end of android phone design, brought to you by Oppo or whoever. That's what I'm getting at. Most people use their phone moderately during the day and charge it overnight, but you've got edge cases who just can't accept that sealed batteries make for higher capacity and lower costs and insist that they are sold an obese brick of a phone with a big ol' honkin' battery they can hotswap without interrupting their anime. The replaceable battery pack would be inside the phone, like a replaceable battery from the phones of yore. The difference would be that there would be another, smaller battery sealed inside to keep the phone running while the removable one got swapped out. You'd charge both in tandem, and there would be ways to charge spare swappable batteries outside of the phone. Some laptops have a similar setup, Thinkpads come to mind.
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Mar 9, 2015 20:50
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Skeezy posted:Android 5.1 official http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2015/03/android-51-unwrapping-new-lollipop.html Image for N5 is already up: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/hammerhead-lmy47d-factory-6c1ad81e.tgz I'm toying with the idea of flashing but I prefer to keep my bootloader locked and the sheer volume of poo poo I'd have to log in to all over again is a big turnoff for an incremental.
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Mar 10, 2015 01:13
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WugLyfe posted:OTA update .zip posted yet for N5? no but having flashed the image like a complete nerd I can assure you it's A Good Update.
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Mar 10, 2015 03:24
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Specifically, how does it compare to a Nexus S with Jellybean? I had a Nexus S for a little while, I was so infuriated with jellybean on it that I got a Galaxy Nexus. On Sprint. E: never mind, that was ICS. I was pissed about ICS being a little sluggish that I went to that gnex pile of horseshit on that boatload of cocks Sprint. Jellybean must have been worse than that Samsung Moment debacle where a routine update loving bricked the internal flash memory or some poo poo. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 04:28
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The flash-all.bat didn't work for me either (said boot.IMG wasn't there) so I manually flashed each part - boot loader, then radio, then boot, then system. Works just peachy. And yes the update seems to have eradicated the memory leak. E: yeah, just opened a bunch of news articles in chrome and hit the home button, went straight to the home screen, no redraw or goofy "hurrrr did you mean google now" fuckery. E2: same when going through Facebook and opening a couple Verge articles about the new apple hardware. Both Chrome and the Facebook internal browser seem to be way less laggy, too. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 12:50
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datajosh posted:The entire lifespan of the Moment was a debacle (oops, were you using your mobile data? sorry about that, you have to reboot to get it back now). The only time I've paid full retail for a phone was to upgrade away from that to the HTC EVO. I had an Epic 4G (the Sprint-branded sliding keyboard special-snowflake abomination of the Galaxy S) and got so fed up with that pile of poo poo I called Sprint and expressed my disappointment in such florid rhetoric that I was given an early upgrade. I didn't harangue the nice lady in their CS department so much as highlight how dealing with that piece of poo poo phone was "a trail of tears" and "a monumental infringement on Sprint's ability to provide the level of service to which I'd become accustomed." I used the upgrade to get an Evo 3D, because once you slam your dick in a door the first time, the next couple slams happen almost by reflex and before I knew it I was the proud owner of a Sprint Galaxy Nexus on release day.
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Mar 10, 2015 15:21
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hooah posted:Haha, except for the other CDMA GNex, those are the exact same phones I had for my first three Android phones. Man, the Nexus 4 was nice when I got it! I had an HTC Hero before the Epic, and it wasn't awful with the exception of never being updated. Oh back in the day, when updates were more about adding basic functions (apps to SD card for example) onto the fledgling Android codebase...
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Mar 10, 2015 15:30
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67 hours of uptime on 5.1 and not a single launcher redraw or hiccup. I am seeing Pocketcasts keeping the phone awake while I am listening to it, though.
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Mar 12, 2015 21:50
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WugLyfe posted:God dammit. N5 returned to the power button issue, now goes through "optimizing apps" every time it boots up. Sounds like a cache issue. Have you tried a factory reset from recovery mode?
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Mar 12, 2015 22:03
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WugLyfe posted:Yes. This thing is toast. Oh well. Sorry for your loss 
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Mar 12, 2015 22:08
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nerve posted:i love how many wacky niche cases pop up in the android thread be together, not the same
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Mar 13, 2015 01:43
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 Scrolling down is a thing dude.
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Mar 13, 2015 18:54
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Hughmoris posted:Good thing I'm still rocking 4.4.4 on my Nexus 4. 
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Mar 16, 2015 14:47
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bull3964 posted:There are very few use cases that are going to be long sequential reads form NAND with your phone. If you're on the road a lot I could see the need for long, sequential reads if that's what happens when watching animes.
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Mar 16, 2015 19:27
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Skarsnik posted:How about a ~media thing~ Oh that too.
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Mar 16, 2015 21:05
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Endless Mike posted:Have you considered a flip phone might fit your needs, OP? I think a payphone might suit him better because they don't run out of juice.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:34
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Disconnect the serpentine belt from your engine for more power to the wheels.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:42
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butt dickus posted:I guess I can put this here. There are two people in the US (and probably the world) with my name. The other one is an even bigger dumbass than I am. He uses my email address (firstnamelastname@gmail.com) to sign up for official stuff so on occasion I get his school poo poo or whatever idiot thing he's doing at the time. In the past I received some semi-important looking stuff that happened to have his phone number in it so I called him and got his real email address to forward it to. I have a similar story except it's my initials - I signed up for the outlook.com email when they re-launched it and surprisingly got my initials, three letters, @outlook.com. Some dumpy old CNA from like Nevada or something signed up for match.com using that email, someone from Thailand linked their drat Facebook to it, I get poo poo from monster.com (is this 1998? I thought they went under) for someone else, so on and so forth. Initials aren't as specific as full names but do these people not realize when they aren't getting the emails from the poo poo they signed up for? I managed to get the CNA's dating site account closed, but I don't even know where to start with some of the others. Thankfully I don't even use outlook since it didn't live up to the hype but god drat it's depressing to know people out there are that drat oblivious.
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Mar 26, 2015 02:56
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What is FAB an abbreviation for? Fast Action Button? Fat rear end Button?
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Mar 26, 2015 07:03
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LastInLine posted:Floating Action Button. Eh close enough.
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Mar 26, 2015 07:21
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Popelmon posted:The headphone jack on my Nexus 4 is dying Moto X
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Mar 28, 2015 18:54
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BlackMK4 posted:I need to use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tuneecu&hl=en Moto E
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Apr 3, 2015 05:36
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RZA Encryption posted:Wow, songs playing completely randomly? That's never happened to me, but if it did I'd think android was complete dogshit and switch to iOS. Why would you continue to use something that fucks up something as basic as "don't do things arbitrarily"? I'd rather it play a song I asked for earlier out of the blue than have it suddenly switch my entire calendar to GMT rather than my local time zone.
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Apr 3, 2015 17:12
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Mogomra posted:It worked surprisingly well for what it was. Is this like "the Atari 2600 is a surprisingly capable webserver, for what it is" kind of thing? Or was it usable beyond kid-glove gimmick scenarios? I am having trouble imagining how terrifically bad KitKat must have been on that hardware. It's like seeing XP running on some old shitbox that was built for use with 3.1.
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Apr 7, 2015 15:40
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Gotta get all the poop off those big cheeks, wipe three times.
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Apr 8, 2015 17:55
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