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Cao Ni Ma posted:Each and every phone that runs android right now has its software quirks It's not just right now and its not just android. It's every phone ever. (actually every device that has software to have quirks)
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gwrtheyrn posted:Oneplus will always get rave reviews because they ship spec sheets which wows reviewers that have limited time to review the phone. Then later down the line you find out the bad parts like upside down screens and security holes the size of jupiter's red spot. Once upon a time they were cheap enough that you could maybe argue buying one and immediately installing a different rom would be a good value if you had to, but they're not that much cheaper than pixels now. Xiaomi also somewhat lives in this weird spot now, but most of their phones don't fully support LTE in the united states Samsung optimizes their phones to look flashy and cool for the 5-10 minutes you spend dicking around with the phone in the showroom, and doesn't give a gently caress after that. OnePlus optimizes their phones to look good the 5-10 minutes it appears on MKBHD's YouTube and doesn't give a gently caress beyond that.
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Jun 19, 2018 03:07
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I like my oneplus 6 and cant wait to buy the notchless oneplus 6t
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Jun 19, 2018 04:34
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Why are you such a bad person?
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Jun 19, 2018 06:31
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WattsvilleBlues posted:My friend broke the poo poo out of my old Xperia Z3 Compact after violently taking a piss. He's looking for a decent handset £200 or under. We're in the UK and he's not looking a contract. Nokia 6 2018 or Moto G5+ or Xiaomi mi A1. Not sure about water resistance at that price point though.
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Jun 19, 2018 06:37
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sourdough posted:I'm not 100% sure, but fairly confident Verizon postpaid won't let you use it
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Jun 19, 2018 10:48
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vivo: we made a notchless phone with a pop up camera oppo: you are like a little baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Uu2rYFlPQ
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Jun 19, 2018 11:29
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Malloc Voidstar posted:vivo: we made a notchless phone with a pop up camera this is pretty cool but i hope someone figures out the under-screen front facing camera soon so there doesn't have to be motors and sliding mechanisms (failure points)
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Jun 19, 2018 11:35
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Just get rid of the front-facing camera entirely.
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Jun 19, 2018 13:23
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Just put the screen on the back.
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Jun 19, 2018 13:36
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Just make a camera that has a phone.
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Jun 19, 2018 13:50
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me your dad posted:Just make a camera that has a phone. Nokia did that
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Jun 19, 2018 13:53
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Don Lapre posted:I like my oneplus 6 and cant wait to buy the notchless oneplus 6t Maybe if you bought a good phone you wouldn't feel the need to buy a new phone every three months.
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Jun 19, 2018 13:59
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Every few weeks my Fitbit Ionic disconnects from my Pixel 2 and I have to reinstall and reconnect from scratch to get everything working again. Is this the typical case of Android being bad with Bluetooth? Or is this the Fitbit Ionic being extra garbage and that's why they made a new model so fast? I got a taste of the notifications on watch life and I really like it. Is this every watch experience on Android??? //This is on Android P, but I had the exact same issues before upgrading as well.
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Jun 19, 2018 14:09
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manwithoutskin posted:Every few weeks my Fitbit Ionic disconnects from my Pixel 2 and I have to reinstall and reconnect from scratch to get everything working again. Is this the typical case of Android being bad with Bluetooth? Or is this the Fitbit Ionic being extra garbage and that's why they made a new model so fast? Do you definitely have to reinstall? What happens if you just disable/enable bluetooth on the phone? Or power cycle the Fitbit? Sometimes it seems like the drivers haven't got complete control over all the states. So it might have been trying to connect when it was out of range and then given up permanently, when it really should have given up temporarily and started trying again on some sensible trigger. Example of bad state management from my headphones. It can have two devices at the same time. If I'm connected to 1 device and go out of range, it says "disconnected" and that's that. Then it connects again when within range. But if I have 2 devices connected, 1 of them can go out of range, typically by connecting by phone and leaving the house/laptop. Then it will beep forever every minute or so with "boohoo I can't connect to the laptop anymore". I have to switch them off/on to stop it. No problem with Android or BT in general, but every supplier has to write some software for their device or driver and inevitably they screw parts of it up.
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Jun 19, 2018 14:26
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Ola posted:Do you definitely have to reinstall? What happens if you just disable/enable bluetooth on the phone? Or power cycle the Fitbit? Sometimes it seems like the drivers haven't got complete control over all the states. So it might have been trying to connect when it was out of range and then given up permanently, when it really should have given up temporarily and started trying again on some sensible trigger. This morning I reset Bluetooth, hard reset my watch, and rebooted my phone, all while the watch was right next to my phone and nothing. I only mentioned Android/BT problems because I've seen them mentioned here in the past. After installing the latest beta I had a couple of hiccups but everything is back to working great again, except the watch. That would point to Fitbit being the culprit I guess.
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Jun 19, 2018 14:33
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manwithoutskin posted:Is this every watch experience on Android??? I had a Pebble and a couple of fitness trackers and have never experienced what you are describing, so I think that you are correct in your assumption that it is unique to the Fitbit. Is unpairing and repairing the watch able to fix the issue or does it actually require reinstalling the application?
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Jun 19, 2018 14:49
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manwithoutskin posted:Every few weeks my Fitbit Ionic disconnects from my Pixel 2 and I have to reinstall and reconnect from scratch to get everything working again. Is this the typical case of Android being bad with Bluetooth? Or is this the Fitbit Ionic being extra garbage and that's why they made a new model so fast? It's definitely the Ionic. My wife had one and had exactly the problems you described until it died ten days after purchase. She ended up getting an Alta HR and it's had no problems at all.
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Verizon has an offer where I can trade in my Droid turbo 2 and get a pixel 2 for the lowest price I've seen yet. But I have a wireless charger that I don't want to go to waste. Does anyone have experience using one of those things you plug into the phone that adds a charging pad? Also, I haven't put any sort of case on my phones, is it a good idea to do case + screen protector?
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Jun 19, 2018 14:54
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Doctor Butts posted:Does anyone have experience using one of those things you plug into the phone that adds a charging pad? I used one a few years ago and while it worked as expected, it charged at something like 500mAh so took hours to charge. Maybe the technology has improved since then, though.
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Jun 19, 2018 15:04
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I can't remember the thread consensus. Re-applying oleographic coating? Yay/nay?
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Jun 19, 2018 15:36
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Internet Explorer posted:I can't remember the thread consensus. Re-applying oleographic coating? Yay/nay? Real easy to gently caress up, isn't it?
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Jun 19, 2018 15:41
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Have any of you kind folks had Android Messages 4 Web enabled yet?
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Jun 19, 2018 15:42
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Internet Explorer posted:I can't remember the thread consensus. Re-applying oleographic coating? Yay/nay? Nay, it never lasts.
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Internet Explorer posted:I can't remember the thread consensus. Re-applying oleographic coating? Yay/nay? I'm curious how to do this, it's my biggest annoyance with a phone after 8 months or so.
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Jun 19, 2018 15:55
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So this is a new one. Been using an anker USBC cable and brick for 2 weeks without issue on my Pixel 2XL. Today after getting the June security update, my phone will shut off after 2 or 3 minutes when plugged in. What the hell? Any ideas? Edit: ran out to my car to see if it was every cable/charger and I haven't gotten a reboot on this one. Guess I have a bad brick. Edit 2: nvm I think I solved it. Looks like the cleaning crew at work knocked the brick partially out of socket so the phone must have been freaking out about not getting enough or constant power. Casu Marzu fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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TheWevel posted:Have any of you kind folks had Android Messages 4 Web enabled yet? No, and I'm dying to know the specifics. Is it like a whatsapp thing where its just tied to a single device? Does the phone need to be on?
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Jun 19, 2018 16:29
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strap on revenge posted:this is pretty cool but i hope someone figures out the under-screen front facing camera soon so there doesn't have to be motors and sliding mechanisms (failure points) Everyone says this about Slider Keyboards, kickstands, etc but outside of someone bending/seriously mishandling one I have never seen one broken or broken any of my slider phones that were all made of plastic all those years ago. My Touch Pro 2 and HTC Arrive both still slide and work flawlessly. The one problem we have now though is phone are no longer made out of a durable plastic so putting a slider of sorts on a metal/glass phone makes it a little more risky to go without a case to allow it to move without adding a stupid level of bulk (The Verizon Moto Droid with that plastic case crap they made for it. Yuck). Really though that Oppo looks sick as hell, but the curved edges ruin it.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Everyone says this about Slider Keyboards, kickstands, etc but outside of someone bending/seriously mishandling one I have never seen one broken or broken any of my slider phones that were all made of plastic all those years ago. My Touch Pro 2 and HTC Arrive both still slide and work flawlessly. All those were manually deployed though, right? According to the article I just read, Oppo's camera is deployed by motor. In the attached video it showed it automatically deploying when the camera app opens. Does it still work with third party camera apps? Will it deploy slower as the phone software starts running worse? Could a bad software update prevent it from deploying entirely? On the other hand, maybe it's fully deployable manually. If so, that's cool. I actually think the whole thing is really neat, and I'm glad to see phone makers innovating things like this.
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incogneato posted:I actually think the whole thing is really neat, and I'm glad to see phone makers innovating things like this. Lol "And given that there’s no fingerprint sensor on the Oppo Find X, you’re going to be using the selfie camera for face ID a lot during the course of a regular day."
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Jun 19, 2018 17:56
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zer0spunk posted:No, and I'm dying to know the specifics. Is it like a whatsapp thing where its just tied to a single device? Does the phone need to be on? Yes. Just like WhatsApp and several others, the web interface is just a remote control for the phone. The phone is the one still sending and receiving the messages so it has to be on and connected. Otherwise, Android/Google would need to link to something at the carrier level.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:00
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The job of the hardware is to get out of the way of the user experience. That Oppo does the exact opposite on several levels. I mean, good in on experimenting, but some stuff shouldn't leave the prototype phase.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:01
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Me reading Messages on the web news: "Google Voice supremacy!" (nevermind all the intermittent weird bugs)
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'm curious how to do this, it's my biggest annoyance with a phone after 8 months or so. Tougher to do with curved-edge screens, but I usually throw on a glass screen protector after 6 months to get a fresh oil-resistant coating. I have no intention of it protecting the phone with it; it was just the easiest path to having a fingerprint-resistant surface again.
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kitten smoothie posted:Tougher to do with curved-edge screens, but I usually throw on a glass screen protector after 6 months to get a fresh oil-resistant coating. I have no intention of it protecting the phone with it; it was just the easiest path to having a fingerprint-resistant surface again. Glass screen protectors for "2.5d" or curved displays or whatever are universally poo poo. If anyone has found a Pixel 2 XL tempered glass protector that's not poo poo, pleeeeeease please tell me
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CLAM DOWN posted:Glass screen protectors for "2.5d" or curved displays or whatever are universally poo poo. If anyone has found a Pixel 2 XL tempered glass protector that's not poo poo, pleeeeeease please tell me There's always the option of the ones with a UV lamp in the box which you use to cure the LOCA glue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078JR1HTN
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kitten smoothie posted:Tougher to do with curved-edge screens, but I usually throw on a glass screen protector after 6 months to get a fresh oil-resistant coating. I have no intention of it protecting the phone with it; it was just the easiest path to having a fingerprint-resistant surface again. What brand of coating do you use?
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DrThief posted:Well my Nexus 5X is acting up again, with random slowdowns and occasional reboots. It has already been about 18 months since the last bootloop and i'm afraid it hasn't got long to live, so i'm deciding on a new phone. People in this thread seem to have long memories for OnePlus' fuckups and short memories for everyone else's. The OnePlus 6 is getting great reviews because it's a great phone. It's not the best phone for everyone (how could it be?), but for a specific set of people it's basically perfect. If you live in the United States and want a top-of-the-line chipset, a headphone jack, no bloatware, and plenty of support for rooting/custom ROMs/etc. (however unnecessary that may be these days) the OnePlus 6 is basically your best and only option. The Pixel 2 XL is also a great phone, and would be preferable if you want a better camera, don't care about the lack of a 3.5mm jack, and are buying a new one to avoid the bevy of issues the first line of production has.
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Tykero posted:plenty of support for rooting Lol it definitely supports rooting, all right.
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