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Internet Explorer posted:Maybe you could post a guide so us idiots can figure it out? As a bonus point out any utilities you need to download specifically to janitor the phone (like a file browser to access the SD card). Then take screenshots of the horrible garbage that can't be fixed like the ridiculous Settings pane.
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I mean, we could do that, or we could not go on another Samsung tangent. We get it, lots of people don't like Samsung and feel very strongly about it. You don't need to publicly ridicule them every time the company or one of its phones is mentioned. Go play a video game or read a book. Better yet, unbookmark this thread and don't come back for a year or two, because it can't be a positive influence on your own life to be constantly complaining.
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Feb 23, 2015 02:32
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This is the Android thread. If we eliminated talking about how lovely Samsung is there wouldn't be anything left to discuss.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:19
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LastInLine posted:This is the Android thread. If we eliminated talking about how lovely Samsung is there wouldn't be anything left to discuss. Other than like, good phone deals, or phone recommendations, or getting help with weird app issues, or asking questions about how to something that a novice user isn't familiar with, or talk about upcoming phone models
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Feb 23, 2015 03:21
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Plus complaining about lollipop even though it's by far the best version of Android yet.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:32
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Reverse Centaur posted:Plus complaining about lollipop even though it's by far the best version of Android yet. It's the Vista between XP and 7.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:39
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Pinball posted:Speaking of battery life, does anyone have a 2012 Nexus 7 who can tell me how to improve its battery life? It's updated to Lollipop, and now it's stuttery, slow, and can barely last a day with full battery. I've cleared the cache several times and it doesn't seem to help. Replacing it. Not the battery, the tablet. Buy something else. I know the Nexus 9 isn't all that loved around here, but the size works for me, so it's been a great replacement. I don't know that there are any other solutions, the 2012 got screwed with poor hardware.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:40
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FAUXTON posted:It's the Vista between XP and 7. I thought Gingerbread was the Vista of Android.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:23
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Lollipop doesn't loving work, so it's Windows ME.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:25
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I thought Gingerbread was the Vista of Android. Nah man I'd vote ICS on that. So much promise and show when it was announced and it was a buggy mess that every android device skipped save the nexuses
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Feb 23, 2015 04:32
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Grimson posted:Other than like, good phone deals, or phone recommendations, or getting help with weird app issues, or asking questions about how to something that a novice user isn't familiar with, or talk about upcoming phone models We answer questions for novices all the time, although given that Android is the commodity smartphone OS there are fewer and fewer novices with questions. As for upcoming releases, now that everyone's standardized on the Qualcomm SoCs and Samsung has stopped making GBS threads out a new model every three days due to their profits and sales cratering there isn't much to discuss. No one should ever buy a non-flagship anyway so there are what, five or six models a year worth discussing? This is a thread with a lot of downtime about an ecosystem filled to brim with cheaply made and poorly supported poo poo. To avoid repeatedly talking about how lovely it is would leave very few topics to talk about. FAUXTON posted:It's the Vista between XP and 7. Vykk.Draygo posted:I thought Gingerbread was the Vista of Android. Whizbang posted:Lollipop doesn't loving work, so it's Windows ME.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:32
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Eh it's more like windows 98 before 98SE because 5.1 is gonna fix everything right? ...right? 
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Feb 23, 2015 04:33
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Ugh I meant Honeycomb was Vista. I'm not good at posting.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:34
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Here's good discussion: why does every version of chrome blow. On my desktop it chews up ram and on my phone I have to close or open a tab to get pages to load or, very often, deal with 10-15 sec load times.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:47
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Bob A Feet posted:Here's good discussion: why does every version of chrome blow. On my desktop it chews up ram and on my phone I have to close or open a tab to get pages to load or, very often, deal with 10-15 sec load times. On OS X a year or two ago gifs just didn't animate randomly. Disable the Pepper Flash, install Flash from Adobe, and gifs were fine. Then the problem just went away. Now if I leave it open for a week or so it starts to develop incredibly laggy scrolling but usually only if the other profile on the computer has used Chrome recently. At work I have two Windows 7 computers where I spend my time. On one machine I frequently get the message upon logging in that Chrome cannot load my profile. I have to open the Task Manager, kill a billion Chrome processes (how? I just logged in!) and then Chrome will load. On the other machine this never happens but what does happen is that Chrome will just crash entirely. Not a single tab or process but everything just closes and disappears. I should note here that these are physically identical machines on the same corporate image running the same webpages and extensions. Both I've destroyed and rebuilt the profiles several times in an attempt to fix them. Of course to bring it back to Android I had trouble for about a year on KitKat where if I was opening the first tab from a bookmark it would never actually display the loaded page unless I opened a second tab and loaded something in it (which would also load but not display), then switched back to the original tab. This meant if I didn't always keep an open, loaded tab in Chrome I could never just open and use it. (This might be what you meant in your post but I haven't had it happen in Lollipop, only on KitKat. Try disabling putting tabs in the App Switcher and see if that works.) And you are doubly right about slow load times. My work is transitioning people from IE8 to Firefox so I think I'm going to actually give that a try once they do. I've always hated Firefox's font rendering but I need something that works on OS X, Windows, and Android it truly is the only other option.
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Alarbus posted:Replacing it. drat, really? It was so awesome for so long - quick, with beautiful graphics - and then all of a sudden it just went to poo poo. I didn't use it for much - watching movies, reading, and web browsing - but I liked having it. How fast is the Nexus 9? Is the build quality comparable?
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Feb 23, 2015 05:31
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I was using Chrome yesterday on my Nexus 5 right after booting up and I commited the cardinal sin of selecting a tab before it had a chance to load up all of my tabs I had opened and it just straight up blew them all up and left me with 1 tab. That was a lot of wikipedia articles I had saved for later reading.
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Feb 23, 2015 05:35
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Eej posted:I was using Chrome yesterday on my Nexus 5 right after booting up and I commited the cardinal sin of selecting a tab before it had a chance to load up all of my tabs I had opened and it just straight up blew them all up and left me with 1 tab. That was a lot of wikipedia articles I had saved for later reading.
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Feb 23, 2015 05:46
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LastInLine posted:Also keep count of the number of preinstalled Samsung apps need to be disabled, the number of broken Samsung exclusive "features" that default to enabled that need to be disabled (fingerprint scanner, eye tracking, etc.), and the number of additional apps you need to install. You hate Samsung so much, yet can't be bothered to get a single thing right.
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Feb 23, 2015 05:47
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Desk Lamp posted:You hate Samsung so much, yet can't be bothered to get a single thing right. And yet if I had to choose between "the guy who is wrong" and "the guy who likes Samsung," there would be so much common ground.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:51
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Ugh I meant Honeycomb was Vista. I'm not good at posting. Honeycomb is some wack-rear end hardware-specific version. Like the Windows CE that the Dreamcast used.
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Feb 23, 2015 07:41
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Desk Lamp posted:You hate Samsung so much, yet can't be bothered to get a single thing right. At least he has concrete complaints. Your reason for posting in here lately seems to be "I don't like LastInLine's opinions". I mean, just stop posting if your reason for posting is to snipe someone you disagree with. It's not like Samsung needs you to defend their bottom line. They're going to continue to sell a bazillion units.
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I'm the first that owns a samsung phone and removed touchwiz because it's poo poo but I admit that I'm a sperg. I see samsung users everywhere wich are fine with their phones and look me like I'm crazy because I like stock android and lose all the features they don't use. Well, I also own a Windows phone so yes, I'm weird 
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Feb 23, 2015 07:55
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Most people don't have a problem with Comic Sans as their system font, either. Obviously most people are inferior, but whaddya going to do?
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Feb 23, 2015 07:59
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Pinball posted:drat, really? It was so awesome for so long - quick, with beautiful graphics - and then all of a sudden it just went to poo poo. I didn't use it for much - watching movies, reading, and web browsing - but I liked having it. You could try going back to KitKat first. See that makes it more usable.
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Thermopyle posted:At least he has concrete complaints. Your reason for posting in here lately seems to be "I don't like LastInLine's opinions". It's not his opinions I don't like, it's that his concrete complaints are anything but. That is the point of my last post, not one of the things he complained about in the quoted post is true, except his dislike for the settings pane. I mean, Samsung phones have always shipped with a file browser, someone who hates them that much should know that, and that all the Samsung poo poo, including the scanners, is disabled by default. I'm not here to defend the honor of Touchwiz. Plenty of people here hate it and that's fine, but if you're gonna claim to hate it for a specific reason, then make sure it's actually a real reason. I'm sure if I claimed you needed extra apps to run a Z3 out of the box, a Z3 owner would correct me. By the 20th time I claimed the same thing, he'd probably not bother and just tell me I'm wrong.
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Thermopyle posted:Most people don't have a problem with Comic Sans as their system font, either. Impact, I know a coworker who has a loving meme of a phone. Memes as wallpaper, meme generators, meme avatars... 
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Feb 23, 2015 09:57
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Thermopyle posted:Android Thread - Obviously most people are inferior i like that
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So, what phones out there have the least amount of manufacturer bullshit thrown on top of Android? Do all phones now have the swipe up to Google Now? Trying to get my wife to get a Moto X for her upgrade, but I was wondering if there were any comparable alternatives to that from Verizon.
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Doctor Butts posted:So, what phones out there have the least amount of manufacturer bullshit thrown on top of Android? For Verizon, the Droid Turbo. It has all the features of the Moto X plus a stupid large battery and a higher res screen. Mostly stock android, the only additions are the really helpful Moto stuff.
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Doctor Butts posted:So, what phones out there have the least amount of manufacturer bullshit thrown on top of Android? I'd recommend the Turbo over the X. It's the same size and has the same (very nice) software tweaks, but you get a huge battery, an included turbo charger, and a better camera (I think. Someone yell at me if I'm wrong here).
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e: nm
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Desk Lamp posted:It's not his opinions I don't like, it's that his concrete complaints are anything but. That is the point of my last post, not one of the things he complained about in the quoted post is true, except his dislike for the settings pane. I think you missed my point. Your post was just as useless as a wrong post.
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Ok maybe this is really obvious and easy to find but searching hasn't helped.. How the hell can I set slides/docs to open files from the downloads folder? When I download PowerPoint files or word docs or whatever, i just get a "can't open file" message, but if I go into slides or adobe reader or docs I can open it manually just fine. I had office mobile installed and it didn't work then, so I uninstalled and reset app permissions but it still doesn't work. Like, I guess its only just slightly inconvenient but it used to work fine. This is 5.0.1
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Feb 23, 2015 17:43
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Oh how times have changed. Google Wallet will come pre-installed on T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T android phones.
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I don't know if this is better sutied here or the app thread: My Google Now is half-broken. If I go to Google Now, my cards are all there and working fine, but I can't get Google Now (or I guess Google Search?) to do anything. Typing in or giving a voice command does nothing. It just sits there with the command/search term entered, but not giving any results/doing any action.  Similar result if I try to give a command, like add a new reminder:  (This is after I hit the hamburger menu and selected "reminders" and then just hit the "+" button, which then jsut auto-fills the search bar with "Add Reminder." Got an HTC One M7, Google Play Edition, running 5.0.1.
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Feb 23, 2015 19:36
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DrBouvenstein posted:I don't know if this is better sutied here or the app thread: See also: How to change the default search engine in Android
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Looks like Google is buying some assets of Softcard. http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2015/02/tap-tap-whos-there-google-wallet-and.html e: f,b kitten smoothie fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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bull3964 posted:Oh how times have changed. If they don't have the banks on board it is still going to be useless, sorry, I don't want to funnel all my transactions through a pre-paid debit card when I have a bank account and a credit card that I get points on.
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Depending what Softcard stuff they use, you should be able to. When I originally looked into Softcard/ISIS they could link directly to my WellsFargo credit card. But not my debit/bank account for some reason.
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