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SB35 posted:Did they learn nothing from the flop of the fire phone? Hope they sell unlocked too. If this runs a more or less standard version of Android instead of the version Amazon uses on all their stuff, I don't think it will suffer the same fate as the Firephone
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Mr Executive posted:I've been super happy with my s6. Initially I thought I had some battery issues, but I think that was just lovely battery usage reporting. My battery life now is fantastic. Is it laggy though? My Nexus 5 is really snappy and I would argue it's the perfect phone if it weren't for the tiny battery. My friend got a Note 4 recently and he complains about how laggy it is, even compared to his lovely old Nexus 4. I want to make sure the S6 isn't going to drive my crazy with UI lag and other Samsung fuckery.
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Shadowgate posted:Is it laggy though? My Nexus 5 is really snappy and I would argue it's the perfect phone if it weren't for the tiny battery. My friend got a Note 4 recently and he complains about how laggy it is, even compared to his lovely old Nexus 4. I want to make sure the S6 isn't going to drive my crazy with UI lag and other Samsung fuckery. The only other modern phone I've played with is a Nexus 6 and the s6 definitely feels faster.
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Adblock isn't just for websites either. I've adblocked and untracked myself from practically everything at one point. YouTube/ lastfm on my phone is about the coolest one right now, but I've had hulu and Pandora ads blocked (albeit on pc, and temporarily) or it just auto muted/screen blacked then resumed normally. Greasemonkey can do this sometimes. Also YouTube background playback lets me play music without sucking 1+% battery every 20 min or less due to the screen being on. Those pesky "Google services draining battery" are wakelocks that can be reduced or disabled from stupid apps, although not having apps that hammer your battery like Facebook messenger certainly helps too. Also I can use fringe service lastfm though dolphin browser using outdated flash. (Drains battery fast/security risks)
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galahan posted:Adblock isn't just for websites either. I've adblocked and untracked myself from practically everything at one point. You know if you pay $10/month for Google play music its a lot more convenient.
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RZA Encryption posted:You know if you pay $10/month for Google play music its a lot more convenient. I pay $7.99 Canadian bucks 
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CLAM DOWN posted:I pay $7.99 Canadian bucks
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ilkhan posted:I pay $7.99 american bucks. Same, just providing the current options.
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Is Motorola still replacing cracked screens for free on 2nd gen Moto X? Or was that just the first gen? I don't see any info within the past year. Edit - Nope. FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Did Google Keyboard get rid of the autocorrect aggression setting? You used to be able to set it to "aggressive", "modest", etc, but now there's just a slider. I used to set it quite high and now I find autocorrect not doing nearly enough...
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CLAM DOWN posted:Did Google Keyboard get rid of the autocorrect aggression setting? You used to be able to set it to "aggressive", "modest", etc, but now there's just a slider. I used to set it quite high and now I find autocorrect not doing nearly enough... I picture this setting doing things like changing messages from "Hey, where are you?" to "Hey, rear end in a top hat, where are you?" or "I love you" to "Shut up, bitch"
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My google keyboard keeps adding superfluous apostrophes to everything, which I guess is because everyone does that, and it makes me aggressive.
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Jul 7, 2015 01:42
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hotsauce posted:Just installed Firefox and ublock. Went to the verge and had a Chevrolet ad that took up the entire page. I just tried it (only the home page) and didn't see an ad. 
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Jul 7, 2015 01:52
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God someone tell me there's an Android keyobard that's at least as good as the iPhones. The default Samsung keyboard makes me want to goomba stomp this goddamn S6. Also since when does tapping on the date/clock on the default homescreen open the stupid weather app  If I wanted the weather I'd click on the goddamn weather widget that's right next to it! 
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Jul 7, 2015 08:08
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SwiftKey is usually the recommended keyboard app. Maybe Swype as well but I don't see people recommending that much anymore and SwiftKey has a Swype mode too.
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Google Keyboard. Swiftkey and Swype have always been laggy for me.
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DemonMage posted:SwiftKey is usually the recommended keyboard app. Maybe Swype as well but I don't see people recommending that much anymore and SwiftKey has a Swype mode too. Swype's swiping is about a million trillion times better than SwiftKey's which is horrible dogshit. It's really so terrible they should just remove it altogether. Google keyboard's swiping on the other hand isn't bad at all. I imagine if he's coming from iOS though he wants a tapping keyboard so SwiftKey and Google Keyboard are the two go-tos. After adjusting to Swype though I'm almost certain I could never use anything else regularly. The shortcuts and the alternate keyboards are just way too easy to grow to rely upon.
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LastInLine posted:Google keyboard's swiping on the other hand isn't bad at all. I came to Android from IOS and took to swipe on Google keyboard pretty quickly. I do not miss rotating my phone every time I wanted to send a message or Email.
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Klowns posted:I came to Android from IOS and took to swipe on Google keyboard pretty quickly. I do not miss rotating my phone every time I wanted to send a message or Email. Swiping seems in my experience something that people immediately like or never will. To me it's just the natural way one would input text on a smooth surface plus I don't think I'd ever get used to having to hit the space button to move on to the next word. I can see though how years of training would make it so you just never think to do it at all and if you're used to word predictions you're always looking at the suggestion bar before entering the next word rather than after for corrections. That's why I think SwiftKey's implementation is so terrible as their raison d'etre is to make good suggestions which I'm never going to look at rather than using the predictions to make the swipe of the next word better even if the swipe itself is way off. Swype works the other way, using a really good engine to interpret the swipes, even bad ones, to give you a lot of suggested corrections. Google Keyboard does a great job of straddling these two worlds, giving both feedback as you swipe (such a great innovation) with a really competent prediction engine. That being said, the power of Swype to me isn't just in the swiping. It's the moving above the bar to capitalize and being able to swipe any word then doing ' > s to put 's after it without a space. Or going Swype key to upper left to quickly get the number pad. The worst parts of Swype are the lack of a Google Voice Input key (though thank god we can now remove the Dragon key), and the horrible skins that either look disgusting or have no alt symbols on the keys forcing you to toggle rather than longpress. Also the fact that they used break it every other update with ungodly slowdown or terrible features though it's been good for about a year.
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I use Fleksy. It's a little awkward at first but when I switched to it from SwiftKey I never looked back.
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Fleksy here too You can be wonderfully lazy with it and it always seems to figure it out. The swiping gestures to do stuff took a while to get used to, but now I don't even realise I'm doing it half the time Commas were always a pain taking about 3 swipes to do , but now you can have a dedicated button for it that's my one complaint gone
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The big names in keyboards have all been mentioned. If you really find you can't get into swiping and want a clone of the iPhone keyboard, check out Smart Keyboard.
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The iPhone keyboard is terrible and keyboards are like the one area that Android clearly shines in.
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Swype's trace typing is still the best I've used. Google Keyboard's is OK, but just not as good. I've used Fleksy a bit too, but I always fall back to Swype eventually.
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Same, I have all the keyboards mentioned but I always go back to Swype; even the Dragon part is usable.
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I wish swype had the standard mic option instead of dragon. I moved to google keyboard because of that.
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deong posted:I wish swype had the standard mic option instead of dragon. I moved to google keyboard because of that. You can swap it out of you're rooted with xposed installed, but yeah. It requires root.
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Mogomra posted:You can swap it out of you're rooted with xposed installed, but yeah. It requires root. Gave up on rooting with kitkat. Its an office supplied phone and we check for that.
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Internet Explorer posted:The iPhone keyboard is terrible and keyboards are like the one area that Android clearly shines in. The few times I need to use an iOS keyboard is want to throw it against the wall. How do you use a keyboard that always displays caps instead of what its going to type? I like swiftkey. I used fleksy for a little bit but couldn't get used to it. Pretty sure I have paid version of all 3, swiftkey/fleksy/swype.
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Is there any sort of standard or guideline for the use of the back button? I'm never confident that what I expect to happen will happen (does it change the content in the app, switch activities, or return to the home screen?), and then I just get all dumb and flustered.
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dougdrums posted:Is there any sort of standard or guideline for the use of the back button? I'm never confident that what I expect to happen will happen (does it change the content in the app, switch activities, or return to the home screen?), and then I just get all dumb and flustered. There's supposed to be a guideline, but you're correct in that it's always been a problem in Android. What exactly the back button will do is almost like a mystery at any given moment if your'e doing anything more complex than just barreling straight through an app. The biggest offender of this is Android's built in sharing system (where you can share from one app to another). I never know if hitting the back button after sharing something will take me back to the previous app, or take me back one page in the app I shared to.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:The biggest offender of this is Android's built in sharing system (where you can share from one app to another). I never know if hitting the back button after sharing something will take me back to the previous app, or take me back one page in the app I shared to. Yeah, this is the only case where the back button is really annoying to me. I have the sense that this issue specifically has to do with whether the app you shared something to is considered an entirely new instance of that 2nd app or like a subtask from the 1st app; if the former, back button will take you back a screen in that 2nd app, and if the latter, back button will take you back to the 1st app. YouTube and Hangouts, iirc, are two that treat it like the former and it is really dumb.
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I use SwiftKey on both iOS and Android. I don't swipe and don't want to have to switch between languages all the time so SwiftKey is a no-brainer for me.
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My Nexus 5 is acting like I'm holding the power button down on occasion, always after I have pressed the power button. It doesn't happen every time, maybe one in ten or twenty, but it's annoying because if I don't notice it my phone will reboot. There is no physical indication that this is happening, the button still clicks in/out as normal. Pressing it again will usually "unlock" it but sometimes it takes a few presses. Is this likely to be a hardware problem that I could fix by opening it up and doing something?
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Tunga posted:My Nexus 5 is acting like I'm holding the power button down on occasion, always after I have pressed the power button. It doesn't happen every time, maybe one in ten or twenty, but it's annoying because if I don't notice it my phone will reboot. There is no physical indication that this is happening, the button still clicks in/out as normal. Pressing it again will usually "unlock" it but sometimes it takes a few presses. The clicker inside the phone might be getting stuck, or it got gunked up. If it's out of warranty and you're comfortable with opening it up, why not? Opening up phones aren't too hard, it's only when you start working on the screen/glass that it becomes a real bitch.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:The clicker inside the phone might be getting stuck, or it got gunked up. If it's out of warranty and you're comfortable with opening it up, why not? Opening up phones aren't too hard, it's only when you start working on the screen/glass that it becomes a real bitch. Eh, I never got used to the drat clips on my Nexus 4, even with a package of opening tools. Maybe a guitar pick would have been a good "investment".
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:The clicker inside the phone might be getting stuck, or it got gunked up. If it's out of warranty and you're comfortable with opening it up, why not? Opening up phones aren't too hard, it's only when you start working on the screen/glass that it becomes a real bitch. The N5 is pretty easy to open. I dropped my white one a while back and the back cover came off like it was removable. It's glued to the battery, so the edges pop up like nothing, and then you have to baby sit the adhesive regarding the battery.
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So I've had my Nexus 6 for a few weeks. Love it even though it's huge. However it has a weird charging port issue. While charging cables have no problem making contact and actually charging the phone, I can't get what I would in layman's terms call a "full contact," like when the charger really clicks into the port and seems fairly snug. Cables fit this phone almost at a slight angle, and seem a bit loose. Anyone with a similar experience? Is this something that I should be alarmed about and seeking immediate warranty service for?
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pretend to care posted:So I've had my Nexus 6 for a few weeks. Love it even though it's huge. Not just you, this is the case on mine too. I use wireless charging most of the time so it doesn't bother me, but I do notice the same USB port issue.
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