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bull3964 posted:It never wipes your phone to join the beta program. If you leave and you aren't on final software, it has to wipe to downgrade versions. However, since opting into the program will install final software right now, you can safely leave immediately after you are installed and stay put on that version. That's good to know. Thank you very much!
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The new Ambient Display is pretty nice. Instead of just turning on your lockscreen, it now works more like Moto where it just shows the time and the icons for your notifications while the rest of the screen remains off, and you have to double-tap the screen or turn it on normally to get to the lockscreen. edit: and it seems to work when picking your phone up way more reliably than it did in Nougat.
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Aug 22, 2017 04:19
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Did that on my 6P for nougat and it hosed up future OTAs for me. Didn't notice until I was like 5 security patches behind. Ended up having to flash the current version; the build I was on wasn't even listed on the factory image repository. I'll just wait for the official OTA. 
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Aug 22, 2017 04:20
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I finally did a manual sideload flash update for my Nexus 6 "Shamu." Pretty much my first time using Terminal command prompt and might be the scariest thing I've ever done on my mac. I have no clue why google made it so complicated to just get a drat update. Glad I finally have the August security update instead of being stuck 5 months behind.
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Aug 22, 2017 04:41
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Vykk.Draygo posted:The new Ambient Display is pretty nice. Instead of just turning on your lockscreen, it now works more like Moto where it just shows the time and the icons for your notifications while the rest of the screen remains off, and you have to double-tap the screen or turn it on normally to get to the lockscreen. Ambient display is one of two things keeping me on my MXP, so this is extremely good news to me. Y'all can talk about fingerprint scanners being amazing all you want, but once you get used to picking up your phone or simply pulling it out of your pocket and having the time/notifications displayed without having to touch the phone at all it's really difficult to give that up. Does it just display notifications, or can you interact with them at all? One of my favorite things about active display is touching a music/podcast app and dragging up to pause/skip, but that might be too close to ripping Motorola off wholesale for Google. Dual front speakers are the other thing keeping me on this at the moment but it's more of a really nice thing to have than a must have feature. Don't need Bluetooth speakers if my phone is just that loud! 
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Aug 22, 2017 04:54
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Neat. Waking my phone up while something is playing via PiP still causes a instant reboot. gg Google You can disable PiP on a per app basis though. Settings -> Apps -> YouTube -> Advanced
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Aug 22, 2017 05:53
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Neat. Waking my phone up while something is playing via PiP still causes a instant reboot.  Android Bug Tracker on Aug 7 posted:Marked as Fixed
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Aug 22, 2017 06:04
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sirbeefalot posted:Did that on my 6P for nougat and it hosed up future OTAs for me. Didn't notice until I was like 5 security patches behind. Ended up having to flash the current version; the build I was on wasn't even listed on the factory image repository. I'll just wait for the official OTA. This happened to me as well for 7.1 I think. As the beta and OTA release had different version numbers. I got stuck on a dead branch. I didn't have to flash, but re-enroll in the beta at 7.1.2 to fix it.
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Aug 22, 2017 06:08
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Aug 22, 2017 07:01
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Still can't completely hide the apps running in the background notification, boo
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Aug 22, 2017 07:17
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butt dickus posted:I did the "enroll in the beta then unenroll" trick to get the OTA right away. Got it on both my XL and C. Update just disappears after downloading halfway for me 
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Aug 22, 2017 07:46
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Is there a way to make quick settings not white because it's seriously annoying at night
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Dirty Needles posted:Update just disappears after downloading halfway for me I had the same thing, maybe happens if you unenroll whilst it updates?
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Aug 22, 2017 10:26
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Holy gently caress the new android icons are ugly. Why they decided to move away from the cute little paper versions I'll never know. They don't match any other apps and as Google is unable to finish anything b they don't even match each other.
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Aug 22, 2017 12:18
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Wrist Watch posted:Does it just display notifications, or can you interact with them at all? One of my favorite things about active display is touching a music/podcast app and dragging up to pause/skip, but that might be too close to ripping Motorola off wholesale for Google. You can't interact with the screen at all. It shows the time and tiny notification icons, but touching the screen does nothing unless it's a double-tap.
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Aug 22, 2017 12:22
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hottubrhymemachine posted:Holy gently caress the new android icons are ugly. Why they decided to move away from the cute little paper versions I'll never know. They don't match any other apps and as Google is unable to finish anything b they don't even match each other. Looked at my list of apps and I think I have 3 different styles of icons. By the time everything has those new round icons Google will have introduced another new design
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Aug 22, 2017 12:52
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ugh whatever jeez posted:Looked at my list of apps and I think I have 3 different styles of icons. By the time everything has those new round icons Google will have introduced another new design Yeah look at this screenshot I just took. Stock Google icons and the default 8.0 wallpaper:  What happened to Material Design? It's such a mess. Luckily Nova and icon packs exist but that takes ages to get right and isn't something I should be spending my time on just to have a consistent and pleasant looking phone.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:01
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They realised that nobody was following Material Design guidelines for third party app icons on Android because Samsung dominates the market and has their own whole icon style, so huge numbers of apps were just going with them instead. So they tried to come up with some horrible compromise that could be adjusted to both Google Style and Samsung Style and it's pretty awful looking.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:07
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Is it worth getting an s8 if I am coming from a moto x pure (2015, needs to be restarted twice a day for data to work)? I have always had stock android, but Motorola is poo poo now so I don't think I want anything from them. I have the option of getting the s8 for $300 off with that trade in deal for an unlocked one. Is the wait worth it for newest Google phones?
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Aug 22, 2017 13:11
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sparticus posted:I have the option of getting the s8 for $300 off with that trade in deal for an unlocked one. Is the wait worth it for newest Google phones? I'll say it's worth getting the Pixel 2 and so will this thread, but to be fair, we all think Samsung are poo poo and annoying and crud up their phones. (In our defense, they are and they do)
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Aug 22, 2017 13:21
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hottubrhymemachine posted:Yeah look at this screenshot I just took. Stock Google icons and the default 8.0 wallpaper: What device are you on? Did you change the icon style to square? Because that's what it's set to.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:40
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I guess Android O is going to be my test to see if Essential can back up their promises of fast update rollouts. If they have O ready when they start shipping to consumers I would be pleasantly surprised and might actually start considering it. Otherwise I'm holding out for what we see out of Pixel 2.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:58
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They put the maps/now notifications on a diet, but only managed to point out that you only need half the space for some of that poo poo lol. E: oh my, looks like certain notifications can be color-filled based on what (I'm guessing) the app chooses for a background color e.g. pocketcasts. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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MikeJF posted:I'll say it's worth getting the Pixel 2 and so will this thread, but to be fair, we all think Samsung are poo poo and annoying and crud up their phones. (In our defense, they are and they do) When is the Pixel event so we know what they are including in it? Or did they not announce anything yet. I really hate phone shopping. I got burned by Motorola/Lenovo with their poo poo promises.
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sparticus posted:Or did they not announce anything yet. Nothing is announced yet. All we can do is guess based on prior years so it's likely early October, but it could be whenever because Google. Other things at a hardware event that are likely: 1) Google branded headphones with built in assistant support 2) A smaller, cheaper, google home (like the echo dot) so you can fill your house with them 3) A Chromebook Pixel successor that's a convertible with touchscreen. This is likely the "Eve" that's been showing up in the source code.
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I have the MXP2015 as well and I've only had it for just over a year, I'm 100% ready to jump ship... Just not to any of the options at their current price points, given that all of the good ones are a year to 6 months old. I'm hesitant to dime in on another 'good enough' $300 Motorola phone because that's what got me where I am, as good a value as the G5+ seems. I'm waiting to see what the Pixel 2 brings, even if that means I scoop up an original Pixel on the cheap in it's wake.
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I will never not buy a Pixel or Apple device again. This Saturday, I bought a LG G6 at $500 thinking that it was the sweet spot in price for a flagship that felt like something out of the iPhone 4/4S build quality camp. I return home to a consistent band of condensation internal to the display. It lingered along a very distinct splotch of grime that was left from the manufacturing process, so I did what anyone would do and went back to the store to replace it. The new LG G6 is just...weird. Built one month before the previous device with the grime issue, it started feeling immediately and unusually hot. Then it started heating to 68-70C in my pocket. Turned it off and reported it to LG, and I'm waiting for a response. Also, check out the weird build standards in the image below:  The G6 at top was the original that I purchased on Saturday of the prior weekend. Look how its topmost chamfer running along the screen differs from the replacement unit on the bottom? I kept telling the T-Mobile rep that something was odd about the replacement...These two units were built only a month apart. One was built with dirty hands, and one overheats to dangerous temperatures. LG is bad.
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Aug 22, 2017 14:44
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Lol if you read this thread why would you have ever purchased a literal garbage phone
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A Bad King posted:I will never not buy a Pixel or Apple device again. And people wonder why the news of LG building the next pixel was received so poorly. Samsung is still the worst but LG is a close second in the "factory fuckups" category. That's my main worry with the Pixel 2.
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Aug 22, 2017 14:54
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Literally a Gamble.
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Blue Train posted:Lol if you read this thread why would you have ever purchased a literal garbage phone My V20 was actually nice. I gave it to my MIL and thought, "I had a Nexus 5, which was made by LG and was nice." They also have a 2-year warranty on new devices. Perhaps like many of those early-2000s Hyundai buyers, since they believe in their product now perhaps I should too. Haha, I'm an idiot.
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sleepwalkers posted:What device are you on? Did you change the icon style to square? Because that's what it's set to. Where do you change that, mine are square and I have not changed anything other than updating to 8.0...
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The "Stock Android™ (by Google)" which runs on Nexus 5X/6P is a different OS from the "Google, Powered by Android" running on Pixel Devices. Stock Android™ has square adaptive icons on Oreo, Google™ has circle adaptive icons on Oreo.
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ugh whatever jeez posted:Where do you change that, mine are square and I have not changed anything other than updating to 8.0... Oh weird, the option seems to have disappeared from the Oreo Pixel launcher... in earlier dev previews, you could opt to change icon shapes.
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Vagrancy posted:The "Stock Android™ (by Google)" which runs on Nexus 5X/6P is a different OS from the "Google, Powered by Android" running on Pixel Devices. The pixel uses its own launcher with its own icon setting. The OS is the same.
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Aug 22, 2017 15:43
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Taffer posted:The pixel uses its own launcher with its own icon setting. The OS is the same. You don't get round icons if you run the Pixel Launcher on another device. e: Which is lame as gently caress because I want round icons all the time everywhere. \/\/\/ The stock launcher is good and I don't want to janitor my phone. sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Aug 22, 2017 15:44
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I don't know why you wouldn't run Nova Launcher instead of Pixel Launcher.
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Ragingsheep posted:I don't know why you wouldn't run Nova Launcher instead of Pixel Launcher. I like Action Launcher 
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Aug 22, 2017 15:50
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Taffer posted:The OS is the same. It's not though. That's what makes the Pixel special. Nexus devices are ASOP on hardware. Pixel devices have as much custom work going into the ROM as any other OEM, just with a focus on performance rather than skinning.
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Iron Crowned posted:I like Action Launcher That's fine. It's just if you wanted Pixel Launcher, you can make Nova do everything Pixel does and more.
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