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I lack enough points to get a free S6, and the only Nexus phone I could get is the 6  I know the 5 would be an upgrade over the 3 any way, I'm just wondering if there's any substantial glaring flaws or quirks about it.
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Desk Lamp posted:The funniest part is that this being Android, there's always a non zero chance their phone could end up worse after updating. This problem isn't limited to Android. In fact Android isn't even significantly worse than other platforms at this.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:09
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The Merkinman posted:Unless a security vulnerability is discovered. And its not like Lollipop's changelog consists entirely of "Increment version number to 5.1 in Settings menu." It isn't unreasonable to be annoyed at how the Turbo update situation has played out. I would think most people bought this phone with the expectation that it would get at least average support. Further evidence that no one should be surprised by Verizon's capacity to gently caress something up. Edit: \/\/\/\/ It's poo poo like that that led to me buying this phone. I'd much rather have a functional but out of date phone than deal with Cyanogen garbage again. Bandire fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 19:13
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I like my updates to receive extensive testing, unlike this nearly 2-week old issue in Cyanogen that keeps you from being able to dial 911
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Jun 12, 2015 19:13
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Rastor posted:but hear the S6 was a pretty huge leap over the S5, which many had found disappointing. Capn Beeb posted:I lack enough points to get a free S6, and the only Nexus phone I could get is the 6
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Jun 12, 2015 19:14
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butt dickus posted:The 5 is fine. The reason to get the 6 now is because it will still be supported for the length of your contract and possibly still worth something at the end of it. But you're using a 3 right now so you're already used to that sort of thing. Word. I've always been trailing a bit, so that's fine 
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Jun 12, 2015 19:20
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Bandire posted:Edit: \/\/\/\/ It's poo poo like that that led to me buying this phone. I'd much rather have a functional but out of date phone than deal with Cyanogen garbage again. What does this mean? Any phone you buy from Verizon would come without Cyanogenmod
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Jun 12, 2015 19:32
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kitten smoothie posted:I like my updates to receive extensive testing, unlike this nearly 2-week old issue in Cyanogen that keeps you from being able to dial 911 Isn't this the second time CM has this issue?
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Jun 12, 2015 19:38
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kitten smoothie posted:I like my updates to receive extensive testing, unlike this nearly 2-week old issue in Cyanogen that keeps you from being able to dial 911 Wow, you are literally risking your own life if you unlock your bootloader.  Never again.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:39
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Bandire posted:And its not like Lollipop's changelog consists entirely of "Increment version number to 5.1 in Settings menu." It isn't unreasonable to be annoyed at how the Turbo update situation has played out. I would think most people bought this phone with the expectation that it would get at least average support. It's actually hilarious that people are angry about a phone update that in the end doesn't do much differently than the previous OS. Also Cricket is a hot piece of trash. Good luck to the dudes claiming they will switch to it from Verizon. It's cheap for a reason.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:50
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DangerZoneDelux posted:It's actually hilarious that people are angry about a phone update that in the end doesn't do much differently than the previous OS. Why's it a hot piece of trash?
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Jun 12, 2015 19:55
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Bandire posted:Edit: \/\/\/\/ It's poo poo like that that led to me buying this phone. I'd much rather have a functional but out of date phone than deal with Cyanogen garbage again.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:56
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RVProfootballer posted:What does this mean? Any phone you buy from Verizon would come without Cyanogenmod It means I learned to stop breaking my phones DangerZoneDelux posted:It's actually hilarious that people are angry about a phone update that in the end doesn't do much differently than the previous OS. The people that are threatening class action lawsuits and harassing secretaries at Moto Corporate are hilarious. I'm just mildly annoyed.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:03
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I'm not really sure why cricket would be bad? Maybe he will weigh in
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Captain Yossarian posted:I'm not really sure why cricket would be bad? Maybe he will weigh in If AT&T is fine in your area then Cricket will be as well. You get capped on speeds, but that's not the restriction it might seem. They did have some issues with their proxy a few months ago, but those are resolved and they didn't affect everyone (never affected me.)
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Jun 12, 2015 20:14
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A bigger issue with the Turbo and why people are upset with the lack of support is currently the call quality is absolute poo poo. VoLTE is very broken and if you drop LTE for even a second your call will completely drop. The volume on the Turbo is very, very low as it is and if your signal isn't perfect it can be very hard to hear calls. You can turn AC/VoLTE off, but then you can't use data while on a call.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:23
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Captain Yossarian posted:I'm not really sure why cricket would be bad? Maybe he will weigh in I'm on mobile so can't go into many details but issues like calls not being received by a Cricket user. MMS is hit or miss even after multiple attempts at getting them to mess with the apn settings in a store. This is in Houston where AT&T coverage is pretty good. I have worked contracts for all the cell companies here including their MNVO counterparts and it's really like they don't give poo poo on the service or lack thereof their customers receive. I felt like I was taking crazy pills explaining to MetroPCS clients that Tmobile no contract phones had been in way longer than the UnCarrier concept when they were confused why all of the Tmobile users were coming up as not having contracts. It's mind boggling since Tmobile owns MetroPCS too.
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DangerZoneDelux posted:I'm on mobile so can't go into many details but issues like calls not being received by a Cricket user. MMS is hit or miss even after multiple attempts at getting them to mess with the apn settings in a store. This is in Houston where AT&T coverage is pretty good. I have worked contracts for all the cell companies here including their MNVO counterparts and it's really like they don't give poo poo on the service or lack thereof their customers receive. I felt like I was taking crazy pills explaining to MetroPCS clients that Tmobile no contract phones had been in way longer than the UnCarrier concept when they were confused why all of the Tmobile users were coming up as not having contracts. It's mind boggling since Tmobile owns MetroPCS too. Seems like an MVNO issue, more then cricket since a lot of that was about Metro PCS? I guess I've never had an issue with mms or calls as a cricket customer. As a SPRINT customer, I had never ending problems.
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DangerZoneDelux posted:I'm on mobile so can't go into many details but issues like calls not being received by a Cricket user. MMS is hit or miss even after multiple attempts at getting them to mess with the apn settings in a store. This is in Houston where AT&T coverage is pretty good. I have worked contracts for all the cell companies here including their MNVO counterparts and it's really like they don't give poo poo on the service or lack thereof their customers receive. I felt like I was taking crazy pills explaining to MetroPCS clients that Tmobile no contract phones had been in way longer than the UnCarrier concept when they were confused why all of the Tmobile users were coming up as not having contracts. It's mind boggling since Tmobile owns MetroPCS too. I think your phone is broken because I've never had those issues on Cricket.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I think your phone is broken because I've never had those issues on Cricket. Cool man I'm glad it works for you. "My phone" was not my phone and a few hundred being sampled for marketing research. That apn store issue I mentioned was from a customer shop along study. Since I try to understand the issues on consumer level I also made my wife use it. Kind of an rear end in a top hat thing to do but she doesn't really care about "gadget culture" I remember that proxy issue since data ceased to function for a couple of days.
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http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/motorola-droid-turbo/simulator/
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this_is_hard posted:if you drop LTE for even a second your call will completely drop. That's not something that can be patched out. That's the nature of the system. You cannot handoff calls from LTE to CDMA. I really don't have any issues with call quality at all honestly.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:41
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drat, if they had this back when I sold phones I would have saved so much time teaching people poo poo. That's an awesome little tool.
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Big Red Tolling Again posted:Last Modified: 06/11/2015 to Android 5.1 Took me a little while to find it this time haha I can't wait for people to start frothing at the mouth over this.
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Lblitzer posted:drat, if they had this back when I sold phones I would have saved so much time teaching people poo poo. That's an awesome little tool. It is but the point was that it says updated to Android 5.1 on 6/11/15, and the entire UI of the phone is Lollipop. Turbo users are having about the 50th meltdown this week on the Motorola owners forum and on Twitter 
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Jun 12, 2015 22:05
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That Android Police guy's source must be like, "Oh, I thought we were talking about the website! Classic mix up!"
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Mogomra posted:That Android Police guy's source must be like, "Oh, I thought we were talking about the website! Classic mix up!" In his defense, it definitely does look like Verizon/Motorola had planned this week for an update. Something (almost assuredly VoLTE/AC related) is loving up and causing a delay. I really don't understand why they haven't communicated anything regarding this. No one is expecting them to make ~promises~ but just some information every few weeks/months surely is warranted at this point, the phone has been out since October of last year
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this_is_hard posted:I really don't understand why they haven't communicated anything regarding this. No one is expecting them to make ~promises~ but just some information every few weeks/months surely is warranted at this point, the phone has been out since October of last year It seems like there have been rare cases where updates have either been way delayed (remember ICS for the Thunderbolt coming out in 2013?) or worse. The radio silence seems like a good CYA maneuver there. There's a reason why at just about every company I've worked for, when we communicate future product plans to a customer or prospective customer, there's a big disclaimer. This is for general information only, not to be used as basis for purchasing decisions, and in no way are we making any commitment to deliver anything we mentioned, or doing it by any date we mentioned. Alternately, you keep your mouth shut and then nobody can take anything you've said as a commitment and sue you over it.
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Sometimes app updates will get stuck in the downloading phase, before it even shows how many megabytes out of however many. Why does this happen (I'm not changing connections), and us there anything to do bait it other than stop the updates and restart them?
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hooah posted:Sometimes app updates will get stuck in the downloading phase, before it even shows how many megabytes out of however many. Why does this happen (I'm not changing connections), and us there anything to do bait it other than stop the updates and restart them? I get this occasionally and I think it's usually because an app has changed permissions but the pop-up to accept or decline the update doesn't show for some reason. Then the chain of updates is in limbo until you start the process over and verify whether or not you approve of the permissions.
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For those with the LG G4, how are you liking it? Saw one on display tonight at Best Buy, its tempting to move on from Nexus 4. Also, Best Buy is giving a $100 gift card with the LG G4 and that can be combined with LG's promo for free SD card and extra battery, plus charging cradle. Hmmmmmm. Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Skeezy posted:The Galaxy Nexus turned me off buying a Nexus phone or Galaxy device for a while but the Nexus 5 owned and the S6 I have now is pretty great. Same but replace "Nexus" with "Samsung." Samsung seems like they always hide some nugget of poo poo in their UX or hardware or something.
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Can I ask what my benefits of sticking with Android over going to an iOS device is without causing issues? I like Android, but increasingly little issues - updates (which Apple is doing better and better at), performance, and the inability to get decent battery life from a medium-sized phone - are starting to get irritating.
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IuniusBrutus posted:Can I ask what my benefits of sticking with Android over going to an iOS device is without causing issues? Nothing wrong with IOS as long as you like the apple ecosystem and dont want to change your default mail client, browser, or maps program.
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IuniusBrutus posted:Can I ask what my benefits of sticking with Android over going to an iOS device is without causing issues? Nothing dude. iPad even has FTL on it.
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Just copped a nexus 6. Glad to be back on the android platform. iOS was meh. Am I missing something or does the native 5.1 messenger not support animated gifs over SMS? A setting perhaps?
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Hughmoris posted:For those with the LG G4, how are you liking it? Saw one on display tonight at Best Buy, its tempting to move on from Nexus 4. Very very good camera, very good battery, mostly inoffensive software if you install Google Now Launcher and Google Keyboard. If the size is OK with you, I'd personally go with it over a Galaxy S6 or HTC.
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Yo relock your bootloader if you're selling your phone. its like one command line over ADB. I bought a moto x off of ebay a few months ago and just got the notification to update to 5.1, so i did. then it gave me an ominous warning screen that my bootloader was unlocked and i thought it had bricked my phone cause the warning screen isn't responsive to user input I never hosed with custom firmware cause ~it actually worked out of the box~ so i have no clue why the nerdlinger that had it before me did it
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Can you relock your bootloader on OEM-unlocked devices? I thought that was a Nexus- and GPE-only thing.
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LastInLine posted:Can you relock your bootloader on OEM-unlocked devices? I thought that was a Nexus- and GPE-only thing. You can in a lot of cases because security wise it's important to be able to do so. But I could have sworn that on the Moto X/G the ominous warning message appears for good even if you relock.
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