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nerve: Jan 2, 2011; SKA SUCKS

My first phone was an iPhone 4, followed by N5 and N6. I've never owned a bad phone, it's been pretty great.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 15:54

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# ? May 11, 2024 08:56

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

FAUXTON posted:

I used the upgrade to get an Evo 3D, because once you slam your dick in a door the first time, the next couple slams happen almost by reflex and before I knew it I was the proud owner of a Sprint Galaxy Nexus on release day.

Such an apt description. I went from the original EVO to the S2, S3, Note 3, and now Nexus 6.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 16:04

GonadTheBallbarian: Jul 23, 2007

Maker Of Shoes posted:

Same. Mine claimed it was missing system.img. Same thing with previous 5.x flashes on the N5. Weird.

Same here. Unzipping the compressed folder worked somehow.

e. Installing the SDK also hosed my computer up good, spent about an hour in Terminal force moving things that wouldn't show.

GonadTheBallbarian fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Mar 10, 2015

# ? Mar 10, 2015 16:04

r0ck0: Sep 12, 2004; r0ck0s p0zt m0d3rn lyf

Flashin dirty on the N5 and 5.1 got root back, everything is good.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 17:40

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

I have not been keeping up on 5.1 or other information so I apologize if this question is stupid in advance, but is there any chance 5.1 will allow us to disable encryption on the N6?

# ? Mar 10, 2015 17:41

Rap Game Goku: Apr 2, 2008; Word to your moms, I came to drop spirit bombs

CLAM DOWN posted:

I have not been keeping up on 5.1 or other information so I apologize if this question is stupid in advance, but is there any chance 5.1 will allow us to disable encryption on the N6?

Maybe? It's not a requirement for other OEMs now but Google might still want it on the flagship. Don't think they've said one way or the other.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 17:44

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

CLAM DOWN posted:

I have not been keeping up on 5.1 or other information so I apologize if this question is stupid in advance, but is there any chance 5.1 will allow us to disable encryption on the N6?

Someone went through git and pulled all the merged commits and there are a couple regarding HW based encryption support for the N6 and I believe there's one for making encryption configurable as well. I don't know if there are further commits reverting them though so we might just have to wait for 5.1 to show up.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 18:05

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

Well that would be cool, that should result in a large storage i/o performance bump for the N6 if true! Thanks dudes.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 18:08

ilkhan: Oct 7, 2004; I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

If 5.1 allows you to not-encrypt (or hardware encrypt for almost no speed penalty) it might actually be worth upgrading from my N5 for.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 19:41

kitten smoothie: Dec 29, 2001

datajosh posted:

Someone went through git and pulled all the merged commits and there are a couple regarding HW based encryption support for the N6 and I believe there's one for making encryption configurable as well. I don't know if there are further commits reverting them though so we might just have to wait for 5.1 to show up.

There were two commits there showing it was added, and two saying "disable HW crypto, hopefully temporarily" so who knows right now.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:04

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Tunga posted:

Agree. Notification light doesn't actually interrupt me like sound/vibrate so should always work no matter what mode I have the phone in. This is a good change.

I agree with you because I have a Nexus 5. I'd probably be miffed if I had a Nexus 6 with its nuclear explosion level LED.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:11

Tunga: May 7, 2004; Grimey Drawer

ilkhan posted:

If 5.1 allows you to not-encrypt (or hardware encrypt for almost no speed penalty) it might actually be worth upgrading from my N5 for.

Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, you can already choose not to encrypt a Nexus 5. Mandatory encryption only applies to devices that shipped with Lollipop.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:24

GonadTheBallbarian: Jul 23, 2007

Nexus 5 has been a champ today on 5.1. Only down 12% with music listening since 10:30EST

Glad the battery isn't failing, it was just 5.0.1!

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:24

Boywunda: Jun 25, 2003

WugLyfe posted:

Nexus 5 has been a champ today on 5.1. Only down 12% with music listening since 10:30EST

Glad the battery isn't failing, it was just 5.0.1!

Thanks for confirming. Time to dirty flash 5.1 instead of this custom 5.0.2 ROM that I've been running for a few days.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:25

WeAreTheRomans: Feb 23, 2010; by R. Guyovich

Any predictions on when this will be pushed OTA? Much as I like to complain about the absolutely poo poo battery life, I'm still not hosed flashing the ROM.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:42

always be closing: Jul 16, 2005

Flashing is for closers only.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:43

WeAreTheRomans: Feb 23, 2010; by R. Guyovich

always be closing posted:

Flashing is for closers only.

thanks for the help

# ? Mar 10, 2015 20:55

ilkhan: Oct 7, 2004; I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

Tunga posted:

Unless I'm misunderstanding your post, you can already choose not to encrypt a Nexus 5. Mandatory encryption only applies to devices that shipped with Lollipop.

Like a Nexus 6?
(I was responding to the post above mine about the N6. If you can decrypt the N6, or make it not have that giant performance hit, the N6 might be worth getting now).

# ? Mar 10, 2015 21:26

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

WugLyfe posted:

Nexus 5 has been a champ today on 5.1. Only down 12% with music listening since 10:30EST

Glad the battery isn't failing, it was just 5.0.1!

I've been railing on this 5 all day with more than normal use trying to get it to puke up with launcher redraws or app switching stalls and so far nothing. I wont call it fixed until after it's been a week but normally by now I'd already be itching to reboot it.

Crossing my fingers so hard.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 21:44

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

Great, now if they would only release a N9 image.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 21:50

Merv Burger: Jan 3, 2008

WeAreTheRomans posted:

Any predictions on when this will be pushed OTA? Much as I like to complain about the absolutely poo poo battery life, I'm still not hosed flashing the ROM.

It's already going out now, it's just that Google's staged rollout process means only a small number of people get it the first few days, with the number increasing until it hits a point of general availability for all.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 22:06

Tunga: May 7, 2004; Grimey Drawer

ilkhan posted:

Like a Nexus 6?
(I was responding to the post above mine about the N6. If you can decrypt the N6, or make it not have that giant performance hit, the N6 might be worth getting now).

Right, yeah, missed that context.

My N5 has been awesome since updating. It was visibly jerking on the way to work when scrolling in Something and Chrome, spp switching was taking a couple of seconds, launcher was reloading every time, unusable garbage. Got to work, flashed 5.1, has been perfect ever since. Using it for dev stuff all day and then browsing/games on the way home, not one launcher redraw and no lag anywhere. Definitely need a few days to be sure but seems like it might be fixed.

Tunga fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Mar 10, 2015

# ? Mar 10, 2015 22:11

DemonMage: Oct 14, 2004; What happens in the course of duty is up to you...

ilkhan posted:

Like a Nexus 6?
(I was responding to the post above mine about the N6. If you can decrypt the N6, or make it not have that giant performance hit, the N6 might be worth getting now).

Have their been any benchmarks since 5.0.1? I've only had my N6 since January but in actual use there's no noticeable difference except when booting up compared to my N7 2013 using the same applications. Except for Heroes Charge, I should really file a bug report on that since I don't think it has anything to do with the encryption.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 22:20

JayKay: Sep 11, 2001; And you thought they were cute and cuddly.

Anyone here go from the Droid Maxx to a LG G3 or Droid Turbo?

I like the Motorola enhancements and the fact it's really close to stock Android, but the g3's styling, camera, screen, and removable battery are a huge draw for me.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 22:59

kensei: Dec 27, 2007; He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!

JayKay posted:

Anyone here go from the Droid Maxx to a LG G3 or Droid Turbo?

I like the Motorola enhancements and the fact it's really close to stock Android, but the g3's styling, camera, screen, and removable battery are a huge draw for me.

I went MAXX to Turbo, would do again. I have not played with a G3 besides just in a store for a while, but all the Moto software is just awesome and the battery/camera are even better on the Turbo.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 23:17

Premature: Dec 9, 2014; Shut your eyes, I don't want to get glitter in them.; Buglord

Tunga posted:

Error stuff

I also had this problem last night, flashing the unzipped components alone allowed me to progress.
Then I was stuck in a bootloop where the phone would be optimising an arbitrary number of apps, get through them, then reboot and start optimising a different number of apps.
What eventually fixed it, 3 hours of tinkering later, was redownloading the factory image and starting from scratch.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 23:18

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

5.1 has been pretty good for me, pretty much exactly as good as 5.0.1.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 23:49

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

PinnacleOrBust posted:

I also had this problem last night, flashing the unzipped components alone allowed me to progress.
Then I was stuck in a bootloop where the phone would be optimising an arbitrary number of apps, get through them, then reboot and start optimising a different number of apps.
What eventually fixed it, 3 hours of tinkering later, was redownloading the factory image and starting from scratch.

Flashing images one at a time misses the wipe flag that's part of the normal flash-all.bat. While dirty flashing is usually fine it's not unheard of for it to go tits up and present itself as a bootloop during app optimization.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 23:49

Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

LastInLine posted:

I agree with you because I have a Nexus 5. I'd probably be miffed if I had a Nexus 6 with its nuclear explosion level LED.

My N5 wakes me up when the LED flashes, it's so bright I usually turn the LED off completely.

# ? Mar 10, 2015 23:56

Tunga: May 7, 2004; Grimey Drawer

SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:

My N5 wakes me up when the LED flashes, it's so bright I usually turn the LED off completely.

Do you sleep with your phone on your face?

# ? Mar 11, 2015 00:03

future ghost: Dec 5, 2005; Gun Saliva

kensei posted:

I went MAXX to Turbo, would do again. I have not played with a G3 besides just in a store for a while, but all the Moto software is just awesome and the battery/camera are even better on the Turbo.

We got one of these to replace a Maxx HD, and the camera, screen, and software is considerably better. Not sure how it'd compare to the Maxx but it's fast as hell for an android phone.
The $100 credit deal for the Turbo is still in place, and they'll take any working phone for it so you can apply the tradein to the in-store checkout price. I had to google how to system reset the ancient piece of poo poo I traded in (HTC Ozone) since neither I nor the Verizon salesperson could figure out how it worked.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 00:13

butt dickus: Jul 7, 2007; top ten juiced up coaches
and the top ten juiced up players

Tunga posted:

Do you sleep with your phone on your face?

Nah, I've been woken up by mine too before. The LED puts out a good amount of light for a dark room. My headboard kind of has cubbies so I moved the charger a little further back and that's fixed the problem for me.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 00:15

Dr. Video Games 0050: Nov 28, 2007

Tunga posted:

Do you sleep with your phone on your face?

Mine is on my night stand table and it makes enough light in a dark room to notice. Galaxy s4. Turn your night light out, pray for no monsters and try it out.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 01:50

Blitter: Mar 16, 2011

FWIW lightflow is a great app for making better use of the led, and one of the options is "sleep settings" that will let you selectively or completely remove led notifications during specific times.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 01:50

TheReverend: Jun 21, 2005

My N5 battery is poo poo.

It's almost a year old.

Should I just wipe data and try that or should I contact Google?

# ? Mar 11, 2015 01:57

Shadowgate: May 6, 2007; Soiled Meat

We are all hoping the 5.1 update fixes it. It's a pretty common issue with Lollipop right now.

# ? Mar 11, 2015 02:27

GopherFlats: Mar 16, 2011

So the Droid Turbo is pretty much the go to on Verizon right? I really love my HTC M7, mostly the awesome speakers and sense is pretty unobtrusive. The camera doesn't bother me because I'm not a huge photo person and the battery is still fairly decent after 2 years.

So should I just spring for a turbo next month or is the M9 worth waiting for considering what I like about the M7?

# ? Mar 11, 2015 03:30