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As a TMO customer, I was pretty interested in Fi. But the data price makes it a no-go unfortunately. I used 35 gigs in February, and 37 in March. So I'll keep my grandfathered unlimited plan, obviously. I am the outlier. Coverage improvement would have been nice. Oh well. Looks great for a lot of people though.
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FistEnergy posted:As a TMO customer, I was pretty interested in Fi. But the data price makes it a no-go unfortunately. I used 35 gigs in February, and 37 in March. So I'll keep my grandfathered unlimited plan, obviously. I am the outlier. Holey moley, you'd be paying about $1,000 per month in Canada. pandaK posted:Should I be worried if my note 4 only seems to be able to properly focus when taking a picture after I give it a good whack to the side? no matter what I do, it never seems to auto focus correctly on the first try. While that sounds like a feature Samsung would add, yes that is a concern.
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pandaK posted:Should I be worried if my note 4 only seems to be able to properly focus when taking a picture after I give it a good whack to the side? no matter what I do, it never seems to auto focus correctly on the first try. Mine does the exact same thing. I thought it was something hosed up with the stabilization, since that seems like the only thing that would react to a good knock.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:25
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pandaK posted:Should I be worried if my note 4 only seems to be able to properly focus when taking a picture after I give it a good whack to the side? no matter what I do, it never seems to auto focus correctly on the first try. Yeah man. I hope you don't work for anything tech related or basically anything that requires thought.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:28
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I just got a survey from Rewards asking what year it was and when I pressed 2015 immediately it chastised me for answering too fast and told me to try again. What the hell google. 
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Apr 23, 2015 01:50
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Apr 23, 2015 01:51
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Thermopyle posted:Those are bot checks. Also, I need to find something to spend this $6 Ive accumulated from surveys before they start expiring.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:53
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ilkhan posted:Google just paid me $.24 for answering that there are 7 continents in the world. I got that one wrong haha. It said "you answered that very quickly, are you sure? and I said yes. The last one was all about video games, took about two minutes, and didn't give me any money. What the gently caress
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Apr 23, 2015 01:54
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I accidentally misclicked a bot check, the number of surveys has taken a big dive. Sure, it may be confirmation bias, but I used to have at least one a week and I haven't had one in 2 weeks.
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Apr 23, 2015 01:57
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I'm getting more than ever. Every time I visit a mall or retail area it lists about six stores and wants to know which ones I went in.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:00
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PinnacleOrBust posted:I accidentally misclicked a bot check, the number of surveys has taken a big dive. Sure, it may be confirmation bias, but I used to have at least one a week and I haven't had one in 2 weeks. Mine took huge dive after I answered "What are you craving most right now?" with "COCAINE". It was a couple months before I saw another, although that might be because I'm outside the US and never seem to get that many in the first place.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:12
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Reverse Centaur posted:I'm getting more than ever. Every time I visit a mall or retail area it lists about six stores and wants to know which ones I went in. I keep answering "none of the above" and getting (slightly) paid for it.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:14
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With no change in my routine, I am suddenly receiving a survey every couple days. Closer and closer to that $7.89 mark!
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Apr 23, 2015 02:16
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The Goon darling 2014 Moto X is $249 shipped on eBay (good seller): http://www.ebay.com/itm/191553354967 Unlocked 32 gig AT&T version. Swappa is upwards of $360, so this is a solid deal. Used it looks like, but it's $249.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:33
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I've made over $20 on surveys. I'd say like 60% of them are of this type:Reverse Centaur posted:I'm getting more than ever. Every time I visit a mall or retail area it lists about six stores and wants to know which ones I went in.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:31
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hotsauce posted:The Goon darling 2014 Moto X is $249 shipped on eBay (good seller): According to the description, this is 16gb AND 32gb and has a 4.7" screen AND a 5.2" screen. Despite all that, against my better judgement, I bought it anyway. 
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Apr 23, 2015 03:34
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I'd rather pay the extra $5 to Cricket to get AT&T service than to be stuck with Sprint and T-Mobile though. Plus you get an extra 1.5 gb. I've been with T-Mobile for like 7 years or something and am a pretty happy customer.
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Apr 23, 2015 03:37
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Vykk.Draygo posted:According to the description, this is 16gb AND 32gb and has a 4.7" screen AND a 5.2" screen. Despite all that, against my better judgement, I bought it anyway. Yeah, also says "unlocked bootloader for easy" then it just stops. Cliffhanger. But it's ebay. Buyers always win. Just angrily open a case if they give you guff. You will always win as ebay sides with buyers 99.9% of the time. I have stopped selling there because of this. People make up poo poo like no other and you are just forced to deal with it and take the item back. If it's really 32 it's a great deal.
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Reverse Centaur posted:I'm getting more than ever. Every time I visit a mall or retail area it lists about six stores and wants to know which ones I went in. I get a lot of these, but it always asks me 4-10 days after the fact. Like "Which date did you last visit Home Depot?" and then it gives a list of days. WTF, Google, I don't remember whether it was Tuesday night or Wednesday night of last week that I went to Home Depot.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:02
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Thermopyle posted:Those are bot checks. What in the hell is the point of bot checking something that sends a survey every couple days at max and pays out cents at a time? I don't doubt that's what they're doing, but it doesn't make much sense.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:06
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:What in the hell is the point of bot checking something that sends a survey every couple days at max and pays out cents at a time? I don't doubt that's what they're doing, but it doesn't make much sense. Because they want truthful answers, and bots can't answer truthfully.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:13
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OK, personal peeve here, but is there some way I can adjust media volume without having to either start playing media or going all the way into the settings? I'm using Lollipop.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:19
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Thermopyle posted:I've made over $20 on surveys. I'd say like 60% of them are of this type: I work beside a mall. I love it. I agree though. Sometimes it'll ask when I went to Walmart and I have no loving clue if it was Monday or Tuesday. I actually messaged my wife in the middle of a survey to make sure I wasn't lying.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:28
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ilkhan posted:Regardless, its still weird. Hearthstone card packs.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:52
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Because they want truthful answers, and bots can't answer truthfully. What in trying to say is that I think botters have bigger fish to fry. I can't imagine bots being that big an issue here.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:04
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:OK, personal peeve here, but is there some way I can adjust media volume without having to either start playing media or going all the way into the settings? I'm using Lollipop. This bothers me as well so much ever since going from samsung phones to stock android phones. Thats one thing samsung did right.
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Apr 23, 2015 05:18
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:What in trying to say is that I think botters have bigger fish to fry. I can't imagine bots being that big an issue here. That's the whole point of botting, you aren't personally hitting up poo poo for pennies at a time.
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So I'm hoping someone here can help me with a little android -related problem. I bought a Galaxy S5 about a week ago and have been very happy with it, until I installed a software update yesterday. Now I get a popup saying "unfortunately, the process android.phone.com has stopped working" literally every 10 loving seconds. This is truly unfortunate, since my phone is now practically useless; I can't make a call because it will be disconnected within seconds, and anything else I might use the phone for will be interrupted constantly. Of course, there's no option to roll back the update (not that I've found at least). I've found a program called Odin, which supposedly can be used to reinstall updates and mess around inside your phone, but I'm having problems finding a reliable place where I download the update files . Of course, software updates for smart phones are not available on samsung's own web sites, because people are supposed to throw away smart phones, not fix them I guess.
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Panniculus Rift posted:So I'm hoping someone here can help me with a little android -related problem. I bought a Galaxy S5 about a week ago and have been very happy with it, until I installed a software update yesterday. Now I get a popup saying "unfortunately, the process android.phone.com has stopped working" literally every 10 loving seconds. This is truly unfortunate, since my phone is now practically useless; I can't make a call because it will be disconnected within seconds, and anything else I might use the phone for will be interrupted constantly. Find your carrier's firmware on Sam Mobile. It's the only semi reputable place for it. I'd force a factory reset from the recovery screen before doing that though, turn the phone off and hold Volume up + home + power then cycle through to Wipe/factory reset phone and hit the power key to okay it.
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Google Fi seems like nothing impressive from a European point of view - it's not even unlimited data. Anyway, I think there's a separate thread for US carrier discussion...
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Mnemosyne posted:I get a lot of these, but it always asks me 4-10 days after the fact. Like "Which date did you last visit Home Depot?" and then it gives a list of days. WTF, Google, I don't remember whether it was Tuesday night or Wednesday night of last week that I went to Home Depot. When I can't remember which day I went where, I typically look into my Google Location History to figure out which day Google thinks I went to the business in question.
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I synced my contacts with skype and facebook, and now I'm running into a problem where deleting a contact just results in a message saying "cannot delete following contacts". How do I delete contacts? I've tried turning syncing off and deleting, but no luck. On a related note, while googling this issue, I stumbled upon some people claiming that Lollipop stores contacts on the user's gmail account instead of the sim card. Is this true? I have a dumbphone I use for festivals and camping trips, so it's kind of important that my contacts are saved onto the sim card as well. This is on a new Sony Z3 Compact.
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wooger posted:Google Fi seems like nothing impressive from a European point of view - it's not even unlimited data. Anyway, a phone question: I need to find two decent Android phones for £150-£200 each. Could go to £250 for the right device. The Moto G (2014) is £150 and seems like the obvious choice but I'm slightly concerned about the 8GB of storage. What is the situation with SD cards on Android these days, can you install apps to them? I haven't owned an SD card phone sicne the HTC Desire so I've lost track of how these work. The Moto X (2013) is pretty hard to find now and I'm not sure I want to recommend a two year old phone that is probably already towards the end of its update life anyway. Moto X (2014) is too expensive. N5 would be a good choice but still goes for ~£290 which seems a bit much for what it is. Z3C is also ~£290. OPO fits the price but, well, it's the OPO, I can't really bring myself to recommend it to someone. All other phones are either expensive, garbage, or both. Everything else I looked at is £300+. There seems to be a big gap in the market right now in the £200-250 price range. Anyone have any other suggestions? Is there a UK release date and/price for that Asus Zenphone thing they have been waving around at recent trade shows? Also I'm not interested in second hand devices, they need to have full warranties.
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Tunga posted:Yeah I can't imagine this ever making it outside of the US with that kind of price model. It'd have to be an order of magnitude cheaper to be at all interesting in the UK, for example, where I pay £15 for unlimited calls/texts/LTE and free roaming in the US and half of Europe. It'd have to be like £2/GB here. The Moto G is your only acceptable option and you'll be dealing with 8GB and no LTE.
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Panniculus Rift posted:So I'm hoping someone here can help me with a little android -related problem. I bought a Galaxy S5 about a week ago and have been very happy with it, until I installed a software update yesterday. Now I get a popup saying "unfortunately, the process android.phone.com has stopped working" literally every 10 loving seconds. This is truly unfortunate, since my phone is now practically useless; I can't make a call because it will be disconnected within seconds, and anything else I might use the phone for will be interrupted constantly. Have you checked if there are more updates available? Which version are you currently on?
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LastInLine posted:The Moto G is your only acceptable option and you'll be dealing with 8GB and no LTE. http://www.motorola.co.uk/consumers/moto-g-gen2-gb/Moto-G-4G-%282nd-Gen.%29/motorola-g-gb-pdp.html Also we have ubiquitous HSPA+ here which is plenty good enough anyway. So my only concern is the 8GB. If apps can be installed to the SD card then this becomes a non-issue. Neither of them are heavy app/media users but I would like to know that the option is there. Reddit suggests that this feature is built-in so I think this will be fine.
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Tunga posted:The LTE ("4G") version is available in the UK:
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I know you mentioned the Moto x, but they are so so cheap on ebay (uk) at the moment. Almost cheap enough if they need replacing in a year it would still be worth it
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Skarsnik posted:I know you mentioned the Moto x, but they are so so cheap on ebay (uk) at the moment. Almost cheap enough if they need replacing in a year it would still be worth it
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Phone posting too but about 130 quid new, loads of em
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