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Skarsnik posted:Dont install lovely apps then? Too bad the Google Play market is flooded with them. It's seriously hard to find an app that isn't obviously terrible sometimes.
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isndl posted:It's seriously hard to find an app that isn't obviously terrible sometimes. Sometimes I don't understand this thread.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:07
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WeAreTheRomans posted:This is the thread for people to get egregiously rear end-blasted over smartphones, get with the program dweeb I don't get it, but I will gently caress off then. 
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Apr 7, 2015 09:12
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Skarsnik posted:Plus lack of Wifi means any location request will go straight to the battery hungry GPS, when a coarse Wifi request would have been enough Yes it pretty much is going to do just that, actually. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/where-have-you-been-your-smartphones-wi-fi-is-telling-everyone/ Technically a somewhat different issue, but effectively the same thing privacy-wise.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:14
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Skarsnik posted:Seriously hard In short, I've had better luck going through third party reviews to find an app than attempting to find one myself through the Play store.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:15
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Back in the day you used to be able to block private numbers in Android, either drop the call or send it to voicemail or whatever. Now that I've got lollypop going that doesn't seem to be an option and my cursory browse around the app store hasn't proved very useful. Currently running a rooted nexus 4 and am looking for something that can allow me to drop all those drat sales calls I keep getting. Help me please goons. I don't mind paying for an app that does this.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:35
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Skarsnik posted:Dont install lovely apps then? You might as well ask people not to install apps at all with the state Android's in these days. That's sort of what the Android app and game threads are for - so courageous goons can find the worst offenders and wave other goons off of them, or more rarely find stuff actually worth using.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:39
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes it pretty much is going to do just that, actually. Worrying about what unconnected Wi-Fi tells about you is just ridiculous. Keeping it enabled has real location accuracy and battery usage benefits whereas the opposite is complete  bullshit.As for the apps and their permissions, come on. It's not difficult to find good apps and I'm sure everyone here (in a nerd phone thread for weirdos) can easily tell a good app from a bad one. I'm not saying grandmothers who can't tell spam from email couldn't do it (which is a legitimate complaint about Android) but is anyone here seriously unable to distinguish malware from useful apps on Google Play?
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Gobbeldygook posted:Lollipop came to my LG G2 a few days ago and I hate it. It has dramatically reduced the performance of my phone (apps take much longer to open/close, it's seriously sluggish at all times, etc), apps freeze up for a while occasionally, etc. I never rooted it. Is there any way to get rid of this bullshit and go back to the nice phone I used to have? Quoting this because I didn't want it to get lost. I had a similar issue on my HTC One m7. If I remember correctly, I solved all my issues by rebooting into recovery and doing SOMETHING. It had to do with dvalik vs ART and switching from Kit Kat to L. . This reboot/refresh solved all my issues and I'm hoping someone else here knows what im talking about because I can't find the link...
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Apr 7, 2015 12:39
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Well, I guess I'm going back to my N4. 1 GB of RAM just isn't enough these days, I guess - I can't be sure of SwipePad will be there when I swipe in or not, and it did on fact get killed while in the foreground once this morning. I'll just have to deal with crappy battery life. I'm sure my wife will be happy when I tell her its time to sell the phone I got a month ago!
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hooah posted:Well, I guess I'm going back to my N4. 1 GB of RAM just isn't enough these days, I guess - I can't be sure of SwipePad will be there when I swipe in or not, and it did on fact get killed while in the foreground once this morning. I'll just have to deal with crappy battery life. What phone did you have again?
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Skeezy posted:What phone did you have again? They had/have a gpe moto g.
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Correct. I've had a Nexus 4 since February 2013, and wanted something inexpensive to temporarily replace it until I could afford another flagship-quality phone and settled on a 2013 Moto G. Unfortunately I found that inexpensive, in this case, is equivalent with "can't meet my needs".
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Captain Yossarian posted:Quoting this because I didn't want it to get lost. I had a similar issue on my HTC One m7. If I remember correctly, I solved all my issues by rebooting into recovery and doing SOMETHING. It had to do with dvalik vs ART and switching from Kit Kat to L. . This reboot/refresh solved all my issues and I'm hoping someone else here knows what im talking about because I can't find the link... Cleared your cache partition from the recovery menu? Then clear all app caches from the storage setting. My 5.0.2 Moto G has been well-behaved since doing this.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Lollipop came to my LG G2 a few days ago and I hate it. It has dramatically reduced the performance of my phone (apps take much longer to open/close, it's seriously sluggish at all times, etc), apps freeze up for a while occasionally, etc. I never rooted it. Is there any way to get rid of this bullshit and go back to the nice phone I used to have? Please just understand that while there might be some hiccups, that Lollipop is objectively superior to whatever experience you had before with you phone.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Got my Moto X today, still doing some setup stuff. The Moto X got Lollipop in like November, way before other phones and before there was a 5.0.1, I believe. Now Moto is jumping right to 5.1 for their next round of updates. 5.0.1 doesn't add anything other than bug fixes though and personally I've had zero issues with 5.0 on the X, including the memory leak issues.
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Require More Fire posted:The Moto X got Lollipop in like November, way before other phones and before there was a 5.0.1, I believe. Now Moto is jumping right to 5.1 for their next round of updates. 5.0.1 doesn't add anything other than bug fixes though and personally I've had zero issues with 5.0 on the X, including the memory leak issues. I had memory leak issues (home screen redraws, etc.) on my X with 5.0. A restart would fix it but after a few days it just got bogged down. The 5.1 soak test seems to be a little better I guess!
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Apr 7, 2015 14:36
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I found that just leaving my phone in airplane mode has solved any battery or malware issues I've had with my android phones. Nothing comes in or goes out and the battery lasts for days. I still use an antivirus and firewall just in case, though.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:48
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comper posted:I found that just leaving my phone in airplane mode has solved any battery or malware issues I've had with my android phones. Nothing comes in or goes out and the battery lasts for days. I still use an antivirus and firewall just in case, though. Is this a joke or are you serious because lol E. It's just early. I got it.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:49
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Are we at the point where we can just ban someone for mentioning a firewall, antivirus, or battery saver app? After this post, of course.
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isndl posted:It makes me curious to see just where the hell Samsung put the Qi receiver, because the Vu has three separate coils to maximize compatibility. There has been pretty good indication on a few sites that their wireless charging stuff is at the top of the phone. It wasn't 100%, but it was based on the orientation the phone had to be (up side down) in order to charge on some wireless mat where the coils were at the bottom only.
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Apr 7, 2015 14:55
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I hope we get lots of editorials about how Google/LG/Samsung/Motorola/Whoever are releasing updates to INTENTIONALLY obsolete their phones by making them slower like Apple gets every time there's an update and some writer's 4 year old phone suddenly stops working great.
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Endless Mike posted:I hope we get lots of editorials about how Google/LG/Samsung/Motorola/Whoever are releasing updates to INTENTIONALLY obsolete their phones by making them slower like Apple gets every time there's an update and some writer's 4 year old phone suddenly stops working great. Jesus Christ Google get with the program, where is 5.1 for my Nexus One
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Apr 7, 2015 15:22
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I was rockin' Kitkat on my Nexus One before I upgraded. It worked surprisingly well for what it was.
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Mogomra posted:It worked surprisingly well for what it was. Is this like "the Atari 2600 is a surprisingly capable webserver, for what it is" kind of thing? Or was it usable beyond kid-glove gimmick scenarios? I am having trouble imagining how terrifically bad KitKat must have been on that hardware. It's like seeing XP running on some old shitbox that was built for use with 3.1.
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Mogomra posted:I was rockin' Kitkat on my Nexus One before I upgraded. Better or worse than Nexus S with Jellybean levels of bad?
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FAUXTON posted:Is this like "the Atari 2600 is a surprisingly capable webserver, for what it is" kind of thing? Or was it usable beyond kid-glove gimmick scenarios? Endless Mike posted:Better or worse than Nexus S with Jellybean levels of bad? Some alpha-nerd hacked together some sort of hardware acceleration so it was totally usable. It was still old hardware for Kitkat though. The real issue was that whatever storage was in the Nexus One didn't hold up over time, so the longer you ran, the longer it would take apps to load. E: This is what I was running, not my video though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V33IrOD_WYs Mogomra fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Kerbtree posted:Cleared your cache partition from the recovery menu? Then clear all app caches from the storage setting. That was it thank! Gobbeldygook I'm not sure how to do that on your G2 but someone here might know and I'm sure Google will!
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Birb Katter posted:Back in the day you used to be able to block private numbers in Android, either drop the call or send it to voicemail or whatever. Now that I've got lollypop going that doesn't seem to be an option and my cursory browse around the app store hasn't proved very useful. I would like to know if it's possible to do this without needing to root the phone. If you're phone is rooted I think there are ways to do it, but I don't want to do that. Prior to Lollipop, I used Mr. Number to just automatically hang up on any numbers that I put in a block list. Once Lollipop came out, this feature no longer works and I haven't found anything that will work with Lollipop that doesn't require root.
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Dirk Funk posted:I would like to know if it's possible to do this without needing to root the phone. If you're phone is rooted I think there are ways to do it, but I don't want to do that. TrueCaller or TrueDialer might be what you are looking for.
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You can just make a contact that you dump all the numbers you want to go straight to voicemail into, and you go to the overflow menu while in the edit contact screen you can check an option for "All calls to voicemail." This is with default dialer and contacts from Google.
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:TrueCaller or TrueDialer might be what you are looking for. True caller seems to look like it does what I'm after. Obviously need to see if I stop getting stupid blocked number calls but it looks promising. Cheers.
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Apr 7, 2015 18:41
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Merv Burger posted:You can just make a contact that you dump all the numbers you want to go straight to voicemail into, and you go to the overflow menu while in the edit contact screen you can check an option for "All calls to voicemail." It's the withheld numbers that do this stuff around here and it's kind of hard to put "blocked number" into contacts.
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Merv Burger posted:You can just make a contact that you dump all the numbers you want to go straight to voicemail into, and you go to the overflow menu while in the edit contact screen you can check an option for "All calls to voicemail." It's really lovely that the official "fix" is a hacky workaround.
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:TrueCaller or TrueDialer might be what you are looking for. I will check these out and see how it goes. Thanks.
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TrueCaller offers cool functionality at the cost of uploading your entire contacts list to their server so they know who everyone's phone number is! Or at least this was the case a year ago...
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So I've got free upgrade now and am getting an m8 to replace my m7 - because gently caress paying £49 a month for a decent data plan, especially since the phone seems like a mess from first reviews. Only problem is for some lovely reason you can't get the 32GB m8 in the UK, only the 16GB. Can anyone tell me if it's true you can't move apps to the SD card on current Android? Because if so then this seems like a bad choice.
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Thermopyle posted:TrueCaller offers cool functionality at the cost of uploading your entire contacts list to their server so they know who everyone's phone number is! I'm just playing through the app now and it also wants to farm you FB contacts. You can earn different badges and one is "brand ambassador". This can't bode well. All I want to do is block private numbers that used to be a stock feature in Android. Why they gotta make it so hard. Might be time to roll back a version.
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