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ThermoPhysical posted:This post has solidified the choice that I am NOT going to buy a Nexus 5 and shall pick up a 6. My N5 is good for a day, but towards the next day it gets unusable. It really seems to be Google Music for some reason that kills it.
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Lblitzer posted:So Huawei is going to be the next partner in the Nexus program. Weird. They'll make the first Nexus phone with a non-lovely camera as they use Sony ones 
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Guillermus posted:They'll make the first Nexus phone with a non-lovely camera as they use Sony ones The Nexus 6 has a Sony camera v v
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LastInLine posted:I had a bunch of stuff typed out but I deleted it because maybe this will explain the bolded part and why you won't get this on Android. This is me right now. I'm done wanting to tech support my own poo poo. I did the Asus gaming laptop thing, the android phones and nexus tablets. Every laptop still works, but eh they have lovely track pads, wobbly plastic hinges, drive cover doors falling off etc. The girlfriends macbook pro? Works as good as it did the day it was built, looks great, nothings falling off, and she loves it. I'm jealous. I had a nexus 7, Liked it. It was neat and I enjoyed it for a little bit. Sold it to a goon. Decided "Tablets arent for me, wont use em". Carried dozens of android phones after my 3GS, enjoyed them. Fast forward to this last month. Picked up an iPad mini 3. Love it. Love the gently caress out of it. I use it all the time, for tons of things and it just "works". I dont have to gently caress with it, the battery lasts for seemingly ever, and it feels so nice in my hands. Get an edge upgrade and decide gently caress it, I wanna jump on the iPhone bandwagon again for a bit. Grab a 6+. Loving the hell out of it. Simple things like taking a photo are just so much more "friendly" if that makes sense. My G3 takes great wonderful photos. Camera is awesome. Love it. But I shake like gently caress. Seriously I shake a lot. Arthritis and poo poo. So taking a super clear solid photo with my G3 took a few shots sometimes. My 6+, GFs 5s? Every photo I take comes out clear, crisp, in focus. Its a true joy to take photos again. Before on Android, while things had really nice good camera hardware the software was always a let down. Sure I could download camera apps and tweek poo poo but I just want to use it. I'll still recommend android to people, I'll end up with whatever next motorola comes out I'm sure. But right now I totally "get it" again after carrying apple again. Closest thing to date that felt this nice was moto devices. Well and the HTC M7/8. Build quality is so clean. Nothing else just feels that premium. Maybe the new galaxy will finally make nice feeling hardware a thing. Speaking of android poo poo. I have a brand new G3 sitting here. Sell it to the roommate or flip it for a new moto X? Cant decide and I really need to do something with it before value tanks on it. EbolaIvory fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 23:35
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ThermoPhysical posted:This post has solidified the choice that I am NOT going to buy a Nexus 5 and shall pick up a 6. I wouldn't say it's Nexus S levels. I don't have nearly some of the extreme issues people have been describing, but there's enough people with similar issues that I won't dismiss them. My main complaints are just with battery life, it's just inexplicably bad sometimes. While some of it I can chalk up to being on T-Mobile inside brick buildings most of the day, it's bad even when I put it into airplane mode and turn on wifi. But when I'm at home, it's just fine. I've also had some process go crazy and ramp the processor to max when I charge it, leaving me with only 50 or 60% on the battery when I wake up. It's just enough of a bother to me to make me consider getting either the One M9 or S6 when they come out. I'm willing to deal with it as a backup device.
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Mar 4, 2015 23:49
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Guillermus posted:They'll make the first Nexus phone with a non-lovely camera as they use Sony ones At least on the N6, it's Google's camera software that's a pile of poo poo, not the sensor hardware itself.
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Mar 4, 2015 23:54
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EbolaIvory posted:Speaking of android poo poo. I have a brand new G3 sitting here. Sell it to the roommate or flip it for a new moto X? Cant decide and I really need to do something with it before value tanks on it. I recommend flipping it for a Moto X, there's a promotion running until the 10th where you can get a 16 GB Moto X (32 and 64 GB phones don't appear to be discounted) and get a free pair of Bluetooth headphones.
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Mar 5, 2015 00:08
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nimper posted:http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021818&p_id=9564&seq=1&format=2 Kind of thought it would be a software setting. Oh well.
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CLAM DOWN posted:At least on the N6, it's Google's camera software that's a pile of poo poo, not the sensor hardware itself. Nah, it's the hardware; and you see it over and over again in a lot of Android phones. Such a small sensor with comparatively tiny pixels will have a lot of trouble with low light due to nothing but physics/noise reduction algorithms ripping out detail. Tbh the processing on the N6 is probably one of the better attempts at it for that same sensor outside of the Note 4. The stock Lollipop camera API is far better at it than the KitKat one. Many of the advantages offered by phones like the Z3 are the result of a larger sensor able to collect more light. It'll be interesting to see how the Panasonic CM1 will do with a 1 inch sensor when it hits the market.
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CLAM DOWN posted:At least on the N6, it's Google's camera software that's a pile of poo poo, not the sensor hardware itself. I meant to bring this up a couple of pages ago. Does video on the N6 constantly lose and try to regain focus? I'm wondering if this is software or hardware based.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I meant to bring this up a couple of pages ago. Does video on the N6 constantly lose and try to regain focus? I'm wondering if this is software or hardware based. I filmed some video at a concert I was at a few weeks ago, so some pretty difficult lighting, and it did not have trouble focusing for the most part. Only had a few issues when the stage lights were all crazy.
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Mar 5, 2015 01:14
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Drama Llama posted:Kind of thought it would be a software setting. Oh well. The car probably doesn't support USB audio. I don't know if the S5 active does either. The car stereo is most likely using your phone as a flash drive to play music.
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Mar 5, 2015 01:46
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I hope Android 5.1 fixes the terrible rear end battery on my Nexus 5, its driving me crazy.
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Mar 5, 2015 04:14
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Anyone that ordered one of the Black Friday Vu's having issues with charge rate? I have a black one that I got about a year ago, and it's great as always. Buy my new BF red one is atrocious, it barely keeps up with idle drain.
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ThermoPhysical posted:This post has solidified the choice that I am NOT going to buy a Nexus 5 and shall pick up a 6. Yes.  As mentioned it's great for a day after a reboot but it's poo poo thereafter. Battery drain is insane and I can't even open hangouts by itself without a glacially bad launcher redraw. With Qi making GBS threads out I have zero reason to keep it. New thread title owns. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 05:30
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Maker Of Shoes posted:As mentioned it's great for a day after a reboot but it's poo poo thereafter. Battery drain is insane and I can't even open hangouts by itself without a glacially bad launcher redraw. With Qi making GBS threads out I have zero reason to keep it. I really hate rebooting it; makes me feel like I have a Gingerbread phone again.
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Mar 5, 2015 06:05
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Maker Of Shoes posted:New thread title owns. It does own, I know the pain first-hand.
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My N5 is getting rebooted maybe once a week. The difference afterwards is pretty noticeable. For all the "wow lollipop will be amazing folks, trust us" talk before it came out, lollipop is definitely, um, questionable.
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Mar 5, 2015 06:55
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Current uptime on Lollipop: 308h33m10s Current memory issues: None Number of times the launcher has redrawn: 0 Condition: Perfect
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Moto Maxx uptime: 410 hours Nexus 5 uptime: 653 hours To be fair, though, I currently only use the Nexus 5 as a glorified ipod touch. The Moto Maxx is the one getting a workout as a nerdplan prepaid phone. Still, though, Chrome and Google Music and no weird kills or redraws or anything, but then I'm not running loving Facebook+Messenger in the background on it. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mar 5, 2015 08:38
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The thing I'm not understanding about is if it's this busted for you, why don't you just roll back? There's nothing stopping you and what you've got is obviously not working for you.
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What's the general opinion of the Sony xperia z, will it be as crippled by bloatware as my note2¿
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Xperia Z3 Phone = Best Phone
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nerve posted:Anyone that ordered one of the Black Friday Vu's having issues with charge rate? This happens with my Black Friday Vu and Nexus 4. It would maybe charge the phone 5% overnight. I tried emailing their customer service but never heard anything back.
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FistEnergy posted:Xperia Z3 Phone = Best Phone It's actually a 2013 z, plain ole z.
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Recycled Karma posted:This happens with my Black Friday Vu and Nexus 4. It would maybe charge the phone 5% overnight. I tried emailing their customer service but never heard anything back. *I do want to say I understand the position they're in. Being undercut by cheap Chinese goods and running what's obviously a small company with razor-thin margins making niche products is not an enviable position to be in. Still I think you should stick by your principles.
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always be closing posted:What's the general opinion of the Sony xperia z, will it be as crippled by bloatware as my note2¿ the software is way more reserved than Note 2's. The battery is quite small and its specs are getting long in the tooth though. If you can spend a little more the Z1 is a significant upgrade. If not look for a Nexus 5 or Moto X 2013, those are cheap and better than the Z.
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Yes the memory leak problem with Lollipop is lovely and it will apparently be fixed in 5.1.
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Thanks for the replies guys, I'm gonna check out the specs on those phones, really would like a similar size screen to my note2.
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LastInLine posted:The thing I'm not understanding about is if it's this busted for you, why don't you just roll back? There's nothing stopping you and what you've got is obviously not working for you. Because sitting with a persistent "there's an update available" notification would drive me up a wall just as bad.
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Not only that but going backwards is a huge pain in the rear end.
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Lblitzer posted:Not only that but going backwards is a huge pain in the rear end. Eh, for a Nexus its just downloading the factory image from Google and typing flash-all.bat in a command prompt.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Because sitting with a persistent "there's an update available" notification would drive me up a wall just as bad. You wouldn't see the notification and it will work as it did.
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LastInLine posted:Long press > App Info > Block notification You can block system notifications? Well I'll be damned.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:You can block system notifications? Well I'll be damned. I remember trying this in the past and it didn't work. I't would be nice to see proof that it will work before rolling back. I feel the exact same way as Maker Of Shoes does. Same memory leaks and app crashing, etc.. I'm about to flash a Custom ROM to avoid this all. But I really enjoy the stock experience...if it was working as I expected it to. I am also off contract, so I could technically go back on contract and get a shiny new phone....But I love my N5 still, if it wasn't for these current issues.
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Another indication that a 5.1 release is highly imminent, along with a corresponding API level 22.
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LastInLine posted:This is really disappointing because the non-Black Friday Vus I have are so good. There's nothing worse than when a company makes a great product and gets a reputation for that then they switch suppliers without telling* and then it all goes to poo poo. Any idea if they went back to better suppliers after the Black Friday ones? I've been strongly considering getting their car mount as I need one that fits my Nexus 6, but half the reason I wanted it was the quality of Tylt's stuff.
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LastInLine posted:100% correct. More like 400% correct. Uninstall Facebook Messenger and suddenly things are OK. The memory leak is still present but I only get launcher redraw when I do poo poo like go to a webpage that's full of flash poo poo and background music and embedded video.
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Recycled Karma posted:This happens with my Black Friday Vu and Nexus 4. It would maybe charge the phone 5% overnight. I tried emailing their customer service but never heard anything back. I just sent a customer service e-mail as well. Hopefully I'm not ignored!
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