Android App Thread: Pocket Casts, BeyondPod or Podcast Addict for podcasts.

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ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Vykk.Draygo posted:

I bet this sounds like gibberish to a normal person.

Sereri posted:

It probably does but they could google it and get good results.

Which they probably wouldn't.

This is what I was figuring. They'll either Google it or they won't, and if they do and need help I'll be happy type up more detailed instructions.

Given the question I figured they just didn't know what terms to search for, a reasonable assumption since it is gibberish.

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dont skimp on the shrimp: Apr 23, 2008

Chas McGill posted:

Thanks. Trying it now. Hopefully my work and home locations are served by different towers since I only live 15 minutes away. It does have an 'experimental' wifi option so I'll try that if the towers don't work.

You can also set it to trigger different profiles depending on if it's connected to certain wifi networks or different calendar events too.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 13:26

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

For those of you with a Moto, the Motorola Connect app updated with a Chrome extension, which lets you text from your desktop, shows missed calls, phone battery life and signal strength. You can also ring your phone from your computer.

I'm on Google Voice, so its useless to me as it uses the phone's SIM number, and Hangouts does most of this for me already anyway. Pretty neat though.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 15:09

Fuck You And Diebold: Sep 15, 2004; by Athanatos

Bobx66 posted:

Google Play Music:

Is it possible to download an album to my phone by using the browser of my desktop or do I have to individually click "download" for each album I want on my phone?

For example rdio does this, but I don't think that spotify does.

Guess I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, but can't you just connect with the cable and copy/paste the music you want into the music folder on your phone?

# ? Oct 9, 2014 15:36

Thermopyle: Jul 1, 2003; ...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. �Bertrand Russell

FogHelmut posted:

For those of you with a Moto, the Motorola Connect app updated with a Chrome extension, which lets you text from your desktop, shows missed calls, phone battery life and signal strength. You can also ring your phone from your computer.

I'm on Google Voice, so its useless to me as it uses the phone's SIM number, and Hangouts does most of this for me already anyway. Pretty neat though.

I'm not sure, but the way thus is worded it sounds like the Chrome extension is new.

It's not.

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sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Bobx66 posted:

Google Play Music:

Is it possible to download an album to my phone by using the browser of my desktop or do I have to individually click "download" for each album I want on my phone?

For example rdio does this, but I don't think that spotify does.

Best you can do: on your desktop, add all the albums you want to a playlist (titled "pin me" or something), then on your phone simply pin that playlist. You can't tell your phone to pin something from your PC, but this is almost as simple.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 15:52

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

Thermopyle posted:

I'm not sure, but the way thus is worded it sounds like the Chrome extension is new.

It's not.

Well its the first I've heard of it.

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Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; Not a single fucking olive in sight

FogHelmut posted:

For those of you with a Moto, the Motorola Connect app updated with a Chrome extension, which lets you text from your desktop, shows missed calls, phone battery life and signal strength. You can also ring your phone from your computer.

I'm on Google Voice, so its useless to me as it uses the phone's SIM number, and Hangouts does most of this for me already anyway. Pretty neat though.

Or if you don't use a Moto phone you can do the same thing with MightyText which also has a tablet app.

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midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

Is there a time tracking app with support for Toodledo? Or maybe one that works with another task manager (that's also supported by Business Calendar).

# ? Oct 9, 2014 17:53

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

Oh god I'm in the middle of a group text in Google Voice Hangouts. This is so confusing.

It's me and two other people, so I have two message threads, one for each of them. They are obviously talking to each other, and I am receiving their messages in my separate conversations. This is difficult to follow.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:51

roymorrison: Jul 26, 2005

My goddamn idiot fucker friend put towelroot on my phone and now I can't get the bluetooth update. Well it just says update failed and I'm assuming it's because my poo poo was rooted or something. How the gently caress do I fix this? I don't give a poo poo about root access, however I do give a poo poo about my bluetooth headphones no longer cutting out and sounding like dog poo poo.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:30

Serjeant Buzfuz: Dec 5, 2009

roymorrison posted:

My goddamn idiot fucker friend put towelroot on my phone and now I can't get the bluetooth update. Well it just says update failed and I'm assuming it's because my poo poo was rooted or something. How the gently caress do I fix this? I don't give a poo poo about root access, however I do give a poo poo about my bluetooth headphones no longer cutting out and sounding like dog poo poo.

I doubt this is the correct thread for your issue.

However, I would recommend using Google to find a way to return your phone/tablet/whatever to stock then upgrading to the latest revision via the normal manufacturer's process.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:36

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

FogHelmut posted:

Well its the first I've heard of it.

Discoverability!

Thermopyle is right though, it's been around since the launch of the Moto X 2013, so over a year.

# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:47

Tunga: May 7, 2004; Grimey Drawer

roymorrison posted:

My goddamn idiot fucker friend put towelroot on my phone and now I can't get the bluetooth update. Well it just says update failed and I'm assuming it's because my poo poo was rooted or something. How the gently caress do I fix this? I don't give a poo poo about root access, however I do give a poo poo about my bluetooth headphones no longer cutting out and sounding like dog poo poo.

What phone? Also it'd probably best to take this to the Root thread.

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roymorrison: Jul 26, 2005

Thanks fellas

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grilldos: Mar 27, 2004; BUST A LOAF
IN THIS
YEAST CONFECTION; Grimey Drawer

RVProfootballer posted:

Best you can do: on your desktop, add all the albums you want to a playlist (titled "pin me" or something), then on your phone simply pin that playlist. You can't tell your phone to pin something from your PC, but this is almost as simple.

This is my favorite Google Music thing. It's much easier to manage a playlist on a desktop, and then it's synced to Everything.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 03:30

ErIog: Jul 11, 2001

So, I've been using Google Music for about a year now, and the way it managed to gently caress up and misidentify my tracks is pretty maddening. I thought I would get used to it after pruning the duplicates, but finding music I know I have uploaded just missing is kind of the last straw.

Does anybody have a good recommendation for something similar to Google Music that would allow me to place my music on a server somewhere(would prefer my own, but theirs would be fine too if it was cheap) then let me stream it to my phone?

I would love to use Spotify, but it's not available in my region. I also have a significant amount of rare stuff like acoustic fan club tracks, bootlegs, and self-released indie music that will never be available on a streaming service in a zillion years.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 06:54

Geektox: Aug 1, 2012; Good people don't rip other people's arms off.

ErIog posted:

So, I've been using Google Music for about a year now, and the way it managed to gently caress up and misidentify my tracks is pretty maddening. I thought I would get used to it after pruning the duplicates, but finding music I know I have uploaded just missing is kind of the last straw.

Does anybody have a good recommendation for something similar to Google Music that would allow me to place my music on a server somewhere(would prefer my own, but theirs would be fine too if it was cheap) then let me stream it to my phone?

I would love to use Spotify, but it's not available in my region. I also have a significant amount of rare stuff like acoustic fan club tracks, bootlegs, and self-released indie music that will never be available on a streaming service in a zillion years.

Haven't used it in a while, but subsonic might be what you're looking for.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 07:59

Manky: Mar 20, 2007; Fun Shoe

ErIog posted:

So, I've been using Google Music for about a year now, and the way it managed to gently caress up and misidentify my tracks is pretty maddening. I thought I would get used to it after pruning the duplicates, but finding music I know I have uploaded just missing is kind of the last straw.

Does anybody have a good recommendation for something similar to Google Music that would allow me to place my music on a server somewhere(would prefer my own, but theirs would be fine too if it was cheap) then let me stream it to my phone?

I would love to use Spotify, but it's not available in my region. I also have a significant amount of rare stuff like acoustic fan club tracks, bootlegs, and self-released indie music that will never be available on a streaming service in a zillion years.

Take a look at Amazon's cloud player.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 11:24

rolleyes: Nov 16, 2006; Sometimes you have to roll the hard... two?

Are there any 360 degree camera apps which are particularly recommended? I'm checking out a new apartment soon and it'd be handy to capture each room for reference.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 13:40

Three Olives: Apr 10, 2005; Not a single fucking olive in sight

Can we talk about what a horrible piece of poo poo the Facebook app is? I was having performance/battery issues with my Tab S which shouldn't have any problems with 3 gigs of ram and a Snapdragon 800 and I saw someone mention Facebook being terrible and it was already laggy as poo poo and I hate Facebook so I don't even really know why I was bothering with it in the first place.

I deleted it (Well, disabled because AT&T was kind enough to build it in to the tablet) and my entire tablet sped up and my battery life improved. The app wasn't showing up as stealing a bunch of memory or the biggest power users, there must be one or more horrid, horrid background processes that it is using that is sucking Android dry. It's off my phone now too, what a piece of poo poo app.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 15:07

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Three Olives posted:

Can we talk about what a horrible piece of poo poo the Facebook app is? I was having performance/battery issues with my Tab S which shouldn't have any problems with 3 gigs of ram and a Snapdragon 800 and I saw someone mention Facebook being terrible and it was already laggy as poo poo and I hate Facebook so I don't even really know why I was bothering with it in the first place.

I deleted it (Well, disabled because AT&T was kind enough to build it in to the tablet) and my entire tablet sped up and my battery life improved. The app wasn't showing up as stealing a bunch of memory or the biggest power users, there must be one or more horrid, horrid background processes that it is using that is sucking Android dry. It's off my phone now too, what a piece of poo poo app.

I got greenify on this thread's suggestion and used it on FB and the fb messenger on both me and my wife's phone and holy shot the difference in performance and battery life AND somehow in my 3g signal is night and day.

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Binge: Feb 23, 2001

Does Google Voice still have transcribed voice mails? I'm not sure if things have changed with all the new integration to hangouts.

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datajosh: May 3, 2002; I had the realization these aren't my problem!

Binge posted:

Does Google Voice still have transcribed voice mails? I'm not sure if things have changed with all the new integration to hangouts.

Yeah, it does.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 20:01

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

datajosh posted:

Yeah, it does.

With the same level of hilarity too.

# ? Oct 10, 2014 20:19

Vykk.Draygo: Jan 17, 2004; I say salesmen and women of the world unite!

Now that the Hangouts Chrome app has chat heads functionality, I really hope Google brings that to the Hangouts mobile app. That's assuming Facebook doesn't have a patent on mobile chat heads though.

# ? Oct 11, 2014 00:51

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Vykk.Draygo posted:

Now that the Hangouts Chrome app has chat heads functionality, I really hope Google brings that to the Hangouts mobile app. That's assuming Facebook doesn't have a patent on mobile chat heads though.

Dear Google,

Chat squares. Let me know when you're ready to buy.

# ? Oct 11, 2014 00:58

Vykk.Draygo: Jan 17, 2004; I say salesmen and women of the world unite!

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Dear Google,

Chat squares. Let me know when you're ready to buy.

When Google gives you twelve billion dollars, I hope you'll use part of it to resurrect Grimbo's blog.

# ? Oct 11, 2014 01:19

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

I was on the phone with Hangouts/Voice VOIP, and someone else called me. It still forwarded to my dialer, and it started ringing. I was able to hang up on that call while still staying on the phone. Very bizarre though.

# ? Oct 11, 2014 01:48

DorianGravy: Sep 12, 2007

Music questions:

1) Can I play albums downloaded through Play Music in other music apps? If not, is there a digital music store that would give me more control over music?
2) Is there a good music app that will let me arrange albums into folders of my choosing? I'd like to sort albums according to my own particular preferences.

# ? Oct 11, 2014 18:15

Tunga: May 7, 2004; Grimey Drawer

DorianGravy posted:

Music questions:

1) Can I play albums downloaded through Play Music in other music apps? If not, is there a digital music store that would give me more control over music?
2) Is there a good music app that will let me arrange albums into folders of my choosing? I'd like to sort albums according to my own particular preferences.

Google Play lets you download a purchased album twice, ever, on desktop. If you download it that way then obviously you can play it however you want. You cannot do this with streamed or pinned music on a mobile device.

For the second question, sort your music on desktop first, I believe MP3Tag can do folder arrangement stuff: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

# ? Oct 11, 2014 18:30

Thermopyle: Jul 1, 2003; ...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. �Bertrand Russell

Been playing around with the Microsoft Xim app. It's pretty cool.

quote:

Share your photos, not your phone! Xim your photos on your camera roll or favorite service to your friends� devices. Swipe, pan and zoom together for all to enjoy, even those who don�t have the app.
� Stop huddling around one small screen � xim instead so everyone can see the images on their own device

Not exactly something I'll use every day, but if I remember I've got it, it'll be nice when I want to share some photos with people around me.

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Boywunda: Jun 25, 2003

Thermopyle posted:

Been playing around with the Microsoft Xim app. It's pretty cool.

Not exactly something I'll use every day, but if I remember I've got it, it'll be nice when I want to share some photos with people around me.

This is really cool. I just got back from Mexico and have been sharing pictures. This makes it easier for people not in Google+ or Facebook. Like people at work and stuff. Thanks

# ? Oct 11, 2014 22:19

Rupert Buttermilk: Apr 15, 2007; 🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Any recommendations for an app that can at least temporarily dim my screen? It's super bright at night time while I'm reading in bed.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:33

Decius: Oct 14, 2005; Ramrod XTreme

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Any recommendations for an app that can at least temporarily dim my screen? It's super bright at night time while I'm reading in bed.

The brightness-setting will be a lot faster to access in Android L, but meanwhile/even better:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.lux - pretty much f.lux for Android. Dims your screen according to the daylight cycle.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux - greately improves on the autobrightness function of Android.

Decius fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Oct 12, 2014

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Ojjeorago: Sep 21, 2008; I had a dream, too. It wasn't pleasant, though ... I dreamt I was a moron...; Gary’s Answer

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Any recommendations for an app that can at least temporarily dim my screen? It's super bright at night time while I'm reading in bed.

If you just want to put a black filter over the screen to dim it, I like Night Mode.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 13:38

hooah: Feb 6, 2006; WTF?

Huh. I just got a Rewards Survey asking what type of student I was. One option was "I am a graduate school." Well, I'm a graduate student, and all the others said student, so I just went and told Google that I'm a graduate school. I got $0.10 for this farce.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 21:47

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Good morning goons,

I'm looking for an app which will allow me to scheduled file sync between folders on my internal storage to my external storage. I can only find apps which sync between your phone and cloud (such as Foldersync by tacit software).

I've been using Tasker "Copy dir" command but I've subsequently realised it defaults to "skip" existing files (even if filesize is different) so I'm looking to get an app that has more advanced sync features.

Most of the ones I've tried only offer cloud syncing

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Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

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Sir Sidney Poitier: Aug 14, 2006; My favourite actor

Can anyone recommend an app which can do FXP? I want to be able to set up the transfer stuff from a remote server to a home server from my phone.

# ? Oct 13, 2014 11:07

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