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I'm constantly getting a "check your connection and try again" pop up message but have no idea what's causing it. Is there a suggested app for checking what's polling the network connection?
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highme posted:I'm constantly getting a "check your connection and try again" pop up message but have no idea what's causing it. Is there a suggested app for checking what's polling the network connection? I got this earlier on my Galaxy S7 when checking for a device firmware update, seems Samsung's servers were temperamental for a while. Don't know if that's relevant to you at all.
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Jul 17, 2016 01:03
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play store is using over 1gb of data a day, i've already disabled updates and have it restricted to wi-fi only. i'm already almost at my data cap only a couple days into my plan help.
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Jul 17, 2016 02:52
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Your phone sounds broken.
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Jul 17, 2016 02:55
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i've already factory reset. it seems to work fine now without the play store; the battery drain problem i had earlier was some over the air bullshit htc pushed that did the same to a bunch of other peoples' phones on xda. cyanogenmod would probably solve all my problems, but this phone is a pain in the rear end to root and i'm not about to mail my phone to a stranger.
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Jul 17, 2016 03:03
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Just to be absolutely clear, it's the Play Store doing it and not Google Play Services?
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Jul 17, 2016 08:28
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I was planning on getting the upcoming Nexus but I just dropped my phone and killed it. Is there some super cheap option to tide me over till the new Nexus phones come out or should I just a 5X?
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Jul 17, 2016 09:10
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Trent Razor1911 posted:I was planning on getting the upcoming Nexus but I just dropped my phone and killed it. Is there some super cheap option to tide me over till the new Nexus phones come out or should I just a 5X? If all you need is a super cheap phone to tide you over for the next 4 months, the Moto G4 will do just fine.
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Jul 17, 2016 09:32
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The price difference between the Moto G4 and the Nexus 5x is pretty small where I live, I was thinking 2nd gen Moto E maybe?
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Jul 17, 2016 11:40
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Trent Razor1911 posted:I was planning on getting the upcoming Nexus but I just dropped my phone and killed it. Is there some super cheap option to tide me over till the new Nexus phones come out or should I just a 5X? When that happened to me I bought a Nexus 5 on Amazon for $170.
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Jul 17, 2016 12:48
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Trent Razor1911 posted:The price difference between the Moto G4 and the Nexus 5x is pretty small where I live, I was thinking 2nd gen Moto E maybe? If your only goal is a reasonably snappy phone, yeah, the 2nd gen E should tide you over until the new Nexuses. It doesn't scream but it's plenty responsive for your basic smartphone needs. Stuck on Lollipop in most countries if that makes a difference to you. If you depend on the camera at all, the front camera is loving useless and the back camera is both pretty bad and in a stupid location. But hey, it's $50 at Fry's Electronics. Molten Llama fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Jul 17, 2016 |
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Jul 17, 2016 19:55
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I decided to skip this years new Nexus phones and get a 5X till next years Nexus phones.
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Jul 18, 2016 17:43
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Quick dumb question: Ever since the Google keyboard's recent update it has started autocorrecting when I try to type Italian words in Duolingo and this is a huge pain in the rear end Is there a way to turn off autocorrect specifically for Duolingo or what?
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Jul 18, 2016 21:25
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loquacius posted:Quick dumb question: You can set multiple languages in the options. So, if you set English and Italian, it will autocorrect words of both languages at the same time.
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Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but here goes: Today through an unfortunate series of events involving an improperly attached phone case and a panicked Home button press, I inadvertently hard reset my Galaxy S7 at work. It took me to the verify screen where it wanted me to insert my Google account info and password. I couldn't remember my password (after a security scare I changed it to a random set of letters and numbers and only looked it up when I needed it). So then on the phone I changed my password (I know this is where I went wrong now, won't gently caress it up again), and it still didn't let me get in, so the phone showed a URL where I could recover my account. I jump on a pc at work to go through the account recovery, I get it sorted out, I go back to my phone to log in and no dice. It just keeps looping back to the verification screen. I do an internet search on the work pc and find out that apparently this is no bug, but a feature and I won't be able to access my phone for the 72 hours because of Google's security(?). So my questions are: do I have any recourse or is my phone a hockey puck until Thursday afternoon? When the password finally "clicks over" or whatever, is it trivial to get back into my phone? Will everything (contacts, pictures, texts) still be there or no? Are there any options (factory reset, contacting my carrier, anything at all that makes my phone work sooner) or do I need to go to Walmart tomorrow morning and buy a burner to get me through the next two days in case I end up in a ditch driving home or something.
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Jul 19, 2016 03:34
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Soul Glo posted:Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but here goes: I can't say I've ever hosed up that bad, I don't even know where to point you other than maybe some type of live support with Google on your PC if that's even possible. It almost seems like maybe there's some kind of Samsung bullshit trying to be helpful but just Amelia Bedelia-ing it into the shitter because it continually puts in the wrong drat password.
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Jul 19, 2016 05:04
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Soul Glo posted:Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but here goes: If you synced your stuff to Google it should all be there once your account is unlocked of course be aware that Samsungs helpfully turn all that off by default so unless you went out of your way to turn it on then maybe it won't be. I would expect your SMSs to be gone unless you implemented your own backup solution (like SMS Backup+, something everyone should use in my opinion) but you can check your contacts here. If that page is empty then so are your contacts. As far as I know there's nothing you can do to speed up this process but maybe you could take the time to reevaluate your life and align your chakra. FAUXTON posted:I can't say I've ever hosed up that bad, I don't even know where to point you other than maybe some type of live support with Google on your PC if that's even possible. It almost seems like maybe there's some kind of Samsung bullshit trying to be helpful but just Amelia Bedelia-ing it into the shitter because it continually puts in the wrong drat password. Nope, this is standard behavior even on a Nexus. The idea is that if your phone is compromised you'll have 72 hours to straighten it out before your phone's thief can completely take over your Google account. This doesn't account for someone who is apparently worse than my grandmother at managing passwords but is a reasonable security measure for the rest of us.
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Jul 19, 2016 05:17
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Final preview beta of Nougat is out. Quick settings icons are back to using the non-crappy tap-to-toggle method instead of whatever Google was going for last time. (Tap to sort of open, longpress to REALLY open?)
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Jul 19, 2016 12:20
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Apparently motorola is going to have a go at the whole modular phone thing: http://www.wired.com/2016/07/motorolas-crazy-plan-reinvent-phone-breaking-pieces/ I don't get it
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Jul 19, 2016 12:33
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Zom Aur posted:Apparently motorola is going to have a go at the whole modular phone thing: http://www.wired.com/2016/07/motorolas-crazy-plan-reinvent-phone-breaking-pieces/ I like the idea of it but every manufacturer needs to be on-board (universal agreed upon standards) otherwise this is mostly crap.
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Jul 19, 2016 12:37
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Is there any way of seeing some sort of breakdown of what's taking up all your Google Photos space? I swear all mine has vanished somewhat abruptly, from lots of gigabytes down to a few hundred mb. I don't take *that* many photos, I've shot quite a few videos recently so I thought it may be that, but none of them are really all that big. I'm having a look at my account and I can't see any obvious reason why I should have no space yet. iS there any way of listing them by size, or something like that? Also, I know there's an option to compress everything to reclaim space, and convert it to the reduced quality versions which don't count towards you quota - is there anyway of doing that with photos only, and retaining original resolution on the videos?
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Jul 19, 2016 13:09
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Hmmm... if I go to this view: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/search?q=type:video I see various videos, quite a lot of them large, but all of them show something like this: quote:Size Presumably although that one is 1 gig, it should be counted towards the quote because it was uploaded in High Quality, not Original. They're all like this, but could easily account for where all my space went if they were being counted. I wonder if there's some sort of bug with calculating used quota?
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Jul 19, 2016 13:29
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I like the idea of it but every manufacturer needs to be on-board (universal agreed upon standards) otherwise this is mostly crap. This will never happen.
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Jul 19, 2016 13:43
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http://www.droid-life.com/2016/07/18/android-n-dp5-easter-egg-involves-catching-cats/ I have not caught a catte yet
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I like the idea of it but every manufacturer needs to be on-board (universal agreed upon standards) otherwise this is mostly crap. Works for Apple.
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Jul 19, 2016 14:15
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Caught a catte  
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Are you guys telling me I won't be able to catch catte for two more years since I don't own a Nexus phone? What the gently caress is this bullshit? 
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Jul 19, 2016 14:32
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I'm between graduation and starting a new job, so I cleared my work location in Maps. However, I still get Now cards for my "work" location. I tried clearing the address in Now, but it won't let me put in nothing, as far as I can tell. What can I do?
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Jul 19, 2016 14:49
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I'm pretty sure after a week or so it will automatically go away when it sees you are no longer going there every day. How long had it been?
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Jul 19, 2016 14:54
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While I was unemployed for 2 months, it never stopped telling me about time to "work", even after clearing it. What finally got it to change was telling it about the new "work" location. So put in the location of your favorite bar or something.
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hooah posted:What can I do? Hahaha! I've found telling Google Now you're not interested in something is a fool's errand.
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Jul 19, 2016 15:39
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So i drunkenly set a text password on my m9 last night, and cant remember it today, any way to beat this?
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Old Man Pants posted:So i drunkenly set a text password on my m9 last night, and cant remember it today, any way to beat this? As someone that values the security of their phone, I sure hope not. For the Google now "work" thing: check to see if it's still saved as your "work" in Maps. I had to change it in both places when we moved offices.
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RZA Encryption posted:For the Google now "work" thing: check to see if it's still saved as your "work" in Maps. I had to change it in both places when we moved offices.
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Old Man Pants posted:So i drunkenly set a text password on my m9 last night, and cant remember it today, any way to beat this? You can wipe the phone.
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Old Man Pants posted:So i drunkenly set a text password on my m9 last night, and cant remember it today, any way to beat this? Get drunk again.
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uPen posted:You can wipe the phone. Just did. Vykk.Draygo posted:Get drunk again. Am doing this now
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Jul 19, 2016 17:45
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Quick question - I've got an old Android tablet (Nexus 7) that I want to use as an "announcement board" for our household (we have a few roommates) that automatically scrolls through a few pre-set messages. What app is best for that? I'm hoping there's one that just lets me type in messages instead of creating images for a slideshow each time.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Quick question - I've got an old Android tablet (Nexus 7) that I want to use as an "announcement board" for our household (we have a few roommates) that automatically scrolls through a few pre-set messages. What app is best for that? I'm hoping there's one that just lets me type in messages instead of creating images for a slideshow each time. One of those smart mirror apps sounds like it would be up your alley. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.morristaedt.mirror
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nimper posted:One of those smart mirror apps sounds like it would be up your alley. Thanks - although the one you linked seems to be rather limited (can't put in my own messages) so I'm still looking... Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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