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BathroomTile posted:Why do you have two battery icons? Battery icons are the new clocks.
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Splizwarf posted:More importantly, as far as I know, in the US it's always legal to record anything you want (except in government buildings, thanks, Patriot Act!), although you can be thrown out of private buildings if they don't want you to do it inside (taking photos of prices in stores is a good example: they can't have you arrested but they can show you the door; same with camming a movie in the theater or flash photography in a museum). The laws against recording without notification are only concerned with the recording's legal status as admissible evidence in a courtroom. You can record anything you want for personal use. As far as I know, the only exception is the police in California, who cannot be recorded in any way for any reason including personal use (thanks, Rodney King!). I can tell you from seeing it first had several time in the many years I had worked in movie theaters, you can and will be arrested if they catch you camming a movie.
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Nov 25, 2011 21:40
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Combat Pretzel posted:Here's a better looking app. Coincidentally by the company that makes the NFC chips in both Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. I put my phone on the table when I am at restaurants so that I can see if I get a message or a call with out having to dig in my pocket. And I don't have an iPhone.
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This comment pretty much sums up how I and every other android user I have talked to about Instagram feel about it 
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b0nes posted:I have a cool idea for an app but I don't know jack poo poo about programming. Where do I start? Learn Java as stated before or/and Learn to program android apps directly
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MisterBibs posted:Has anyone used Carrr Matey? I'm going to be going somewhere that I'm not very familiar with, I'm horrible with spatial directions, and I need a "I forgot which direction my car is in" app. I use it everytime I park at the airport. Works great for what it is supposed to do.
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fudsak posted:Let me know if you find a way to actually spend that $10. It can't be used in the market and got declined at Home Depot for me. I used mine at McDonald's.
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May 23, 2012 19:49
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Thermopyle posted:Let's make a list of the ways that Google sucks. The completely useless Google+ Messenger. It is only used to communicate between people using the Google+ app on their phone. It does not message people on the web page, gmail, g-talk, etc. Only between phones. No official syncing of Task. No flash support on Chrome Beta. I hate having to switch back to the stock browser when I want to jerk off.
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Jun 13, 2012 21:39
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Isn't flash support supposed to go away entirely in Jelly Bean? I know that Adobe said they were was not going to be farther development of Flash for mobile, but I don't know if that means it will break on Jelly bean or if the current version will continue to work.
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rolleyes posted:14. Became everything they said they wouldn't, now officially classified by the U.N. as 'evil'. I agree with LastInLine. They are not Evil. They just kind of lazy or A.D.D. in their development. Google's apps and products remind me a lot of most apps on Linux. They are free and the usually work pretty well. But they are always only about 85% to 90% complete. Apps are developed to meet the needs of the person who is writing the app, and any feature past that is ignored. I am really hoping that Matias Duarte will continue to influence Android's user experience in to a more consistent polished affair. The change from Android 2.x to 3.0/4.0 has been incredible. Hopefully, he will also bring some of the changes we have been talking about here.
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Lemons posted:Just got a Galaxy Nexus a couple days ago. I was expecting it to just show up as a mass storage device when I plugged it in, but apparently on a Mac you need to use the Android File Transfer program. This program is horrible, and crashes about 50% of the time I start it. Then I'm lucky if a file will transfer over without an error. Is there some other way? That sucks that Mac doesn't support MTP natively, but you can sort of side step this by using something like Remote Web Desktop which will let you manage your files over wifi through a web browser.
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Jun 22, 2012 22:03
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Yikes A Zombie! posted:I'm only a few days into my Android ownership but so far the Galaxy Nexus is amazing. Er, except for the lame battery life (JuiceDefender doesn't help). Battery life gets better after the first week or so. Also, use wifi when you can. Cell radio use is usually the biggest battery eater on any smart phone. Doublely so if the cell signal is weak.
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Jun 27, 2012 22:29
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IT Guy posted:Flash works like poo poo even on better spec'd devices. Why do you guys love it so much? I don't love it, but HTML5 video isn't available on a lot of sites.
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Jul 6, 2012 16:14
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maduin posted:Just look at porn on your laptop or something, dude. It'll take some time, but by killing off Flash on mobile, websites are going to be forced to actually do things like use .pdf files appropriately and develop native applications, neither of which are bad things. You expect me to take my laptop with me to the men's room? Lets keep it serious here.
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Regarding the IAP discussion, What do you guys think about games that are demos (as in let you play the first level or two) and have an IAP to unlock the full game instead of having Game and Game Lite as separate downloads in the market place?
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IT Guy posted:I'd prefer the game and game lite way of doing it. I hadn't thought about that angle, but it is a good point. Tunga posted:I don't mind this but I wish people would list the IAP costs and content on the store. The "Best Free" and similar tabs on the store are worthless becuase they are all freemium and IAP unlocked games that aren't actually free at all. Yeah, if I was going to make a game that unlocked the full version through an IAP, I would be upfront about it in the description, including the cost and the limitations of the game or app if it was not unlocked. I want it to be clear to the user what it is that they are downloading. I am not interested in making a Freemium game. I consider most of them to be complete garbage. The reason I am considering this is because it allows the user to carry over progress from the demo version of the game to the full version of the game with out relying on saving info on the SD card. It also allows for patches and updates to effectively update both your demo and full version with a single push. Basically, it just seems to me that if you do IAP right, you can make things easier for your users and easier for yourself. And I think you get more user who are willing to support you if you treat them well instead of treating them like thieves or treating them like idiots by trying to trick them in to buying your app or what ever. I would rather make a little money by being honest than make a lot by being shady. edit: For some clarification, I am developing a game right now in my spare time that I am probably going to release completely free because I don't really think it's worth paying for and I would rather see it played by more people than make money off of it. But I am collaborating with a friend for another game that I think has more mass appeal that we will probably do some kind of demo and $1-2 full version. I just wanted some feed back on how people felt about IAP as an unlock method. Lowen SoDium fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jul 25, 2012 |
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ExcessBLarg! posted:If the Paid and Lite versions are signed with the same certificate, can't you just use a one-time intent to migrate any useful data form the Lite version to the Paid one? ExcessBLarg! posted:Are you expecting users to have both versions installed long term? I didn't mean a single push to update both version for a single user. I meant a single update would effectively update the program for any user regardless of if they were a demo user or a full version user. This was about making it easier for me as a developer to maintain a single version. ExcessBLarg! posted:Doing "IAP right" isn't about making thing easy, it's about using them in a sales model for which IAP is solely appropriate. Otherwise you're using IAP as (an inconvenient) workaround for problems (e.g., data migration between Lite and Paid versions) for which there's better solutions. While you could be right there there are better solutions for data migration (I will research this farther), I personally don't consider IAP to be inconvenient. Especially when compared to some thing like: User installs Demo or Lite version User like app/game and wants to buy full version User goes to Play Store to buy full version User has to uninstall lite version If the developer didn't include some way to bring over data, User has to reconfigure app or start over on game progress. Where as with an IAP unlock model User installs Demo or Lite version User like app/game and wants to buy full version User unlocks full version using IAP It seems easier and more convenient in my mind, but I wanted to know how other people felt about the concept. You all are raising some good points that I hadn't considered.
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Kid posted:I uninstalled the Amazon Appstore over the weekend, figuring it would disable/uninstall all the apps that were tied to it. Unfortunately this was not the case. If you had USB debugging enabled, you could probably have removed the program using ADB command line.
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Thermopyle posted:So, I don't know why I didn't try this before, but... Coincidentally, I was also playing with Bubbleupnp last night. You can also use it to stream videos from your XBMC library to your phone or tablet. XBMC's library shows up as a UPNP/DLNA share.
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Thermopyle posted:Yeah. I still keep Plex Media Server installed on my server and the Plex app on my phone because it transcodes video streams to stream at a lower bitrate over 3g. Once XBMC can do transcoding, it will be great. Bubbleupnp also has a PC server program that is supposed to do transcoding, I think. But I haven't messed with it.
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Turnquiet posted:I want to turn on 2-factor auth for my google account. How does that impact my phone and tablet? I just read that article too. After you turn it on, you will have to generate per-device-passwords for any android device you have. It only takes a second and if you lose or have your device stolen, you can revoke access to just the device with out needed to change your account password. It's pretty painless.
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spincube posted:You can't use application-specific passwords for your devices, it scolds you and asks for your Google account's main password instead. Uh, I used application-specific passwords for my phone and tablet with out any issue.
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So it looks like the $25 credit that people get for buying a Nexus 7 is expiring at the end of this month. I still have about $20 of mine left. I was considering getting Chameleon Launcher but I was hoping to hear some kind of feed back from some one here first. Also maybe getting the pay version of Mx Player, and maybe the license version of BubbleUPnP
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ilkhan posted:I'm not sure how you meant that. New Nexus7's won't include the credit, your credit from a previous purchase won't disappear. Farther investigation shows that you are right. "Promotional credits for the new Wallet account creation expire on June 30, 2013." So we have 9 months left. vvv: Well poo poo, I will learn to read properly some day. Lowen SoDium fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 19, 2012 |
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Goober Peas posted:I hope this is the right place to ask this... I'm new to the DROID platform and still figuring things out. Is there a way to quickly merge duplicate contacts in the people app? The easiest way to do this on in your computer, on gmail, on the contacts page.
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the kawaiiest posted:Oh Christ and I've been wondering what's been draining my battery I had that probably a while back. I cleared app data on Maps and it seemed to fix it. I think Latitude got hosed up or something to cause it.
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ThermoPhysical posted:What does Nova Launcher look like on a tablet anyway? If I wanted to give the Nexus 7 a 10" layout with it, could I? If you are rooted, all you have to do is change your device's DPI to about 160 or 170 by editing your build.prop file. This will enable the real tablet UI. If you don't like it, change your DPI back to 213.
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Gangnam Style official app is out for the low price of $2
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For those who want something like Zooper but don't like Zooper, there is Ultimate Custom Widget https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.vineetsirohi.customwidget&hl=en
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Radbot posted:Fire up Google Translate in the app, mobile, or desktop site, and audio pronounce the following phrase in English: "I took my dog to the Apple store end with" Ok, I did. What was it supposed to do? edit: oh, you mean play the sentence out loud, not use their voice recognition.
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Badly Jester posted:For those of you using the SwiftKey Flow beta: SwiftKey 4 has just been released to the play store. Rejoice. After installing the new version, letting it learn from my gmail, facebook, and sms, uninstalling the beta version, and rebooting, it looks like it is using much less memory than the beta was. The beta was sitting at about 45MB of RAM, where as the new version is sitting at about 25MB. I do find it kind of absurd that I need to keep an eye on the memory of my Galaxy Nexus (1 GB of RAM, less after graphics). But I have found that some apps like Zooper Widget use way too much memory and cause really poor performance. I am looking foward to getting a phone with 2GB or more of RAM in the future.
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re: memory usage Not long ago, I had a problem on my Galaxy Nexus with apps being forced out of memory every time I switched out of them to something else. Like if I switched from Chrome to Talk to answer a message and then back to Chrome, it would completely reload. This would happen every time. The cause was Zooper widget (a make your own widget toolkit kind of app). It was using hundreds of MB of ram. I am not sure why it was staying in memory and forcing other apps out, but it was kind of a pain in the rear end. Once I uninstalled it, everything worked like it should.
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LastInLine posted:That's strange. I have two Zooper widgets on my Galaxy Nexus and the app is using 18MB of RAM. What were the widgets displaying? I remember that I had 3 widgets configured. A large full screen sized on to display on my lock screen that displayed a lot of info like calendars, signal strength, battery life, clock, weather, etc. And 2 more medium sized ones on my home screens that displayed some of the same info. I really don't remember what all I had the configured to display.
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Lovie Unsmith posted:What is a good app for an Asus Transformer to connect to a Cisco VPN? What version of Android does it have? Also, what kind of Cisco VPN? Cisco IPSEC or Cisco Anyconnect? If you are 4.0 or higher, you can connect to Cisco IPSEC using android's built in vpn client. If you need Anyconnect, there is a cisco app on the play store for it. If you are on an older version of Android, you will need to be rooted to us any kind of VPN client for cisco.
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Gozinbulx posted:I know this is a long shot, especially based on everything I've read, but: It's probably not an ActiveX issue, but more likely that the page was written specifically for Internet Explorer 6 and it's really lovely HTML implementation. But in either case, you won't be able to view it on any native Android browser. You are not going to see Virtualization of Windows XP on an Android device because because Windows XP is for x86 type processors and Android typically runs on ARM CPUs. You can emulate x86 for Windows 98 in DosBox Turbo on android, but it is very very very very VERY slow. But it would get you up to IE6 which is probably what that website wants. Honestly, as slow as Windows 98 is in Dosbox, you are probably better off using some kind of remote desktop or VNC app to remote control a Windows PC.
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Tunga posted:
G+ Messenger has always been useless and needs to die yesterday. The only thing it does is let you send messages to other G+ users on their phone. It doesn't send or receive messages from gchat, hangouts, or any web service. It is literally a redundant and pointless phone to phone messaging service. I kind of get what google is trying to do, but I can't believe that they thought this was good enough to release. Without SMS and MMS functionality with and without google voice, all this is is a glorified reskin of Google Talk. And honestly, they should have made the new hangouts the default chat service on Gmail and google/ig (at least until they kill it later this year). I like the way that it hands conversations on a conversation level instead of on a contact level. I like the UI of the phone app. I like the standard inclusion of EMOJI and I like the in line pictures. I guess I get that they want you to use this more like text messaging instead of IM and that is why they don't readily show you user online/away status, but I think that is a mistake. I can't believe they didn't kill G+ messenger. And I can't understand why they didn't include SMS and MMS from the get go. Their focus really needed to be "Hangouts is the only IM type communication tool that you need from here out and we are rolling ALL of our services in to it." Maybe next version...
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Thermopyle posted:I'm on my phone so I can't link it, but a Google engineer just posted on G+ that Messenger will get integrated into Hangouts once they're done adding a method to export data... Whatever that means. That shouldn't take long since there is not data to export because NO ONE used G+ Messenger. 
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Grim Up North posted:Ahaha, so Google will apparently disable XMPP Federation with the switch from Talk to Hangouts. While this will probably affect nobody except a few If this is true, it's bad news for me as I am working on Cisco IM with Jabber and getting XMPP federation up and working between our domain and other XMPP service like google Talk. This was a big feature for us.
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CS majors (like me), it actually means there will be nobody on Hangout for me to chat with and I'll have to re-install my own XMPP server.