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NihilismNow posted:Why is metal and glass considered high end when they are clearly inferior materials to make a phone out of? Plastic is lighter, deals with shocks better, cheaper, doesn't block radio signals and returns to its original form after it has been bent. Who are all these people who insist on more glass on their phone that can break? Metal and glass feel and look nice.
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Reverse Centaur posted:I dunno, but Samsung obviously felt like being "the cheap looking phone" was causing them to lose market share. I always have a case personally so I almost feel like I shouldn't buy an HTC One or whatever since it's such a waste. I only read it for the vlogs
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My Galaxy S5's (not the active, AT&T if that makes a difference) battery isn't holding a charge as much as I'd like it to. I'd like to get an extended battery for it. I have a case for it, so I'd *prefer* to not have to have to get a battery that would require a new case, but if it's worth it, I'd do it. What's the best extended battery on the market right now?
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Mar 2, 2015 23:55
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isndl posted:Ikea will be selling Qi enabled furniture starting mid-April. UK and online only to start it looks like, and they'll have charging covers for iPhones and Samsungs. loving Qi
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Mar 3, 2015 02:23
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I just got an Ikea desk today, better return it and get a Qi enabled one!
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seiferguy posted:My Galaxy S5's (not the active, AT&T if that makes a difference) battery isn't holding a charge as much as I'd like it to. I'd like to get an extended battery for it. I have a case for it, so I'd *prefer* to not have to have to get a battery that would require a new case, but if it's worth it, I'd do it. What's the best extended battery on the market right now? Choose one: stock battery with stock case or extended battery with bigger case.
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Mar 3, 2015 02:52
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seiferguy posted:My Galaxy S5's (not the active, AT&T if that makes a difference) battery isn't holding a charge as much as I'd like it to. I'd like to get an extended battery for it. I have a case for it, so I'd *prefer* to not have to have to get a battery that would require a new case, but if it's worth it, I'd do it. What's the best extended battery on the market right now? I'm also on a stock S5 on AT&T. That 4.4.4 "upgrade" we got a few weeks ago really hosed some poo poo up. Google Now opens when you press the home button, something in "Android System" is eating battery life, and it still isn't Lollipop. I'd suggest restarting your phone every other day until a patch is released.
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Mar 3, 2015 03:06
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Google Now is still being stupid and thinking my work location is not where Maps knows it is. Is there any way to fix this? If not, it's off to the fun Google Groups I go.
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Mar 3, 2015 04:02
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hooah posted:Google Now is still being stupid and thinking my work location is not where Maps knows it is. Is there any way to fix this? If not, it's off to the fun Google Groups I go. The address is set correctly in the Google Now settings?
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Mar 3, 2015 04:19
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Vykk.Draygo posted:The address is set correctly in the Google Now settings? Yes. Just the card is wrong, and when I try to edit the location through the card, it can't find the intersection I have saved as my work location.
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Mar 3, 2015 04:26
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I just bought a 16GB miniSD card for my Galaxy Ace 2. I'm a technologically illiterate dumbass baby, is there any way to install apps to the card instead of the phone's nearly-full storage?
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Mar 3, 2015 07:31
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Cometa Rossa posted:I just bought a 16GB miniSD card for my Galaxy Ace 2. I'm a technologically illiterate dumbass baby, is there any way to install apps to the card instead of the phone's nearly-full storage? If you go to Apps/Application Manager/whatever you might see a Move to SD Card option, but unless you know your card has a tolerable random write rate it's probably not worth it. Keep in mind not even Samsung is sticking out the whole SD Card slot thing going forward (partly because Google doesn't really want to give people the option anymore). Expect that most apps, even those that currently offer "Move to SD", will take it away from you in the next few months regardless of your preferences.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:51
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Mine constantly asks if I want to change my work location to my parents' house despite me dutifully going to work every day and telling it no every time.
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Mar 3, 2015 07:53
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Cometa Rossa posted:I just bought a 16GB miniSD card for my Galaxy Ace 2. I'm a technologically illiterate dumbass baby, is there any way to install apps to the card instead of the phone's nearly-full storage? Download "Apps 2 SD". It creates a list of all the apps you can move to SD card. Beats going thru your apps one-by-one trying to find out which ones allow you to move them.
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Mar 3, 2015 14:26
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It's googles suggestion to move back to your parents. Mine keeps saying that I'm at gym when I'm buying groceries so I ended disabling it.
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Mar 3, 2015 14:27
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Guillermus posted:It's googles suggestion to move back to your parents. Mine keeps saying that I'm at gym when I'm buying groceries so I ended disabling it. 
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Mar 3, 2015 14:44
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LastInLine posted:Well... I guess if that's what Google thinks... Bills suck anyway. Mooch forever
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So is there a consensus on what the best Android phone on VZW is right now? Can I get whatever the latest Nexus is from Google Play and put it on my account? I've got an S4 that's really starting to get rough around the edges. I thought I'd wait for the S6 but it looks like it's going to cost a shitload and it doesn't seem all that great, plus I love that i've got root on my current S4 so I've made touchwiz and crapware basically disappear. I'm guessing the S6 is going to be locked down from here to the ends of the Earth so I can experience The Magic of Touchwiz.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:24
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My favorite useless google now feature is the parking spot card. Thanks to google now, I can see that I parked my car somewhere in this large bubble that covers 3 streets! Wow thanks google!!
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axeil posted:So is there a consensus on what the best Android phone on VZW is right now? Can I get whatever the latest Nexus is from Google Play and put it on my account? I've got an S4 that's really starting to get rough around the edges. I thought I'd wait for the S6 but it looks like it's going to cost a shitload and it doesn't seem all that great, plus I love that i've got root on my current S4 so I've made touchwiz and crapware basically disappear. I'm guessing the S6 is going to be locked down from here to the ends of the Earth so I can experience The Magic of Touchwiz. You could get a moto x, droid turbo (which is basically a better, but more expensive moto x), or a nexus 6. The nexus 6 can only be bought through google or motorola. I'd just get the droid turbo, it has amazing battery life, a good camera, and doesn't have a lot of junk on it.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:31
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axeil posted:So is there a consensus on what the best Android phone on VZW is right now? Can I get whatever the latest Nexus is from Google Play and put it on my account? I've got an S4 that's really starting to get rough around the edges. I thought I'd wait for the S6 but it looks like it's going to cost a shitload and it doesn't seem all that great, plus I love that i've got root on my current S4 so I've made touchwiz and crapware basically disappear. I'm guessing the S6 is going to be locked down from here to the ends of the Earth so I can experience The Magic of Touchwiz. Probably the droid turbo.
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HolyDukeNukem posted:You could get a moto x, droid turbo (which is basically a better, but more expensive moto x), or a nexus 6. The nexus 6 can only be bought through google or motorola. I'd just get the droid turbo, it has amazing battery life, a good camera, and doesn't have a lot of junk on it. Any word on when the Turbo is getting Android 5.0? That's the only thing holding me back from getting one as it seems like a good phone.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:My favorite useless google now feature is the parking spot card. Thanks to google now, I can see that I parked my car somewhere in this large bubble that covers 3 streets! Wow thanks google!! It's the most baffling thing. It tells me I'm parked at work when it knows I'm at work with the zoom level set at literally a circle five miles in diameter. How could this possibly be of any of use to anyone?
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LastInLine posted:I really hope someone defends this because I've been trying to come up with a way to even theoretically use this card and I haven't come up with a way. It would have to involve drinking and a multiple uses of public transportation but then I wonder whether or not it would be able to distinguish the secondary transportation from another car ride. The only thing I can think of, is city parking. I know a friend of mine that went into NYC to take the NYPD test and forgot where he parked his car. Walked around for like 2 hours before finding it. I guess the card would have helped him out in that specific instance, but I can't think of anything else.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:47
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LastInLine posted:It's the most baffling thing. It tells me I'm parked at work when it knows I'm at work with the zoom level set at literally a circle five miles in diameter. How could this possibly be of any of use to anyone?
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Mar 3, 2015 15:51
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axeil posted:Any word on when the Turbo is getting Android 5.0? That's the only thing holding me back from getting one as it seems like a good phone. People in here were mentioning that Motorola was about to push out 5.0 but Google is about to release 5.1 and Motorola didn't want to restart the process for getting it approved. So they delayed it for Android 5.1
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HolyDukeNukem posted:People in here were mentioning that Motorola was about to push out 5.0 but Google is about to release 5.1 and Motorola didn't want to restart the process for getting it approved. So they delayed it for Android 5.1 Ah okay. Are Motorola and VZW good at getting updates out? I've only ever had Samsung/VZW Android Phones (S4, VZW Gnex and the  Droid Charge) and the update speed is atrocious. I ended up rooting/unlocking my S4 just so I could load stuff myself.
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axeil posted:Ah okay. Are Motorola and VZW good at getting updates out? I've only ever had Samsung/VZW Android Phones (S4, VZW Gnex and the Motorola has been better lately. It's fairly new for them though - they never used to be this "good" about updates.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Motorola has been better lately. It's fairly new for them though - they never used to be this "good" about updates. Thanks for all the info. One last question, how are the antennas on the Turbo? Where I work my phone is constantly losing LTE and going down to 3G or even 1x  and it absolutely kills my battery. Plus the thing is nearly unusable in the Metro system.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Motorola has been better lately. It's fairly new for them though - they never used to be this "good" about updates. If by good you mean just like everyone else (except maybe LG, they came out of left field), then yeah everybody is kind of all over the map in terms of Lollipop updates and even then, Motorola and the Nexus 5 have had some pretty major issues with it.
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Lollipop really isn't a good indicator of update speed for the OEMs. Between Google rapidly pulling/releasing updates and the issues many phones have had with it, many companies seem to be hesitant to push it out too quickly.
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axeil posted:Thanks for all the info. One last question, how are the antennas on the Turbo? Where I work my phone is constantly losing LTE and going down to 3G or even 1x If you're talking about the DC metro my turbo gets pretty good signal, depending on which line/station obviously. In general Motorola phones have very good antennas, though.
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I find the accuracy of the parking Google Now card to vary greatly. Sometimes it's like 30 feet and other times its hundreds of feet. Of course this means you can't depend on it, but I guess as a last resort it's OK.
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this_is_hard posted:If you're talking about the DC metro my turbo gets pretty good signal, depending on which line/station obviously. Oh nice. I'm an Orange Line person and I don't think I've ever had 3G service down there.
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Thermopyle posted:I find the accuracy of the parking Google Now card to vary greatly. Sometimes it's like 30 feet and other times its hundreds of feet. I commute by train and it's always telling me I'm parked at the World Train Center. I like to imagine I'm in the Simpson's episode where that happens to Homer's car.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:The only thing I can think of, is city parking. I know a friend of mine that went into NYC to take the NYPD test and forgot where he parked his car. Walked around for like 2 hours before finding it. I guess the card would have helped him out in that specific instance, but I can't think of anything else. Most big cities have multi-level parking either underground or stacked high. I usually can't even get a cellular signal where I park because I'm three storeys underneath a tower.
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Reverse Centaur posted:Most big cities have multi-level parking either underground or stacked high. I usually can't even get a cellular signal where I park because I'm three storeys underneath a tower. Yeah, who knows. He parked it on some random side street somewhere in Brooklyn irrc.
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:I commute by train and it's always telling me I'm parked at the World Train Center. I like to imagine I'm in the Simpson's episode where that happens to Homer's car. Is that the episode where he drives off with the boot on his car?
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Hughmoris posted:Is that the episode where he drives off with the boot on his car? Yes. axeil posted:So is there a consensus on what the best Android phone on VZW is right now? Can I get whatever the latest Nexus is from Google Play and put it on my account? I've got an S4 that's really starting to get rough around the edges. I thought I'd wait for the S6 but it looks like it's going to cost a shitload and it doesn't seem all that great, plus I love that i've got root on my current S4 so I've made touchwiz and crapware basically disappear. I'm guessing the S6 is going to be locked down from here to the ends of the Earth so I can experience The Magic of Touchwiz. According to some random slickdeals person Best Buy is selling the Droid Turbo for $99 on contract + you get a $150 Best buy giftcard this week or something. Pretty sweet deal if you can renew your contract. http://slickdeals.net/f/7699743-droid-turbo-99-150-gift-card-at-best-buy-instore-only-with-contract?v=1
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