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FAUXTON posted:Yeah, people tend to overlook how badly a single app can gently caress up your phone even without root or any crazy "keep the screen on at full brightness, also be able to turn the flash on at will" privileges. An app like facebook that does a lot of background data transfer and keeps the phone awake for longer than it has any right to will chew through your battery at an astonishing rate (especially over mobile data) and can make it look like your poo poo's defective or getting old. 
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Smythe posted:My Nexus 6P works flawlessly and has never encountered any bugs or hardware problems. I think it's likely you've installed some bad software and/or are holding it very wrong. I have very few apps installed at the moment and every single one of them was also installed in my previous phone (also running 7.1.1) and a Nexus 7 without any such issue. While I have no explanation for the wakelocks or timeout, the hosed-up gamma is just how the stock display - with AB - works. Maybe you don't notice it, maybe you don't care, but it's there even in your flawless, perfect snowflake of a phone.
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Skarsnik posted:Whilst it has definitely had its problems in the past ( I had a weekend away where it was draining my battery faster than I could charge it), it's been good for a long while now Yeah. gently caress the main app though. Getting rid of that is the best thing I ever did. Ads every third post can eat poo poo.
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seravid posted:I have very few apps installed at the moment and every single one of them was also installed in my previous phone (also running 7.1.1) and a Nexus 7 without any such issue. Software updates never break an app and cause it to mutate into battery cancer no sir. Also on the Google Home Reminder subject. While you can't set a reminder, change exactly what you were going to say, but change "Reminder" to "Alarm" and hey, it works (kinda)!  Pretty much akin to using the string around the finger method at that point.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Software updates never break an app and cause it to mutate into battery cancer no sir. Previous phone and N7 are still active, still have those same few apps (plus some more from the new owner) installed and up to date: no wakelocks, no timeout troubles. Speaking of, the timeout thing has actually been okay for the past couple days; haven't had to restart the phone yet.
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My Nexus 5X has been doing a thing for about a week now where it just freezes up completely, including the screen refusing to turn off, and the only recourse I can find is holding the power until the thing reboots. I'm not 100%, but it seems to usually be when I'm going back into Google Play Music after a long delay-- like listening to music while I drive somewhere, turn off the music and walk around for an hour, then get back in the car and start the music back up. The only whiff of this I can find after repeated searching is some people claiming it to be a precursor to getting hosed by a boot loop. On a scale of gently caress to gently caress, how worried should I be here?
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Mar 21, 2017 03:15
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Mar 21, 2017 03:37
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Oh, FFS. https://twitter.com/OlofKindgren/status/843949755986313216
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EdEddnEddy posted:Does she like your 6P? We settled tentatively on the Moto z play, partly because it's $0 on contract (and some of the carriers are seriously lacking in selection).
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Mar 21, 2017 06:28
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Skarsnik posted:Whilst it has definitely had its problems in the past ( I had a weekend away where it was draining my battery faster than I could charge it), it's been good for a long while now There was an update to messenger a couple of months ago that tanked everyone's battery for a few weeks until they fixed it. It was about then I just gave up on both their apps permanently, I just use Metal now. I'd give Facebook Lite and Messenger Lite a go but you're not allowed to install those if you live in the west.  MikeJF fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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Thermopyle posted:I liked this zinger from The Verge's article on Bixby, Samsung's new AI assistant: Everyone is betting big on these things, and I really don't get it. Using a voice activated assistant in public is extremely awkward, especially if you have to repeat yourself if it doesn't understand what you asked (which is a lot). From the Creative Strategies study: quote:only 1.3 percent at work and 6 percent in public [percentage of people who use their AI assistants in these situations].
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Blue Train posted:It's always a good idea to have recent backups Maybe Google will finally get around to adding an automatic backup system.
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Arcanen posted:So yeah, it's amazing if you're by yourself at home? To be fair, it's great at home with the exception of the single account limitation. Endless Mike posted:Maybe Google will finally get around to adding an automatic backup system. It's like 90% there if my Pixel setup was anything to go by but really it's so ridiculous there isn't an iTunes-like app where you can backup and restore a device, or move to a new device. It's lovely that the OEMs have to roll their own (which of course only work from that OEM's device to another) and it would be trivial to actually do but loving Google...
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My 6P has put up a notification asking me to set up Trusted Voice about 3-4 times per day for the past week or so. I do not want to do this. I keep swiping it away, and I've gone into the Smart Lock settings to make sure something wasn't toggled on. How the gently caress can I stop this? I'm bone stock 7.1.1 March patch level.
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My 5x has been doing the same thing. Fairly annoying.
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The March security update hit my phone last night but it seems to only be security related. When is the patch that fixes the Pixel's shoddy Bluetooth going to be delivered?
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Mar 21, 2017 14:57
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MikeJF posted:There was an update to messenger a couple of months ago that tanked everyone's battery for a few weeks until they fixed it. It was about then I just gave up on both their apps permanently, I just use Metal now. Get them from apkmirror?
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Arcanen posted:Everyone is betting big on these things, and I really don't get it. Using a voice activated assistant in public is extremely awkward, especially if you have to repeat yourself if it doesn't understand what you asked (which is a lot). From the Creative Strategies study: I think part of the hope is that it will become more socially acceptable with use. So, the more people who use them and the more they're exposed to them and the better the recognition tech gets the more pervasive their use will become...or at least that's the plan. Whether it pans out or not is another story. That being said, I use Assistant/Now a lot. Just not when there's other people in my immediate surroundings. I spend a lot of time in situations where I'm around people but they're far enough away and/or busy enough that I have the perceived privacy I need to use a voice assistant. Think in my office or walking down the street. No one knows if you're on a phone call or talking to the little AI person in your phone. Also used a lot in the car.
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Ihmemies posted:Get them from apkmirror? Eh, then I'd have to babysit updates and I really can't be bothered.
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Does anyone know how to turn off this notification from the Google App? I take the train every day so I don't give a poo poo about traffic. I have all the poo poo turned off in Google Maps and in the Google App. I don't have any cards or anything, and I reset that data long ago.
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I guess some people have crooked camera bumps on their OnePlus 3T https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/60bhtr/colette_edition/  OnePlus
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CLAM DOWN posted:Please don't buy a OnePlus phone
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WhyteRyce posted:I guess some people have crooked camera bumps on their OnePlus 3T Yeah but did you see all the RAM?
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I'm writing this message from oneplus phone. My camera cover is straight.
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Ihmemies posted:I'm writing this message from oneplus phone. My camera cover is straight. "My Note7 is totally fine, I'm going to keep using it, it's so fast and pretty and great!"
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Early Android O announcements are going out. Looks like mainly under-the-hood kind of stuff. I think we'll get a buggy as poo poo developer image today with a better one by the time I/O rolls around.
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Dev image is already live https://developer.android.com/preview/download.html#flashable-images
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CLAM DOWN posted:"My Note7 is totally fine, I'm going to keep using it, it's so fast and pretty and great!" https://www.note7rebels.com https://twitter.com/note7rebels?lang=en http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/samsung-galaxy-note-7-rebels-who-refuse-the-recall.html  
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Mister Macys posted:https://www.note7rebels.com Aaahaha this is real
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They should've used the Mass Effect font.
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I wonder if they will finally give in and swap their timebomb with a Refurb Note 7 that Samsung was planning on selling with the "new" new batteries?
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CLAM DOWN posted:"My Note7 is totally fine, I'm going to keep using it, it's so fast and pretty and great!"
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Syrinxx posted:"The pixel is backordered 3 months, the mic isn't soldered in, and the bluetooth is poo poo but it's the only phone anyone should buy" Yeah, that's pretty comparable to phones that explode.
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Syrinxx posted:"The pixel is backordered 3 months, the mic isn't soldered in, and the bluetooth is poo poo but it's the only phone anyone should buy" To be fair, only a small fraction of phones have the mic issue, and Bluetooth has been poo poo on all Nexus phones forever. But hey, you should buy the most RAM you can find, that will fix everything!!
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Lots of ram or not, even with 3-4GB does anyone else have any luck with apps actually staying loaded as you switch between them? Going from something like google messenger, to a single loaded chrome tab, to facebook, seems to always reload the stupid Facebook app (loosing whatever you may have been looking at in the timeline, shuffling it so you will never find what you wanted to see ever again) and after a period of time with any past app running, the phone slows down untill you kill it. (Say if you leave a game up in the background, or some webpage that does have a lot of ad crap running all over it in Chrome. It just seems like Android still cannot multi/background task even with memory that makes even a modest computer look small, yet a 2GB Atom powered Windows 10 tablet is a better multitasker than Android. What gives? If I don't clear my recent apps list, any phone I have used just becomes a sluggish mess and has to reload whatever is in that list anyway.
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