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Thermopyle posted:There doesn't exist a device on any OS that doesn't have a long list of failures. while this is true, there are usually benefits to accompany them
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Anyone having issues with 5x and connecting to wifi with nougut?
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Massasoit posted:Anyone having issues with 5x and connecting to wifi with nougut? Mine works fine.
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Tunga posted:How would this stop the phone exploding? It wouldn't, but the only way to do that would be to do what you suggested. It would stop people from using their phones though while avoiding liability fire denying emergency calling. I wouldn't be too shocked if disabling the charging circuits can be fine via firmware update.
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Sep 12, 2016 15:50
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Blue Train posted:while this is true, there are usually benefits to accompany them I guess the benefit is that you get to claim you're not one of those sheeple Nexus buyers
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Sep 12, 2016 15:51
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Endless Mike posted:They could theoretically send an update that disables everything but emergency calling. If you did this you know a bunch of cheap skates and idiots would just toss it in the glove box as an "emergency phone". Which would be quite ironic actually.
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Sep 12, 2016 15:58
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So I'm back on the Samsung train thanks to a promotion I just chronicled in the Canadian thread. It was sort of predetermined anyway seeing I had the S, S3 and S5. Boy I cant wait for that S9! Anyway, is there any way to make the Samsung keyboard...good? Should I just immediately switch to the google keyboard? I'm missing the voice input key mainly, cant seem to find any way to put it there.
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codo27 posted:So I'm back on the Samsung train thanks to a promotion I just chronicled in the Canadian thread. It was sort of predetermined anyway seeing I had the S, S3 and S5. Boy I cant wait for that S9! Anyway, is there any way to make the Samsung keyboard...good? Should I just immediately switch to the google keyboard? I'm missing the voice input key mainly, cant seem to find any way to put it there. Just use Google Keyboard. The stock one is terrible and there's no fixing it.
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Sep 12, 2016 16:19
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Massasoit posted:Anyone having issues with 5x and connecting to wifi with nougut? KICK BAMA KICK posted:So twice since the Nougat update my Project Fi 5X has done this thing where it stops seeing any wifi and starts killing my battery -- I'm guessing by constantly searching for networks. First time I was out of the house, somewhere I expected to have wifi but just assumed it was down, and didn't figure it out until I got home and didn't connect there. Rebooted and all was well but it happened again a few days later. Never did this before Nougat. Not sure where to look for or file a bug. Anybody else?
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Sep 12, 2016 16:33
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That might be the issue. I don't know exactly because it's my roommates phone and she isn't very exact in describing the issue
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Sep 12, 2016 16:47
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I've been using Swype for years, and I highly recommend it. Among other things, you can set the for-pay version so it picks up stories that are currently hot on social media and adds the words to the dictionary. This means that "Kaepernick", to give one example, is currently recognized without my having to do anything.
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Sep 12, 2016 16:51
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Massasoit posted:Anyone having issues with 5x and connecting to wifi with nougut? Yes. Mine seems to drop WiFi really quickly if the signal isn't perfect. Example: I'm typing this in my mother's dining room about as far from the router as I can get. My laptop is connected to Wifi, showing 3 out of 4 bars, and is experiencing no issues. If I would try to watch a YouTube video on my phone in the same spot, showing 2 or 3 out of 4 bars, it would drop the connection every few seconds, switch to cellular data, then regain the connection a few seconds later (which is how I accidentally racked up 1 GB of cellular data usage a few days ago!). It (mostly) works okay when I get much closer to the router. I used to never have any problems before on Marshmallow.
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Sep 12, 2016 17:10
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Uthor posted:Yes. Mine seems to drop WiFi really quickly if the signal isn't perfect. Man I wish my phone would do this instead of desperately hanging onto Wi-Fi networks a mile away.
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Sep 12, 2016 17:13
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Stupid question, but did that "Avoid bad Wi-Fi connections" setting get reset when you updated to N?
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LethalGeek posted:Samsung is bad since they decided LED indicators were somehow a terrible thing to have available.i don't care how much better the screens are about power now it's a lot less battery to blink a couple LED transistors still. I'm still boggled That's one of things I liked about the Galaxies over my G3. The notification light is big and bright. I often had a hard time seeing it was active on my G3
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Mogomra posted:Stupid question, but did that "Avoid bad Wi-Fi connections" setting get reset when you updated to N? I see something similar to that in the developer options. Looks like it's turned off.
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Sep 12, 2016 17:39
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skooma512 posted:That's one of things I liked about the Galaxies over my G3. The notification light is big and bright. I often had a hard time seeing it was active on my G3 All the phones people in this thread and most of the United States would use still have the led. That dudes list of linked Samsung phones without leds are the cheap international variants, I have never heard of any of them so it was a super weird critique of the brand
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Sep 12, 2016 17:50
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I haven't experienced the wifi bug yet in nougat but I have found that the auto-brightness sometimes doesn't work. I'm assuming its a bug and that their big new Doze strategy wasn't just keeping my screen on minimal brightness when I'm trying to use it.
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Sep 12, 2016 17:54
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Uthor posted:I see something similar to that in the developer options. Looks like it's turned off. The option I'm talking about is usually in the advanced options under WiFi settings, but that could have changed since Android L.
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Blue Train posted:*calls phone pretty great, posts long list of failures* Like I said, the ZTE Axon 7 has better or on par build quality and specs compared to the HTC 10 and is smaller and easier to use than the Nexus 6p. The speakers are the best I've heard on a phone and the screen and battery life are great. This is a good phone at $400 and the HTC 10 doesn't add more value at $700. Many of the "features" ZTE added in suck but can be ignored and it's close to stock Android otherwise. The camera kind of sucks and updates aren't guaranteed but the reason I'm returning it is it's not compatible with Verizon.
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Jigoku posted:Many of the "features" ZTE added in suck but can be ignored and it's close to stock Android otherwise. The camera kind of sucks and updates aren't guaranteed but the reason I'm returning it is it's not compatible with Verizon. Well, gosh it sounds like a well thought out purchase: a kinda cheap (not really), kinda sucky (this is true) phone which will never get updates on that you can't actually use on your carrier. A good phone! I know the whole apologist mindset is popular with tech consumers but this is amazing. Any thoughts on your 'next' phone?!
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Sep 12, 2016 20:21
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"Instead of spending $200 on a good phone, I spent $400 on a bad phone!"
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Sep 12, 2016 20:27
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Should have spent 60$ on an okay phone.
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Sep 12, 2016 20:32
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Ozmiander posted:Should have spent 60$ on an okay phone. A Blu phone is a bad phone, but at $60 that's excusable.
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Sep 12, 2016 20:34
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The axon 7 is a great phone. Hope that clears it up for you
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Endless Mike posted:A Blu phone is a bad phone, but at $60 that's excusable. Correct. The Moto E is a bad phone too, but at the price point, it's great.
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Sep 12, 2016 23:28
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Blitter posted:Any thoughts on your 'next' phone?! I'm loving around and trying out whatever is available right now until the new big Nexus comes out. I'm that tired of my Droid Turbo. It's laggy, the battery life has degraded, and the camera is awful. I'm also just super curious with all these other phone manufacturers popping up. Really want to try the Robin and the OnePlus, but not going to be able to. The only reason I tried the Axon 7 out is because I heard it was unofficially compatible with Verizon, and as stated above, I ended up liking it better than the HTC 10 and the 6p. Just reporting here in case anyone else was curious. The next one is a 5x, which comes tomorrow. Jigoku fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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T-mobile demonstrates why it's a great carrier (with lousy coverage, sob!) https://explore.t-mobile.com/samsung-galaxy-note7-recall#2
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I worked at Oracle in the 'oughties. Everybody believed Ellison was evil, and everybody believed that the sales force was evil, but we viewed the company as providing essential database tools to America's businesses. Nobody wants to believe they work for an evil company; it's always somebody else that's evil. But the sales staff are evil in every company where regulatory and legal compliance are taken seriously.
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Sep 13, 2016 03:36
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Massasoit posted:Anyone having issues with 5x and connecting to wifi with nougut? My girlfriend's 5X has an issue where it disconnects and reconnects every 10 minutes or so, unless restarted, after which it's fine for a while before progressively getting worse until needing another restart. We think it might have something to do with sleep or switching between 2.4 and 5 ghz bands but those are wild guesses.
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My nearly 70 year old mother said to me yesterday that I shouldn't buy a Samsung phone because they explode and burn peoples homes to the ground. She said it was on the news... if this won't hurt Samsung's image, then nothing will, since Note 7 never even got here in the first place.
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My 5x died Sunday evening, rebooted out the blue, then a brief bootloop, then dead. No life, charging did nothing, an ex phone rip These things happen, and it's been perfect for 11 months so I'm not fussed. Phoned Google Monday morning and a new one was cross shipped within an hour arriving today That's why you always buy from the Google store
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Sep 13, 2016 06:48
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Skarsnik posted:My 5x died Sunday evening, rebooted out the blue, then a brief bootloop, then dead Bootloop you say? That usually happens on month 13, right after the warranty expires. LG.txt
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Sep 13, 2016 07:04
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I'm actually using my 3 year old 5 for the day, it's working well Just don't ask how the battery is lasting  New one should be here by 11!
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I'm about to get on a plane and they've just done a special announcement that Note 7s should not be taken aboard. That is my story, thank you for listening
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I've been an Android Pay naysayer, but I used it tonight to see if it had gotten any better and I was pleasantly surprised. There was a slight hesitation on the card reader, but other than that it went smoothly. Likely faster than the chip. Question: I heard it used tokenization, which I thought meant a new number every time. Mine seems to be assigned a static number. Is the virtual card number supposed to change?
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RZA Encryption posted:Question: I heard it used tokenization, which I thought meant a new number every time. Mine seems to be assigned a static number. Is the virtual card number supposed to change? My Android Pay app shows me the last 4 digits of a virtual account number issued by my bank, which doesn't seem to change that I've noticed.
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Skarsnik posted:I'm actually using my 3 year old 5 for the day, it's working well Yeah, my 5 has been a real pleasure to use for the last 3 years, but within the last two months, the battery life has really gone downhill. I now have to carry a portable recharge battery if I'm out all day, otherwise it's empty in the early afternoon. And that's with a couple of hours of music streaming over 4G, and 15-30 minutes of screen time, browsing news and reading mail/sms. I really hope when they launch the new
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The original 5 is actually a fairly easy battery change with a spudger and a bit of patience (loads of online guides) Its finding a battery that isnt fake and will kill you thats the challenge
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