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Badly Jester posted:As a German, I'm sad to report that Google Maps knows jack poo poo about transit in Germany. They've only recently started incorporating regional trains and S-Bahnen. There's no info on public transit like busses and subways. This makes me especially sad because I love the concept of Google Now; it's just useless in Germany right now. The transit service provider ultimately has to provide the data for Google to be able to display it.
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dissss posted:The transit service provider ultimately has to provide the data for Google to be able to display it. Well, naturally. Most urban transit providers have their own platforms (and the Deutsche Bahn site/app has access to all of those) , so the data already exists somewhere in the etherwebs. Then again, speculating on who's dragging his feet in making them available on Google won't help Nihiliste any. Edit: I don't mind helping you out further, but let's get in touch somewhere else so we don't derail the thread. You can find me as tim.hoffmann [motherfucking] gmail.com on Google Talk/Plus/Whatevs Badly Jester fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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Anyone else getting a bug in Google Currents where you can't swipe scroll between stories if the text size is set to Large? It works if the text size is medium or small, and swiping between pages of the story works, just not between stories.
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Badly Jester posted:As a German, I'm sad to report that Google Maps knows jack poo poo about transit in Germany. They've only recently started incorporating regional trains and S-Bahnen. There's no info on public transit like busses and subways. This makes me especially sad because I love the concept of Google Now; it's just useless in Germany right now. Thanks for the info, it's more important than you know! Does Offi have any offline support though, or will I need to pop in a German SIM? (Speaking of which, what would be a good plan for a two-week trip?) Nihiliste fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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Sep 27, 2012 13:36
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Splizwarf posted:Set the correct location first, then: This is awesome. Thanks!
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Taffer posted:So is it impossible to listen to youtube videos with the screen locked? I like to listen to lectures and speeches and other similar things on youtube and would like to do it on my phone while I'm walking around doing things. I did a bunch of googling but all I got were a bunch of dodgy apps that didn't work at all.
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A bunch of new apps have gone on sale as part of the 25 Billion Downloads thing, including the awesome World of Goo.
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rolleyes posted:A bunch of new apps have gone on sale as part of the 25 Billion Downloads thing, including the awesome World of Goo.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:How do you get the new ones to show up? I'm only seeing the ones from yesterday.  v
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Sep 27, 2012 19:06
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http://www.fieldtripper.com/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.scout Field Trip posted:Field Trip is your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you. Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it pops up a card with details about the location. No click is required. If you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you. Looks kinda interesting, just installing it now.
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Sep 27, 2012 20:12
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Help I got put in a group iphone chat thing and I'm getting tons of MMS from a bunch of people, is there any app that can handle that?
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I doubt on the first person to figure this out but the 25 cent apps aren't just for one day. They seem to still be 25 cents even from yesterday. One example is the tasks app from yesterday's promotion. It still 25 cents. So there doesn't appear to be a rush to purchase on the day they're featured. Edit - never mind this is terrible advice. Most all from yesterday are back to full price. I guess tasks is one exception. hotsauce fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:How do you get the new ones to show up? I'm only seeing the ones from yesterday. Yeah it's odd. I was notified by AppSales (you should get it, it monitors the Play Store and alerts you to apps which have reduced in price) but it took a good few hours until they showed up on the 25 Billion Downloads Sale page for me. They were definitely discounted immediately though.
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hotsauce posted:I doubt on the first person to figure this out but the 25 cent apps aren't just for one day. They seem to still be 25 cents even from yesterday. One example is the tasks app from yesterday's promotion. It still 25 cents. So there doesn't appear to be a rush to purchase on the day they're featured. That's fine, because I wanted 2 apps from yesterday, just needed to search them. Glimm posted:http://www.fieldtripper.com/ Oh hey, this looks cool, I'm just gonna go ahead and downlo... quote:This item cannot be installed in your device's country. 
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Sep 27, 2012 22:43
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Is there an app or a way to tell Android to drop wifi and use my 3G connection if the wifi signal is really poor? Similar to the iOS 6 feature that didn't make it in the final release.
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Secx posted:Is there an app or a way to tell Android to drop wifi and use my 3G connection if the wifi signal is really poor?
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Sep 27, 2012 23:55
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Karthe posted:Give PVStar+ a try. I tested it out last night and was able play YouTube videos in the background and with the screen turned off. You can either add specific videos to the playlist by URL or by searching for it from within the app. The only downside is that the dev's Japanese so there's a tiny bit of Engrish in the UI. I tried this, but when I searched for something it just searched for about 30 seconds and then gave up, finding nothing. Any ideas?
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Jelly Bean will do this automatically. It doesn't do a very good job of it.
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Sep 28, 2012 00:13
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Crud, I didn't realize Play was doing an app sale until today so I missed out on yesterday's stuff. Does anyone remember if they put everything back on sale during the last day, Steam sale-style?
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Migishu posted:Oh hey, this looks cool, I'm just gonna go ahead and downlo...
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C-Euro posted:Crud, I didn't realize Play was doing an app sale until today so I missed out on yesterday's stuff. Does anyone remember if they put everything back on sale during the last day, Steam sale-style? They're still on sale right now. They're just introducing new ones each day.
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Great to know about the previous day's specials persisting. Couldn't get all the ones I wanted in time yesterday because of the time required between transactions. Anyway came here to post results about my experiment with using multiple google accounts concurrently on one device. In short it works just fine. I mentioned I was after a way to put things on a tablet for my daughter. But it also extends to being able to have things for my little boy on either of ours. It seems silly to buy a couple of instances of an app intended for one little person to use occasionally depending on which parent he chooses to hassle. In essense all I did was this: Went to settings->accounts and added the other google account. Then just deselected all the sync options. In Play store where it has the current accounts e-mail address is a drop down. Chose the account I wanted, went through all apps, found what I was after and hit install. I'm not condoning this as a method of cheating authors out of their hard earned by the way. It just seems that this combined with locking the store offers solutions for both issues I have with software use for my kids. Ie one person, multiple devices in the case of my son,. and one device / no access to wallet / parent's accounts while keeping licenses valid for my daughter. I know it's not about an app but more about usage of apps and the model which Play uses.
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Arrrgghhh, the sale is going to end on the day I get my first Android phone ever. I wish I could register a fake device so that I could buy these apps.
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Nagato posted:Arrrgghhh, the sale is going to end on the day I get my first Android phone ever. I wish I could register a fake device so that I could buy these apps. Do you know someone with an Android phone that you can trust to have your account on their device for a few days? That will let you buy the apps, but they'll have access to your gmail and stuff.
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go to a retailer with live demo units, sign in to your google account on said device, buy the stuff, cancel the downloads, then wipe your google account from the device? Just a random thought at least. Seems like you might be able to pull it off in somewhere like Best Buy where I remember messing with a galaxy note for about 15 minutes with not a single person anywhere around me. bonus points : factory wipe the phone when you leave with the infamous code that's been going around thanks to the recent samsung debacle.
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Isn't there a way to hack the Play Store into the Android emulator? No idea if it lets you buy apps though.
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Penguissimo posted:Isn't there a way to hack the Play Store into the Android emulator? No idea if it lets you buy apps though. Are you wanting to purchase apps not available in your area or what? 
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Kumquat posted:They're still on sale right now. They're just introducing new ones each day. Are you sure? For example I checked Office Suite Pro and the price is back to $15. Or do you mean "on sale" and not necessarily "on sale for 25c"? E: I'm going off this list- swampface posted:Here's the list of the apps for today so far: C-Euro fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Sep 28, 2012 |
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Napolean Bonerfarts posted:Are you wanting to purchase apps not available in your area or what? Sorry, that was in response to the guy who's buying a phone the day after the sale ends and wanted to know if he could buy the apps in advance. Probably should have quoted him.
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Nerdrock posted:go to a retailer with live demo units, sign in to your google account on said device, buy the stuff, cancel the downloads, then wipe your google account from the device?
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:If you cancel the downloads, it will count as refunding the purchase. No it won't. It used it, but it doesn't anymore. I canceled my download of Cut the Rope Experiments earlier because Google still doesn't have an option to queue large downloads until you're on wifi, and it canceled without refunding. I'm guessing that went into effect around the same time the Play Store started requiring a password to buy apps.
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Is there an alternate lock screen does gesture unlock? Preferably one that doesn't display anything.
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Is the audiko.net app safe? It's only available as a direct apk download so I want to make sure it's not full of weird poo poo or something.
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Is there a good way to move large files between two android devices (specifically, a Nexus 7 and a Galaxy Nexus) without involving another device? I tried both Airdroid and running an FTP server on one and a client on the other, and both stall out or fail. I assume I can't mount one on the other since neither has USB mass storage mode, so I'm curious what options I have.
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UnbornApple posted:Is the audiko.net app safe? It's only available as a direct apk download so I want to make sure it's not full of weird poo poo or something. I use it all the time it seems to be just fine. For some reason it's not listed on the Google Play store but only available through their website as a direct .apk download
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Craptacular! posted:Maybe your country has nothing interesting, unique, or cool? Canada
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Penguissimo posted:Isn't there a way to hack the Play Store into the Android emulator? No idea if it lets you buy apps though. I forgot about that. It looks like there might be a current hack that works: http://www.piotrbuda.eu/2012/05/installing-google-play-on-android-emulator.html Looks like this is gonna be a pain in the butt, but then I can save my precious, precious pennies.
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hotsauce posted:I use it all the time it seems to be just fine. For some reason it's not listed on the Google Play store but only available through their website as a direct .apk download Probably because 99% of their content is copywritten and used without permission.
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Nagato posted:I forgot about that. It looks like there might be a current hack that works: Pretty sure I had access to the Google store when I was messing around with Android x86 in a VM last year. Been tempted to try that again just in case I can get some of the apps I want, back them up and sideload them on my tablet or my phone. Like hell I can't use a colour swatch program on my phone.
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Glimm posted:http://www.fieldtripper.com/ Well that's interesting. Found out About Schmidt had a bunch of scenes filmed in/around my neighborhood.
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