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gently caress me...anyone have experiences getting a Google Voice number ported to Google Fi? As someone with no real knowledge of telecommunications, it seems like it should be easy...Google "owns" by GV number, so why is it so drat hard to port to another service that Google "owns"? I started the port last Tuesday, the 27th...come Monday, still hadn't completed so I called Fi support. On the phone for a bit than it escalated. On Tuesday morning I had an email that said to cancel the port, then try again. I did that Tuesday morning, and in the same spot now. I sent two more emails to the support tech, one on Thursday and one today, no response. I have data, so I can text as long as it's through Hangouts, but I can't make or receive calls at all, not even if I'm on wifi. And if I try to text through Messaging, it fails. Edit: V V V Thanks, didn't know we had one. V V V DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:gently caress me...anyone have experiences getting a Google Voice number ported to Google Fi? You would likely get better results in the Fi thread.
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Dec 7, 2018 23:03
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FogHelmut posted:Hey, very few scratches on here! With my old Nexus S I was always confused about the screen sharpness complaints and praise of black levels because mine looked like a pretty decent but not spectacular LCD. Turns out mine was an LCD version (i9023) which was an export model.
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my phone progression went HTC desire (2010), HTC one X (2012), nexus 5 (2014), sony xperia Z2 (2014), nexus 6P (2016), pixel 2 XL (early 2018). i think besides the fact that the one X's screen shattered in my pocket it was my favourite of them physically. if they were to chuck a 6" screen in that same body with current hardware and got rid of the giant camera bump i'd buy it
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bull3964 posted:Did your try to snap any with some digital zoom to let the super res stuff so it's magic? Yeah I did, wasn't very impressed. Anyone tried one of those Moment lens thingies?
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Anyone tried one of those Moment lens thingies? I just ordered one (their new 58mm) for my P3XL. I'll post in this thread when I've had a chance to test it out. I'm pretty amatuer though so my photography opinions may not be all that valuable. I'm in a similar position to your photo: I do a lot of hiking, so often take pictures of landscapes or vistas. At the same time I'm not serious enough about my photography to justify buying and hauling around a nicer camera. Hopefully the lense will fill that gap a bit. To be honest I also just kind of wanted a new toy, since I already talked myself out of buying a DSLR.
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incogneato posted:I just ordered one (their new 58mm) for my P3XL. I'll post in this thread when I've had a chance to test it out. I'm pretty amatuer though so my photography opinions may not be all that valuable. I'm super curious how you like that too, so please report back! I use my DSLR for hiking, long exposures, portraits, etc, but I love the ideal of how portable the Moment lens thing would be.
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strap on revenge posted:my phone progression went HTC desire (2010), HTC one X (2012), nexus 5 (2014), sony xperia Z2 (2014), nexus 6P (2016), pixel 2 XL (early 2018). i think besides the fact that the one X's screen shattered in my pocket it was my favourite of them physically. if they were to chuck a 6" screen in that same body with current hardware and got rid of the giant camera bump i'd buy it I've had probably 50 or so phones since 2009 because I am a dumb nerd who always had to have something new and I worked in sales. It was a great change recently when I was able to keep a couple phones for over 6 months at a time. Hotsauce might also share that sentiment.
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nexus 5 <3 <3 <3
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I don't know if I've had a favorite phone. I liked my OG Droid even though I never really used the physical keyboard. It still seemed really cool. Like a cool deck I could whip out to hack into the mainframe or something.
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nerve posted:nexus 5 <3 <3 <3 I regret not buying the red Nexus 5. That phone looked cool in photos. I really had to talk myself out of impulse buying it. I also regret not buying that recent (red) iPhone. What I'm saying is my Pixel 2 is by far my favorite phone that I've owned, but I bet I would love it 100% more if it were bright red. And 10% more if it had an audio jack...
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My first Android phone was an HTC Inspire and I talked myself into liking it because I was being obstinate about Apple (folly of youth), but it was a complete piece of poo poo. I saw a screenshot of one the other day and had a visceral reaction to that unlock ring you had to pull up.
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I actually kind of liked the "texture" of the Galaxy Nexus' screen. There's apps that purport to save battery life on OLED screens by shutting off a grid of pixels on the screen that bring the effect back.
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asecondduck posted:I actually kind of liked the "texture" of the Galaxy Nexus' screen. There's apps that purport to save battery life on OLED screens by shutting off a grid of pixels on the screen that bring the effect back. Lol do they just overlay a grid of black lines?
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RZA Encryption posted:Lol do they just overlay a grid of black lines? They do exactly that.
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Welp my 2 month old P3XL phone is dead. It's like the power shorts out or something. Does anyone know how long the RMA process generally takes realistically? (not their lovely marketing estimate)
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vyst posted:Welp my 2 month old P3XL phone is dead. It's like the power shorts out or something. Does anyone know how long the RMA process generally takes realistically? (not their lovely marketing estimate) Pretty sure they'll cross ship with 1 or 2 day shipping, maybe say it's super urgent because you don't have a back up phone and they'll do 1 day
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nerve posted:nexus 5 <3 <3 <3 i broke mine literally the day i brought it home which is why i bought 2 phones in 2014 
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Z3 Compact was my favorite. Perfect size, was always butter, no glitchiness. Sony had a nice UI and overall experience. Their lackluster standing in the market is as unfair as Apple's dominance. The original LG nexus was pretty nice too, I'd take either of those phones back with modern guts and cameras. The Pixel 2 suffered from cosmetically being an iphone 4 in 2017.
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codo27 posted:Z3 Compact was my favorite. Perfect size, was always butter, no glitchiness. Sony had a nice UI and overall experience. Their lackluster standing in the market is as unfair as Apple's dominance. The original LG nexus was pretty nice too, I'd take either of those phones back with modern guts and cameras. The Pixel 2 suffered from cosmetically being an iphone 4 in 2017. did you forget what an iphone 4 felt and looked like because i have one in my drawer and uhh
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Okay, maybe the 5, either way that bezel was just gross.
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OG Moto X was the poo poo. Best overall phone I ever had.
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I loved my Xperia ZL which I broke by letting it go for a swim in the toilet.
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codo27 posted:Okay, maybe the 5, either way that bezel was just gross. The Pixel 2 is like literally the same size as an iPhone 6S, made switching incredibly easy size wise
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codo27 posted:Z3 Compact was my favorite. Perfect size, was always butter, no glitchiness. Sony had a nice UI and overall experience. Their lackluster standing in the market is as unfair as Apple's dominance. The original LG nexus was pretty nice too, I'd take either of those phones back with modern guts and cameras. The Pixel 2 suffered from cosmetically being an iphone 4 in 2017. Z3 Compact was such a great phone, especially with the Concept ROM. Basically Android One 4 years early, I got security patches within about 3 weeks of Google's patches. Also had the best keyboard of any smartphone.
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Night Sight is absurd. Like, it's a actual magic. I'll try and post examples later. But it's surreal, it looks like daytime
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The past couple of days - I want to say since the December patch, but I couldn't be certain - I've noticed that both the wifi and mobile-data icons are shown in the notification bar, whereas before it was one or the other depending on which was connected. I know that the mobile-data radio is kept active in the background to speed up wifi->data handover, which is fine, but wifi is shown as connected and at full strength in Settings. Any idea what's going on? Pixel 2.
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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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spincube posted:The past couple of days - I want to say since the December patch, but I couldn't be certain - I've noticed that both the wifi and mobile-data icons are shown in the notification bar, whereas before it was one or the other depending on which was connected. I don't think you're right. I think when connected to wifi, it always showed the signal strength but omitted the connection type (LTE, H+, etc). Here's a picture from Ron Amadeo's review of Android Pie right when it came out:  I want to say the behavior dates to Nougat or around then because I remember the close up of how the wifi and mobile connections overlap bothering me.
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I should have taken a screenshot. Here's a quick glance from inside Gmail: I could have sworn the '4G' icon wasn't there when wifi was connected until recently, is all. Both signal bars, yes, but not the network type.
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spincube posted:I should have taken a screenshot. Here's a quick glance from inside Gmail: You're right, that's not normal and not the behavior I'm seeing right now on the December patch on my Pixel XL. Do you have internet connectivity on your wifi? That's usually how it looks when you're connected to a wifi network without broader internet connectivity.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Night Sight is absurd. Like, it's a actual magic. I'll try and post examples later. But it's surreal, it looks like daytime I used to be super skeptical of poo poo like AI, because it was always science fiction or not really "AI", but this night sight stuff is making me a believer.
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LastInLine posted:You're right, that's not normal and not the behavior I'm seeing right now on the December patch on my Pixel XL. Do you have internet connectivity on your wifi? That's usually how it looks when you're connected to a wifi network without broader internet connectivity. When wifi doesn't have internet connectivity, the wifi icon is empty and has a little X on it.
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I have the same thing on my G5+. I guess somebody at Google just thought "time to change stuff".
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So much for my S9's pristine screen. It's developed a half dozen tiny scratches towards the top despite my being very careful to only ever put it in a pocket with nothing else in it. I thought the loving thing was supposed to be immune from scratches from keys etc I had a screen protector on it but it developed bubbles after a few days because getting it to adhere to the dumbass curved screen seems to require an engineering degree. The same curved screen which makes every bright image appear to dim unpleasantly at the edge. So gently caress curved screens, basically. They do nothing, look awful and now I have to deal with these scratches until I can afford another phone in five years.
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It's probably from sand or dirt. I have a day one S9 with no screen protector and have nothing but a couple non noticeable microscratches on it. I don't think the curved part of it affects that unless it's getting shattered The only good curved screen protector are the Whitedome ones and they're a little intimidating and kind of expensive but not difficult to install.
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spincube posted:I should have taken a screenshot. Here's a quick glance from inside Gmail:
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joedevola posted:So much for my S9's pristine screen. It's developed a half dozen tiny scratches towards the top despite my being very careful to only ever put it in a pocket with nothing else in it. I thought the loving thing was supposed to be immune from scratches from keys etc This is why I moved to an LG phone. FLAT SCREEN THANK loving GOD! Protectors are easy to get, full adhesion, perfect.
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Sneeze Party posted:Are you using a VPN of some sort? If the VPN stops working on my phone, I've noticed that the 4G icon shows up to indicate that I'm now bypassing the wifi/vpn situation and going through the cell signal instead. I'm using NetGuard, which acts as a VPN but hoovers up ads, but I've used the thing for aaages without this happening. ...although looking at my installed apps, it looks like there was an update to Google Connectivity Services rolled out two days ago, so maybe there's something going on there.
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Ola posted:I have the same thing on my G5+. I guess somebody at Google just thought "time to change stuff". I don't have that here at all, never have. Wifi on means the data type indicator is off:  
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Pixel 3 XL going back to flat screens was part of the appeal for me. I took some amazing night sight shots last night too but I feel like I'm posting too many already.
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