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Battery Stats are complete poo poo with kitkat, is there an app that will fill my need to figure out why my battery sucks?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 12:02 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 10:34 |
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Ashex posted:Battery Stats are complete poo poo with kitkat, is there an app that will fill my need to figure out why my battery sucks?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 12:30 |
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5.0.2? I didn't even get 5.0.1 yet! Although I'm not seeing (m)any of the bugs that people here report in 5.0, like the redraw and Wifi bugs and whatnot. At least...I don't think I am?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 13:12 |
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Tunga posted:Accessing battery stats requires root as of KitKat. If you have that you can use BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor. I'm not averse to that so I guess I'll go that route. On a sidenote, has Tasker become unreliable for anyone else in Lollipop? I have a profile that simply toggles Wifi when I'm in the vicinity of work/home and I always have problems with it turning on, never off. GPS is turned on and it was working fine in KitKat.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 13:31 |
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I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile the other day and got an LG G3. Its much nicer than expected, Samsung had me thinking all android phones were garbage. The only issue I've run into though is battery life. I understand it has a 2k display, so that will lessen the battery life, but when it says I've got 3.5 hours left after only 45 minutes of use I get a bit concerned. Any tips on how to improve the life of this thing? I'd prefer to not have to carry my charger everywhere, and I'm not buying an extra battery.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 14:13 |
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The first couple/few days you use the phone will likely result in shorter than expected battery life, since you're playing a lot with it and installing a lot of poo poo. Give it a week or two; if you're not easily getting through a day by that point, take it back.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 14:15 |
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Thermopyle posted:As a developer, every time I hear this I weep. Ideally you'd be able to tweak a theme value though, since Material has the whole palette and hinting thing going on, so it's not actually that out there if they stuck an API on it. Of course in reality it's a rat's nest of themes and references and compatibility libraries, but hey the world can dream
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 16:45 |
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baka kaba posted:so it's not actually that out there if they stuck an API on it. But why would they? What do they have to gain? You want them to put extra man hours into a feature that only the worst humans will use. More code is more place for something to go wrong and more poo poo to maintain. How is that a win on their part? On top of all that, they have a team of marketers that actually do care that gmail is represented with "gmail red". Can you imagine some nerdass showing off his custom scheme with black and purple and chiller font and dragonforce as his inbox background? Is that how you would want your product presented?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 17:10 |
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Sir Unimaginative posted:OG Nexus 7 (the WiFi-only version, anyway) now has 5.0.2 (LRX22G) available for sideload direct from Google. I don't know if it's available OTA; someone else will have to check that. Post-lollipop update, our N7 slowly deteriorated from rebooting several times per hour to just sitting at the boot animation forever and I just have no desire to put in to janitoring the thing back to life. Thanks Google. Oh, this belongs in the tablet thread.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 17:12 |
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Probably your apps
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 17:23 |
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RZA Encryption posted:But why would they? What do they have to gain? I don't want them to? I don't particularly care! I'm just saying Material Design's theming is built around 'branding' colours, and automated APIs to spin off the related palettes, so it's not that far away from developers being able to put a 'change colour' option in their app if they want to. The reality is always horribly complicated and full of caveats, but the functionality is kinda working its way in
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 17:58 |
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Tunga posted:Accessing battery stats requires root as of KitKat. If you have that you can use BetterBatteryStats or GSam Battery Monitor. With the stock backup system (I have a Moto X), how much is restored if you have to reset the device to root it?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 18:18 |
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Just got my Moto X 2013, I like it a lot but is having the "ok Google Now..." feature on all the time a good idea? I thought the only reason Apple does it when the phone is plugged in was because constantly listening for a phrase is a serious drain on the battery? Is this somehow not the case?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 19:46 |
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Melmac posted:Just got my Moto X 2013, I like it a lot but is having the "ok Google Now..." feature on all the time a good idea? I thought the only reason Apple does it when the phone is plugged in was because constantly listening for a phrase is a serious drain on the battery? Is this somehow not the case? It uses a second low power cpu, so no, it's actually not the case.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 20:00 |
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Melmac posted:Just got my Moto X 2013, I like it a lot but is having the "ok Google Now..." feature on all the time a good idea? I thought the only reason Apple does it when the phone is plugged in was because constantly listening for a phrase is a serious drain on the battery? Is this somehow not the case? Moto designed some special low-power hardware to handle the constant listening without draining your battery. Leave it on and enjoy peace of mind.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 20:00 |
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WhyteRyce posted:Should I not expect Moto Voice to read my text messages if I have Hangouts as the default text messaging app? It should read text messages even if you are using hangouts (it just won't read hangouts messages). I don't think it cares what SMS app is used as it reads off the SMS repository itself rather than interacting with whatever SMS app is in use.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 20:26 |
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One day I hope the Moto assist stuff becomes a normal part of Android as a whole because it super cool and would make Android so much better overall.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 20:44 |
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Penguissimo posted:Moto designed some special low-power hardware to handle the constant listening without draining your battery. Leave it on and enjoy peace of mind. Mooktastical posted:It uses a second low power cpu, so no, it's actually not the case. Wow, that is really cool. Thank you, I did not know that. Skeezy posted:One day I hope the Moto assist stuff becomes a normal part of Android as a whole because it super cool and would make Android so much better overall. Agreed! Which reminds me. Someone told me using the Nova Launcher could cause some Moto stuff to not work properly. Has anyone found that to be true?
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 20:57 |
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Melmac posted:Agreed! Which reminds me. Someone told me using the Nova Launcher could cause some Moto stuff to not work properly. Has anyone found that to be true? I can't think of any reason this would be true. I've certainly used Nova ever since I got my 2013 X a year ago and haven't had any issues.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 20:59 |
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For people with a Nexus 6, is the front-facing camera perfectly centered under the cutout in the glass or slightly off? Mine is just a bit off and while it's not causing any problems, it concerns me a little as far as build quality.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 22:07 |
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I mentioned this in the last thread but goddamn does a high volume of white noise/ambient noise gently caress up motorolas always listening for moto voice. I'm a pilot and the ambient noise is high enough that I wear earplugs + a sound insulated helmet but at the right volume that I can hear my noises from my phone, especially the high pitched tone that plays after you say "ok google now" or whatever your phrase is. Flying the other day I had it go off on three separate occassions. I wish it had a setting in the quick settings to turn it off. I love taking it out of my pocket to see the random poo poo its searched.
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# ? Dec 20, 2014 23:34 |
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RZA Encryption posted:But why would they? What do they have to gain? Christ dude, it's just giving people another harmless option to customize their phones, you know, one of Android's strengths over its competitors. I probably wouldn't even change from the default but there's no need to be so overzealous.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 00:47 |
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Desk Lamp posted:Christ dude, it's just giving people another harmless option to customize their phones, you know, one of Android's strengths over its competitors. I probably wouldn't even change from the default but there's no need to be so overzealous. Don't try to reason with him, anyone that wants to customize their user experience past what the OEM intends/allows is a hopeless sperglord, and Literally Hitler.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 00:59 |
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Desk Lamp posted:Christ dude, it's just giving people another harmless option to customize their phones, you know, one of Android's strengths over its competitors. I probably wouldn't even change from the default but there's no need to be so overzealous. I'd add that from a UI/UX perspective it sounds like it would be a nightmare to have a system-level mechanism for managing the colors of every app on the device. What you'd have would either be a way to select a predefined theme that you then have to enforce every app be somehow compatible with or you'd have a list of installed apps that you could select the changeable attributes for each one. Neither is the kind of thing any normal user should be confronted with out of the box as the former option won't be flexible enough to make the people interested in customization happy and the latter would just be a terrible experience. Given the amount of effort and money that goes into branding nobody is going to give users the ability to just strip that out.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:03 |
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LastInLine posted:I think his point was that it isn't necessarily harmless from either a coding perspective or a branding perspective. But I need any option I can conceive because otherwise I'm being restricted!!
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:22 |
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It's MY device I should be able to do whatever I want with it!!!! Oh what's that, I don't own the software too?
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:26 |
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LastInLine posted:I think his point was that it isn't necessarily harmless from either a coding perspective or a branding perspective. I can't believe you people are worried about branding and pissing of marketing people. Did you get your phone for free in a sponsorship deal? You love your corporate overloads that much you are afraid of offending them? Do you think windows had such a problem implementing a theme system? You can change the window frame color and adjust transparency with very little difficulty in windows. Now that apps are trying to conform to the material design specs you think they are not going to add OS wide themes in a future android release? Its only a matter of time until this option is available and what are you going to say then?
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:39 |
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Mooktastical posted:Don't try to reason with him, anyone that wants to customize their user experience past what the OEM intends/allows is a hopeless sperglord, and Literally Hitler. Do you theme gmail too? If so, you're at least Hitlerian.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:40 |
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Nooooo thread turn left turn left
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:41 |
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I'm glad the Android thread remains the same.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:51 |
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r0ck0 posted:I can't believe you people are worried about branding and pissing of marketing people. Did you get your phone for free in a sponsorship deal? You love your corporate overloads that much you are afraid of offending them? quote:Do you think windows had such a problem implementing a theme system? You can change the window frame color and adjust transparency with very little difficulty in windows. Now that apps are trying to conform to the material design specs you think they are not going to add OS wide themes in a future android release? Its only a matter of time until this option is available and what are you going to say then?
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:59 |
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r0ck0 posted:Do you think windows had such a problem implementing a theme system? Windows isn't made by an advertising company that licensed its last major operating system revision in the name of a loving candy bar.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 02:09 |
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Can we close this thread
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 02:12 |
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Manky posted:Windows isn't made by an advertising company that licensed its last major operating system revision in the name of a loving candy bar. Also, it's a phone not a computer so deal with it.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 02:12 |
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LastInLine posted:I'd add that from a UI/UX perspective it sounds like it would be a nightmare to have a system-level mechanism for managing the colors of every app on the device. What you'd have would either be a way to select a predefined theme that you then have to enforce every app be somehow compatible with or you'd have a list of installed apps that you could select the changeable attributes for each one. Neither is the kind of thing any normal user should be confronted with out of the box as the former option won't be flexible enough to make the people interested in customization happy and the latter would just be a terrible experience.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 02:45 |
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Skeezy posted:I'm glad the Android thread remains the same.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 03:20 |
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I just got a system update on my M7 to fix the recent and very annoying bug that broke phone call audio. Apparently it was caused by last month's HTC services update. It happened to me 2 or 3 times this month but was always fixed by a restart. So if you've got an M7, check for it.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 03:41 |
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r0ck0 posted:I can't believe you people are worried about branding and pissing of marketing people. Did you get your phone for free in a sponsorship deal? You love your corporate overloads that much you are afraid of offending them? No one was saying they were worried about branding and pissing of marketing people. They were mentioning another reason system level themeing of apps isn't likely to happen. In fact like one person in this thread (RZA Encryption) would be offended (or whatever) by the inclusion of system themeing, everyone else who talked about it have just mentioned why it's not likely to happen. Chill out man! Also, how the gently caress do you spell "themeing".
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 03:56 |
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Thermopyle posted:
I don't know that's why I just said theme. Anyway, mainstream themeing is going to happen so hold onto your suspenders, nerds.
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# ? Dec 21, 2014 04:05 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 10:34 |
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I wish I worked on more than just one website, otherwise I'd put this code code on every page, always in different colors, just for r0ck0
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