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bull3964 posted:Even if it did, it would mean a forked version of android cutoff from google services. Right, but I don't believe it would be nearly as closed off like the Kindles are. I mean I know Amazon is a huge entity, but their ecosystem is pretty darn terrible outside of the bookstore. bull3964 posted:LG went on record that they have no issues with overheating using the 810. It may have just been a dig at Samsung, but who knows. They just admitted today they did have issues but have been fixed.
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Lblitzer posted:Right, but I don't believe it would be nearly as closed off like the Kindles are. I mean I know Amazon is a huge entity, but their ecosystem is pretty darn terrible outside of the bookstore. What is this "openness" that you are seeking though? What's closed off now that you want open that a fork of AOSP would provide? I would argue that Android without Google services is next to useless. I get that some people are upset that Google is moving stuff into closed binary blobs, but what are you replacing them with and what advantage do you have by them being open source?
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ThermoPhysical posted:Looks like my next phone purchase wille coming from Amazon for about $300 or so. Doors Amazon have phone sales or an I stuck with that horrible Fire Phone? Outside of a few select phones (Moto G series) Amazon tends to be pretty expensive when it comes to off-contract phones. So make sure you do your homework when looking for one at a good price.
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Guillermus posted:I mean, Touchwiz haters hate it because all the bloat and menu changes, if Samsung removes that and goes AOSP, will they keep hating samsung because it's samsung? Was just wondering, sorry if typing TW and samsung is offensive
So this news of "Samsung reacting to complaints about TouchWiz" isn't news at all. Closer to the truth would be "Samsung reacts to market realities" because what they're doing has little to do with legitimately wanting to make TouchWiz better but a lot to do with the fact that what TouchWiz was designed to do just isn't necessary for them going forward.
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I've heard that TouchWiz on the Note 4 is vastly improved over its predecessor. I'm debating between the Note 4 and Nexus 6 (to replace my Nexus 5), and I'm leaning towards the Note for the better screen/camera, S-Pen and expandable storage. Given those preferences is there anything I should know about the Nexus before I take the plunge on the Note?
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I'm just going to laugh if they finally reign in Touchwiz only to switch exclusively to exynos. I mean, it's not as bad as a Nvidia SoC. I'm just exceedingly wary of anything other than a Qualcomm SoC at this point in time.
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If Cyanogen can't even bring their own OS up to production quality on the OPO, I shudder to think of the quality of their attempt to replicate Google's services/APIs so developers can hook into them and make their apps work equivalently to the Play Store version. Or what developers would even bother using them. Also, it seems like a terrible market analysis. "Hm, Cyanogen is favored by hardcore Android enthusiasts, who tend to be hardcore Google enthusiasts. Let's make a Google-less Cyanogen phone, they'll eat that poo poo up."
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I really think Microsoft's investment is just to keep them afloat so that they can snap them up later as a highly forked limited low end smart(ish) phone OS.
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bull3964 posted:I'm just going to laugh if they finally reign in Touchwiz only to switch exclusively to exynos. I mean, it's not as bad as a Nvidia SoC. I'm just exceedingly wary of anything other than a Qualcomm SoC at this point in time. That seems weird, considering how laughably bad Adreno still is.
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bull3964 posted:I really think Microsoft's investment is just to keep them afloat so that they can snap them up later as a highly forked limited low end smart(ish) phone OS. On the other hand, if they cared about that, they already had this in the form of the Nokia X series they inherited.
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kitten smoothie posted:If Cyanogen can't even bring their own OS up to production quality on the OPO, I shudder to think of the quality of their attempt to replicate Google's services/APIs so developers can hook into them and make their apps work equivalently to the Play Store version. Or what developers would even bother using them.
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Hace posted:That seems weird, considering how laughably bad Adreno still is. GPU power is not something I'm overly concerned about moving forward. I need power efficiency, solid radio support, and ease/knowledge of coding against it to ensure quick and bug free updates. Qualcomm have proven these things can all live together. Samsung with Exynos has not.
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bull3964 posted:GPU power is not something I'm overly concerned about moving forward. I need power efficiency, solid radio support, and ease/knowledge of coding against it to ensure quick and bug free updates. I guess it doesn't change the fact that I agree with you wholeheartedly in that I wouldn't want a device without a Qualcomm SoC but I would just be mindful that they have demonstrated that they aren't perfect even though they're obviously better than Samsung or Nvidia by a wide margin.
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kitten smoothie posted:If Cyanogen can't even bring their own OS up to production quality on the OPO, I shudder to think of the quality of their attempt to replicate Google's services/APIs so developers can hook into them and make their apps work equivalently to the Play Store version. Or what developers would even bother using them. Going by recent events, Cyanogen are more than capable of bringing their own OS up to Google's production quality levels 
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small hendren posted:i am buy 68 janer nake skin Are... Are you having a stroke right now? Maybe you should go to a hospital instead of posting on an Internet forum?
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My Moto X arrived early today and holy poo poo I love this phone. - It's got a nice, big display. - It's fast. - Google Now and Moto Voice are cool and handy. I think I like this more than Siri. - The UI is slick and nice. - Animated. Wallpapers.  I have yet to test out the camera but I do volunteer work with a dog rescue on Sundays so doggies running around sounds the perfect opportunity to test a phone's camera. Oh and I got this case and it's protective and grippy yet not Otterbox Defender gently caress-off huge (I picked white back/black front/dark grey trim on my phone and it they go fine together).
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LastInLine posted:To be fair, all Cyanogen since CM6 has been Google-less Cyanogen; it's just been ROM flashers have added Google apps and services on their own after the fact.
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LastInLine posted:[*]Because TouchWiz is primarily an escape hatch for Samsung, none of the TouchWiz components are properly abstracted to the Play Store for out-of-band updating. This is obvious upon reflection but the implications are not. Most OEMs put components to their skins on the Play Store so they can quickly fix and update their proprietary components without waiting for a system update and dealing with carrier testing. Since Samsung is specifically for not using Google, they also don't use Google's built-in methods for keeping skins unintrusive. From what I can tell Samsung has been moving certain bundled apps into the Play Store, at least the ones from the Note 4. So there's that.
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Rastor posted:It looks to me like OnePlus is referencing Breaking Bad (for unknown reasons) to say things aren't going so well with Cyanogen and in the future they're going to build their own rom, presumably based on AOSP and without Cyanogen's added features. Apparently OnePlus will call their new build OxygenOS
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:- Google Now and Moto Voice are cool and handy. I think I like this more than Siri. Good lord Siri is terrible. Google Now and Cortana are so much better it's ridiculous.
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LastInLine posted:While you're right that others are worse than Qualcomm, Qualcomm themselves aren't always so solid. The APQ8064 that was used in the Nexus 4 never did work right from a radio perspective and they ran hot. The APQ8064 doesn't have a radio
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Is there a thread to jerk off about cool homepage setups?
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Stoat posted:Is there a thread to jerk off about cool homepage setups? Of course! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3349818 It's a great thread for a weekend read actually, some people are very talented. The ones that aren't are treated... poorly.
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dissss posted:What's wrong with the radio on the N4? Qualcomm released a lot of patch sets for it but of course not all made it into official software for the phone. I'd have to imagine after about a year they just left it in whatever state it ended up as since I got the feeling it wouldn't ever be "done". The only reason I'm aware of it was that the radio had all kinds of issues that were N4 specific when Google had to go out of their way to break LTE support so it took a trip to XDA to figure out exactly what ways things broke. Stoat posted:Is there a thread to jerk off about cool homepage setups?
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Haha I didn't even notice, it is of course an HTC. My previous phone was lg hence the mistake. Lollipop on the M8 is pretty drat good. No memory leaks as far as I can tell, nice configurable quick settings, a real silent mode and not just vibrate. Slap the google now launcher on it and you have on of the best lollipop experiences you can get right now.
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does anyone know how to fix something like this? (Xperia Z2) the marks you can see on the glass over the lens won't go away and it's loving up pictures that I take. would this fit and if not, where can you buy parts for a Z2? I checked amazon and ebay and didn't have any luck
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LastInLine posted:Early on it had problems from one of two directions, either with wifi dropouts or with poor 3G reception. I don't know if the bands used had any bearing on the problem but in general it would seem that for every patch released to address one would exacerbate the other. I asked because I've had mine for two years and have had absolutely no issues - it certainly isn't any worse than my work iPhones at least.
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dissss posted:I asked because I've had mine for two years and have had absolutely no issues - it certainly isn't any worse than my work iPhones at least.  Really except for N5 > N6 it's been my experience that every Nexus is so much better in terms of radio from one generation to the next that I've never felt like any were problematic and if they were it was always next to a phone that was doing obviously much worse so I usually take radio complaints with a grain of salt.
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Shai-Hulud posted:Lollipop on the M8 is pretty drat good. No memory leaks as far as I can tell, nice configurable quick settings, a real silent mode and not just vibrate. Slap the google now launcher on it and you have on of the best lollipop experiences you can get right now. I had a real silent mode before, so no worries about that. I just updated and it seems fine, although I think I like the launcher as it is. What does Google Now launcher give me?
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I had a real silent mode before, so no worries about that. I just updated and it seems fine, although I think I like the launcher as it is. What does Google Now launcher give me?
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LastInLine posted:Subs out Blinkfeed for AOSP. If you like it as is there's no reason to leave it. Don't forget "Okay Google" from anywhere, and Google Now a swipe away! Actually, I don't know if either of these apply to Sense-based Lollipop, but they're both very handy if applicable.
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Google now is always a swipe away, but I quite like the idea of okay Google from any screen. I'm gonna try it thanks guys.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Google now is always a swipe away, but I quite like the idea of okay Google from any screen. I'm gonna try it thanks guys.
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BossTweed posted:The account itself has a ton of email, but it is only be syncing 2 weeks worth of email. One of my folders gets a ton of email but I hadn't opened it yet, so it hasn't even synced it. I decided to do a factory reset. I haven't setup my Exchange yet, and it is using a ton less battery, so I think that must have been at least part of the issue. I may try a different Exchange app if the built in one has the same performance when I set it up again.
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BossTweed posted:I decided to do a factory reset. I haven't setup my Exchange yet, and it is using a ton less battery, so I think that must have been at least part of the issue. I may try a different Exchange app if the built in one has the same performance when I set it up again. Either that or your company is still using Exchange 2003 which has a poo poo implementation of ActiveSync.
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So neat observation on a Droid Turbo. My line of work occasionally has me wear night vision goggles. Yesterday while wearing some I had set my phone on my desk and noticed it was blooming them out. Apparently, at the four corners of the screen and the center top near the camera are flashing LEDs of some sort, emitting in the IR spectrum. I flipped up the nvd's and caught nothing in visible light. When the active notification screen comes on, only the center top one pulses. Otherwise they all pulse at random intervals. I know this thing has sensors galore for active notification and all the neat moto features but I didn't know the screen had THAT many on it.
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