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Moto G 2015 owners, how large is it compared to other 5" phones? Does the Motorola flip cover add much bulk? Have you found other good cover options?
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Simple Simon posted:So recently switched to android from iOS but the main thing that is bugging me right now is the emoji. They look weird as gently caress.
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Sep 7, 2015 19:39
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pun pundit posted:Moto G 2015 owners, how large is it compared to other 5" phones? Does the Motorola flip cover add much bulk? Have you found other good cover options? It feels quite small and comfortable in the hand thanks to the rounded back. Also I'm coming from a Sony Z3, so it felt extra tiny at first. I use this case: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0110NI6JW/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_KUD7vbRNHZC71 and it's been great. Zero complaints.
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Sep 7, 2015 19:50
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FistEnergy posted:Step back from the ledge, Daily Forecast. You didn't immediately regret buying an LG device and I'm happy for you, but don't take things a bridge too far. literally what pun pundit posted:Moto G 2015 owners, how large is it compared to other 5" phones? Does the Motorola flip cover add much bulk? Have you found other good cover options? Diztronic case is a little bulkier but it makes the phone feel like a brick (in a good, durable way) so there's that.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:05
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Does anybody know or have a good guess as to when stores like Best Buy would be putting out display models of the Moto X Pure? Are there even B&M stores other than Best Buy that will be selling it? I was told by a Verizon store employee yesterday that BB was the only big box store that will have the X Pure at launch. He wasn't told when they were available, and the people at BB were clueless as well. It should be within the next few weeks. I'm waiting to see an X Pure in person before pulling the trigger. Leon Sumbitches posted:Yea, it's the cost of this year's model that's allowing me to even consider buying it outright. I'm assuming the next Nexus is gonna be around $600 and that's just unreasonable for me. I was just in a store yesterday comparing my Note 2 to the Nexus 6 for this reason. Honestly, based on all the talk of how OMGHUGE the 6 is, I expected it to be bigger. It is noticeably taller (by about a quarter inch), but in terms of width the difference is imperceptible. (Google tells me the 6 is .1 inch wider). They are the same thickness, although the 6 tapers and is much thinner at the edges. After suffering through a locked down never-updated phone for three years I'm never buying a Samsung again. I will say though, the screens on the new Note 5 and Edge 6 + are disgustingly nice and make the Nexus's display look like a Kindle reader.
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Sep 7, 2015 22:19
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Hey dudes. What small smartphones should I look out for in the next few months? I'm currently using a Fire Phone I bought for $80 as a holdover to replace a Nexus 5 I lost. It's a solid phone, but, like the Nexus, it's huge. I noticed the Sony Z5's coming out in a month. Anything else I should look out for? The Fire's fine other than the size; I'm willing to pay to not carry something that big with me.
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Sep 7, 2015 22:40
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes. What small smartphones should I look out for in the next few months? Sony Z5 Compact or iPhone 5s are your only options for a smaller, not budget phone that is under 5" (iPhone 6 is 4.7" but is as big as a Nexus 5 or Fire Phone). Moto E or Moto G are smaller than most current flagships, but still as big as a Nexus 5 or thereabouts. Like hardware keyboard fans, you're just going to have to adjust if you want a new phone, unfortunately.
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Sep 7, 2015 23:13
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Ok I finally upgraded my 2013 X to 5.1.x because the nag screen finally made me cave in. What is the best way to go back to a 4.4.4 OLED-friendly dark theme. There about 20 billion apps in the app store and as I'm sure you're aware the app store has awful search. I guess M has this option but obviously that's not a thing right now.
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Sep 7, 2015 23:32
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Any idea why my phone thinks I'm in Inkster, Michigan (I'm not. I'm in Denver)? It's been convinced of this fact for a couple days now and it's less than ideal. It did the same thing to a friend when she was over, so I'm assuming it has something to do with the network.
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Sep 8, 2015 01:28
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XIII posted:Any idea why my phone thinks I'm in Inkster, Michigan (I'm not. I'm in Denver)? It's been convinced of this fact for a couple days now and it's less than ideal. It did the same thing to a friend when she was over, so I'm assuming it has something to do with the network. Whoa. Weird. I'm sitting in a bar and the border of Inkster is literally on the other side of the road.  But yeah, I have no idea. Maybe our phones are drinking buddies.
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Sep 8, 2015 02:00
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XIII posted:Any idea why my phone thinks I'm in Inkster, Michigan (I'm not. I'm in Denver)? It's been convinced of this fact for a couple days now and it's less than ideal. It did the same thing to a friend when she was over, so I'm assuming it has something to do with the network. When you actually look at your location in Maps, is it correct? What if you clear AGPS data and get a fix that way? Lastly, what are your location settings? High accuracy?
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Sep 8, 2015 02:03
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LastInLine posted:When you actually look at your location in Maps, is it correct? What if you clear AGPS data and get a fix that way? Lastly, what are your location settings? High accuracy? Correct in maps, but it will occasionally report incorrectly in G+. How do I clear AGPS? And, yes, high accuracy.
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Sep 8, 2015 02:07
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XIII posted:Correct in maps, but it will occasionally report incorrectly in G+. How do I clear AGPS? And, yes, high accuracy. Sometimes when towers go down in areas, the carrier will put up a portable tower and oftentimes those portable towers will report incorrect locations. For instance I recently went to a music festival and my location was reported on the other side of the country. It's possible that the tower near you is undergoing repairs and based on this happening to other people, it seems even more likely.
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Sep 8, 2015 02:17
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hotsauce posted:If anyone honestly finds that the "lovely task-killing" internet crying actually affects real-world usage, I'd like to conduct an interview with them to understand how their mind works. I know, if you have 40 apps open and are toggling between all of them like a lunatic, sure, you will experience the effects of overly-aggressive task killing. It bugs me since there seems to be no reason for it. It's faulty lovely coding that overrides Android to provide a worse experience. It's not that big of a deal though I agree. It's not crazy to think something like this is bad though.
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Sep 8, 2015 03:03
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Low battery warning at 20% and after 1 minute it drops to 3% and turns off... t-thanks samsung
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Sep 8, 2015 05:14
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BottleKnight posted:It bugs me since there seems to be no reason for it. It's faulty lovely coding that overrides Android to provide a worse experience. Are you sure whatever app is being killed that's annoying you most isn't just really lovely at maintaining its own state across being killed? Some apps, like games, are real bad at stuff like this and like to load from scratch nearly every time you relaunch them. Other stuff, such as Pocket Casts, seems to maintain state no matter how much it's hosed with. Whether or not an app is killed by the memory manager seems kind of moot to me because the devs writing those apps should be developing with that in mind.
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Sep 8, 2015 05:36
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Saving and restoring the entire in-memory state of a program isn't necessarily a trivial thing, especially for something as complex as a game. A podcast app might just need to save a reference to the podcast and a timestamp, and that's enough to get back where you were. A game might have a ton of entities to rebuild, deterministic behaviour that needs to be arbitrarily reset, OpenGL state to be completely recreated... it's not just saving and remaking all that stuff, the game specifically has to be written so you can arbitrarily restage and interconnect everything and hit go and have it all work perfectly. It's not impossible (save games have been around forever obviously) but there are wildly varying degrees of effort and complexity required between different kinds of app
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Sep 8, 2015 06:24
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XIII posted:Correct in maps, but it will occasionally report incorrectly in G+. How do I clear AGPS? And, yes, high accuracy. I use the app GPS Status & Toolbox. Click the wrench at the top and select Manage A-GPS state and do Reset. SB35 is almost certainly correct that it's something about the local network (either SSIDs nearby or cell tower) that has out-of-date locations for that equipment and not your phone where the problem lies.
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Sep 8, 2015 06:26
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baka kaba posted:Saving and restoring the entire in-memory state of a program isn't necessarily a trivial thing, especially for something as complex as a game. A podcast app might just need to save a reference to the podcast and a timestamp, and that's enough to get back where you were. I think that's the point: just because something is getting kicked from memory doesnt mean it's getting kicked unreasonably. An individual app failing to restore its state makes it really obvious, but it's theoretically something that should be routine and transparent.
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Sep 8, 2015 11:35
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For SD slot havers, Amazon's Deal of the Day is micro sd cards: http://amzn.to/1JQKXzk
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Sep 8, 2015 12:21
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lowcrabdiet posted:For SD slot havers, Amazon's Deal of the Day is micro sd cards: http://amzn.to/1JQKXzk Supposedly this LG G4 supports 'up to 2TB', but does that even exist?
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Sep 8, 2015 13:45
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2TB is the SDXC spec. Sandisk has a 500GB one, but at nearly $1:1GB it'd be pretty drat silly to buy one unless you had a super specific need.
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Sep 8, 2015 13:55
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So this happened to my Z3 Compact over the weekend. Not exactly sure how to even describe it but the glass is 100% in tact and it did not get dropped...pulled it out of my pocket to find it looking like this
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BraveUlysses posted:So this happened to my Z3 Compact over the weekend. Not exactly sure how to even describe it but the glass is 100% in tact and it did not get dropped...pulled it out of my pocket to find it looking like this Probably pressure cracking the glass. I had something similar happen to a Nintendo DS when I decided to take it to the county fair and ride some carnival rides because I'm an idiot.
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Sep 8, 2015 14:34
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ErIog posted:Are you sure whatever app is being killed that's annoying you most isn't just really lovely at maintaining its own state across being killed? http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ng-performance/
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baka kaba posted:Saving and restoring the entire in-memory state of a program isn't necessarily a trivial thing, especially for something as complex as a game. A podcast app might just need to save a reference to the podcast and a timestamp, and that's enough to get back where you were. I've done game dev before. I understand it's hard, and I didn't mean to make it sound like every game needs to be able to do it perfectly and instantly. I was just saying that the poster should think about whether their choice of apps is exacerbating the problem with apps being killed in the background. Seems like it's a real problem that should be fixed, anyway. ErIog fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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Sep 8, 2015 14:42
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DemonMage posted:2TB is the SDXC spec. Anime mostly
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BraveUlysses posted:So this happened to my Z3 Compact over the weekend. Not exactly sure how to even describe it but the glass is 100% in tact and it did not get dropped...pulled it out of my pocket to find it looking like this Segmentation Fault posted:Probably pressure cracking the glass. I had something similar happen to a Nintendo DS when I decided to take it to the county fair and ride some carnival rides because I'm an idiot. In this case it looks like pressure has cracked the liquid crystal layer while leaving the front glass intact. The display will need to be replaced.
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Sep 8, 2015 16:02
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So what's the goonsensus on new  phones the Wiley Fox Storm and Swift? I'm guessing this hasn't really had much coverage in the US.https://www.wileyfox.com/ The low-end Swift, in particular, seems to be worth some thoguht. The hardware looks pretty nice (S410, 2GB RAM, 16GB memory, 5" 720p) but then we get to the part where it runs CM and I start triggering. Still, at £130, compared the the 16GB Moto G at £190, it's an interesting option. Tunga fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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Sep 8, 2015 17:03
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Tunga posted:So what's the goonsensus on new It says on the site: "What if...beauty and the best?" That makes me wonder "what if...your questions made sense?". Anyway, I hope the best for them. It seems nice enough, and I want these types of things to succeed. I just can't see myself buying the thing. The potential for weird behavior (because CM) is just too high. Of course, that's not an entirely consistent position as I didn't avoid heartache by buying a Moto X...
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Sep 8, 2015 17:09
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RVProfootballer posted:Sony Z5 Compact or iPhone 5s are your only options for a smaller, not budget phone that is under 5" (iPhone 6 is 4.7" but is as big as a Nexus 5 or Fire Phone). Moto E or Moto G are smaller than most current flagships, but still as big as a Nexus 5 or thereabouts. Like hardware keyboard fans, you're just going to have to adjust if you want a new phone, unfortunately.
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Sep 8, 2015 17:20
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Tunga posted:So what's the goonsensus on new Those "what if.."s are pretty ironic. "What if your phone kept your private life private?" "What if your phone automatically revealed withheld numbers?" The phone that respects privacy and intrudes on it, at the same time!
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Sep 8, 2015 17:31
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Rastor posted:There's multiple layers to a phone display -- for this particular model, there's at least backlight, liquid crystal, touch sensors, front glass. thank you for the explanation, guess I'll call sony today and see if they honor the warranty even though i bought this phone from a UK site and had it shipped to the US.
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Dominoes posted:Thanks. The speculation I've read about the Z5C is that it'll be expensive; ie around $800. I don't think I could justify spending that much to have a pocketable phone. Might consider buying a Z3C instead even though it's a bit dated, or just using the Fire until something else small comes out, (or doesn’t). I can't imagine it'll be much more expensive than its predecessors.
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Dominoes posted:Thanks. The speculation I've read about the Z5C is that it'll be expensive; ie around $800. I don't think I could justify spending that much to have a pocketable phone. Might consider buying a Z3C instead even though it's a bit dated, or just using the Fire until something else small comes out, (or doesn’t). Good news! You can pick up my Z3c! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3740292 Enough shilling in this thread, I'm done.
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Sep 8, 2015 19:08
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pun pundit posted:Those "what if.."s are pretty ironic. "What if your phone kept your private life private?" "What if your phone automatically revealed withheld numbers?" In the UK getting a 'Withheld' call usually means it's someone from an Indian call centre who wants to argue with you about your router corrupting your computer
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Sep 8, 2015 20:00
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Question about the Note 5 vs. the Galaxy S6 SOC/chipset: upthread somebody was holding forth rather convincingly that some non-insignificant portion of the battery life problems on some variants of the S6 was due to the fact that the wifi functionality wasn't on the same chip. Is that still an issue with the Note 5, or should I wait to go from the Note 4 for when they go back to snapdragon next generation?
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Um what the gently caress? My Nexus 5 just factory reset itself while in my pocket. edit: rebooting fixed it  . Well that was a scary 30 seconds
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Sep 8, 2015 21:27
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ruby idiot railed posted:Question about the Note 5 vs. the Galaxy S6 SOC/chipset:
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