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Ola posted:I get great SoT in my favorite game, "Gaze into the abyss". You stare into a pitch black void and try to see meaning and beauty in human existence. It's pretty hard on the soul tbh, but it's super efficient battery-wise. I wish we could have whole posts as thread titles.
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Gobbeldygook posted:
it's pretty handy on days where I forget to take my wallet to wherever I'm going but I don't use it under normal circumstances
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Sep 28, 2018 23:30
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Google has added a mail in repair service for Pixel devices to compliment ubreakifix. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/09/28/google-store-opens-repair-center-pixel-phones-us/ Looks like a screen repair on the 2xl is $20 more than ubreakifix, so it will be interesting to see if there's a reason to pay more for repairs.
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Sep 28, 2018 23:45
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The Android Thread: Trying to Force-Touching everything to no avail
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Ola posted:I get great SoT in my favorite game, "Gaze into the abyss". You stare into a pitch black void and try to see meaning and beauty in human existence. It's pretty hard on the soul tbh, but it's super efficient battery-wise. When you gaze into the abyss,
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Sep 29, 2018 02:36
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My T-Mobile LG V20 finally got Oreo 
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Sep 29, 2018 02:36
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 This strip but with a steady stream of people asking about persistent notifications.
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Sep 29, 2018 02:40
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https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/9jtjww/i_think_i_bought_the_3rd_gen_chromecast_too_early/quote:I went to Best Buy earlier to pick up a Chromecast for my new TV, then I noticed the packaging and design was different from my first one. I thought it was just a design refresh taking queues from the Chromecast Ultra. Then when I was at the cashier, they couldn't scan the item because it wasn't in the system yet because the release date is on the 9th of October (Same day as the 2018 Google event) but I guess they put it out too early. But since I already had it in my hand and was the same price as the 2nd generation Chromecast, they let me have it under the old SKU.
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Sep 29, 2018 13:13
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I kinda hope the fake leaks theory is correct because it's pretty underwhelming from a company that knows everything about me including when, where, how often and what I'm reading when I take a poo poo.
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Sep 29, 2018 13:19
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Malloc Voidstar posted:
"But there's one more thing...the Ultraplex is now waking up and in a few seconds, you will all be mere tensors in the Great Learning. Die, feeble flesh-bits!"
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Sep 29, 2018 13:27
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Just got the Pie OTA on my Nokia 7 Plus  That's the first mid-range device to get updated, isn't it?
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Sep 29, 2018 13:51
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Ola posted:"But there's one more thing...the Ultraplex is now waking up and in a few seconds, you will all be mere tensors in the Great Learning. Die, feeble flesh-bits!" Wasn't that essentially the big reveal in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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Gobbeldygook posted:
I ran Nova Launcher on my last Huawei and hid all the Huawei apps in the app drawer. Sure, they weren't deleted but at least they were out of sight.
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Sep 29, 2018 14:19
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Does disabling the app not hide it?
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Sep 29, 2018 14:21
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AlexDeGruven posted:Wasn't that essentially the big reveal in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Yeah. And The Matrix I guess. I suppose they had to purchase the copyright to the galactic brain computer first, which they could probably well afford.
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Gobbeldygook posted:
NFC is actually super cool now that places I actually shop at have been putting in the *Pay POS terminals. It feels great to quickly pay for something and know my debit card won't get skimmed. And once my Yubikey 5s come in, I'm gonna mess around with replacing my KeepAss key file with them. I don't care about wireless charging and am more than willing to compromise on cameras, but NFC and fingerprint readers have spoiled me too much to ever bear to go without again.
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G-Spot Run posted:I kinda hope the fake leaks theory is correct because it's pretty underwhelming from a company that knows everything about me including when, where, how often and what I'm reading when I take a poo poo. It's consistent with Google's history as a search company; people are searching for info on Google products, and it's being delivered.  Just... maybe not the way they were expecting.
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My wife desperately needs a new phone, since the one she picked up at the MetroPCS store is hot garbage. She wants to go back to Motorola since she loved her G4 so much. What’s the best option right now for mid priced? Preferably $300 or less. It seems like the G6 plus doesn’t work with US carriers, so it’s probably the G6 or X4? It seems like with the phone being a year old, the X4 running on Android One wouldn’t be a big thing since the G6 will probably be updated about as long. She wants a good camera and good battery life, even though she’ll still probably complain about how often you have to charge it, just like every other smartphone.
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Gobbeldygook posted:NFC to make payments is near-pointless, but I actually would like to use a Yubikey NFC and can't without buying a new phone. This is where you're completely wrong. I had my house catch on fire, and didn't have a chance to find & grab my wallet. I sure as gently caress did get my phone to call the Fire Dept and Ambulance though, and the following 2-3 weeks waiting for replacement cards would have been impossible to get through without the NFC on my phone to buy stuff with (because hey, absolutely no documentation as to my identity left). It does depend on your market and the availability of NFC payments - it's pretty much useless in India, but in Australia literally everywhere has got it, so its much more useful. You might not need it every day, but if you do need it then its a lifesaver. It's also why instead of going with the Poco or the latest and greatest, I bought myself a Nokia 7 Plus as a replacement phone instead, and why I'll never be getting a phone without NFC again.
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So, yesterday I was sitting at home and a notification pops up on my phone to authorize a password reset. It's the first time I've seen that, and it had almost certainly been triggered by one of the people who have routinely assumed that they owned my GMail account over the past decade and a half. I looked at it, and hit "No." But it looked so much like the standard "Use Phone As Two-Factor Authentication" popup, that if I hadn't been paying attention, and/or /had/ been in a situation where I might have been using it to sign into my GMail account at the time, I'd likely have wound up turning over one of my most important email accounts to some person on the other side of the planet. That's pretty terrifying.
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Sep 30, 2018 12:45
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Is there any way to reduce the minimum playback volume on an Android. The lowest notch above completely muted is too loud, listening to podcasts before bed.
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Sep 30, 2018 14:12
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Depending on the phone model slightly, you can press and hold the volume indicator on the bar and adjust it more finely than the volume buttons. If your podcast app has an equaliser you can also turn the volume down that way.
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Sep 30, 2018 15:44
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I think I’m picking up the 4gb RAM / 64GB storage Moto G6. Is it actually appreciably faster than the 3GB RAM version?
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Sep 30, 2018 22:31
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3Gb of RAM is enough that no one app will ever be any slower. If you have a habit of swapping between a few heavier apps it'll be quicker with more RAM as it won't be unloading them as much.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I think I’m picking up the 4gb RAM / 64GB storage Moto G6. Is it actually appreciably faster than the 3GB RAM version? Are you in the U.S.? If not, there are much better options available in the price range.
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Yes, I am in the US. My wife wants another Motorola because she loved her G4. I’d get a G6+, but that doesn’t seem to work with any US carriers as far as I can tell.
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Sep 30, 2018 23:37
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For the same price, you could get the Motorola X4 which has better hardware + NFC despite being older than the G6.
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I have the g6 and the camera is dog poo poo. X4 is probably the same
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22 Eargesplitten posted:My wife desperately needs a new phone, since the one she picked up at the MetroPCS store is hot garbage. She wants to go back to Motorola since she loved her G4 so much. What’s the best option right now for mid priced? Preferably $300 or less. It seems like the G6 plus doesn’t work with US carriers, so it’s probably the G6 or X4? It seems like with the phone being a year old, the X4 running on Android One wouldn’t be a big thing since the G6 will probably be updated about as long. See if you can convince her to get a Nokia 6.1. It's $40 off at B&H, has the same specs as the X4, and may or may not have a better camera. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1404213-REG/nokia_11pl2b11a07_6_1_2018_32gb_smartphone.html
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halokiller posted:For the same price, you could get the Motorola X4 which has better hardware + NFC despite being older than the G6. What about the update support? As far as I know Lenovo is garbage about that. Looks like I could get it through Google Fi for $299, but I assume I would need to pay something to initiate service? Outside of Google, it looks like the Android One edition would be $350.
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I could swear that Google auto enabled night light on my phone.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:What about the update support? As far as I know Lenovo is garbage about that. I would get the Nokia 6.1
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She’s determined to get a Motorola  . That was my first suggestion too.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:She’s determined to get a Motorola Tell her it's a Lenovo -posted from my G5+
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22 Eargesplitten posted:She’s determined to get a Motorola
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Syrinxx posted:If she's going to get a chinese spyphone might as well go OnePlus, at least they get updates And we get funny follow-up posts!
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Has Motorola been caught putting spyware on there? I know other companies have. That might sway her so I can convince her to get the Nokia.
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