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The little change they made by making the camera and video options a little toggle rather than an option on the sliding bar. loving killer change, hope it gets ported to regular camera app. Also the quality of the shots the 8 Pro has is insane.
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Blurb3947 posted:loving killer change, hope it gets ported to regular camera app. it is on the regular camera app? my pixel 7 on android 14 has this change. i'm actually bummed they moved the preview of the most recently taken photo. my poor muscle memory.
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Oct 13, 2023 00:20
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Oh I didn't even notice it after the update went through. Sweet!
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ShoogaSlim posted:i'm actually bummed they moved the preview of the most recently taken photo. my poor muscle memory. This is still throwing me off
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I hope the pixel 8 stops that poo poo about editing your face immediately after taking a selfie, distorting your loving skull and washing out your face digitally because it's incredibly irritating all the research I hear is about it trying to compensate for the inherent fisheye in cellphone cameras, and it seems to do it less if your face is dead center in the screen but that doesn't make for a very good selfie
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Oct 13, 2023 00:31
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So far the 8 Pro is exactly what I wanted, a little bit better and faster version of my 6. New device setup still sucks, amazing we can't get this figured out. Gotta use special processes for messengers, gotta login to everything again, gotta skip tutorials, etc. I might be getting old, I don't understand what to do with this watch. It's like a lovely phone on my wrist. I ditched the Fitbit a while back, and I think I'm over the logged life stuff. This might find a new home on Swappa, but I'll give it a decent try over the weekend to see if it grows on me.
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FunOne posted:I don't understand what to do with this watch. it tells you what time it is without you needing to take your phone out your pocket
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ShoogaSlim posted:it tells you what time it is without you needing to take your phone out your pocket and also what email/text you got. It does other things, but those two things are like 90% of what I use it for. Free is a good price for that.
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Oct 13, 2023 01:43
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lol they scooped my phone into the wrong FedEx truck and now it's arriving tomorrow, welp guess I'll just read about folks' first impressions for now.
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Rap Game Goku posted:and also what email/text you got. It does other things, but those two things are like 90% of what I use it for. Free is a good price for that. i hate notifications and do as much as i can to make sure my electronics "bother" me as little as possible, so these are disabled on my watch. i have the luxury/disposition to not check either of those things when they come in. ymmv if you're a busy executive or socialite or family person who needs/wants those things at a moments notice. i use mine primarily to check the time, track steps, and my sleep. it is 100% an unnecessary luxury device but i dig it and the cool watch faces.
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Oct 13, 2023 01:53
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Yeah, I'm going to give this a decent try but so far I just don't get it. Any reason to not use "full resolution"? The little explainer says "battery life" but that's literally every feature. Seems silly to run my display at a reduced resolution.
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FunOne posted:Yeah, I'm going to give this a decent try but so far I just don't get it. I changed it. Battery feels about the same as my 6 Pro, marginally better maybe. I know the adaptive battery is still doing its thing, so I expect it will get better. I like a lot of the little changes (no curved screen!). I think part of the lukewarmness I feel is that this is my 6 pro with some subtle changes. My last 3 pixels were all different, so upgrading felt more substantial.
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Oct 13, 2023 02:09
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Apparently you need to be in cell service to activate Google Fi. RIP me and my WiFi calling until I can get into town.
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Oct 13, 2023 03:27
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NGL Android 14 has been my favorite major upgrade in a few years.
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Kirios posted:NGL Android 14 has been my favorite major upgrade in a few years. How so?
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This thermometer feature is silly but I love it.
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As a person who does quite a bit of baking and grilling/smoking, I was actually pretty excited about the thermometer feature since I never bothered to purchase myself an IR thermometer
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Tremors posted:This thermometer feature is silly but I love it.
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butt dickus posted:how do i find it For some dumb reason it doesn't come preinstalled. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.pixel.health
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thanks. lol that they kept the "health" name in it
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Tremors posted:For some dumb reason it doesn't come preinstalled. "This app is not available for any of your devices" 
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Tremors posted:For some dumb reason it doesn't come preinstalled. Seems like they're prolly waiting for FDA approval for body temp scanning before rolling it out more widely.
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VictualSquid posted:"This app is not available for any of your devices" It was already installed on my Pixel 8 Pro.
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Oct 13, 2023 17:28
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I never got over how they forced the lockscreen clock into a two-lined square shape. It's still hard for me to read months later. I'm finally at peace.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I never got over how they forced the lockscreen clock into a two-lined square shape. It's still hard for me to read months later. I'm finally at peace. It's really weird that you have to turn on that option to get the snazzy "information around the screen" look on the lockscreen. The clock itself isn't actually double-lined...
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hooah posted:It's really weird that you have to turn on that option to get the snazzy "information around the screen" look on the lockscreen. The clock itself isn't actually double-lined... It took me a while to even find this option. I like it, but I wish all the information were oriented the same way. Why is the temperature sideways?
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Oct 13, 2023 19:11
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It took me a while to even find this option. I like it, but I wish all the information were oriented the same way. Why is the temperature sideways? I dunno. The date and weather icon are too.
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Oct 13, 2023 19:22
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Because that's the style of the lock screen?
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A crowd of doubters came in search of the wise man, and when they found him they asked, "master, why is the lock screen this way?" The wise man nodded his head sagely and responded, "because it is not another way." The crowd was pretty annoyed with that answer because it didn't really mean anything.
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Oct 13, 2023 19:33
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I mean, the answer is literally "They designed this particular lock screen this way". If you want deeper meaning, then you need to talk to the actual designers on the 'why's of the decisions to put things where they are on that screen.
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where is this view in the settings? I'm not seeing it
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hark posted:where is this view in the settings? I'm not seeing it Wallpaper & Style
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If it was in the middle it would block your dog's face or whatever. I figure it's for people who would like the lock screen background to be less interrupted.
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for like one hot minute there was a the ability to add widgets to the lock screen. This app called "Dashclock" came out and it was the greatest thing ever and then Google deprecated the API that it used and the app stopped working
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effika posted:If it was in the middle it would block your dog's face or whatever. I figure it's for people who would like the lock screen background to be less interrupted. Eh, I just want something different for AoD. Variety is the spice of life. I don't really give a poo poo about the lock screen background because it's not really something I ever see. Pick up phone, unlock phone, home screen.
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Super-NintendoUser posted:for like one hot minute there was a the ability to add widgets to the lock screen. This app called "Dashclock" came out and it was the greatest thing ever and then Google deprecated the API that it used and the app stopped working  Dashclock. The envy of all my iPhone friends while you lived.
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already had to wipe the watch once because it fails updating, real cool. why is this update taking a billion years? copied over the phone apps but zero of the app settings meaning you have to login again, i guess it makes it easier but not really, especially for authenticators, we'll see how well that goes shortly Says waiting for watch to charge, how much charge does it actually need? GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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THF13 posted:Motorola MA1 for about a year and a half and it has been solid. I've been using AAWireless for a bunch of years now, ordered it from indiegogo campaign. Was quite poo poo at the beginning, but with software updates it's been rock solid now for more than 2 years. Except one spot in my city. Whenever I go over a particular bridge then under it to merge on a (big) highway, AA just disconnects. Reconnects 2 minutes later. It happened too many times around that spot to be a coincidence. No idea what could cause it, but that location on earth just simply hates AAWireless. Or AA. Or me.
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I'm sure this is a 14 thing and not an 8 pro thing, but how do I see my notifications on the lock screen? All I get are the little icons with no information.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:already had to wipe the watch once because it fails updating, real cool. why is this update taking a billion years? Me too, might have been my fault as I need to do a thing and separated the phone from the watch for a time. Also I found that the watch didn't update for some stuff if I didn't have it charging. weird. It seems to be working fine now, with the exception that I don't have any contacts in the contacts app. Online there are folks with this problem, but there seem to be lots of things to check, and haven't gotten through the whole list. Anyone else have this issue?
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