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baka kaba posted:Doesn't the Play Music app do gapless? I noticed a while back that songs were transitioning cleanly without any glitching, if there's ever an issue it seems to be a one-off when I listen again. Haven't done any proper testing or anything though It does because it prefetches a bunch of songs in your current album or playlist.
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1st AD posted:It tells the OS to clear deleted blocks of data to free them up for other use; without it the drive eventually fills up to capacity and performance suffers majorly. That seems like a pretty simplistic idea, though perhaps harder in implementation. Has this really not been around in other phones?
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Nov 22, 2013 08:36
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The guy who explained it earlier in the thread actually got it a bit wrong. There's a better description here, and as you can see from the table on that page, it took quite a while for most desktop OSs to get support. It's a fairly complex thing to do properly, and isn't strictly necessary for operation.
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SB35 posted:I know it's been mentioned before but with the N5 being so bright, what is the best f.lux like app to use? Any recommendations? I use an app called Twilight: rather than just darkening the screen at sunset, it bathes the display in a gentle orange glow. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.lux
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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Gianthogweed posted:Since they're shutting down winamp, are there any other good free music players for a galaxy that supports gapless playback? It's not like they're going to yank the Winamp APK off your device once it's shut down. You're just not going to get any more updates. Which IMO is fine. Winamp kicks the llama's rear end pretty well in current form.
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Tunga posted:Is this really a thing? Even though the correct build.prop is in the package that you are applying?
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1st AD posted:It does because it prefetches a bunch of songs in your current album or playlist. Yeah but gapless means playing two tracks without any fraction of silence inbetween, which usually requires special functionality in the software to avoid the blank samples you get at the end of MP3 files and so on, and make the stream seamless. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're getting at
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spincube posted:I use an app called Twilight: rather than just darkening the screen at sunset, it bathes the display in a gentle orange glow. F.lux changes the colour of your screen at sunset. I've been using it on the pc for a couple of years so I was happy to give them £2 for the app.
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XIII posted:Yeah, it's not exactly out of the running, but just not a top choice. The software is what really draws me to the Maxx, while the stupidly large screen (and ridiculous amount of RAM, another reason I'm tired of my GNex) makes me want the N3. The G2 just sorta falls in the "meh" zone. For what it is worth, I bought 2 Droid Maxxes at launch for $300 each, and I like the phone so much I am not even mad at how much they have dropped in price since I got them. Lowen SoDium fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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Nov 22, 2013 13:58
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Cakefool posted:F.lux changes the colour of your screen at sunset. I've been using it on the pc for a couple of years so I was happy to give them £2 for the app. The original f.lux android app isn't out yet. Lux Autobrightness is developed by some other dude.
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There was talk earlier in the thread about KRT16O and KRT16S with regards to update. My Nexus 5 is only KRT16M, is the letter per device?
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The Merkinman posted:There was talk earlier in the thread about KRT16O and KRT16S with regards to update. My Nexus 5 is only KRT16M, is the letter per device? You're up to date. KRT16O & KRT16S are for other devices (N4, N7) that got OTA updates. See Nexus Factory Images
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The letter at the end doesn't mean a lot really: http://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html
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baka kaba posted:Doesn't the Play Music app do gapless? I noticed a while back that songs were transitioning cleanly without any glitching, if there's ever an issue it seems to be a one-off when I listen again. Haven't done any proper testing or anything though play music app isn't gapless with the songs i've tested on it.
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First Moto G review is up. It appears to be a winner. http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-g-review They said the display was fantastic. The back shells are a little easy to mark up and the rear camera isn't all that amazing. However, it performs great, gets excellent battery life and has a really good 720p display, all for under $200. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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bull3964 posted:First Moto G review is up. It appears to be a winner. No LTE? Thats a deal. r0ck0 fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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r0ck0 posted:No LTE? Thats a deal breaker. At the price, nobody will care. It's a great deal and HSPA+ is plenty fast, IMO.
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r0ck0 posted:No LTE? Thats a deal breaker.
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hotsauce posted:At the price, nobody will care. It's a great deal and HSPA+ is plenty fast, IMO.
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r0ck0 posted:No LTE? Thats a deal breaker. It's not a proper flagship, it's meant to give first-time buyers and those in poorer nations a decent smartphone while entrenching Google's platform. Moto-G was designed to help them take over the world.
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r0ck0 posted:No LTE? Thats a deal breaker. It's not a high-end flagship phone meant for the normal high-end phone market. It's meant for the developing world and is low cost for a reason. It doesn't need LTE and no one this phone is meant for will give a poo poo. e:fb
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Moving from HSPA+ to LTE has been a very big improvement on straight talk, but at Moto G's price i think the phrase 'beggars can't be choosers' comes into play.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:This is correct. There hasn't be a noticeable improvement for me moving from HSPA+ to LTE. I got to play around with LTE for the first time the other day. Speedtests were amazingly higher...but, as happens with many synthetic benchmarks, I didn't really notice much of a difference in normal browsing.
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I remember seeing someone post about a way to get $30 pre-paid T-Mobile cards for $27... Were they just blowing smoke, or is that actually a thing?
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I just got a KitKat update notification for my Nexus 4 but I don't want the update due to some changes I read about and generally being happy with 4.2.x. How do I decline this thing? It's already updated, stuck itself permanently into the Notifications and I'm worried if I reboot my phone it will just auto-install itself. I just to stick with what I've got for awhile.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:This is correct. There hasn't be a noticeable improvement for me moving from HSPA+ to LTE. I think this is because T-Mobile's LTE isn't all that fast.
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The Gunslinger posted:I just got a KitKat update notification for my Nexus 4 but I don't want the update due to some changes I read about and generally being happy with 4.2.x. Out of curiosity, what in particular?
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Mu Zeta posted:I think this is because T-Mobile's LTE isn't all that fast.
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Mu Zeta posted:I think this is because T-Mobile's LTE isn't all that fast. T-Mobile rolled out some super fast HSPA+ before going to LTE, so if you're in a spot with particularly good signal, it's not unreasonable to get ~20 Mbps on HSPA+ which isn't much slower than most real-life LTE speeds.
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Mu Zeta posted:I think this is because T-Mobile's LTE isn't all that fast. Depends on your market - in the west side of LA I get about 12 on LTE or HSPA, in parts of suburban San Diego I get 8 on HSPA and 20 on LTE.
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Thanatosian posted:I remember seeing someone post about a way to get $30 pre-paid T-Mobile cards for $27... Were they just blowing smoke, or is that actually a thing? Most likely smoke or something fishy going on. T-Mobile no longer gives discounts to resellers (or large enough discounts). I get mine from callingmart.com which gives like 1% in store credit plus my CC gives 1% back so that's a little savings. If your state doesn't charge sales tax on refill cards you can purchase from Target with a Red Card which is 5%. The whole LTE thing I think comes from CDMA (Sprint and Verizon) topping out at like 3 megabits. So to get 3G on CDMA is terrible but for HSPA you are looking at more normal broadband speeds (10+ megabits). I can't wait for the Moto G to hit the U.S. it will give us a better option for a cheap Android phone besides buy a Lumia 520/521.
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Sereri posted:Out of curiosity, what in particular? I'm trying to do a bit of goaltending with how much personal info I put out there and I just read some stuff about deeper integration of things like Now and the home screen that I don't really care for. I'm sure KitKat has many cool changes but what I'm running now is fine and I'm just looking to avoid the update. Ironically googling how to do so is failing me 
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The Gunslinger posted:I just got a KitKat update notification for my Nexus 4 but I don't want the update due to some changes I read about and generally being happy with 4.2.x. How do I decline this thing? It's already updated, stuck itself permanently into the Notifications and I'm worried if I reboot my phone it will just auto-install itself. I just to stick with what I've got for awhile. Edit: Saw what you wrote. Don't be silly; update.
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The Gunslinger posted:I'm trying to do a bit of goaltending with how much personal info I put out there and I just read some stuff about deeper integration of things like Now and the home screen that I don't really care for. I'm sure KitKat has many cool changes but what I'm running now is fine and I'm just looking to avoid the update. Ironically googling how to do so is failing me You can certainly disable Google Now on the home screen.
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nimper posted:You can certainly disable Google Now on the home screen. And if you use Google Services, whether or not Google Now is turned on they still already have all that yummy personal data.
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You can also just use a different launcher (Nova, Apex, whatever) and completely bypass whatever issues you're imagining here.
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quote:You can't without root and some serious fuckery. Well, that's not true, you can decline to install it but the phone bother you about it constantly. Since you said 4.2 instead of 4.3 I'm wondering what crazy edge case you've talked yourself into to convince yourself not to upgrade? It's 4.3 actually, I just hadn't looked in awhile. I don't really see a method of declining it is the problem but thanks anyways, I'll do more research into what's in 4.4 and figure something out.
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The Gunslinger posted:It's 4.3 actually, I just hadn't looked in awhile. I don't really see a method of declining it is the problem but thanks anyways, I'll do more research into what's in 4.4 and figure something out. Please post your results here. I'm curious to see what you turn up.
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The Gunslinger posted:I just got a KitKat update notification for my Nexus 4 but I don't want the update due to some changes I read about and generally being happy with 4.2.x. How do I decline this thing? It's already updated, stuck itself permanently into the Notifications and I'm worried if I reboot my phone it will just auto-install itself. I just to stick with what I've got for awhile. I left my N4 on 4.2 with the 4.3 update in the notification area for probably a month because I was too lazy to read up on what I needed to do (as I was stock with root at the time). You can leave that notification there for as long as you want, it won't auto-install unless you accidentally tap it.
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