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Peachfart posted:lol if you buy phones from anyone who doesn't make the software This is why I only buy Samsung Tizen phones.
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The quick gestures on my Pixel hardly ever work in specifically tapping the screen or lifting it up to see any notifications. Why is this happening?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:The quick gestures on my Pixel hardly ever work in specifically tapping the screen or lifting it up to see any notifications. Why is this happening? Same with regards to the tapping. Also, the buttons on the pixel are way too clicky.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:23
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Thermopyle posted:Does anyone not acknowledge this? Both are over a year old and have run into their quirks. (5X - Bootloop / 6P - Battery). The kicker will be what will the Pixel do in 1 year of it's existence? You did have that audio issue early on, and a few other weird quirks that seem to be on the level of all early days of a new device quirk that are fixable with Software soo time will tell. With the Google phones though that get updates through Google directly and you get to Opt Into using Beta software or not. With OnePlus, you get to use Beta software at all times because well, you don't need more than 12hrs of test time anyway to verify that it's all good. One thing to keep an eye on will be the new Nokia phones. If they are as Pure Android as they say they are, and can get updates out nearly as good as a Pixel/Nexus, they might be a new contender worth dethroning the Motorola budget/
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Mar 1, 2017 23:25
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WattsvilleBlues posted:The quick gestures on my Pixel hardly ever work in specifically tapping the screen or lifting it up to see any notifications. Why is this happening? I don't think they work in battery saving mode, and I've only ever had these work if I put the phone flat down on its back.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:26
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The Duggler posted:I don't think they work in battery saving mode, and I've only ever had these work if I put the phone flat down on its back. Battery saving mode isn't on and it's been flat on its back. I've been Scroogled.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:35
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WattsvilleBlues posted:The quick gestures on my Pixel hardly ever work in specifically tapping the screen or lifting it up to see any notifications. Why is this happening? They're terrible honestly, nowhere near peak awesome Moto X levels. If the fingerprint sensor was slower, I'd be more annoyed, but yeah I just don't use any of those gestures and pretend they don't exist. If they don't work like >99% of the time, they're not worth trying to use.
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Yeah, the gestures might be alright if I'd never heard of, much less USED, Moto's implementation of them and didn't know how much better it could be. But, that's probably the only thing about my Pixel that I'm not in love with.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:44
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Well my primary mic on my Pixel died a few days ago. Apparently it's not an uncommon problem. It's still a great phone though. Hopefully won't be a pain on the rear end to swap out.
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Bandire posted:Well my primary mic on my Pixel died a few days ago. Apparently it's not an uncommon problem. It's still a great phone though. Hopefully won't be a pain on the rear end to swap out. Googled again.
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Bandire posted:Well my primary mic on my Pixel died a few days ago. Apparently it's not an uncommon problem. It's still a great phone though. Hopefully won't be a pain on the rear end to swap out. The replacement process is pretty easy if you bought it from Google.
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Mar 2, 2017 00:32
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EdEddnEddy posted:The kicker will be what will the Pixel do in 1 year of it's existence? You did have that audio issue early on, and a few other weird quirks that seem to be on the level of all early days of a new device quirk that are fixable with Software soo time will tell. Loving its new habit of having to re-enable bluetooth every day for the drive home. Can't imagine what is disabling it because I have NOTHING INSTALLED. Started the day I did a round of updates. Just give me a new moto x every year with faster processors and I'd be sooo happy.
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Was feb 28 supposed to be 'new phone news day', or was that march 28? There didn't seem to be much news yesterday.
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Every phone is garbage until somebody insults the phone that I use. Then my phone is the only good phone.
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Everyone needs to just get a Doogee DG550 and shut the gently caress up.
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cage-free egghead posted:Everyone needs to just get a Doogee DG550 and shut the gently caress up. A what?
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My OP3 works fine so far. It's a good phone (for the price) made by a bad (terrible) company with slow updates and awful customer support. You take a big risk with buying one. Maybe I'll regtet it later!
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KS posted:Just give me a new moto x every year with faster processors and I'd be sooo happy. Yeah, the original Moto X was close to perfection for me (with slightly better camera and battery life). I wish Motogoogle made the Moto line into something akin to the iPhone line: Moto g for budget, 2 screen sizes for Moto X, with yearly updated specs and maybe some new stuff thrown in (fingerprint reader, waterproofing...). Ah well, let's see how
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Lately Smart Lock has decided that I'm always at home and is keeping my phone unlocked everywhere. If I turn off Home in my trusted places, it goes right back to locking, but as soon as I turn it back on, it unlocks, regardless of where I am. Has anyone else run into this? Edit: Well, turning off the option to scan for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth even when they're off seems to have fixed it for now. datajosh fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Chikimiki posted:Yeah, the original Moto X was close to perfection for me (with slightly better camera and battery life). I wish Motogoogle made the Moto line into something akin to the iPhone line: Moto g for budget, 2 screen sizes for Moto X, with yearly updated specs and maybe some new stuff thrown in (fingerprint reader, waterproofing...). Ah well, let's see how Google hosed up getting rid of Motorola, it would have been 100% smarter to keep a reputable OEM than contract your phone to an external OEM. Motorola is still doing better than I thought being under Lenovo, but imagine how much better they'd be as a Google company...
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Protocol7 posted:Google hosed up getting rid of Motorola, it would have been 100% smarter to keep a reputable OEM than contract your phone to an external OEM. Motorola is still doing better than I thought being under Lenovo, but imagine how much better they'd be as a Google company... In the pre-note7 blow up world, Android was Samsung, and Sammy wasn't too keen on Google owning their own competing OEM. It had to be done, otherwise Google was risking the biggest Android phone seller going to Tizen.
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Like Jerk says, Motorola was always only about leverage and Google (rightly) had no interest in anything they had to offer. While the patent leverage didn't work out for them, I'd argue that the hardware side of things actually did. Samsung was really close to doing something stupid and while they may have Note7'd that on their own, Google's actions with Motorola certainly prevented catastrophe.
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I want to see the universe where Samsung went the Tizen route.
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Endless Mike posted:I want to see the universe where Samsung went the Tizen route. in this universe everyone just buys iphones
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datajosh posted:Lately Smart Lock has decided that I'm always at home and is keeping my phone unlocked everywhere. If I turn off Home in my trusted places, it goes right back to locking, but as soon as I turn it back on, it unlocks, regardless of where I am. Has anyone else run into this? Honestly, location based Smart Lock works so infrequently for me that I basically don't use it. I even have it set to trigger off multiple coordinates around my home to account for GPS wonkiness and it's still unreliable. Ditto for the gym, which is extra annoying because I have my phone in an armband so I can't reach the fingerprint sensor on the back.
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Endless Mike posted:I want to see the universe where Samsung went the Tizen route. this kills the company
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And HTC, LG, and everyone else would have benefited. Seriously outside of GearVR I could care less if Samsung disappeared from the Phone market completely.
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datajosh posted:Lately Smart Lock has decided that I'm always at home and is keeping my phone unlocked everywhere. If I turn off Home in my trusted places, it goes right back to locking, but as soon as I turn it back on, it unlocks, regardless of where I am. Has anyone else run into this? I've been having the same problem (MXP), it was a bit spotty but it never kept the phone unlocked no matter where I was. What "fixes" it for me is turning location services off and on again from the notification shade. It stops smart lock from keeping it unlocked when I'm not home, but it also seems to break it entirely until I reboot and it won't work/unlock when I get home again. If I'm home and it's broken from doing that and I reboot it immediately starts working again though, so I don't know what the issue is. I'll try turning that option off, hopefully it works for me too.
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Anyone else with a Pixel have excessive screen scratching? Is there a way to verify my phone actually has gorilla Glass? I've had every Nexus phone since the Nexus S, never ever had a single scratch, seems like I'm getting a new scratch every week, the top half of my screen looks like a teenage girl's galaxy S3 that lives in her purse with her keys and 700 sharp keychains, deep scratches, not the coating.
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Mine has been naked since launch day and is still flawless.
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Hadlock posted:Anyone else with a Pixel have excessive screen scratching? Is there a way to verify my phone actually has gorilla Glass? I've had every Nexus phone since the Nexus S, never ever had a single scratch, seems like I'm getting a new scratch every week, the top half of my screen looks like a teenage girl's galaxy S3 that lives in her purse with her keys and 700 sharp keychains, deep scratches, not the coating. Your glass could be defective, open a support chat with Google and see what's up?
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Hadlock posted:Anyone else with a Pixel have excessive screen scratching? Is there a way to verify my phone actually has gorilla Glass? I've had every Nexus phone since the Nexus S, never ever had a single scratch, seems like I'm getting a new scratch every week, the top half of my screen looks like a teenage girl's galaxy S3 that lives in her purse with her keys and 700 sharp keychains, deep scratches, not the coating. I'm probably mistaken, but I sort of remember someone in this thread saying the latest Gorilla Glass traded some scratch resistance in favor of more shatter resistance, that could account for your experience.
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Hadlock posted:Anyone else with a Pixel have excessive screen scratching? Is there a way to verify my phone actually has gorilla Glass? I've had every Nexus phone since the Nexus S, never ever had a single scratch, seems like I'm getting a new scratch every week, the top half of my screen looks like a teenage girl's galaxy S3 that lives in her purse with her keys and 700 sharp keychains, deep scratches, not the coating. I don't have a single scratch on my Pixel XL. I haven't ever used a screen protector. I do use a thin case, and I generally avoid things like throwing it in my pocket with keys, etc.
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Hadlock posted:Anyone else with a Pixel have excessive screen scratching? Is there a way to verify my phone actually has gorilla Glass? I've had every Nexus phone since the Nexus S, never ever had a single scratch, seems like I'm getting a new scratch every week, the top half of my screen looks like a teenage girl's galaxy S3 that lives in her purse with her keys and 700 sharp keychains, deep scratches, not the coating. Don't most phones have oleophobic coating and that's usually what scratches and not the glass itself? Might be worth investigating, at the least.
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A few weeks ago someone asked me about the image quality of the Huawei Mate 9 camera in low light. Now, Huawei's camera software is loaded with options and there are several avenues to go down when shooting. I will try to compare them: First there is straight up full auto mode. At night this usually results in a pretty high iso sensitivity and quick shutter speed. The aggressive noise reduction can lead to smudged details; I would much prefer a more "grainy" output.  Handheld ISO 1250 by Mental Hospitality, on FlickrThere is a professional mode that gives you control of ISO, shutter length (1/4000 to 30 seconds), white balance and focus. I tried to replicate the same shot, but I manually set the ISO to 640 and the shutter speed to 1/3 of a second which I believe is right about the limit you can set the shutter with the phones optical image stabilization and a steady hand. If you're a surgeon, you might be able to get a longer exposure time.  Pro mode. 1/3. ISO 640 by Mental Hospitality, on FlickrLastly there is a Night Shot mode that cannot be used handheld. You can manually set the ISO or shutter speed, or leave them on auto. It drops the ISO way down to 50 or 100 and I believe takes several images of varying exposures and combines them into one. It also magically turns Cadillacs into Fords.  Fusion by Mental Hospitality, on FlickrThis mode can create some interesting images. The next few were taken in pretty dark conditions, well after sunset. For the first two I had to position the phone against windows and this may have negatively affected the focus or sharpness. The last pic was used with one of those mini phone tripods.  NW Detroit #2 by Mental Hospitality, on Flickr 30min after sunset by Mental Hospitality, on Flickr Rainy Night by Mental Hospitality, on FlickrTL;DR - Not a bad camera in lowlight, although I don't believe they can surpass the latest Google phones and their amazing HDR+. I do enjoy using the manual controls though, with some effort someone could get really great images with it. More Images
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Yeah I'll open up a support ticket with GoogleProtocol7 posted:Don't most phones have oleophobic coating and that's usually what scratches and not the glass itself? Might be worth investigating, at the least. Literally the last sentence of my post
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Don't keep your phone in the same pocket as your pocket sand.
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Mar 3, 2017 02:38
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bull3964 posted:Mine has been naked since launch day and is still flawless. Exactly my experience. It's weird how flawless it remains, I'm not exactly careful with it.
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