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I just received my 3rd gen Moto G (XT1550) I bought on black Friday to use as my work/backup phone. drat nice little brother to my N6, really impressed with what I got for $195.
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Thanks for the info re: Cricket and Messenger oddness. I can use Textra, Go SMS Pro and I'm sure any other app for MMS and SMS fine, just bizarre that Cricket network shenanigans work like that! Besides that small issue, I've literally never had any network "problems"
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iajanus posted:OK can I get some recommendations or advice or whatnot, since I am incapable of making decisions on my own? I have a chrome Z5P and a Nexus 6P. Mostly I think the 6P is technically better, but I think the Z5P's design is just so  looking I can't not love it. And it's not like the Sony is a bad device. Battery life on the Z5P is about what I've gotten with the 6P (which is good considering it doesn't have Doze yet), and the camera seems good but I haven't done a lot of testing with it. It is a bit slower to load the photo you just took than the Nexus at the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if an update comes down that fixes that.
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Dec 1, 2015 16:10
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ijyt posted:Probably should have checked before ordering it but is the Z5 Compact still the phone to go for when you want the smallest phone with a good camera, battery life, and bells and whistles? Review of the Z5 Compact: "You want a small phone with powerful hardware? This is it." Literally.
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Dec 1, 2015 17:09
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LastInLine posted:It can. I think T-Mobile had the OTA available for a while and then not? I'll admit to not following N6 releases too well. Only the first update for the N6 had a separate T-Mobile version, all updates after that have been the same as the other carriers. Wifi calling was merged ages ago at this point.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:51
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Has anyone tried Onavo Extend? How well does it work at saving cellular data via its VPN? Should I be worried about Facebook (Onavo's parent) mining the data that I pass through the VPN?
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Dec 1, 2015 20:54
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Radbot posted:Should I be worried about Facebook (Onavo's parent) mining the data that I pass through the VPN? "Onavo Insights provides data to companies about app usage and consumer trends in online gaming, social networking, finance, and entertainment." There's no doubt that they do mine your traffic, whether you care is up to you.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:02
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Because I'm a masochist and am still following Blackberry Priv news, their first update is now live:http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/12/the-privs-first-software-update-is-live-heres-how-to-download-it/ posted:An improved camera: We’ve implemented a number of tweaks that improve the speed of our camera app, and re-tuned it for better low-light image quality. 
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Dec 1, 2015 21:04
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/111787929784 I can confirm this (very cheap) USB A->C cable passes the CheckR test and works great with my 6P.
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Dec 1, 2015 21:07
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Cable posted:I'd say yes. It's only potential issues could be the SD 810 getting too warm (as every 810 device) and I've been hearing that the camera app is not the fastest out there. Once you get it, could you please post a 3 or 4-line review? It'd be helpful! Will do my best but it's a Christmas present for a family member!
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Dec 1, 2015 22:34
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TenaciousTomato posted:Textra is the poo poo Truly, I moved over from hangouts yesterday and I'm not going back. Also, I've noticed that my phone slows to a crawl whenever I have Google play music open. I've tried clearing the app data several times to no avail. The past few days I've only been using poweramp and my phone has been 1000x more usable. Anyone else have a similar experience with Google play music? It seems to me that since they started pushing their radio thing the app is just too bloated for its own good.
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Dec 1, 2015 22:38
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TollTheHounds posted:Because I'm a masochist and am still following Blackberry Priv news, their first update is now live: The priv is a good phone, and I hope it does real well for BlackBerry because someone needs to prod LG and Samsung in the rear end a bit.
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TollTheHounds posted:Because I'm a masochist and am still following Blackberry Priv news, their first update is now live:
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Dec 1, 2015 23:19
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U.S. soak test for Moto X Pure edition's marshmallow update is starting. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidSchuster/posts/M2KxPtiQbxV If all goes well, should roll out to everyone by next week. I've been on it for over a month without issue.
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Dec 1, 2015 23:37
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:The priv is a good phone, and I hope it does real well for BlackBerry because someone needs to prod LG and Samsung in the rear end a bit. I've used one and it's garbage, sorry.
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bull3964 posted:U.S. soak test for Moto X Pure edition's marshmallow update is starting.
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Motorola apparently has an early preview program outside of the soak test program and I was selected. Didn't say much about it because that was part of the agreement, but with them going public about the soak test now, I'm assuming I'm in the clear. Version that's rolling out to the soak testers appears to be the same one that I've been running.
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Dec 1, 2015 23:56
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After complaining about phones not coming with headphones and getting laughed out of the thread that this hasn't been a thing in years, my 5x actually came with a pair of headphones. A bit bummed about the fact that there is no adapter/cable for connecting to USB-A. I'm all about moving technology forward, but it would help if they supplied some tools to help with the transition. The last 6 years: "The best thing about Android is the Plug and PLay funtionality! Want some songs on your phone? Just drag and drop that poo poo. Done! No need for lovely iTunes." 2015: "I've got no way to connect to any PC that wasn't built in the last 6 months"
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xcore posted:After complaining about phones not coming with headphones and getting laughed out of the thread that this hasn't been a thing in years, my 5x actually came with a pair of headphones.
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Dec 2, 2015 00:29
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Even though I love my Moto X Pure and still intend it to be my primary phone, my desire for toys prompted me to snag a 5x for $80 off yesterday. I have been using a 2013 Moto X as a backup phone and for work email, but I decided "what the hell?" and grabbed the 5x so both of my phones are carrier agnostic. It will be interesting to compare the two side by side since their internals are so similar.
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Dec 2, 2015 00:49
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xcore posted:The last 6 years: "The best thing about Android is the Plug and PLay funtionality! Want some songs on your phone? Just drag and drop that poo poo. Done! No need for lovely iTunes." Actually for at least 4+ years it's been: "Want some media on your phone? Just drag and drop it in AirDroid, gently caress wires." Which actually still works just fine. That and yeah most of it is just download it via Google Drive or Music or Photos or whatever depending on what you synced it to, because you want a remote backup anyways.
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Dec 2, 2015 01:32
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xcore posted:After complaining about phones not coming with headphones and getting laughed out of the thread that this hasn't been a thing in years, my 5x actually came with a pair of headphones. Did you buy it from Google? 99% sure mine didn't come with headphones.  that I will just throw in a drawer and never use because Bluetooth is a thing
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DemonMage posted:Actually for at least 4+ years it's been: "Want some media on your phone? Just drag and drop it in AirDroid, gently caress wires." Cool, I'll check out Airdroid. Drive/cloud/streaming/sync stuff might work fine for you people in the US with unlimited data plans but here in Australia with our data caps and lovely speeds all that stuff can gently caress off. That's why I need the cables so I can back all that stuff up locally/at work with high speed internet.
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Dec 2, 2015 01:46
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drive for data, play music for music, photos for photos. Cloud Cloud Cloud If you use hangouts for messaging does it cloud save texts or no? And does that work for group messaging now?
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Time for some  I really love the 5X , except the part where it grinds to a loving halt when you open the camera to take a picture. A five-second photo on any other phone becomes a 10-second wait for the shutter button to become active, then another 15 seconds of the device stuttering as it flips a coin to decide whether or not to actually save the picture. I've had instances of pictures disappearing even though I'd pressed the shutter button heard the shutter click sound. I've also had the device stutter for over two minutes after plugging it into my laptop and unlocking the screen a couple of times within a minute or so. And by "stutter" I mean hardly anything is responsive, app shortcuts, the system buttons, the shade animates down at probably sub-10FPS. Restarting the phone makes all of these performance issues go away, but it's looking like I'll have to get used to restarting the phone every 48-72 hours to keep it performant. Does it really make that much of a difference that the device only has 2GB of RAM instead of 3GB? I really hope these issues can be patched, and that current performance is just going to get worse as Android grows 
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Karthe posted:Time for some It has nothing to do with the 2 vs 3 gigs of RAM in your phone. The issues you're describing have been issues with Android since it's inception. Android has never been known for its performance, no matter what Google tries.
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Dec 2, 2015 02:54
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Though none of that is present on the Nexus 6.
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Dec 2, 2015 02:57
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My Nexus 5x will poo poo all over itself sometimes. Chrome is just a disaster, I try to avoid it. Sometimes it doesn't take a picture when I click the button. I don't know if its ram or what, it averages 1.5 gb being used. I wouldn't say its much of an upgrade over my 2013 Moto X in terms of performance, but the camera is so good.
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Dec 2, 2015 03:03
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Moto X has none of these issues and is using virtually the same hardware (has a gb more ram but also more pixels to drive.)
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Dec 2, 2015 03:30
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Some guy on Reddit claims that he is able to make Play Store payments partially with Play credit and the rest with credit card / bank. Could be bullshit, could be Google is finally rolling out what we should have had all along.
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Dec 2, 2015 04:05
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Problem with these posts is that it is the equivalent of "My Dell laptop loving sucks, sometimes with Windows 10 it'll take like 30 seconds just to open Chrome". And rightfully you'd say, well, what else are you doing on your computer? Reddit is terrible about that poo poo. I have 16 different bubble-pop chat-systems, password managers as screen overlays, and streaming video overlay running but this phone is a piece of poo poo because I can't switch from my favorite game to WhatsApp fast enough. Or it has to redraw my 3rd party launcher with custom icons for every app on occasion. And Android could fix it, simply by disabling those APIs or capabilities on phones that don't have enough resources. Or limiting how many of what you can have on your phone, but that isn't the Android way!
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xcore posted:After complaining about phones not coming with headphones and getting laughed out of the thread that this hasn't been a thing in years, my 5x actually came with a pair of headphones.
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I picked up a $10 Moto E as a back up phone. Holy poo poo. If you never used the camera and wanted a small phone, this would be like 90-95% of everything you'd need. I'm still installing and updating apps, and it is actually usable while that's going on  We'll see about doing anything like music + multitasking other apps, but so far, I'm really impressed. (Also shocked at how much less accurate I am typing on this 4.5" screen keyboard after years of 5"+, haha)
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Hi, I have a LG Optimus L90 D415 and two weeks ago I updated to Lollipop 5.0 because I had a push notification to do so. After I updated, I noticed my music on spotify, podcasts and youtube videos would randomly pauses during playback. Often this happens every 2-3 minutes or so. I've checked if it was my headphones (it happens when they're plugged or unplugged) and it happens both on my home wifi and my 4G internet. Is this a common problem? Is there anything I can do? Please let me know if there is anymore information I can provide. Thanks!
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xcore posted:Cool, I'll check out Airdroid. To be fair our 4g in most areas is actually really, really fast. Much faster than the adsl2+ both at my house in Sydney and my parents' place in a rural town. Our data caps have changed a lot in the last 12 months, you might want to check them out. I can stream music whenever I'm out of the house with GPM without worrying about hitting the cap. Plus you can precache the music you'll listen to most frequently over WiFi, and stream something if you feel like something different. Just set your photos/files to sync and apps to update over WiFi only and the current data caps aren't too restrictive.
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Syrinxx posted:Don't worry, rumor has it that the headphone jack is going away entirely in the iPhone 7 which means every other company will copy it. Enjoy it while it lasts! BT headphones and overall systems management on phones are good enough that there's basically no functional difference from wired headphones unless you're a soundsperg with $500 headphones connected to your phone with a preamp and a plug adapter.
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LionYeti posted:or you don't wanna charge your goddamn headphones all the time The last two pairs of bluetooth headphones I've owned have been able to last a good 2 solid work-days between charges and simply plugging them in during my 20-minute drive to work daily was sufficient. I guess for people who are on the road a lot it's unrealistic, but the snowflake scenario of being on the road a lot has been used to try excusing some pretty unreasonable poo poo so forgive my skepticism.
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