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When I had to replace my iPhone, I just selected restore from iCloud on the phone. Never hooked up to a computer. Within a few minutes the phone looked exactly like my old one, not a single thing different. My experience with android comes nowhere close to this for some reason
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Tiny Lowtax posted:When I had to replace my iPhone, I just selected restore from iCloud on the phone. Never hooked up to a computer. Within a few minutes the phone looked exactly like my old one, not a single thing different. When I do this with Mrs. McJerkface's iPhones and iPads it's always missing a bunch of items. Most noticably her iBooks libraries.
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carry on then posted:You don't need iTunes. It hasn't needed iTunes in something like 5 years. Ah, fair enough, never owned an iPhone
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Jerk McJerkface posted:When I do this with Mrs. McJerkface's iPhones and iPads it's always missing a bunch of items. Most noticably her iBooks libraries. Ironically those are exactly the sort of things that shouldn't be on a device at all and should be only in the cloud, the stuff that Google gets right. There just isn't a reason Android devices shouldn't have the option to make a backup that gets regularly updated and sent to the user's Drive. I mean poo poo, the Titanium Backup guy got it right about a year after the platform launched. There's just no excuse for it to be so lovely.
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Is there a good place to get a screen protector film for the back glass on the Pixel? I checked Spigen and Zagg, but they only seemed to have stuff for the front.
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King George posted:Is there a good place to get a screen protector film for the back glass on the Pixel? I checked Spigen and Zagg, but they only seemed to have stuff for the front.  why would that be a thing that exists?
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
Since when has "is it necessary for this thing to exist" been a prerequisite for someone trying to sell a thing? (See also: phones with glass on the back of them.)
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King George posted:Is there a good place to get a screen protector film for the back glass on the Pixel? I checked Spigen and Zagg, but they only seemed to have stuff for the front. https://dbrand.com/shop/google-pixel-skins or if you have the XL: https://dbrand.com/shop/google-pixel-xl-skins
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nimper posted:https://dbrand.com/shop/google-pixel-skins Thanks! Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
It's glass. I wasn't planning on getting anything, but I noticed a small scratch recently and since the camera lens is not a separate piece of glass, I wanted to see about my non-case protection options.
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I know the glass back on my Pixel started scratching within 3 days of me owning the phone and I'm someone who has never used a screen protector on a device because I've never had an issue with the display scratching. Pixel front glass, just as good as anything else I've used and no need for screen protector. Pixel back glass, about as hard as butter and the corners had a bunch of micro scratches within days. It's obvious they didn't use gorilla glass on the back. If there's one thing I would change about the design, it's that drat black glass. I would take a plastic panel of the glass one any day. If they really wanted to use glass, they should have etched it like the screen of the Kindle Voyage so it wouldn't collect and show scratches. Also, it's a really dumb move to integrate the outer camera lens into a large chunk of glass.
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What is the best spam call blocking app with community blacklists that doesn't contain malware? Paid is fine.
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revmoo posted:What is the best spam call blocking app with community blacklists that doesn't contain malware? Paid is fine. Doesn't the Google dialer already do this? Or maybe that's only on Nexus/Pixel devices
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revmoo posted:What is the best spam call blocking app with community blacklists that doesn't contain malware? Paid is fine. I used true caller for a while and it was fine
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SB35 posted:Doesn't the Google dialer already do this? Or maybe that's only on Nexus/Pixel devices It's only on Google devices, otherwise you have to flash opengapps in order to use it
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Blue Train posted:I used true caller for a while and it was fine Their privacy policy is a disaster. I think I would prefer to pay for an app written by a US company that isn't harvesting my data.
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I have a Galaxy s5. After a recent update, my phone tells me the ringer is in silent mode (it's actually just on vibrate) every time I plug in or unplug the phone. I can't tell if this is a Google thing or an operating system thing. Anyone know how to turn this thing off? It interrupts whatever I'm doing and it's annoying.
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tadashi posted:I have a Galaxy s5. After a recent update, my phone tells me the ringer is in silent mode (it's actually just on vibrate) every time I plug in or unplug the phone. I can't tell if this is a Google thing or an operating system thing. Anyone know how to turn this thing off? It interrupts whatever I'm doing and it's annoying. Samsung.txt
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I'm on a trip away from my computer for a week and of course that means my nexus 9 tablet has decided to go into a boot loop after the latest update. Factory reset doesn't seem to do anything, is there anything at all I can do between now and when I can flash something onto it when I finally get back home?
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The link that the Google rep sent to my email is for a refurbished Google Pixel and shows that it will charge me $836 to receive (free shipping tho lol!!) What the gently caress kind of joke is this? e: requested a call via the phone, and when the call came in it said "Scam Likely" lol yeah no poo poo. ShoogaSlim fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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ShoogaSlim posted:The link that the Google rep sent to my email is for a refurbished Google Pixel and shows that it will charge me $836 to receive (free shipping tho lol!!) That's how cross-shipping works. They put a hold on your credit card until they receive your broken device.
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ShoogaSlim posted:The link that the Google rep sent to my email is for a refurbished Google Pixel and shows that it will charge me $836 to receive (free shipping tho lol!!) I actually am starting to believe your custom title. This is literally how device exchanges work, when you don't send yours back first. It's an authorization charge.
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ShoogaSlim posted:The link that the Google rep sent to my email is for a refurbished Google Pixel and shows that it will charge me $836 to receive (free shipping tho lol!!) You're a loving idiot.
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nimper posted:That's how cross-shipping works. They put a hold on your credit card until they receive your broken device. Again.
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The charge is whatever, just unexpected (hey I don't have to ship back lovely defective products on a regular basis, gently caress me right?) The guy on the phone is telling me that it may be a refurbished or it may be new. It's wildly disappointing that there's no guarantee. Especially when consulting this thread lead me to believe that my initial concern for replacing (getting a refurb) was unwarranted. But hey, white knight the process all you want. I'm sure you benefit greatly from that stance and not questioning poor user experiences.
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We're sorry you're having a poor user experience in this thread. Please accept this knuckle sandwich as compensation.
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ShoogaSlim posted:The charge is whatever, just unexpected (hey I don't have to ship back lovely defective products on a regular basis, gently caress me right?) yes your ignorance is other people's fault  you're loving stupid
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ilkhan posted:True. Grab the list of apps and the user data from each directory. Boom, it's backed up. There's no hard line about what an app's folder can contain, so you're potentially backing up hundreds of MBs of data on the regular. The backup system Google introduced lets devs opt in and specify exactly what needs backing up, and then it'll be handled automatically, but that's recent-ish There is a system cache folder for temporary things, but the official guidelines say you should store approximately gently caress all in there
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It's like you've never bought an expensive consumer electronic device before and are only now getting to see what every single one of us have to deal with when these unfortunate instances arise. Man you must have been lucky to never have had to deal with this before now.
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EdEddnEddy posted:It's like you've never bought an expensive consumer electronic device before and are only now getting to see what every single one of us have to deal with when these unfortunate instances arise.
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revmoo posted:Their privacy policy is a disaster. I think I would prefer to pay for an app written by a US company that isn't harvesting my data. do you know who makes your phones operating system
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Is there really a way to block seeing certain posters? I can't tell if he's a troll or not since he's an '01. A) Thinks since he bought a phone brand new that he can sell it as a "new" phone. Total disregard to the fact that either way, he's selling a used phone since the phone is not new in box and he has personally used it for an extended period of time B) Would have no problem selling a KNOWN defective device as "new" to supposedly up its value, you know, just to really screw over the person buying it C) But if he sold a perfectly functioning replacement device, all of a sudden his strong moral code would make him just HAVE to disclose that it was a replacement device that came directly from Google and therefore would not make as much money selling a working device and not blindsiding some poor fool like he would in situation B D) Cannot take responsibility on his own end at all that he waited too long when there was plenty of time during the initial return period to straight up return it to the company and order a brand new one like he wants to now or just get a full refund E) Cannot be content with the fact that he still has the avenue readily available to get his device replaced by one that looks brand new and functions flawlessly without continuously making GBS threads up this thread I get it, I'm not helping by again giving him attention, but usually it doesn't go on so long. Maybe if you spent as much time harassing them as you do complaining here, you could get a full refund or a BRAND NEW replacement.
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Speaking of custom titles...wtf Jerk Mcjerkface. Unrelated to lovely sa mart scams. This is hilarious https://np.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6575nr/is_it_actually_possible_to_earn_money_from_mobile/dg8mmia/?context=10000
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RZA Encryption posted:do you know who makes your phones operating system gently caress, good point. But this isn't getting me any closer to a decent call-blocker. What is the best app, paid or not, that has a community blacklist? And can it be had without spyware somehow?
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I used this when it got pretty bad https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greythinker.punchback Horrible looking UI but worked well and I believe it has a known spam block list.
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The best "spam caller" blocker is what I like to call "paying your loving bills on time." In all seriousness I just flag as spam or send to VM.
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FAUXTON posted:The best "spam caller" blocker is what I like to call "paying your loving bills on time." I don't know, I get the occasional spam/scam call and all my bills are paid in advance. I'm guessing if you've had the misfortune to fall on some shady call list that doesn't give a poo poo about the do not call registry, an app is your best bet. In my case they're not common enough for me to look for a solution, but I can easily see it become a problem for somebody else.
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I just add all spam numbers to a contact called "spam" or whatever, and then set the ringtone for the contact to "none". I wish there were a better option, but it works ok.
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RZA Encryption posted:The built in Google spam call filtering works really well. This has been my experience as well. Also, T-Mobile has started flagging, and optionally blocking, spam calls at the network level. Just use the dialer code #662#.
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