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THF13 posted:Motorola MA1 for about a year and a half and it has been solid. I've been using AAWireless for a bunch of years now, ordered it from indiegogo campaign. Was quite poo poo at the beginning, but with software updates it's been rock solid now for more than 2 years. Except one spot in my city. Whenever I go over a particular bridge then under it to merge on a (big) highway, AA just disconnects. Reconnects 2 minutes later. It happened too many times around that spot to be a coincidence. No idea what could cause it, but that location on earth just simply hates AAWireless. Or AA. Or me.
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Interesting thing I've just learned. I'm on vacation now in the Dominican and I didn't take my phone out of airplane mode since I've left Toronto. Got wifi at the hotel and I don't need more than that. The weather app knows where I am and has the local weather report. The clock, however, thinks I'm still in Toronto and didn't change. My wife has a pixel, same behavior as my samsung, so I cannot just blame them for this. Would have thought that wifi is enough to determine the location, for timezone purposes, but I guess it isn't. If they don't have access to a carrier, the timezone just doesn't change .
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bull3964 posted:GPS isn't disabled by airplane mode as it is a passive receiver and doesn't emit signals. By default phones are usually set to get time automatically from the cellular network but time zone based on location might be set to off. Hah, that worked. Was not even aware of that option. It took a while to think about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, but after an hour or so, it finally switched the time.
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Nowher posted:I've been a Pixel fanboy for as long as I remember. This was until work gave me a free S22. How do you swap out the samsung crap? They don't want to get uninstalled (via standard means).
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I have a Pixel 6 and my partner got the 8 Pro at my suggestion and after doing her own research, and she's really happy with it. I'm keeping an eye out for a sale and am sorely tempted to get an 8 Pro myself and move my 6 down to being my secondary phone. Wouldn't, at this time (March 2024), be better to just wait till October and get 9 pro? Presumably they'll release one. I suspect the odds are 99% on that. Then again, there won't be sales on 9 pro for a while.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lol there will be sales on it less than a month after it comes out, for Black Friday Oh right. That. See...
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Cleuseau Remos posted:Well I just got a pixel 8 about a week ago and I love it. It's a feature. Perfect
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Apr 18, 2024 22:59
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Leon Sumbitches posted:For all that everyone complains about AI being pointless, tools like this are incredibly useful and will only get better. I mean ... pointless mostly refers to : it's a gimmick. A toy. Nice, ok, but can live without it. Doesn't meaningfully improve ... anything really. The potential is there, after the novelty wears out and people start to think on how to actually make useful poo poo with it. 'Cause what we have so far is not it. Like I saw someone writing: "I don't want for AI to write novels or paint while I do the dishes. I want the AI to do the dishes while I write novels or paint."
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May 18, 2024 00:26
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Definitely a stupid and unnecessary feature for most users. I've said the same thing about most of the last 2 decades of mobile "innovation". They ... seem to loving like it. And therefore, they (the other ones), make it. It is what it is.
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May 25, 2024 03:32
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Desk Lamp posted:then put them in the Galaxy store with the rest of the One UI-optimized apps. Awesome. Now, can I please get a way to remove that poo poo off my phone please?
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I have a question about google's UI: Just recently (3 weeks ago) got a new Pixel 9, updated it to the latest Android (15?) and all is good. The first time that I swiped up on the home screen for it to show me the full list of apps installed on the phone, it asked me if I want it to bring up the keyboard when I do that. I, foolishly, said yes. After a few weeks I find that "feature" to be extremely annoying. But, I cannot find it in the settings, where to change it. I know, I know, I said yes myself, but surely there must be a checkbox to disable that, right? Does anyone know where could I uncheck that in the settings? Thank you. edit: 5 minutes later, found it. It's the Pixel Launcher and it has "additional settings in the app" (from the settings->apps) where it has a checkbox to "Start searching when I swipe up". drat they hid that really well. All good again. Volguus fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 3, 2025 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Unless a technical problem is technically impossible to improve or solve, they should improve or solve the technical problem. Get Good, Google. They're run by accountants now, so ... No. Since Apple can do it, Google would be able too if they wanted. They don't, so that's that. There are no barriers, no technical impossibilities, just no will.
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I usually listen to sirius xm in my car, and while they do have an app, I just set some favourite channels and just control them from the steering wheel (move up and down a bit). Set AA to not start playing music and it all works fine. However, if I do start an music app from AA once (spotify, sirius xm, whatever), it will start playing it if it is still running on the device when I start the car for at least the first few times. I have to manually change the media source in the car to the radio.
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Apr 15, 2025 05:32
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My android just went a bit wonky. I have 2 languages (english and romanian) installed on my phone, 2 keyboards at least (what I care about). They're handy for words suggestions when I text with my parents (and they come with the 5 additional characters that I need). All good. Texts with my parents, the keyboard knows to switch to romanian. With my wife, where we use 2 words in one language and 3 in others ... yeah, it's kinda confused about the suggestions, but I understand. However, until today, never saw this: All of the text is in english, as it is set as the primary language on the phone. For the Wallet (bottom right), it translated it to romanian for some reason. I hope is not a thing where more and more user interface components get translated, 'cause I wouldn't know who is who. Even with that, I had to translate it back to english in my head to realize that ... oh, it's google wallet you're talking about here. It's a pixel 9, latest and greatest android (as far as I can tell). Languages are hard.
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Oh, so it's a known bug with android. I haven't noticed it until 2-3 weeks ago, even though I had 2 languages installed since forever.
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