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22 Eargesplitten posted:Just because something isn't as good as it seems doesn't mean it's not good enough. The Blu phones are OK, their resolutions aren't super high and the speakers sound like a can-and-string but they are still good for the money. The one I tried had some nice bits like dual-sim capability and included a case and screen protector for $100, that was a nice touch. Amazon Prime had a deal where you could get a $50 gift card when buying one if you agreed to lock-screen ads (which could easily be removed afterwards) but the offer seems to be gone and they are only offering it for Moto G4 now: https://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=14613304011 Those are well-reviewed unlocked Motorola phones for Blu phone prices, so if you're on a budget I'd spring for one; especially since Amazon is great about returns.
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CLAM DOWN posted:e: also the dude asking about Live Case delays, mine just shipped this morning That was me. Mine just shipped too.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I wrote poorly and forgot the range of smartphone prices. To be more accurate, is there something else around the $200 mark? If you haven't started already, then by the time you're in a position of importance, it'll probably already be acceptable. 
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Zero VGS posted:The Blu phones are OK, their resolutions aren't super high and the speakers sound like a can-and-string but they are still good for the money. The one I tried had some nice bits like dual-sim capability and included a case and screen protector for $100, that was a nice touch. Thanks, I'll definitely be considering those on top of the Nexus 5X (that I didn't realize you could get for $230 total through Project Fi). That $150 price tag on the G4 is pretty attractive. I'll put on my jorts when I get home and see how my wife's G4 feels in their pockets. How do you get rid of the ads?
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22 Eargesplitten posted:How do you get rid of the ads? Pay for the ones that aren't subsidized by them? 
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RZA Encryption posted:Pay for the ones that aren't subsidized by them? Essentially you just flash the non-subsidized image to the phone: http://www.stechguide.com/remove-amazon-ads-and-bloatware-from-moto-g4/
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Pixel XL is impressive for sure, but man would it be hard to leave my Nexus 6P 128Giger. It's just been a downright fantastic phone that you can get for a reasonable price as well if you want a little better than the 5X, but less than a Pixel(XL) and are on Verizon, Fi, or Sprint and don't want to leave. (though those Mi phones look downright wicked, however GSM only phones just make me sad I am on Sprint, until I see the price I would have to pay to be on any other carrier with my data usage (and no throttling so far)). Onto a different note, does anyone else sync their phones contacts and calendar with Hotmail/Outlook through Exchange and having issues with it not Syncing at all in the past week or longer? I wiped my phone recently going from 6.0.1 Pure Nexus to the newest 7.0 PN build, did a nice clean install, and notice that my Contacts nor Calendar sync onto the device even though it is correctly setup to use Exchange (not the IMAP default if you let it just setup based on e-mail) and it says that everything is Synced, there is nothing on the phone. With my other test device using Exchange Activesync for HTC Sense, everything Syncs perfect, as does using other apps like Microsofts own Outlook app (Though that POS is great for e-mail, it only has 1 way sync for Contacts for whatever the hell reason. Calendar however works fine, but doesn't sync to the phones native one) or I found a e-mail client called BlueMail that works, but is imperfect and sucks using a full email client, just to sync my drat contacts like a phone in 2016 should be able to natively do now. (why can a device that ran Windows Mobile or Palm in 2004 still have better sync than an Android device built today? Ugh.) I don't know if it was due to the O365 change Microsoft is doing on their end or something google jacked up with gmail/Google Exchange Services, but either way, talk about frustrating.
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WhyteRyce posted:I loved my 6p when I got it but right now the 2ish hours of SoT, the slow HDR processing time, and the throttling (especially leaving the camera on) have me really mad at it. The random days of ridiculous unexplained battery drain I'll just chalk up to Android True this, hence my recent adventures with ElementalX and forcing it into 4 A53's at 1.4Ghz 2 A57's to 1.2Ghz (With Hexacore mode enabled) and the GPU locked to 450mhz Max. Gotten around 5hrs SOT and the standby time is pretty good with PN 7.0. Outside of my random Contact/Calendar BS going on, the rest of the device is pretty snappy and power efficient for once without any major slowdown from those changes. Its like a 1440P 5X with Stereo. The only issue I cannot explain, is the Speakerphone. Video/Calls work great, but turn on the speaker phone, and it is the same as if I hit Mic Mute. You can't hear a thing on the other end but I can hear them fine. No idea what's going on there, but if it was a bad mic, you would think it would present itself in another form (Again, normal calls, Video recording, etc.) I dread having to send the thing to Google (I have Nexus Protect as well, but it hasn't been a year even) and getting a refurb of questionable quality back...
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Is there an easier way to prevent the autocorrect of a single word with the Google keyboard? Right now I'm tapping on the word before hitting space but it's a little awkward because I have to tap twice to move the cursor back
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EdEddnEddy posted:True this, hence my recent adventures with ElementalX and forcing it into 4 A53's at 1.4Ghz 2 A57's to 1.2Ghz (With Hexacore mode enabled) and the GPU locked to 450mhz Max. Gotten around 5hrs SOT and the standby time is pretty good with PN 7.0. Oh god it's 2016 and people have gone back to flashing third party ROMs to get around phone issues  Really though, thanks for the suggestion. I might have to do that if I'm going to be waiting until mid December for my Pixel WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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WhyteRyce posted:Oh god it's 2016 and people have gone back to flashing third party ROMs to get around phone issues Well people who spend far too much time on XDA are You tried a factory reset?
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DuckConference posted:Is there an easier way to prevent the autocorrect of a single word with the Google keyboard? Right now I'm tapping on the word before hitting space but it's a little awkward because I have to tap twice to move the cursor back Keyboard settings > Dictionary > English Then add your word to the personal dictionary
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WhyteRyce posted:Oh god it's 2016 and people have gone back to flashing third party ROMs to get around phone issues Lol, when you have the ability, it isn't too difficult to improve on OEM phone OS'es since unlike say iOS or Windows Phone, each one for Android is custom BS that seems immensely lacking once you have use a good custom Rom (Pure Nexus really is slim on actual changes, but some of the few settings he does add is great little QoL stuff. You don't really need a custom kernel to enjoy the device, but I do personally like to tinker within it a tad. Nexus/Pixel is pretty dang close to optimal Google empty and polished vs something from Samsung/LG (HTC has gotten pretty slim on their theming in recent years however. A HTC10 is a great phone as well with a fantastic camera and headphone AMP) Though like mentioned above, you should still get a good 4hrs SoT unless you are playing games all the time and just ripping through battery. Check into the battery setting and possibly, maybe download the BetterBatteryStats that might give you a better look at what might be eating your battery so much. Even stock with Facebook and (in my case) 300ish apps, you should only loose about 3-4% an hr standby and still get 4hrs SoT. I have gotten it up to 5~ but the screen is a bit of a battery pig I can't get past without a really dark theme.
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Skarsnik posted:Well people who spend far too much time on XDA are Cleared the cache. I'd care much less about factory resets if the Android backup wasn't a half baked process and the anecdotal evidence from Reddit and XDA indicates that won't do poo poo anyway.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Lol, when you have the ability, it isn't too difficult to improve on OEM phone OS'es since unlike say iOS or Windows Phone, each one for Android is custom BS that seems immensely lacking once you have use a good custom Rom (Pure Nexus really is slim on actual changes, but some of the few settings he does add is great little QoL stuff. You don't really need a custom kernel to enjoy the device, but I do personally like to tinker within it a tad. Nexus/Pixel is pretty dang close to optimal Google empty and polished vs something from Samsung/LG (HTC has gotten pretty slim on their theming in recent years however. A HTC10 is a great phone as well with a fantastic camera and headphone AMP) Sounds good but are your speakerphone and contact/calendar oddities occurring only on the third party ROM or did it happen on stock too?
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I can't get my pixel to respond to setting an alarm with any app other than Clock. I'd like to to tell it to wake me up using Timley. On my N5x I'd disable Clock, set one alarm, and then it'd lock to Timely. The pixel doesn't do that.
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Mu Zeta posted:If I have a Nexus 6 "shamu" am I supposed to have gotten Nougat by now? If your go to the Android Beta site and sign up it should instantly OTA nougat to your phone. Then you can remove yourself from the beta.
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I'm trying to salvage my Galaxy Note 2 (TMO). It took a poo poo a couple weeks back by going through a boot loop while I was texting. It appears to be working fine while hooked up to a charger. When I pull the usb from the phone, it immediately resets, the text 'Galaxy Note II' flashes on the screen, then turns off. I want to try to replace the battery with a brand new OEM battery, but it seems it's not possible to find an OEM through Amazon or the Samsung website. Should I try calling customer support? Is there a safe brand of batteries that I can trust?
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Zero VGS posted:If your go to the Android Beta site and sign up it should instantly OTA nougat to your phone. Then you can remove yourself from the beta. Ok I just signed up and I got the OTA update notification. The only thing I'm worried about is this quote:You may opt-out of the program at any time to return to the stable, public version of Android. Note: If you opt-out when your device is running a beta version of Android, all user data on the device will be wiped.
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Mu Zeta posted:Ok I just signed up and I got the OTA update notification. The only thing I'm worried about is this Oh, then uh, don't opt out. I used it to get Nougat on my 6P and it has been perfectly stable.
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Mu Zeta posted:If I have a Nexus 6 "shamu" am I supposed to have gotten Nougat by now?
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Mu Zeta posted:Ok I just signed up and I got the OTA update notification. The only thing I'm worried about is this You should be fine. Just do it after the OTA downloads and then install the OTA that it gave you instead. This is how I (and a lot of others) did it.
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WhyteRyce posted:Sounds good but are your speakerphone and contact/calendar oddities occurring only on the third party ROM or did it happen on stock too? The contact/calendar oddities are a mix I believe between Microsoft O365 changes, Google sucking at basic Microsoft support, and devices just throwing random basic function issues at me because they know it pisses me off. Its happening on both my 6P and a HTC Test device(s) I have right now so its not a device/rom issue. The Speakerphone I don't remember when it stopped working, And I have never had this phone stock more than 5 minutes while I was getting it out of the box. It had been Bootloader Unlocked, Flashed Pure Nexus, and ran that ever since last December. Been tempted to try Stock just to test out the 7.1 Beta, but the time it takes me to Restore stuff keeps me from wanting to take the plunge that I know I will return from... And The Speakerphone did work fine as far as I can remember up until like a month or two ago. Nobody else is complaining about it from this Rom or technically, in the same issue as me (Some had call quality issues, but not the same complete mute issue as me) which seems to span Stock and other Roms, and I never had any issue like that of the sort. So I haven't a clue and don't need it that much that I will flash stock just yet to see if that fixes it or not. I may once 7.1 Drops just to get the phone a full going over, but that probably won't be until later this month or the next.
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Mu Zeta posted:Ok I just signed up and I got the OTA update notification. The only thing I'm worried about is this Read what you quoted. That's for running a beta version. You will be installing a stable Nougat release. So like people said there is nothing worry about
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ijii posted:I'm trying to salvage my Galaxy Note 2 (TMO). It took a poo poo a couple weeks back by going through a boot loop while I was texting. It appears to be working fine while hooked up to a charger. When I pull the usb from the phone, it immediately resets, the text 'Galaxy Note II' flashes on the screen, then turns off. I want to try to replace the battery with a brand new OEM battery, but it seems it's not possible to find an OEM through Amazon or the Samsung website. Should I try calling customer support? Is there a safe brand of batteries that I can trust? Get an Anker battery if they still make them. Edit: Yep! https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Batter...ds=anker+note+2 Alan_Shore fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Got my Pixel XL and the phone copy thing won't work! It appears that there are other people with the same issue as well. So I ended up having to start from scratch, but I guess that's OK as it cleans up my phone. It's really nice to use fingerprint to input passwords from LastPass rather than type in my pw on my phone when I want to login to a site. I'm loving the phone already, we will see how I feel in a few days though.
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I just set up 2 step Google Authentication for my Nexus 5x. Two questions: How do I get it to use the Authenticator App instead of getting the code via SMS? What happens if I lose my phone and I want to log in to location services on another location to track down where my phone is?
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So previously a major thing that made me consider the iPhone was 1) the speed of camera launch, combined with 2) the speed of capturing the first photograph and all subsequent photographs. All of my android phones were slow to open the app and slow to take a picture. My Pixel is the first phone that compares to the iPhone as far as pictures, and not just in quality, but in speed. Double tap the power button, and holding down the shutter button takes pics continuously, and makes GIFs. I did this for maybe 1-2 seconds last night, it took 16 pics (all of decent quality) and instantly had made a GIF.
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So I got Nougat up and running and it feels pretty much the same. Not really sure why I was so anxious to get it. Oh well. I hope the "doze on the go" means slightly longer battery, though I'm pretty happy with how the Nexus 6 does right now.
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Thermopyle posted:This is a thing that I also want. Got my hands on it today. Easy to set up. My four year old thinks it's magic and already started asking it questions about animals. Sound quality is damned decent, really not that far off my (old and cheap) home theater despite being far smaller. I'm sure it won't get as loud but I didn't buy it for loud. It's basically the same thing you get by asking your phone "OK Google..." without having to dig your phone out and unlock it. Which is surprisingly awesome.
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WhyteRyce posted:Cleared the cache. I'd care much less about factory resets if the Android backup wasn't a half baked process and the anecdotal evidence from Reddit and XDA indicates that won't do poo poo anyway. You prefer the idea of installing a custom rom possibly made made by a 13 year old over resetting your phone based on anecdotal evidence, and are taking advice from someone who won't exchange their faulty phone over 'questionable refurbs' and made posts I genuinely though were joke copy pastes taken from xda You carry on then
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So I know the Verizon-branded Pixels have locked bootloaders, but do they have Android's native mobile hotspot enabled, or Verizon's pay-to-play version? I know it's incorporated into their newer capped plans, but I'm still on ULD.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Got my hands on it today. Easy to set up. My four year old thinks it's magic and already started asking it questions about animals. I know nothing about the Home. How do you activate it? Tell me it's not "okay google". I already accidentally trigger my phone every time I try to talk to my watch.
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Anyone have an Axon 7? Seems like a great phone for the price, especially the audio. Finding shipping to Hong Kong... Not so easy.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So I know the Verizon-branded Pixels have locked bootloaders, but do they have Android's native mobile hotspot enabled, or Verizon's pay-to-play version? I know it's incorporated into their newer capped plans, but I'm still on ULD. There's no such thing as a branded Pixel. It uses the native mobile hotspot, but the stock Android hotspot has long been able to obey account entitlement for hotspot. Nexus 6, 5x, 6p, and Pixel all check to see if hotspot is allowed before enabling it. The only phone in recent memory that didn't check is the 2015 MXP.
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It's been awhile since we heard about the Note 7... http://amp.androidcentral.com/new-zealand-carriers-will-cut-access-note-7-nov-18 People still aren't retuning them, so Samsung is starting to work with carriers to blacklist the IMEIs and cut off cellular service.
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