sleepwalkers posted:

phones on the android 9.0 pie (thank you) are randomly having the battery saver mode turn on at 99%.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

android 9 has a "gesture mode" you can enable instead of the traditional 3 soft buttons that usually sit on the black bar down there. it doesn't make the black bar area any smaller and the gestures are crap

Lutha Mahtin posted:

android 9 has a "gesture mode" you can enable instead of the traditional 3 soft buttons that usually sit on the black bar down there. it doesn't make the black bar area any smaller and the gestures are crap

Incessant Excess posted:

In case anyone is interested in the Pocophone F1, or others running MIUI, hopefully you don't mind seeing ADs..........in your settings menu:

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

and that's why smart carriers wait a year or more before letting you upgrade. thanks, lab rats

akadajet posted:

the hell is that smiley spelling? should be android

Endless Mike posted:

Blue Train posted:

I wondered this as well and it is apparently sundar except smugndar and now my question is who the gently caress was dumb enough to both come up with that and think it was worth thirty dollars or whatever

Midjack posted:

with the forum's finances in the shitter a number of people have chosen to buy custom smilies, avatars, etc at a somewhat higher rate than previously.

akadajet posted:

yeah, i've bought more avatars than usual lately

infernal machines posted:

anthonypants posted:

wow, they built a temperature sensor right into the back

Shrimp or Shrimps posted:

Hey Android app goons, got a, *ahem* question about private / encrypted gallery apps.

Anyone know if there are any that support one of or both of nested galleries / albums and photo tagging?

Thanks!

LastInLine posted:

akadajet posted:

the hell is that smiley spelling? should be android

anthonypants posted:

LastInLine posted:

there was a goon who made one of these picture viewers in androids early days but they werent a native english speaker and called the app "beaver browser" without knowing what beaver was slang for. it was up on the market for years before they were informed as to the double entendre and they renamed the app and now idk what its called

i alwqys found it appropriate that ofc the first goon app was a hidden picture vault

infernal machines posted:

someone keeps buying these

anthonypants posted:

LastInLine posted:

Figured I'd give an update since I just got this in the beta channel on Tab 10 and this will be the launch software for the Pixelbook tablet when it comes out.

It does make some some substantial changes to the tablet UI. An autohiding shelf is now the default, the app close UI is different in that you can't pull down from the top to get close/minimize buttons (it instead triggers the app switcher), and the app drawer is now pretty much an iPad interface.

The problems though with ChromeOS as a tablet only OS remain. The stylus still can't do text selection. It still routinely loses both your rotation lock and brightness selectons (the Tab 10 can't do autobrightness which is really annoying).

But the worst thing, far and away, is the the virtual keyboard just doesn't work. The Android subsystem, at least in beta 70, is still 7.1.1 so you can't load gBoard (or any other keyboard). The only keyboard you do have is difficult to imagine if you've never used it. It won't capitalize the first word of any sentence or the letter "i". It inserts random spaces if you ever move the cursor (but doesn't unless you do this) so sometimes you'll get two spaces between words or spaces within words. Autocorrection is spotty at best and sometimes just absent. It also won't let you select a past word and get suggestions to change it so you have to manually backspace out a missed word and retype it. I tried typing this post on that keyboard but only got two sentences in before I had to give up and use a different device, it simply doesn't work at all.

Oh yeah, depending on the app the keyboard might just cover the text area you're entering into. Some apps, like the ChromeOS Hangouts app, will move entire window up so that half of it is out of frame to make room for the keyboard but it means the bottom is visible to see what you're entering. Some, like the Chrome Hangouts extension, won't move at all and keyboard will cover the bottom half of the app making text entry a blind process. Android apps behave like you'd expect where when the keyboard is invoked the app shrinks by half to accommodate it leaving both the top bar and bottom text entry field visible but the text size is scaled for a phone so everything is teeny-tiny. As with everything on ChromeOS as a tablet, everything is a compromise; nothing will ever "just work".

Lastly I should mention that ChromeOS 70 beta on my Tab 10 has been extremely unstable. It's crashed the whole OS twice in ten minutes doing nothing special. It has just gone blank and rebooted. That could just be the Tab 10 though.

All in all if this is the tablet experience you get with a ChromeOS tablet it's really hard to recommend anyone spend earth dollars for one. They're definitely working on it, changes have been coming often as new versions roll out, but there's so much lacking polish and experience breaking bugs that there's just no good reason to buy one unless you just want to torture yourself.