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Also if you want to buy a phone in order to janitor it, please don't tell the Android Thread
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Jan 12, 2018 21:18
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Incessant Excess posted:I returned my Pixel 2 XL in large part because of the awful blue shift, the Pixel 2 I've got in it's place also doesn't have a great screen but it's a big step up and okay for me to keep. What's wrong with the Pixel 2's screen? If you are missing the color oversaturation of OLED screens you can enable it... Settings/Display/Advanced/Colors. Set it to Saturated and it will look more like OLED screens on Samsung or Motorola phones..
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Jan 12, 2018 21:56
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stevewm posted:What's wrong with the Pixel 2's screen? The loss of detail in dark images/videos is pretty significant, some darker videos I've seen are basically just a black mess.
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Jan 12, 2018 22:00
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ThermoPhysical posted:Any reason why the Bluetooth on my Pixel 2 won't connect to my JBL headphones anymore? :T Oops, wrong person. (Sorry ThermoPhysical!) This is what happens when you give an old person mod powers.
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Jan 12, 2018 22:03
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Rickets posted:It's funny to me that the solution to your problem (flashing a rom/rooting your phone/blocking ads on your device properly) is "lol" worthy. Are you dumb or just lazy? If you have to flash or root anything to avoid a Chinese backdoor or whatever then maybe you should rethink getting that device at all. That poo poo is good for hobbling an old phone through some more years but much of it is becoming unnecessary as Android evolves. But since you asked; both. Tyvm
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Jan 12, 2018 22:08
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butt dickus posted:Why would you pay money for a device that is broken out of the box unless your brain is also broken? "Look, just because every video game I buy is like that these days..." 
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Jan 12, 2018 22:31
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Thermopyle posted:Oops, wrong person. (Sorry ThermoPhysical!) It's hilarious that a wrong probation is now the only thing on his rap sheet.
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Jan 12, 2018 23:28
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Rastor posted:rooting/ROMing is a stupid loving thing to do in 2018, and if you suggest to someone that they do that you are a bad person who makes bad suggestions Speaking of this. My mother has an old Note 5 that shes been using forever. Is there an overclock thread somewhere I can look into potentially boosting the speed of the phone?
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Jan 12, 2018 23:45
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obi_ant posted:Speaking of this. My mother has an old Note 5 that shes been using forever. Is there an overclock thread somewhere I can look into potentially boosting the speed of the phone? This honestly is a first. No, no there's not. Overclocking a phone is a terrible terrible idea if it's even possible, and I'm not even sure how you'd go about doing it.
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Jan 12, 2018 23:49
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Thermopyle posted:adblocking VPN = best mobile web experience! I thought they ran your traffic through someone else's pipes; like Chrome's Data Saver thingy, only instead of some heavy-breathing Google computer-toucher it's Russian gangsters who are laughing at your pornography habits.
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Jan 12, 2018 23:49
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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Mister Facetious posted:"Look, just because every video game I buy is like that these days..."
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Jan 13, 2018 00:09
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Endless Mike posted:It's hilarious that a wrong probation is now the only thing on his rap sheet. Made it 10 years without so much as a parking ticket, then BAM!
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Jan 13, 2018 00:13
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spincube posted:I thought they ran your traffic through someone else's pipes; like Chrome's Data Saver thingy, only instead of some heavy-breathing Google computer-toucher it's Russian gangsters who are laughing at your pornography habits. Nah it's a local VPN on the phone itself, no routing through external servers.
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Jan 13, 2018 00:49
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CFox posted:Nah it's a local VPN on the phone itself, no routing through external servers. Supposedly  Adguard's been nice though. Also, there's a thread with instructions on how to set up your own personal one, that routes data through a server/computer you control.
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Jan 13, 2018 00:50
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Rastor posted:rooting/ROMing is a stupid loving thing to do in 2018, and if you suggest to someone that they do that you are a bad person who makes bad suggestions There are valid reasons to do so but it is not a suggestion one should make to normal people CLAM DOWN posted:This honestly is a first. No, no there's not. Overclocking a phone is a terrible terrible idea if it's even possible, and I'm not even sure how you'd go about doing it. You would need to unlock the bootloader flash a new kernel then use a kernel manager to do so and even then it isn't possible on all kernels/devices and is a bad idea in general as you said
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Jan 13, 2018 01:24
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spincube posted:I thought they ran your traffic through someone else's pipes; like Chrome's Data Saver thingy, only instead of some heavy-breathing Google computer-toucher it's Russian gangsters who are laughing at your pornography habits. I run my own VPN on my own server, so no. Also, there's apps that use the VPN functionality built in to Android to do adblocking, but don't actually send your traffic through anywhere else.
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Jan 13, 2018 01:25
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CLAM DOWN posted:This honestly is a first. No, no there's not. Overclocking a phone is a terrible terrible idea if it's even possible, and I'm not even sure how you'd go about doing it. Strange I always thought there was a way to do this. Is there a way to manually disable background apps so I can free up a bit of memory? Looks like her phone is currently constantly using 56% even on idle.
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Jan 13, 2018 01:34
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obi_ant posted:Strange I always thought there was a way to do this. Is there a way to manually disable background apps so I can free up a bit of memory? Looks like her phone is currently constantly using 56% even on idle. You can go into settings->apps and force stop/disable/uninstall unnecessary apps
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Jan 13, 2018 01:36
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obi_ant posted:Strange I always thought there was a way to do this. Is there a way to manually disable background apps so I can free up a bit of memory? Looks like her phone is currently constantly using 56% even on idle. There's nothing wrong with using memory. Are you one of those people who thinks chrome on desktop is bad because it uses lots of ram? Keeping background apps to a minimum is a good idea because of the background processing occurring and consuming battery, not because it uses memory.
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Jan 13, 2018 01:41
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obi_ant posted:Speaking of this. My mother has an old Note 5 that shes been using forever. Is there an overclock thread somewhere I can look into potentially boosting the speed of the phone? When was the last time it was reset to factory settings? That usually provides some temporary performance boost if it hasn't been done in quite some time.
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Jan 13, 2018 02:09
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Endless Mike posted:It's hilarious that a wrong probation is now the only thing on his rap sheet. Not the mod we need but definitely the mod we deserve.
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Jan 13, 2018 02:26
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He clearly needs to be probated again with the reason explaining what happened
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Jan 13, 2018 02:29
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The only time Overclocking a phone was a useful thing in my experience was back in the PPC6700/HTC Apache days. The xScale Intel chip it had was the same one in say the Dell Axim X50v, but instead of being clocked at 624mhz it was at 416mhz. The little overclock allowed it to run 624mhz perfectly fine and ran some apps perfectly it couldn't at stock speed. (Hell we all know it was to play games on it back then. SNES Emulators were getting good on them with the X50v still being one of the first GPU powered PDA's that also hardware accelerated SNES Emulation graphics.) When there is only 1 cpu doing all the work, any extra Mhz you could pull out of it was a noticeable improvement back then. It was neat but since then, Overclocking could be done here and there on some slower devices, but even on the Nexus 6P where you could overclock the cores a bit (I think the small cores could be pushed to 1.7ghz from 1.5), overall the thermal protection stuff and the amount of heat these things make at full bore anyway really makes it pointless as they throttle very shortly after. The only place it might actually be useful would be an active cooled device like the Shield TV, Shield Portable, OUYA (hah, but it does have a fan and could probably use it. I know the Tegra 2 Overclocked like a champ in some tablets) and maybe these up and coming ARM powered Windows 10 laptops. But with how things are muscling around with more cores than clock alone, it's rather pointless at least in the present on mobile. However, who knows what the future holds?
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Jan 13, 2018 06:39
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Time to crack open my phone, get some liquid metal and attach an aftermarket fan for maximum clocks! It'll pay for itself in mining dividends 
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Jan 13, 2018 07:02
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spincube posted:Popup: I didn't doubt you but I am wondering why you'd consistently get these and I consistently don't. In fact, I was reading that very same article on my phone at work last night and I just have the ad in the blank space in your screenshot and two Google ads (identical) one below the hero image and one below the text. I wonder if this could be a regional thing? Could your mobile carrier be to blame?
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Jan 13, 2018 07:08
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Well, so far after installing the latest Pixel 2XL ota, my 2XL Feels faster. Like back to what I expect a Pixel to feel like fast once again. I was noticing it feel a bit sluggish recently and was chalking it up to me just having a lot of apps like I always do, but now that this update is on there everything feels like the pixel I know and love on a again. Now to see if they fixed the reboot and screen flash..
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Jan 13, 2018 09:00
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Google finally got back to me on the freebies with my Pixel 2, which were a Home Mini (on the way) and $100 store credit. What's something fun to blow the credit on? I was thinking of the Daydream View ($99), because Pixel Buds are really expensive at $159.
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Jan 13, 2018 09:08
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Google finally got back to me on the freebies with my Pixel 2, which were a Home Mini (on the way) and $100 store credit. What's something fun to blow the credit on? I was thinking of the Daydream View ($99), because Pixel Buds are really expensive at $159. Unless one lives in a one room shack, one Google Home isn't enough especially when all your lights and TVs are hooked up to them. So I'm going to say more Homes and Chromecasts.
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Jan 13, 2018 10:21
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LastInLine posted:I didn't doubt you but I am wondering why you'd consistently get these and I consistently don't. In fact, I was reading that very same article on my phone at work last night and I just have the ad in the blank space in your screenshot and two Google ads (identical) one below the hero image and one below the text. Who knows  - either way Android Police is serving bad ads, which is a shame as they're like the only Android blog that regularly go deeper than 'here is an entire press release copy-pasted verbatim, this is certainly an interesting press release, please click the below affiliate links so we keep getting free stuff to lavish praise upon'.With that in mind, and operating on the assumption that everyone at the end of a Google result is either a SEO-fuelled swindle artist or an outright bad person, DNS66 here doesn't immediately appear to be garbageware, doesn't require root, and doesn't require a home PC to be on permanently (wtf). Open question: anybody have any experience with this, or similar make-mobile-browser-ads-go-away solutions?
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spincube posted:Open question: anybody have any experience with this, or similar make-mobile-browser-ads-go-away solutions? I use Brave, it's essentially Chrome without the ability to sync with your Google account but with built-in ad blocking.
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Jan 13, 2018 12:17
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spincube posted:Who knows
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spincube posted:Who knows I've used DNS66 and switched to Netguard within about a week. Netguard was just better in every way and actually worked. Eventually I stopped using it because it hosed up the Google Feed (made it completely unreachable) and I found that I wasn't encountering bad ads when I didn't use it. In fact, the only reason I did try it was because my wife was encountering exactly what you are on a different forum she was visiting and I wanted to see if these apps were transparent enough to recommend. Tunga posted:Why don't you email AP about it? They are not a garbage tier website and I'm sure they will remove this kind of lovely advertising if it has been unintentionally added to their ad rotations. I have never seen that kind of ad on their site and I check it daily so it's either a regional thing or some other app is causing it. I'd have to agree with this, I'm sure they'll appreciate the heads up.
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I use AdGuard and have no complaints but I haven't tried any of these other apps so no idea if they're better in some way.
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CFox posted:I use AdGuard and have no complaints but I haven't tried any of these other apps so no idea if they're better in some way. I do, you apparently can't use it without the perma-notification? That's a bit annoying.
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Jan 13, 2018 15:34
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Incessant Excess posted:I do, you apparently can't use it without the perma-notification? That's a bit annoying. Long press the notification and block them for the app it will still work
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I've had a Pixel 2 XL for a few weeks now and it has been fantastic. My only real annoyances are with the screen. The blue screen thing isn't any worse than my Galaxy S7, though I do notice that it gets more prominent at lower screen brightness levels. The brightness sensor is kind of annoying as well and I wish there was some way to re-calibrate it or adjust the thresholds on it because the screen brightness goes up or down depending on the angle I'm holding the phone at relative to whatever light sources are around me. I'm not a fan of the rounded corners on the screen. When I RDP in to a server, the rounded corners partially hide the Windows start menu button and taskbar icons. Also, I've noticed some issues with tapping on things close to the corners of the screen like when I'm trying to minimize a YouTube video. It takes several taps to get it to work, mostly by hunting around the down arrow to find the trigger spot. One tip I found useful for general use is to move the address bar in Chrome to the bottom of the screen: https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/move-chromes-address-bar-bottom-your-screen-android-0176946/ I found it annoying to have to change my grip when I wanted to enter a new URL, so this helps. Overall though, any annoyances on the device are relatively minor compared to other phones I've had in the past and they're mostly software-based issues so there's hope that a fix may come down the pipe someday as opposed to hardware issues that will never be fixed.
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Emailed AP.Incessant Excess posted:I do, you apparently can't use it without the perma-notification? That's a bit annoying. This I don't have a problem with, funnily enough. 'Hey, [app] is running in the background, where you're not looking at it and therefore can't monitor it. Hope you're OK with that.' You can block the notification if you are OK and implicitly trust the app, and if you don't just ignore the thing.
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This summer Samsung should make another IED and call their ad campaign "The Summer of Samsung." That's all I got. You probably won't get my hilarious joke if you're outside of the U.S.
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