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I'm using 1weather. Has everything you need from a weather app and looks cool imo.
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BeWeather is my favorite weather app. It's gorgeous, has customizable weather notifications (so "river flood warning" doesn't go off every hour during the spring/summer), has tons of customizable widgets, and it's always been stable and reliable.
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Jan 4, 2014 20:49
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Here's some samples of WeatherBug Elite in action  
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Ok, after playing around with Swype I can honestly say that SwiftKey handles bilingual much better. So back to ugly themes I guess.
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Jan 4, 2014 21:49
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Does Swype still force you to use that dumb Dragon voice input instead of the far superior Google version? That's why I uninstalled it.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:38
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LastInLine posted:As Vykk.Draygo said, don't use a task killer, don't use battery saving apps, and to add one more, don't put apps on the SD card. Thanks for the replies, but I'm doing none of that nonsense. There was some goofy "Power Saving Mode" enabled in the system settings which I turned off, but Beautiful Widgets is telling me right now that it's 12:29 and 97% battery, neither which are true.
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Jan 4, 2014 23:00
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LastInLine posted:I agree. I don't see where it makes any sense at all. I mean, Bitspin Another weird thing is that it's not like they were making complicated apps or something...they're not getting some awesome algorithms or great minds out of the purchase. They're getting people who made apps that were just a few steps removed from a Hello World app (albeit, they were pretty good apps). I don't want to discount the skills of UI designers, but to buy a company to get some good UI designers seems really odd.
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Tunga posted:Does Swype still force you to use that dumb Dragon voice input instead of the far superior Google version? That's why I uninstalled it. Yes. It's a big part of why I install Swype every couple of months to see if I'll love it as much as I used to then almost immediately uninstall it. I actually decided to install it again today, but I'm just going to keep it for when the mood to use it strikes.
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What are you guys using for an snes gamepad? the touch controls are just not doing it for me. I have an LG Optimus L9 running Android
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Is there an app that would automatically change my wallpaper whenever I switch to landscape and then switch back to the default wallpaper when I go back to portrait?
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chiz posted:What are you guys using for an snes gamepad? the touch controls are just not doing it for me. I have a moga pocket controller that I got for free. It works and is easy to put into your pocket, but it doesn't have a d-pad and requires 2 AAA batteries.
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Disharmony posted:Is there an app that would automatically change my wallpaper whenever I switch to landscape and then switch back to the default wallpaper when I go back to portrait? Not that I'd know how but I'm pretty sure Tasker just told me it could do that.
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Bunk Rogers posted:Not that I'd know how but I'm pretty sure Tasker just told me it could do that. Yep, I just tried it and it's very simple. Create a new profile. Display -> Orientation -> Landscape New task within the profile Display -> Set wallpaper -> click the magnifying glass icon and choose your image.
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That worked indeed! Awesome! When I go on landscape mode though, it adds a Google Now and microphone icon at the left. How do I remove those?
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bunky posted:Thanks for the replies, but I'm doing none of that nonsense. There was some goofy "Power Saving Mode" enabled in the system settings which I turned off, but Beautiful Widgets is telling me right now that it's 12:29 and 97% battery, neither which are true. Beautiful Widgets is a piece of poo poo. It used to randomly decide to turn my cpu usage up to 100%, so I greenified its dumb rear end, and restricted what it could do through app ops. When I installed Next Launcher, it started doing what you're describing. I took it off the greenify list, but kept it restricted in app ops. At one point I deleted and re-added the homescreen widget, and it automatically refreshes now for the most part. Sometimes I have to go in and refresh the weather manually, but that's rare. You might want to try deleting and re-adding, then refreshing the weather inside the app itself.
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Mooktastical posted:Beautiful Widgets is a piece of poo poo. It used to randomly decide to turn my cpu usage up to 100%, so I greenified its dumb rear end, and restricted what it could do through app ops. When I installed Next Launcher, it started doing what you're describing. I took it off the greenify list, but kept it restricted in app ops. bunky, if you put some other updating widget on the home screen, does the same thing happen? Like let's say you threw on DashClock or something else, would it fail to update?
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Any Aussies who know of decent weather apps that pull from the Bureau of Meteorology instead of third parties?
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edit: moved post into ereader thread.
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Stan Taylor posted:Is there a goon consensus on the best weather app? AccuWeather is on sale right now. I'd want one with decent widgets and a radar view. DashClock + Yahoo Weather
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Anyone know why AudioOut_2 is raping the poo poo out of my battery? The internet seems to think it's because of some app called "Viber" that I've never used.  AnimalChin fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Jan 5, 2014 17:58
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Maker Of Shoes posted:DashClock + Yahoo Weather I found Yahoo weather liked to hammer location services on every device I installed it on. Awake time on my Nexus 7 while idle dropped by about half when I uninstalled it.
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AnimalChin posted:Anyone know why AudioOut_2 is raping the poo poo out of my battery?
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AnimalChin posted:Anyone know why AudioOut_2 is raping the poo poo out of my battery?
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LastInLine posted:Some games hold the audio channel open. Have you been playing any? When you adjust the volume does it show the ringtone icon or the speaker icon? Is there a game in your recent apps? Just Hay Day, but I always do a "close all" after playing via the recent apps menu that pops up after holding the home button for a second. Adjusting the volume gives me the ringer icon.
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Do you listen to any music? And why do you think that's hurting your battery? What does the battery usage graph show? Wakelocks can be a sign of something running when it shouldn't, and they stop your phone from dropping to a low power idle state, but 20 mins of unwanted awake time shouldn't make a big impact
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bull3964 posted:I found Yahoo weather liked to hammer location services on every device I installed it on. Awake time on my Nexus 7 while idle dropped by about half when I uninstalled it. That's weird. I've never once seen it do anything wonky on my 5 or 7. I'll keep an eye out though, I'd be sad to lose it.
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I'm in the market for a new SMS app. I've been using Hancent, not because I love it, but because it was one of the leading choices a few years back and I was OK with it. Now there's a feature I want that it doesn't have - I want to set not only ringtone but also ring behavior on a default and a per-contact basis. I get texts for work periodically, sometimes from unknown people, and so I want the default behavior to be to ring and keep ringing indefinitely until I answer. I also have friends who text for any reason or none, and for them, I want to be able to change it to ring once and then shut up. Handcent only lets me change tones; ring frequency and such are global settings, and that's not enough anymore. I don't really care about MMS and group texts, I just want that one notification behavior. Anyone have a suggestion?
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I'm in the market for a new SMS app. I've been using Hancent, not because I love it, but because it was one of the leading choices a few years back and I was OK with it. Now there's a feature I want that it doesn't have - I want to set not only ringtone but also ring behavior on a default and a per-contact basis. I get texts for work periodically, sometimes from unknown people, and so I want the default behavior to be to ring and keep ringing indefinitely until I answer. I also have friends who text for any reason or none, and for them, I want to be able to change it to ring once and then shut up. Handcent only lets me change tones; ring frequency and such are global settings, and that's not enough anymore. I don't really care about MMS and group texts, I just want that one notification behavior. Anyone have a suggestion? Textra does 99% of that. The only thing is doesn't do is ring indefinitely. It gives you the option to repeat up to 10 times. You can also change the vibrate pattern/notification icon/led color individually.
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LastInLine posted:bunky, if you put some other updating widget on the home screen, does the same thing happen? Like let's say you threw on DashClock or something else, would it fail to update? I took this at 2:44pm. 
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LastInLine posted:There's no rumor, that's just when the next Android is "due". They've also talked publicly about slowing down the release schedule so who knows, maybe I/O won't have any Android version bump at all. Anyhow, I don't see a Google IO happening, where there isn't going to be a new Android software release. If there's a time to release groundbreaking stuff, it's at Google IO and not the Nexus device release half a year later. Given that the only thing in mobile space right now is bigger batteries, while 64bit on Android is still a while off (in terms of SoC availability from manufacturers), if they want to slow down, they'll ax the next Nexus in 2014 and move it forward to Google IO 2015, ditching the fall release cycle. Also, ART seems pretty stable for being prerelease. It doesn't seem wildly unreasonable of them being bugfixing it to production state for Google IO, and general release shortly thereafter. If you're going to change a runtime, there'll always be broken apps. And if you're all about rewriting the runtime, you won't introduce crutches all over it for rare corner cases and sloppy programming from third parties.
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bunky posted:I took this at 2:44pm.
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Yeah, my first thought is something that's loving with services and stopping the widgets from getting calls to update with the current time. If there's no turbo button fuckery apps running it might be worth a backup and factory reset
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MikeJF posted:Any Aussies who know of decent weather apps that pull from the Bureau of Meteorology instead of third parties? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.shiftyjelly.android.pocketweatherau They iOS version just had a huge UI update and they are beta testing the Android update. It should be a free update (it was for iOS) but I'm not 100% sure. Gets the rain radar from the BOM as well.
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LastInLine posted:Well you know it's not a Beautiful Widgets issue then. Is your launcher not staying in memory? Are you on a Samsung and maybe using that kill all feature to close apps? I think that would kill the launcher which obviously stops the widgets. Yeah, it's a Note 3 and I use that kill all button on the reg. Apex is set to stay in the memory.
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bunky posted:Yeah, it's a Note 3 and I use that kill all button on the reg. Apex is set to stay in the memory. Edit: This, by the way, is how you know Samsung makes poo poo products. They have a superfluous menu button which does nothing, won't add an app switcher button that would do exactly what you want, and actually add "features" that not only don't work but actively break other apps. ClassActionFursuit fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Is there a way through a combo of tasker/timely/something else that I can set my phone to automatically download the most current episode of a podcast, say, Tech News Today, and use it as my wakeup tone every morning?
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LastInLine posted:Yeah that button is a Samsung "improvement" to Android that completely breaks Android. Never ever use it. I'm really confused by this. I use my menu button all the time and my home button works great as an app switcher. How does the close all button "completely break" Android?
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AnimalChin posted:I'm really confused by this. Because it closes apps that need to stay alive to function properly in the background. It goes against the very inner workings of Android's multitasking system. I doubt you use your menu button "all the time" considering my phone doesn't even have one and I haven't had any issues.
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AnimalChin posted:I'm really confused by this.
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Stan Taylor posted:Is there a goon consensus on the best weather app? AccuWeather is on sale right now. I'd want one with decent widgets and a radar view. I really like BeWeather. It's got several widget styles and a great radar. I didn't like the AccuWeather one because it seemed like the radar was always 15-20 minutes out of date, even right after a refresh.
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