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The removal of carrier SMS/MMS from Hangouts is going to be a huge bummer for me but I can see why they are doing it. It's confusing for normal people. My fiance had to wipe her N5 last night and over messaging I had to troubleshoot and walk he through how to merge Hangouts & SMS threads from the same person, figure out why it would only send from GV and not her carrier number which was tied to my contact being split in her Contacts app to make it work like a thing. Sure, how it works is readily understandable to me but for her it was extremely frustrating. I'd love a true Google version of iMessage that just works without any futzing and anyone can figure out but they just straight up couldn't do it. Personally, I really should just switch to GV as my primary number.
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Google is offering $50 off both the 5X and 6P, with free overnight shipping. https://store.google.com/category/holiday_promos
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Dec 16, 2015 20:11
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So my free Star Wars cardboard viewer came yesterday and god drat, I immediately ordered a Gear VR. Anyone have any experience with both? I understand the lenses are a lot better tuned with the Gear VR and the video latency is a lot better, I'm super excited.
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Logikv9 posted:Yeah? GV SMS functionality remains in the Hangouts app, which is trash. Syrinxx posted:Google is offering $50 off both the 5X and 6P, with free overnight shipping. I don't think I could sell my visor cracked 6P for the $450 it would take to make it worth it (tax being countered by the $50 play credit) ilkhan fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Three Olives posted:So my free Star Wars cardboard viewer came yesterday and god drat, I immediately ordered a Gear VR. I'm tempted too. It was really amazing to watch my kid use the cardboard viewer when it came in the mail. Running around the house, running into things, yelling OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. Absolutely blew his mind. I really wish I would have thought to buy a bunch of them in november or whatever as stocking stuffers for my friend's kids.
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I got my cardboard thing, too and it absolutely blows away the plastic one I got on amazon for $20.
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Dec 16, 2015 21:03
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The Moto X Pure is going to be $100 off on Amazon tomorrow
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Dec 16, 2015 21:08
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Yeah, got mine yesterday too. It immediately strengthened my resolve to spam the hell out of the buy button as soon as oculus becomes available.
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Dec 16, 2015 21:09
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Get the cardboard camera if you haven't already. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.cyclops&hl=en Make your own view master photos.
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Dec 16, 2015 21:12
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deong posted:Get the cardboard camera if you haven't already. Someone (you, perhaps?) mentioned this app here or in the app thread, and talked about being able to view Photospheres in this app. I grabbed Cardboard Camera, but can't see any way to view my existing Photospheres.
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Dec 16, 2015 21:40
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Just when I think I'm over being surprised by Google arbitrarily destroying good apps they manage to do it again. Good work, guys! Why the gently caress would I want to use two apps to do the same thing one does perfectly well now? What magic extra features will make up for the convenience of having everything in one location, with merged conversations and a simple interface.
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Dec 16, 2015 21:50
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When they first added SMS, the general consensus was "why bother if they aren't going full iMessage, this is useless.". Now people are upset about it going away when no new features were added since. Google should be doing so much more in this space. Why is my local SMS db not part of my normal account syncs? Why not use cloud to phone push to allow carrier SMS anywhere from any browser? Why can I not delete an individual message in hangouts without trashing the whole conversation history? If they aren't committed to truly converging the two messaging protocols, it's better to do the split and let each team focus on the core of their apps.
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Dec 16, 2015 22:01
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bull3964 posted:it's better to do the split and let each team focus on the core of their apps. It's not, because it takes away my single app/interface that combined both options that I use excessively. This is going to be a massive pain in the rear end and there's no real consumer friendly reason for it.
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Hello android goons. I don't know if this is the right place for this question so I'm sorry in advance, I'm also sorry for not knowing any of the terms or how to even look for such a thing because I've never done this before. In a few months I will (hopefully!) be starting a mobile business (mobile as in on the move, not related to cellphones). I need an android app that will let myself and my receptionist/girlfriend make appointments with fields for customer details etc using a phone and a tablet. Basically I want to be able to schedule appointments using my phone, and have her do the same thing, with the planner or whatever being updated on the go (I guess it'd have to be cloud based?) so that we can avoid having conflicting appointments or having to constantly call eachother to tee things up. Is there an app that does this?
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Slavvy posted:Hello android goons. I don't know if this is the right place for this question so I'm sorry in advance, I'm also sorry for not knowing any of the terms or how to even look for such a thing because I've never done this before. Google Calendar
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Dec 16, 2015 22:25
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OK, so how would that work? Like if she makes an appointment how would it then appear on my calendar? I want a virtual ledger that both people can update remotely, does calendar do that? I'm on a nexus 5 and it doesn't appear to. E: it's also very clumsy to use and nowhere near detailed enough, I need to have address details, work description etc not just a time and place written in ad hoc. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Dec 16, 2015 22:50
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Slavvy posted:OK, so how would that work? Like if she makes an appointment how would it then appear on my calendar? I want a virtual ledger that both people can update remotely, does calendar do that? I'm on a nexus 5 and it doesn't appear to. Yeah you just need to make a new calendar called "work" or whatever and then share it
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Slavvy posted:OK, so how would that work? Like if she makes an appointment how would it then appear on my calendar? I want a virtual ledger that both people can update remotely, does calendar do that? I'm on a nexus 5 and it doesn't appear to. There is a Location field where you could put the address and a Notes field where you could put the work description.
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Dec 16, 2015 22:56
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bull3964 posted:Yeah, got mine yesterday too. It immediately strengthened my resolve to spam the hell out of the buy button as soon as oculus becomes available. Yes to this. bull3964 posted:If they aren't committed to truly converging the two messaging protocols, it's better to do the split and let each team focus on the core of their apps. No to this. Also, AnandTech did their Nexus 6P review. He's got weird and wrong opinions about stock Android, but it looks like the 6P does a better job about thermal throttling, but it's still not ideal: quote:Again, the 6P seems to be able to hold up at fairly high frequencies of 1.9-1.8GHz until the lower frequencies gain in prominence. After the 5 minute mark (~300 seconds) it looks like the device stabilized at 1344MHz, but then again starts to oscillate with the 960MHz state around the 12 minute mark which becomes the predominant frequency for the last half of the 25+ minute test.
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Ever since my Nexus 6 updated to Marshmallow, my recommended stories on Google Now suck. They used to be fine, and now about 1/3rd of them are stories from ESPN. I loving hate sports, and I've never visited ESPN in my life, so I have no idea where Google is getting the idea that I want sports updates. It's also giving me recommended stories from Fox News, though those are less numerous than the ESPN stories. Any way to fix this?
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Dec 16, 2015 23:22
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Mnemosyne posted:Ever since my Nexus 6 updated to Marshmallow, my recommended stories on Google Now suck. They used to be fine, and now about 1/3rd of them are stories from ESPN. I loving hate sports, and I've never visited ESPN in my life, so I have no idea where Google is getting the idea that I want sports updates. It's also giving me recommended stories from Fox News, though those are less numerous than the ESPN stories. Any way to fix this? I had that for a few days. I don't care about sports at all and all of a sudden it was giving me a bunch of ESPN stories. It eventually fixed itself.
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Is there a way to make it so that on stock Android the entire notification shade will open with just one swipe, instead of the stupid need to do it twice to actually see anything useful?
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Rastor posted:This morning my Moto X Pure (2014) received 6.0 Marshmallow. Is this a soak test, or is it being pushed out slowly to everyone? edit: from a brief glance at Reddit, it seems like it's every country but USA? Vykk.Draygo fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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My cardboard was originally supposed to come the 16th (today), then I got a shipping update saying it was going to come the 15th (yesterday), and now for the past 24hrs it's been ???
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Daily Forecast posted:Is there a way to make it so that on stock Android the entire notification shade will open with just one swipe, instead of the stupid need to do it twice to actually see anything useful? The current way is the not-stupid way, the way you propose is the stupid way!
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Thermopyle posted:The current way is the not-stupid way, the way you propose is the stupid way! yeah well it's like people want their phones to do different things. What the gently caress is the use of the first swipe only showing you what you already know from the notification bar? Basically I want to be able to do with one finger what you can currently do with two. Is there a way?
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The two swipe notification tray thing is the one feature I miss the most from stock when I moved to my Note 5, so I'll trade you 
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The Merkinman posted:My cardboard was originally supposed to come the 16th (today), then I got a shipping update saying it was going to come the 15th (yesterday), and now for the past 24hrs it's been ??? Mine shipped Monday saying it would be here yesterday, but was stuck on "shipping label created" until this morning. It arrived today. Fedex doesn't seem to be great at estimating delivery dates. Daily Forecast posted:What the gently caress is the use of the first swipe only showing you what you already know from the notification bar? 
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Daily Forecast posted:yeah well it's like people want their phones to do different things. What the gently caress is the use of the first swipe only showing you what you already know from the notification bar? You have strange opinions about what you want to do with your notification bar (you know, the thing you interact with notifications with). That said, if you two finger swipe down from the top bar, it will do what you want it to do.
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Dec 16, 2015 23:52
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Mine shipped Monday saying it would be here yesterday, but was stuck on "shipping label created" until this morning. It arrived today. Fedex doesn't seem to be great at estimating delivery dates. Still a very easy thing to do when it's expanded? Everything important is always near the top anyway. I guess I don't keep a thousand goddamn things in my notifications like most soccer moms with their phones do. Grumpwagon posted:You have strange opinions about what you want to do with your notification bar (you know, the thing you interact with notifications with). That said, if you two finger swipe down from the top bar, it will do what you want it to do. quote:able to do with one finger what you can currently do with two. yes thank you I guess there's no way to do it, so, eh.
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Daily Forecast posted:yeah well it's like people want their phones to do different things. Yes, that was my point. You implied that it was obviously and universally stupid...I was highlighting that it is not.
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Daily Forecast posted:Still a very easy thing to do when it's expanded? Everything important is always near the top anyway. I guess I don't keep a thousand goddamn things in my notifications like most soccer moms with their phones do. I was in too big of a hurry to insult you to properly read your post.
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Daily Forecast posted:Is there a way to make it so that on stock Android the entire notification shade will open with just one swipe, instead of the stupid need to do it twice to actually see anything useful? Swipe it with two fingers
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Incredible.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Is this a soak test, or is it being pushed out slowly to everyone? I have joined Moto soak tests in the past, but never signed up for my Moto X Pure (2014). I am in Chicago. I dunno why I got it. 
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Syrinxx posted:Google is offering $50 off both the 5X and 6P, with free overnight shipping. Oh hey, now it's 200€ cheaper in the US than in Europe. This pricing scheme is so ridiculous. I really want this phone, but I do not 650€ want this phone. The Anandtech review says it best: Anandtech posted:For regions outside of North America, and Europe especially, the Nexus 6P just seems an unreasonable device. Starting at prices from 649€, you would expect a device without drawbacks, and it’s simply not worth the premium over other devices...
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Is this a soak test, or is it being pushed out slowly to everyone? Rastor posted:I have joined Moto soak tests in the past, but never signed up for my Moto X Pure (2014). I just remembered, I had a warranty replacement once. So probably they sent me an international version and mystery solved.
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Daily Forecast posted:yeah well it's like people want their phones to do different things. What the gently caress is the use of the first swipe only showing you what you already know from the notification bar? Nova launcher can do this
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Nova launcher can do this Launchers don't affect the notification tray?
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Hi android thread, I've been looking for a budget phone to replace my dad's ancient and borderline unusable xperia ray and was wondering if any of you know any reasons to avoid the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6? It looks pretty good on paper, and reviewed well from what I can tell, but I've never heard of it before and am curious if there's anything I'm overlooking. Thanks!
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