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I was using Google Now, but then the memory card problem happened which caused apps to not appear on the screen which made me think Google Now was the problem. I switched to Nova Launcher. To be honest I'm not sure what the differences between the two are besides Google Now having a screen that had a lot of stuff on it that I didn't find useful. Edit: I forgot a sentence!
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RandomPauI posted:I think the problem may be with the SD card. Yeah, I can read from it and write to it but when I connected it to my laptop it didn't recognize it as having any memory at all. And when I tried to reformat it in different programs it'd cause them to crash. It's certainly possible, there are many crappy and counterfeit SD cards out there.
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Mar 22, 2016 12:26
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RandomPauI posted:I was using Google Now, but then the memory card problem happened which caused apps to not appear on the screen which made me think Google Now was the problem. I switched to Nova Launcher. To be honest I'm not sure what the differences between the two are besides Google Now having a screen that had a lot of stuff on it that I didn't find useful. Nova lets you customize nearly every aspect of it (app drawer, home screen grid size, swipe gestures), but GNL has the Google Now screen that people seem to love so much, though it sounds like you do not.
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Mar 22, 2016 12:29
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And if you're anything like me you're constantly making tiny little tweaks to your goddamn grid sizes and icons in Nova and I gotta have 5x6 on my home screen but 6x5 in my app drawer and icons need to be 115% here but not there because I'm a loving moron and now I live in Nova's settings screen instead of in the real world where there is joy and pizza
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Mar 22, 2016 12:50
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For what it's worth, the majority of the information Google Now shows me isn't that useful either. The only thing i really liked were package notifications. The "where you parked" notification is probably too inaccurate to be of any real use. I can give it another try now that I'm part of the Nexus-Fi Master Race.
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Mar 22, 2016 13:23
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Valicious posted:any suggestions for cases for the Nexus 5X? Screen protector? Buy these: http://www.xtremeguard.com The tempered glass are fantastic, and they usually have a 85-99% coupon code. I have them for my N5X, iPad Mini, and iPhone6 and they look fantastic and cost nothing. I've referred a ton of people there and everyone loves them. Vykk.Draygo posted:Nova lets you customize nearly every aspect of it (app drawer, home screen grid size, swipe gestures), but GNL has the Google Now screen that people seem to love so much, though it sounds like you do not. Every so often I install Nova or that other popular launcher, I forget which, and I start customizing it, but I always get tired of it and go back to GNL.
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Mar 22, 2016 13:54
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I used Nova until I realized that I was playing interior decorator with my goddamn phone homescreen and I said no, no I will not do this. Went back to GNL and just got down to barebones. It's easy enough to just launch stuff from the app drawer if needed. Google Now I find incredibly useful; it serves up cards reliably for me, for weather and the day's agenda and packages and news and everything. It's Google Now on Tap that I wish worked better; I almost never remember that it's there and it's about 50/50 on finding what I want on the screen when I do. But when it does work it's really great.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:17
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Buy these: Does anyone use tempered glass protectors without a case? It seems like feeling the edge all the time would annoy me pretty quickly, especially since I use SwipePad, so I swipe in from the edge of the screen a lot.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:25
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Require More Fire posted:Google Now I find incredibly useful; it serves up cards reliably for me, for weather and the day's agenda and packages and news and everything. It's Google Now on Tap that I wish worked better; I almost never remember that it's there and it's about 50/50 on finding what I want on the screen when I do. But when it does work it's really great. This is the truth. Now on Tap is terrible in its current incarnation.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:26
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azurite posted:The "where you parked" notification is probably too inaccurate to be of any real use. LastInLine posted:This is the truth. Now on Tap is terrible in its current incarnation. Two true things.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:32
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hooah posted:Does anyone use tempered glass protectors without a case? It seems like feeling the edge all the time would annoy me pretty quickly, especially since I use SwipePad, so I swipe in from the edge of the screen a lot. I use them all the time with an with out a case and it's fine. They aren't super thick, so it's not a big deal.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:37
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LastInLine posted:This is the truth. Now on Tap is terrible in its current incarnation. And as a google apps user (I've had a custom domain for more than a decade now) I don't get package tracking or a lot of the deeper stuff. 
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Mar 22, 2016 15:24
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Re: SD card problems: Hopefully you can now see why they're advocated against. They just don't work well enough. It's just one more way something can screw up.
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Mar 22, 2016 15:46
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The only useful things Google Now has are the package tracker, trending stories like 25% of the time and that it shows me the Google Doodle of the day without having to go to the Google homepage.
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Mar 22, 2016 15:57
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I'm on vacation and it showed me flight and hotel information. It also showed me a trending(?) article about the flydubai jet, which appeared in my feed the day of my flight
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Mar 22, 2016 16:08
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My news feed in it is great, and seems to get better the more I use it After finally being able to get rid of the daily loving mail as a news source its almost perfect I use it for a load of recurring reminders too, once month kind of things
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Mar 22, 2016 16:11
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The Merkinman posted:I'm on vacation and it showed me flight and hotel information. Yes, Now is quite great when I go on a trip. Again, how great it is depends on how much of your life goes through Google...all my trip plans and whatever end up in my gmail inbox so google knows all about where I'm going, where I'm staying, where I'm getting a car, what time my car is getting returned, what gas stations are between my hotel and car drop off, etc.
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Mar 22, 2016 16:12
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Trips really are the standout feature of now. Very handy to not have to dig through emails to find confirmation numbers and such. I use the weather feature every morning to see which hours it will rain. It let me put a weather icon on my home screen this morning so I can jump straight to it.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:13
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Once I figured out how to make Google Now stop spoiling soccer scores in its widget, it became a lot more useful. I use Bing on the desktop so the news articles aren't that relevant to my interests but they are getting better over time and the weather and other stuff works just fine.
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Mar 22, 2016 17:37
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One time I got a notification from Now that just said "expect rain on Saturday" it was not loving kidding.
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Mar 22, 2016 18:28
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Hey guys, guess what popped up on my Google Now feed just now: quote:Engadget - 1 day ago  Desk Lamp posted:One time I got a notification from Now that just said "expect rain on Saturday" it was not loving kidding. I get a daily notification from Google Now around 8 p.m. that tells me what the weather is going to be like tomorrow. It'll say something like "56 degrees tomorrow, 2 degrees more than yesterday" and if I click on it I get a more complete picture. Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Mar 22, 2016 18:41
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When I grow up I want to be like Google Now
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Mar 22, 2016 18:54
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I've been using an iPhone for the past couple years and I have a Moto X Pure on the way. I can't wait to be back in the loving arms of Google.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:25
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Tsyni posted:I've been using an iPhone for the past couple years and I have a Moto X Pure on the way. I can't wait to be back in the loving arms of Google. The first thing it's going to do is hit you. Welcome back.
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Mar 22, 2016 19:55
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Tsyni posted:I've been using an iPhone for the past couple years and I have a Moto X Pure on the way. I can't wait to be back in the loving arms of Google. Why did you switch?
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Mar 22, 2016 19:58
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Doctor Butts posted:Why did you switch? I got my first iPhone for free from a friend and I actually liked it more than I thought I would, but I vastly prefer Android to iOS. Price is also a pretty big factor.
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Mar 22, 2016 20:58
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Tsyni posted:I've been using an iPhone for the past couple years and I have a Moto X Pure on the way. I can't wait to be back in the loving arms of Google.
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Mar 22, 2016 21:15
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Buy these: Found an 88% off coupon, cool. Would you suggest their cases as well, or just the Spartan tempered glass?
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Mar 22, 2016 21:42
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Valicious posted:Found an 88% off coupon, cool. Would you suggest their cases as well, or just the Spartan tempered glass? I don't have any of the cases, so I don't know. I've used about a hundred of the glass protectors. My kids are always grabbing my phones and running off with them and spiking them, so I've been through a bunch of the screens, with nary an issue on the phone itself.
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Mar 22, 2016 21:45
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The phone screen is designed to be scratch resistant, there's no need for a screen protector. Moreover, the outside of the phone is the case - cosmetic damage won't have any bearing on the operation of the device. The outside of the phone is the case, much like how the outside of a laptop is the case - it protects the delicate internal components.
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Mar 22, 2016 21:51
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RZA Encryption posted:Re: SD card problems: It's a trade-off. My phone only has about 8 gigs of free space after you take the OS and whatnot into account. That's plenty of space for a lot of small apps, but not so much space for bulky game/podcast/etc apps, videos, music, etc. This phone has a big battery, the quad-processor is strong enough for what I'll do with it, it has more gigs of memory and more ram than the phones available from AT&T or T-mobile at this price point. Having to spend money on an SD card for extra storage verses spending a lot more to buy a more advanced phone isn't a deal-breaker.
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Mar 22, 2016 22:07
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Doctor Butts posted:Hey guys, guess what popped up on my Google Now feed just now:
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Mar 22, 2016 23:12
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azurite posted:For what it's worth, the majority of the information Google Now shows me isn't that useful either. The only thing i really liked were package notifications. The "where you parked" notification is probably too inaccurate to be of any real use. I can give it another try now that I'm part of the Nexus-Fi Master Race. I've never been done wrong by the "where you parked" card. It's come in handy quite a few times.
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Mar 22, 2016 23:18
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XIII posted:I've never been done wrong by the "where you parked" card. It's come in handy quite a few times. It always fucks up for me because I use a variety of transportation options, so it marks my parking spot as where I debarked the train rather than where I parked to get on the train, for example. The other good one is it'll have my old parking spot but not the current one, like it'd say I'm parked at portillos when I'm already home. VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Mar 23, 2016 00:11
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broken clock opsec posted:It always fucks up for me because I use a variety of transportation options, so it marks my parking spot as where I debarked the train rather than where I parked to get on the train, for example. Same. If I stop at the supermarket on the way home it'll let me know at 10pm that I parked there 4 hours ago. Despite the fact that I was there for ten minutes and then drove home.
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Mar 23, 2016 01:54
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I'm not sure I see the issue there though. It's not like you really need to know where you parked when you took the train. The only time I pay attention to the parking card is when I drove somewhere and don't remember the exact block I parked on.
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Mar 23, 2016 01:55
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XIII posted:I'm not sure I see the issue there though. It's not like you really need to know where you parked when you took the train. The only time I pay attention to the parking card is when I drove somewhere and don't remember the exact block I parked on. It would be nice. Commuter train lots are mega huge here.
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Mar 23, 2016 02:54
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Just ordered the 32BG Nexus 5x in Charcoal, a Xtreme Guard Spartan TGSP, and now I'm trying to decide on a case. I've been told Driztonic is good. Are there any battery cases out there? I hope I don't regret getting the 5X over the 6P. I've been reading about poor battery life, yellowish screen tint, and slow downs due to lack of RAM...
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Mar 23, 2016 12:58
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Motorola just pushed forward updates for their Moto G line that brings them up to Marshmallow. This also fixes the new critical Stagefright vulnerability on Android phones.
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Valicious posted:Just ordered the 32BG Nexus 5x in Charcoal, a Xtreme Guard Spartan TGSP, and now I'm trying to decide on a case. I've been told Driztonic is good. Are there any battery cases out there? The 5x is a good phone, and better now that it got that update earlier this month that fixed a lot of issues for people that were experiencing them (I wasn't one so I can't comment on that). The battery gets me until bed but no further with about 2 and a half to 3 hours of SoT. I've never run into slow downs on it, but I don't do a ton of stuff on it either. I basically use it for SMS, photos, music and life-organization. I don't even use Facebook. With that said it's a inexpensive (especially now), mid-level phone so if you expect 6P (a more expensive, flagship phone) performance out of it, you may be disappointed. There aren't any battery cases that I've encountered and Diztronic is a great brand and it's what I have on my 5x right now. If I had to list a complaint about the case it's that the black model kind of gets fingerprint-y and scuffed easily, but hey that's what the case it there for, to take that abuse instead of the phone itself.
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