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I wouldn't call it paranoid, they are being tracked by Google and the Government. Google Now is scary for a lot of people because they never think about how much Google really knows about them, and with Now it becomes kind of obvious.
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BJPaskoff posted:I've been playing around with the iPhone 6S+ and haven't been really impressed. It's just an iPhone... but bigger. When I started out with the iPhone plan, it was because Android wasn't getting games and apps nearly as fast as iOS devices. These days I don't play any games on my phone, and it seems the days of iOS exclusive apps aren't gone, but nearly there. When's the last time you guys were frustrated over Android not getting an app or having a delay? Google Hangouts, Google Maps, YouTube 
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Premature ejacula- posted:A few people I've asked about Google Now are paranoid about being tracked by Google and the Government. That doesn't mean they don't use Chrome and Google search or opt out of Google's location services. Or use a vpn for that matter, now that Australia has metadata retention laws. Send them over to https://www.google.com/dashboard so they can freak out and promptly delete their accounts.
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Oct 6, 2015 23:36
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Looking at google maps timeline is a humbling experience, and a bit 1984.
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Oct 7, 2015 00:21
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this_is_hard posted:Settings->Backup & Reset->Factory Data Reset Somehow I expected this to need some ADB fuckery but this seems to be working out fine. Thanks!
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BJPaskoff posted:When's the last time you guys were frustrated over Android not getting an app or having a delay? Hasn't happened in a long time. Have you looked at the Nexus 6? It supports wireless charging and works on Fi right now.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Updated my Nexus 6 from the M preview to Marshmallow (via adb), now about half of my apps are constantly crashing. Clearly I went and hosed something up You must've done something non-standard, as the supported way to install marshmallow involves running a flash-all script which wipes the phone anyway. How did you upgrade? You can keep you app data if you're willing to go back to a backup, root, run titanium to backup, then transfer to your computer. Then install M properly, root, transfer your backups, run titanium to restore, then re-flash the stock system image. Convoluted, but works perfectly. Magog posted:I suppose if you are just doing a normal search it's now marginally faster to go to the search bar by pressing the overview button rather than long press home. What is the overview button? wooger fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Oct 7, 2015 00:49
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BJPaskoff posted:When's the last time you guys were frustrated over Android not getting an app or having a delay? Hangouts 4 just a little while ago  I really didn't care, but I know some people did.
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I recently lost my phone and used the remote lock feature in Android Device Manager. I've got my phone back now, and want to change the lock feature back to Swipe like it was originally. I've changed it to Pattern Unlock so I don't have to type in the super long password I created in Device Manager but the phone isn't letting me select "None" or "Swipe". It says "Disabled by administrator, encryption policy or credential storage". How do I fix this? (Nexus 5)
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Try unchecking Android Device Manager under Settings - Security - Phone administrators, change the lockscreen to slide, then recheck ADM
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Oct 7, 2015 01:26
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So, how bad is the OnePlus 2? I've got a OnePlus One that I've generally been happy with. I just got an invite but I've already preordered a Nexus 5X.
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dissss posted:Try unchecking Android Device Manager under Settings - Security - Phone administrators, change the lockscreen to slide, then recheck ADM I disable ADM but the Swipe/None options are still greyed out. Also tried restarting the phone but that did nothing.
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Oct 7, 2015 01:58
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Must Love Dogs posted:So, how bad is the OnePlus 2? I've got a OnePlus One that I've generally been happy with. I just got an invite but I've already preordered a Nexus 5X. Legendarily bad.
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Adenoid Dan posted:Legendarily bad. Are we talking G2X levels of bad?
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amenenema posted:I know one reason I want a true silent mode - I have a smartwatch (Garmin Vivoactive) and it vibrates for notifications. I have no way of having ONLY the watch vibrate. So for almost a year now I've had my phone buzz immediately followed by my wrist buzzing. It's Pavlovian in a way... Android Wear has an option for this on the phone app, but it doesn't look like that smartwatch uses Android Wear. Does the Garmin companion app not have a similar feature? I don't see a way to do this built in to M, but I'm still on preview 3.
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xcore posted:I disable ADM but the Swipe/None options are still greyed out. Also tried restarting the phone but that did nothing. You might have to do Clear All Credentials in Security
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incoherent posted:Looking at google maps timeline is a humbling experience, and a bit 1984. Yep. Looked at it the other day. "You were at HuHot for lunch between 11:56am and 12:32pm" Uhhh, thanks? Wonder how long it will take lawyers to subpoena this info?
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Oct 7, 2015 02:42
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baka kaba posted:You might have to do Clear All Credentials in Security That sounds scary. What does that do exactly? Do I need to do anything afterwards?
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Premature ejacula- posted:If Google is going to have all of my personal data they may as feed it to something that I get to use too, like Now. This is exactly why I love Now. They're going to collect this data anyway, why would I not want to benefit from it? Must Love Dogs posted:Are we talking G2X levels of bad? Nothing will ever be as bad as the G2x.
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Oct 7, 2015 02:59
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Hasn't happened in a long time. The 6 might be a little too big? I don't know. I applied for Fi, but it said it'll take 3-4 weeks for my invite to kick in.
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Oct 7, 2015 03:02
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xcore posted:That sounds scary. What does that do exactly? Do I need to do anything afterwards? As far as I know it clears all the user-installed certificates in the certificate store, which for most people won't be any - you might have had to add some for like a work VPN or school WiFi or something, I don't know I had this issue before and that's how I fixed it, but I don't know what's at risk - you should probably read around and see what you think, especially if your phone is encrypted. I'm just pointing you in a possible direction!
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Premature ejacula- posted:A few people I've asked about Google Now are paranoid about being tracked by Google and the Government. That doesn't mean they don't use Chrome and Google search or opt out of Google's location services. Or use a vpn for that matter, now that Australia has metadata retention laws. They'll be fine if they just go on Google+ and post "I hereby declare that Google cannot access the personal information I type in Google searches"
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Sir Lemming posted:They'll be fine if they just go on Google+ and post "I hereby declare that Google cannot access the personal information I type in Google searches"  Well done
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So for the past two days I have been trying an iPhone 6s because I wanted a not huge phone with a great camera. This phone is for literal babies. Every single icon on the home screen because pressing a menu button would be too confusing. Widgets? Lol no way too confusing. Except for adding music. That you have to be a master of iTunes to get music on your phone. Because a simple drag and drop into a drive on your computer would be so ineffective. So in closing, are there any smaller in size android phones with really good cameras I should look at besides the Galaxy S6?
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Tiny Lowtax posted:So for the past two days I have been trying an iPhone 6s because I wanted a not huge phone with a great camera. This phone is for literal babies. Every single icon on the home screen because pressing a menu button would be too confusing. Widgets? Lol no way too confusing. Except for adding music. That you have to be a master of iTunes to get music on your phone. Because a simple drag and drop into a drive on your computer would be so ineffective. Nexus 5X? Xperia Z5 Compact? That's about it.
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cebrail posted:I wouldn't call it paranoid, they are being tracked by Google and the Government. Google Now is scary for a lot of people because they never think about how much Google really knows about them, and with Now it becomes kind of obvious. Sure we all are, but that is mostly happening at the provider level, not so much the OS/Google level (still happening there too as the Snowden reveals have shown), because it is far easier to collect the data without interference there, tidily packed up with a bow on top. You are being watched, but outside of ditching cell phones for good there isn't much you can do. Even Securephone and similar stuff will still communicate enough data to your provider to make you trackable and quantifiable.
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hotsauce posted:Nexus 5X? Xperia Z5 Compact? That's about it. This is the sad state of android phones we're in when nowadays a thing like the Nexus 5X is considered small.
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It's a good size and the UI fits it well. Android looks squished on smaller screens.
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Moto G3 is comparable in size to an iPhone 6.
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bronin posted:This is the sad state of android phones we're in when nowadays a thing like the Nexus 5X is considered small. It is barely bigger than the iphone 6s. Certainly my old Nexus 5 is an almost identical size to a 6s, though slightly wider, and with smaller bezels.
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wooger posted:It is barely bigger than the iphone 6s. http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-6s,Google-Nexus-5X/phones/9501,9593 By that metric the Nexus 6 is barely bigger than the Nexus 5X.
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Must Love Dogs posted:Are we talking G2X levels of bad? Worse. It's Apple Maps bad. But seriously I don't think it's really bad, just not nearly worth the upgrade from the OPO.
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mobby_6kl posted:But seriously I don't think it's really bad, just not nearly worth the upgrade from the OPO. There's basically no Android phone this year that's really worth the upgrade from last year's equivalent - SoCs just haven't gotten much better for ~2 years. OP2 specifically seems worse in most respects though, and we now have more reason to doubt OnePlus, the company.
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bronin posted:This is the sad state of android phones we're in when nowadays a thing like the Nexus 5X is considered small. This. The 5x is a huge phone. The z5c is a good choice but I had the z3c and didn't think it was worth the hefty price tag attached to it. Plus I can't finance it through a carrier like I can the s6.
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wooger posted:There's basically no Android phone this year that's really worth the upgrade from last year's equivalent - SoCs just haven't gotten much better for ~2 years. Yup! My Sony Z3 is still a hell of a phone, and although it's not top-spec any longer, it doesn't have any weaknesses. Which is something you can't say about many phones.
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mobby_6kl posted:Worse. It's Apple Maps bad. Maaaan, I don't think you used a G2X. That thing was a tire fire in a phone. It was telephony Hitler. Idi Amin with a screen.
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Tiny Lowtax posted:This. The 5x is a huge phone. The z5c is a good choice but I had the z3c and didn't think it was worth the hefty price tag attached to it. Plus I can't finance it through a carrier like I can the s6. This, exactly right here, is why there aren't decent small phones. The Z3C was priced in line with other flagship phones and it had flagship internals (which is one of the reasons why it was priced where it was.) I mean, Sony launched it in the US for $530 which is not out of line for the device with its specs. If you want flagship internals in a small form factor you need to be prepared to pay flagship prices (or possibly even more due to increased engineering involved in getting those internals in a small package.)
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hotsauce posted:Yep. Looked at it the other day. "You were at HuHot for lunch between 11:56am and 12:32pm" Wanna go to huhot again for dinner today? :bigtran:
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Does anyone have a nice 1 click way to download pictures from gmail to the google photos, direct to a new/existing album would be even better? Right now there is a nice 1 click to move to drive. But you get to drive, and along the side has photos, but I'm not seeing a way to interact with that. I'm looking for a way to do it on the computer, figured ya'll are deep enough into the ecosystem it wasn't too far outside of this thread.
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bronin posted:This is the sad state of android phones we're in when nowadays a thing like the Nexus 5X is considered small. My whole 2013 Moto X fits within the screen of a Nexus 6p
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