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Nam Taf posted:I'm looking at buying an Android phone for my father for christmas. Coming from the world of Apple, this poo poo's overwhelmingly confusing. It sounds like you are looking for an Android phone that is a clone of an iphone, just get him an iphone.
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Speaking of clones of phones, here's what I just did to my Galaxy Nexus: The launcher is Launcher 8. It's pretty awesome. I got Segoe WP to be the default font by flashing the zip from this XDA thread. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Dec 16, 2012 |
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Arcsech posted:Ask in the Android Phone Thread and you'll probably get some better advice. I thought I had but I'm clearly retarded, sorry about that!
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lelandjs posted:Speaking of clones of phones, here's what I just did to my Galaxy Nexus: does launcher 8 run kind of slow for you? its stutters alot on my galaxy S3
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Dec 16, 2012 05:18
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Ignore this. Awful app dumped a reply into the wrong thread.
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Dec 16, 2012 07:47
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Oh my god it did it again.
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rolleyes posted:Just quoting you to (hopefully) bring this post to your attention. I think I've found a bit of an issue in the new version of the app. When it refreshes the news feed, it brings in new posts but doesn't appear to update the comments/likes for posts which are already present on the feed. Yeah, it's a temporary limitation of how the feed update model works. Annoys me too. Delete and other secondary actions will be back, certainly. Moving to a native model requires that every action get a wire-safe API, basically, where it could just use the same paths as www before. We're just getting started. The blog isn't a great feedback channel, I don't think. S/N is all wrong. Fine to quote-flag at me here, especially for core app/mobile-site stuff, I'll fwd where it seems productive.
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Dec 16, 2012 17:09
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Thanks for the info - good to know that it's known about.
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Dec 16, 2012 17:12
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big mean giraffe posted:The app preserves your shuffle setting, this is how every PC music player since EVER has done it too. Don't know why you would want it to constantly forget settings. Sorry I have a different preference than you? I didn't say anything about it forgetting settings. I'm asking it to do something entirely different than what it was, I'm asking it to change settings. Choosing to shuffle all of your songs is a fairly common thing, but so is wanting to just listen to an album in order. And keep in mind that comparing how an app works to a computer music program is silly. Every computer music program typically has it's controls right there in plain view. If I want to turn off shuffle, I can do so easily before playing the new album. In Google Music, these are all on different screens. It doesn't matter if "every PC music player since EVER" has done it that way, they have interfaces that make it easy to change.
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Dec 16, 2012 18:09
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Well, if it's any consolation, "shuffle" doesn't actually shuffle the play order very much. It's hilariously bugged.
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Dec 16, 2012 21:06
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My old rear end grandmother bought an HTC Desire without telling anyone and the phone is too small and sensitive for her hosed up shaky old lady fingers. Are there any accessibility apps or options to replace the phone and messaging stuff with something with simple giant buttons?
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Dec 16, 2012 21:20
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Oh hey, remember Solid Explorer? The one decent file manager on Android? Good news: It's out of beta. Bad news: It's gone to 14-day trialware, so if that bothers you this is your heads-up. The unlock is a whopping two dollars, though, and in my estimate that's a steal.
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Dec 16, 2012 21:21
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Oh hey, remember Solid Explorer? The one decent file manager on Android? Hmm, I've been using Total Commander for two paned file managing goodness but it seems this one is a bit more feature rich. Will try it out.
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Dec 16, 2012 21:29
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lessthankyle posted:Every computer music program typically has it's controls right there in plain view. If I want to turn off shuffle, I can do so easily before playing the new album. In Google Music, these are all on different screens. It doesn't matter if "every PC music player since EVER" has done it that way, they have interfaces that make it easy to change. You mean like right next to the play/pause, previous song, and next song buttons, like the Play Music app has? You're right, that's pretty difficult to find and I'd much prefer if the app randomly reset the shuffle setting when I wasn't looking. Thoom posted:Well, if it's any consolation, "shuffle" doesn't actually shuffle the play order very much. It's hilariously bugged. Now this is a reasonable gripe! I think the bugginess of it is that it shuffles with replacement, so you can hit the same song frequently depending on how small the "shuffled" batch of music is. I haven't noticed shuffling issues besides that, but it'll obviously be pretty dumb when you're shuffling like a single album. It would be super easy for Google to switch so it shuffles without replacement, but Google 
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RVProfootballer posted:Now this is a reasonable gripe! I think the bugginess of it is that it shuffles with replacement, so you can hit the same song frequently depending on how small the "shuffled" batch of music is. I haven't noticed shuffling issues besides that, but it'll obviously be pretty dumb when you're shuffling like a single album. It would be super easy for Google to switch so it shuffles without replacement, but Google It's even worse because one of the google engineers who works on the project basically said "It's not bugged! That's our implementation of shuffle!" which is just loving  Although I think it's gotten significantly better after one of the (semi) recent updates, right? I'm pretty sure it creates a randomly-sorted list of songs to play when you hit the shuffle button now. At least, that's what it does when you shuffle a playlist. You can actually see what song is next before you hit the button now.
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Dec 17, 2012 00:16
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I'm pretty sure it also shuffles the songs after the current song and the songs before the current song separately. So if I have a playlist of 50 songs, and I start playing track #40, the next 10 songs will always be picked from the pool of #41-50. The only thing more absurd than Google's shuffle implementation is the fact that Subsonic manages to do it worse.
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Dec 17, 2012 01:05
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Awful Betamax has been acting funny Also not loading pics / urls like it was
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Awful Betamax has been acting funny Usually just hitting the refresh button fixes this issue.
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Dec 17, 2012 02:28
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Oh hey, remember Solid Explorer? The one decent file manager on Android? Geektox posted:Hmm, I've been using Total Commander for two paned file managing goodness but it seems this one is a bit more feature rich. Will try it out. Overall I can't help but say that the best file browser just got a lot better, can't wait for them to get it ready for release.
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Dec 17, 2012 02:31
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LastInLine posted:Actually I'm in the invite-only beta for the next version of EStrong's and while I preferred the last version of ES to Solid, I definitely think the new one is a good step in the right direction. It looks good, much less convoluted than Solid but not as clean as the new Astro. It's only at the first beta release so there are a few more weeks and months to go before release but even with this early release I'm liking it a lot more than Solid, especially in the way it handles multiple windows. It retains ES's swipe for net/lan/phone but you can easily add or subtract as many windows to that as you go. The functions are a lot better labelled and more sensibly laid out compared to Solid but there are a few areas of UI clutter. How do you get invited for that?
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Dec 17, 2012 08:23
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fuf posted:My old rear end grandmother bought an HTC Desire without telling anyone and the phone is too small and sensitive for her hosed up shaky old lady fingers. I've never tried it before, but Big Launcher looks like it'd be great for both seniors and vision-impaired people.
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Dec 17, 2012 08:24
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RVProfootballer posted:You mean like right next to the play/pause, previous song, and next song buttons, like the Play Music app has? You're right, that's pretty difficult to find and I'd much prefer if the app randomly reset the shuffle setting when I wasn't looking. It's not that upsetting to desire: Open Play Music > Go To Album > Play and have it play the album from start to finish in order, regardless of what it was doing before. If you didn't leave the app on the current song screen, it's just an added annoying step. Thoom posted:Well, if it's any consolation, "shuffle" doesn't actually shuffle the play order very much. It's hilariously bugged. lessthankyle fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Dec 17, 2012 08:42
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gucci mangosteen posted:I've never tried it before, but Big Launcher looks like it'd be great for both seniors and vision-impaired people. drat, that looks perfect, thanks so much.
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ThermoPhysical posted:How do you get invited for that? They apparently really need to work on getting it tablet ready because the majority of the complaints are regarding that and there seem to be some crashes here and there but honestly if they just fix the issues I'd be perfectly happy to replace the current ES with this one without any other additions.
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Dec 17, 2012 12:51
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Any recommendation for a "Find Friends" type app that works on both Android and iPhone? I need my wife to be able to request my GPS location and stalk me.
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Dec 17, 2012 19:52
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dema posted:Any recommendation for a "Find Friends" type app that works on both Android and iPhone? I need my wife to be able to request my GPS location and stalk me.
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Dec 17, 2012 19:54
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When I looked at Latitude earlier, it seemed like I had to publish my location. That she couldn't just request it ad-hoc. Am I misunderstanding? Need to have her be able to see where I am when I'm off riding my bike. Thanks.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:01
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The only option i can think of is also an incredibly snoopy one. If you and your wife trust eachother explicitly enough, you can use cerberus. Keep in mind that EVERYTHING is accessible. Text message logs, call logs, it can get really creepy really fast. If you use Cerberus, don't blame me for your divorce.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:07
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dema posted:When I looked at Latitude earlier, it seemed like I had to publish my location. That she couldn't just request it ad-hoc. Am I misunderstanding? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.life360.android.safetymapd We use this it works pretty well and you can even access the info from a PC.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:11
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dema posted:Any recommendation for a "Find Friends" type app that works on both Android and iPhone? I need my wife to be able to request my GPS location and stalk me. My wife and I use Glympse to see her commute home. She normally Glympses me but I think I can request a Glympse of her.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:22
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I'm not super-familiar with the in's and out's of iOS but I'm told that iMessage will cobble together messages from SMS and iMessage (their IM service) into one thread for each contact. Is there anything on Android that can do that? I recall that when I was on HTC Sense you could go into the Contacts app and under a contact's listing you could see recent messages from them.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:27
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It seems like Mightytext doesn't recognize contacts I added after I installed it. Is there an easy way to resync them?
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Dec 17, 2012 20:35
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dema posted:When I looked at Latitude earlier, it seemed like I had to publish my location. That she couldn't just request it ad-hoc. Am I misunderstanding?
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metachronos posted:It seems like Mightytext doesn't recognize contacts I added after I installed it. Is there an easy way to resync them? In the Settings page (link in the top right of the MightyText page) there's options at the bottom to link with your Google contacts or to Refresh Contact from Phone
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Require More Fire posted:I'm not super-familiar with the in's and out's of iOS but I'm told that iMessage will cobble together messages from SMS and iMessage (their IM service) into one thread for each contact. Is there anything on Android that can do that? I recall that when I was on HTC Sense you could go into the Contacts app and under a contact's listing you could see recent messages from them. Maybe I'm being dense, but what are you asking to be combined in one view? It's not like Android phones receive iMessages, they just come through as MMS.
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Dec 17, 2012 20:58
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Apparently instead of a sale they're doing daily "deals" on the Play store
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Dec 17, 2012 21:18
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sirbeefalot posted:Maybe I'm being dense, but what are you asking to be combined in one view? It's not like Android phones receive iMessages, they just come through as MMS. Well, you could have whatsapp, Facebook, gtalk.
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sirbeefalot posted:Maybe I'm being dense, but what are you asking to be combined in one view? It's not like Android phones receive iMessages, they just come through as MMS. Sorry, SMS and Gtalk at the very least. Basically I'd like to have one place to go to view message threads instead of trying to remember which service a conversation took place in and having to go to that app.
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Swiftkey Flow is having some issues with predictions. Certain letters, such as B and C, aren't giving me any predictions when I first type them. Only the letter shows up as a suggestion and they need at least a second letter before working correctly. It's also giving me a massive amount of things that I've had to remove from the dictionary such as "le", "ce", and other non-words that are screwing things up. Last time it was an easy fix, there was just a new language pack to download. This time it says I'm up to date so I'm at a loss. While I'm on the subject, why does it let me delete certain words and not others? Just while typing it it's given me "cert", "pa", and "lo" instead of suggesting sensible things like certain or loss. It doesn't give me the option to delete them though to avoid the problem in the future. This entire prediction system is hosed compared to what I'm used to.
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Teeter posted:Swiftkey Flow You should post this up on their forum too, it is a beta after all.
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