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Jacobus Spades posted:Sounds like right now your number is receiving "mixed service", sort of a limbo between the two carriers that's supposed to be resolved during the porting process. If power cycling your devices doesn't work definitely give your carrier a call. Thanks all. Now to enjoy this 6P!
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Well the OnePlus 3 doesn't support 2100mhz so its out as a replacement phone which is annoying because its so loving cheap compared to everything else
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I haven't really been following it, but from a brief Googling....I don't understand why someone would buy a OnePlus3 instead of a Nexus 6P?
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Jun 21, 2016 16:31
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£200 and the fact that it also isn't supported by my network on 3g as far as i can tell. i was looking forward to getting a new phone but it seems like its going to be a massive pain and maybe i should just get the charger fixed
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Jun 21, 2016 16:36
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Oh. In the US the price difference is often less than $100 and multiple times it's been a difference of $30. No brainer to go with the 6P in either case.
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Jose posted:So instead of having my phone fixed I'm thinking about just picking up the OnePlus 3 due to the price since my phone is pretty hosed anyway. I don't really know much about it other than it looks good for the cost since I don't fancy spending nearly £200 more for the nexus 6p. Any recommendations? No. Don't.
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Jun 21, 2016 16:41
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the nexus 6p will work and i can get the 32gb for only £120 more so i'm just going to get that
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RVProfootballer posted:
Nothing should ever aspire to being the Verizon Galaxy Nexus.
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bull3964 posted:Nothing should ever aspire to being the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. It was poo poo, but it was probably still better than being a Galaxy S 1 with an LTE antenna grafted on.
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Jun 21, 2016 18:47
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Thermopyle posted:I haven't really been following it, but from a brief Googling....I don't understand why someone would buy a OnePlus3 instead of a Nexus 6P? I'm not saying these are great reasons not to get a nexus but they do combine to make a case for the OP3
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Debatable since it was OMAP based with an LTE antenna grafted on.
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So this happened apparently: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#nexus_devices How long your Nexus will get updates After a certain period, Google can no longer guarantee that a device will get version updates or security patches. Nexus devices receive: Android version updates For at least two years from when the device became available on the Google Store. Security patches For the longer of 3 years from availability or 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device.
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bull3964 posted:Debatable since it was OMAP based with an LTE antenna grafted on. Nah, you clearly never used a Droid Charge if you think it's debatable. This was a time when specs actually really did matter, as single core vs. dual core was a really noticeable difference, 512 mb vs 1 gb ram was huge for going from like 1.5 apps open to a handful, stock ICS was so ridiculously better than Froyo-era Touchwiz, and even pentile 1280x720 was a huge step up from 800x480. No comparison. This was a dark time of Moto Droid X2s, HTC Thunderbolts, and Droid Charges. Galaxy Nexus was easily the best Android on Verizon!
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LethalGeek posted:So this happened apparently: They said this was the policy ages ago. They're just now putting a date to each phone.
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RVProfootballer posted:Nah, you clearly never used a Droid Charge if you think it's debatable. This was a time when specs actually really did matter, as single core vs. dual core was a really noticeable difference, 512 mb vs 1 gb ram was huge for going from like 1.5 apps open to a handful, stock ICS was so ridiculously better than Froyo-era Touchwiz, and even pentile 1280x720 was a huge step up from 800x480. No comparison. This was a dark time of Moto Droid X2s, HTC Thunderbolts, and Droid Charges. Galaxy Nexus was easily the best Android on Verizon! The Galaxy Nexus was only about 35% likely to receive a phone call. It failed at actually being a phone.
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bull3964 posted:The Galaxy Nexus was only about 35% likely to receive a phone call. It failed at actually being a phone. Wrong. In any case, the Thunderbolt shut off after 30 minutes on battery (compared to the Galaxy Nexus getting double or even triple that amount of LTE screen on time!), and the Droid Charge was liable to freeze when you tried to use it, so it isn't like they were great telephones either. The Droid X2 I think could make phone calls and didn't have horrendous battery, but was 3G only and had Switching to T-Mobile and a Nexus 4 like a year and a half after the Galaxy Nexus was a huge improvement in just about every way, of course. We have it so loving good with Android phones nowadays, haha.
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I actually had a Droid Razr simultaneously with the Galaxy Nexus and it was a better phone in every way. Hell, even the screen was better despite being lower resolution. I had to jump off the Galaxy Nexus because it would disconnect from the network when idle and not take phone calls. After about the 3rd time I missed escalations from work, I just had to dump the phone. It was eventually sorted out in an update, but it took like 3 months.
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Droid X2 had a Tegra 2 so it was obviously a god-awful phone.
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I like my GNex! I got it after using an LG Optimus V for about a year and getting royally sick of it constantly running out of storage and not downloading text messages as a result (thank god for XDA nerds and their custom ROMs that let me move poo poo to the SD card). Never really had issues with the GNex until the battery started to go. I actually went back to it for a couple of weeks last month after I broke my Moto X. Other than it being slow and needing to live on the battery charger, it worked fine for texting and calling and checking SA until I decided on a replacement. I really missed having a tiny phone (that I though was hilariously huge when I first bought it).
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I'm getting a Nextbit Robin tomorrow. Kind of excited to see what it's all about but I'll likely replace it for another Moto X Pure. I wish the 6P was like $75-100 cheaper.
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If you are a Canadian goon who can tolerate 2yr agreements, Costco has a good deal on right now. I got my Nexus 6P on the Bell network, 2 years of extended warranty (up to 4 replacements), they threw in a car charger, and left up $7. With their promos, they gave me $150 in Costco gift cards (that I could use for the phone purchase) and the whole purchase and setup cost $143. Another perk since it's through Costco, I get 50 Canada to USA calling minutes per month added to my plan.
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whats the cheapest/easiest way to pull photos off my SD card since the nexus 6p doesn't support one
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bull3964 posted:I actually had a Droid Razr simultaneously with the Galaxy Nexus and it was a better phone in every way. Hell, even the screen was better despite being lower resolution. Huh. I thought the Razr came out a year later. Ok, fair enough, the Razr Maxx was good for the time.
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Dza posted:If you are a Canadian goon who can tolerate 2yr agreements, Costco has a good deal on right now. I got my Nexus 6P on the Bell network, 2 years of extended warranty (up to 4 replacements), they threw in a car charger, and left up $7. Does Costco in the States sell the 6P or 5x? Cause drat.
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Jose posted:whats the cheapest/easiest way to pull photos off my SD card since the nexus 6p doesn't support one Uh.. you copy your photos to a pc, either mounting the storage via usb, or pulling the micro sd and putting it in a reader? I guess an OTG usb cable and a usb reader would work if you somehow have no access to a computer? Or you sync them to your google account/whatever?
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RVProfootballer posted:Huh. I thought the Razr came out a year later. Ok, fair enough, the Razr Maxx was good for the time. Yeah, it was a weird situation where the Razr came out less than 90 days after the Bionic. I think the Bionic kept getting delayed which led to releasing two flagships so close. I had gotten the Bionic from Costco and was able to leverage the exchange policy to get the Razr. Then I broke the Razr. So I bought a Galaxy Nexus and sent the Razr off to get repaired. They ended up doing the repair for free and I jumped back on the Razr as a primary device until the bugs were sorted out with the GNex.
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Jose posted:whats the cheapest/easiest way to pull photos off my SD card since the nexus 6p doesn't support one Virtually any storage app will do it: Dropbox OneDrive Google Photos Flickr BitTorrent Sync
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sorry i guess this goes with my phone is no longer recognising a cable plugged into into hence buying the nexus 6p. i can buy a micro sd reader for a computer i was just wondering if there is a cheaper method
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Ah! SD card readers are really cheap, so hard to beat just buying one. Borrow one? Or a computer with one? Or plug it into a digital camera and plug that into a PC to use as a make shift reader? Give it to a friend to read it for you and move the files to a CD-ROM? I probably have a half dozen ways to read an SD card laying around the house. You can pay for a stamp and envelope and mail it to me and I can copy your data to an encrypted Dropbox share, if you trust that I won't look at your naked selfies. 
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if they're cheap i'll just buy one then. no worries
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Uthor posted:Virtually any storage app will do it: File Commander is what I use when I don't feel like plugging my phone into my PC to get files off of it. A lot of apps do what this does, but this feels the least janky, banner ads or not.
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I'm a long haul trucker and my iPhone is giving up the ghost, thinking of picking up a S7 active in a few days when I head home. Is there a decent dummy's guide for making the switch? I've never used android. I use a couple apps for work (scanning bills of lading and the like), which I know are available on both so I can just redownload them. Is there an easy way to get my contacts switched over? The only other thing I use the phone for is web browsing or YouTube which I assume an android would be good at since its googles os. Also, anything to be wary off with the S7 active? It seems Samsung makes decent phones.
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Google has a guide. https://www.android.com/switch/
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Uthor posted:Google has a guide. Good deal, thanks. That pretty much answers all my questions.
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Turn off iMessage before you switch.
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mem posted:I'm a long haul trucker and my iPhone is giving up the ghost, thinking of picking up a S7 active in a few days when I head home. Is there a decent dummy's guide for making the switch? I've never used android. I use a couple apps for work (scanning bills of lading and the like), which I know are available on both so I can just redownload them. Is there an easy way to get my contacts switched over? The only other thing I use the phone for is web browsing or YouTube which I assume an android would be good at since its googles os. The S7 comes with the Smart Switch app built in, you'll find it under backup in the settings. It lets you connect your phones to transfer or import from iCloud.
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Sorry if there is a thread for this I can't find, but is there a recommended VR headset like Google Cardboard or the Viewmaster one but that has headstraps so you don't have to always hold it in place? There are lots of them on Amazon but they all seem to have fake reviews.
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RVProfootballer posted:Wrong. In any case, the Thunderbolt shut off after 30 minutes on battery (compared to the Galaxy Nexus getting double or even triple that amount of LTE screen on time!), and the Droid Charge was liable to freeze when you tried to use it, so it isn't like they were great telephones either. The Droid X2 I think could make phone calls and didn't have horrendous battery, but was 3G only and had The Thunderbolt made the Galaxy Nexus look like an absolutely faultlessly engineered device by comparison.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Sorry if there is a thread for this I can't find, but is there a recommended VR headset like Google Cardboard or the Viewmaster one but that has headstraps so you don't have to always hold it in place? There are lots of them on Amazon but they all seem to have fake reviews. I fly my Phantom using this BlitzWolf VR Headset 3D Viewer Glasses Virtual Reality Box Movies Games Helmet Google Cardboard Upgraded Version for IOS iPhone SE 6 6s plus, Android Samsung Galaxy S5 S6 S7 Edge Note 4 5 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AJSKIDG/ It's a tight fit for my 6 though but still works
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kitten smoothie posted:The Thunderbolt made the Galaxy Nexus look like an absolutely faultlessly engineered device by comparison. As someone who owned both,yes. The only way I was able to get all day battery life out of my Thunderbolt was via a 3200mah battery pack. JayKay fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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