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CFox posted:Nah the line access fee is always just $20, doesn't matter if you own the phone outright or are on a payment plan. yeah, I didn't think they did subsidized phones any longer. They dropped the price of the plan by  but if you want a new phone from them you have to buy it outright or pay the monthly payment.
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They still do them, I believe.
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Nov 18, 2016 20:09
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The Slack Lagoon posted:My wife moved to a Moto g4 from a n5 and likes it. Seems pretty quick and the extra 2gb of ram helps her with her open chrome tab addiction . It's a neat phone but just too drat big for me. I love the size of the n5 but everything else is huge. I've been eyeing the Axon 7 mini but for for now I guess I'll just stick to the n5 It sounds like the Axon 7 mini drops a lot of stuff (it's not just a smaller version of the 7.) At least the reviews are pretty lukewarm.
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Nov 18, 2016 20:11
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Well, he is right when he says it's $40 for subsidized phones, but those plans are all legacy for specific existing customers. It's BYOD or payment plan now and those are both $20. You can use an unlocked $130 G4 play on Verizon without issue (don't buy the $99 Verizon one because that's locked down to prepay.) Any of the G4 line works, so that gives you options from $130 through $300. In the $300 range, your still have a new 5x as an option as well as the MXP In the $400 range, you have the Droid Z Play. So, there's really options all through the price ranges. Decent options even. FYI, Verizon already has turned on VoLTE and all these phones support it. The CDMA network isn't going to be fully sunset until 2019, but I would expect to see the first LTE only devices before then. Back in 2014, the goal was to have them this year, but the VoLTE rollout took longer than anticipated.
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So is the verizon pixel xl still unlockable? Should I just buy one now seeing as Google hasn't restocked still.
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You cannot unlock the bootloader on the Verizon Pixel.
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Nov 18, 2016 21:57
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Yes you can. http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/28/unlock-bootloader-pixel-phones-verizon-ee-depixel8-beaups-jcase-hurry/ Just for a limited time. Wasnt sure if anyone has done it yet.
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I wouldn't recommend that approach. If you relock you would need to exploit it again to unlock again and it will be patched to prevent that. If you don't relock, you can't use Google Pay and may even start failing more integrity checks for other apps down the line.
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Alan_Shore posted:I've had my Axon 7 for a few days now. So far I'm incredibly happy with it! Where'd you get it for $350? It looks like $400 everywhere.
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Nov 18, 2016 22:58
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Today at work, apparently someone somewhere on the wi-fi network plugged in a Chromecast, and everyone's phone popped up a notification something like this: Yes, that's a stop button, implying that we were all actively sending our screens to whatever device this is. Please tell me that that's just a misleadingly-worded notification, and that Android doesn't actually default to immediately sharing its screen with any random device it comes across? Because I'm suddenly picturing someone sitting in front of a TV in a conference room, clicking around between the input channels, laughing at everyone's texts with their girlfriends... For whatever it's worth, I'm on an old Moto X from Republic Wireless running Android 5.1, but this also happened to people running much newer shinier phones with Android 7. Some of those newer phones have a way to just disable casting entirely from within Settings, but mine doesn't.
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Nov 18, 2016 22:59
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Powered Descent posted:Please tell me that that's just a misleadingly-worded notification, and that Android doesn't actually default to immediately sharing its screen with any random device it comes across? Because I'm suddenly picturing someone sitting in front of a TV in a conference room, clicking around between the input channels, laughing at everyone's texts with their girlfriends... Android does not do this and never has.
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Nov 18, 2016 23:02
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It does work the other way though where if you're on the same network as a screen you can cast to you can cast whatever you want onto it and nobody can stop you.
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It's poorly worded. It's a Chromecast remote control, basically. If it's active and something is streaming to it, it now pops that notification to interact with it, regardless of where it's streaming from. Useful for Netflix, where you can start a stream wherever and not need to race back to the original device to pause it or change volume.
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Nov 18, 2016 23:10
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Google recently added the ability for any android device on a network with a Chromecast to automatically become a remote. What you saw there is that someone was livestreaming to the Chromecast and you had the ability to stop their steam. If someone was casting YouTube, playback controls for YouTube would pop up automatically.
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Nov 18, 2016 23:14
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I'll occasionally set up my laptop as an AirPlay and Google Cast receiver while on campus Wifi just to see how people respond when they see an unfamiliar icon on their phone or laptop. People will share their screens with rather sensitive information on it and I'll kick them off of it, but I mostly get fun stuff like random music and videos.
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bull3964 posted:Google recently added the ability for any android device on a network with a Chromecast to automatically become a remote. What you saw there is that someone was livestreaming to the Chromecast and you had the ability to stop their steam. Ah, so instead of someone loving with all of us, we were all accidentally loving with them, stopping their stream of (whatever it was) whenever we tried hitting the stop button. Thanks everyone, the paranoia is now eased.  Still, that's a very interesting design choice by Google. I'm sure it works great on a home network with three Android devices, but when there are hundreds of people with their phones on the office wi-fi...
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Powered Descent posted:Still, that's a very interesting design choice by Google. I'm sure it works great on a home network with three Android devices, but when there are hundreds of people with their phones on the office wi-fi...
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I switched back to my old nexus 5 after my 5x bricked. Is it just me or does the 5 actually have way better performance than the 5x? Everything feels so much less laggy.
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:I switched back to my old nexus 5 after my 5x bricked. Is it just me or does the 5 actually have way better performance than the 5x? Everything feels so much less laggy. Your 5x was probably just bogged down. It's quite a lot faster.
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Saw in an article that Samsung is considering selling refurbished Note 7's in emerging Asian markets. Looks like all those unexploded landmines might soon face some unexpected competition.
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Fight fake news. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.androidcentral.com/selling-refurbished-galaxy-note-7s-2017-would-be-completely-mad The article that was sourced was prior to the Note 7 final recall.
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Taffer posted:Your 5x was probably just bogged down. It's quite a lot faster. How reliable is Geekbench 4? Because my Nexus 5 gets roughly equivalent CPU scores (2.5% under single/2.8% over multi) to the 5X listed in its results.
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bull3964 posted:Fight fake news. All you need to succeed in the Android thread is fake news and an edgy punchline.
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nimper posted:All you need to succeed in the Android thread is fake news and an edgy punchline. So exactly what you need to succeed at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox.
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CFox posted:Nah the line access fee is always just $20, doesn't matter if you own the phone outright or are on a payment plan. When did that change? That eliminates a huge reason monthly payments made sense...
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sleepwalkers posted:When did that change? That eliminates a huge reason monthly payments made sense... Yearish ago? You pay less for each line if you own the phone, but it's usually higher with the device payment
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PerrineClostermann posted:So exactly what you need to succeed at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. What's really weird is that clickbaity headlines are almost always overblown and disingenuous which makes fake news easier to promulgate since it's harder to tell the real from the fake, and BuzzFeed of all places had some incredibly good and professional reporting during the election.
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Nov 19, 2016 16:07
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Is there a sub $100 replacement for the blu phone amazon sold that's all sorts of hosed now? Looking for my brother.
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A Yolo Wizard posted:Is there a sub $100 replacement for the blu phone amazon sold that's all sorts of hosed now? Looking for my brother. G4 Play with lockscreen ads? https://smile.amazon.com/Moto-Play-4th-gen-Lockscreen/dp/B01KBH547A/
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bull3964 posted:Google recently added the ability for any android device on a network with a Chromecast to automatically become a remote. What you saw there is that someone was livestreaming to the Chromecast and you had the ability to stop their steam. I'm guessing I can't stop that from happening? I was at a public venue and the casting notification kept popping up. It was really freaking me out because I also thought it was casting against my will. I kept dismissing it, but I guess I was loving with someone's casting, then. I ultimately resorted to shutting off the wifi.
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azurite posted:I'm guessing I can't stop that from happening? I was at a public venue and the casting notification kept popping up. It was really freaking me out because I also thought it was casting against my will.
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My Nexus 5 once again went into a reboot-loop today and I had to (gently) hit it against the desk to make it stop.  I guess that means it's getting time for an upgrade. Do I hope for a black Friday / Christmas rebate on the Pixel or do I get a 5x?
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ilkhan posted:Theres an on/off switch in the settings for it. Ah, so there is. Thank you! It's "Settings > Google > Google Cast" for anyone wondering.
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azurite posted:Ah, so there is. Thank you! Unfortunately, that entire Google subsection doesn't seem to exist on my phone (Android 5.1), and there's no setting for it under Accounts->Google either.
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Sereri posted:My Nexus 5 once again went into a reboot-loop today and I had to (gently) hit it against the desk to make it stop. The 5x has only got 9 months more of mainstream support left before it goes into "security-patches-only" land for another 12. If you're going to be keeping this phone as long as you kept the 5, that might be worth bearing in mind.
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Nov 19, 2016 21:33
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Daydream is pretty cool but I'd like a "tour famous public gardens" thing.
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bull3964 posted:Fight fake news. I saw it on Flipboard sourced from Forbes, but I just noticed it was from one of those "contributor" pages that basically anyone can write and are the worst.
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Nov 19, 2016 22:18
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I did an experiment with my 6P after getting my Pixel.
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Welp Just turned in my glorious Note 7 and snagged a lovely little 7 edge. Managed to trade in a $20 walmart prepaid smartphone I bought next door to best buy and got $450 in gift cards to waste on black friday. With the $100 credit I'll receive for buying another lovely samsung product, the gear fit 2 I got to keep, and the original $30 credit from returning my forst note 7, I guess it was worth my time having to sit through 3 goddamn phone purchases over 3 months. Ugh.
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Does anyone else use location-based smart-unlock? I've found it to be super-inconsistent, in that sometimes it works perfectly, and sometimes it just doesn't unlock. Positioning seems to work just fine otherwise so I don't think it's any issue with the GPS or anything.
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