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Civil posted:Also: Eh, 5.0 really hosed with the Moto G's. Multitasking is pretty much impossible on one now - I have a 2014 Moto G and after Lollipop simply cannot keep both Play music and Maps open. A loving travesty really, especially when my Razr M that had the same amount RAM had absolutely no problems doing such simple things like that.
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Bob A Feet posted:I feel bad trash talking cyanogenmod because for a while they were a very viable option for almost every android phone, the only option for some android phones that came with broken software out of the box, and for almost every phone that wasn't a nexus, the only way to get on a current version of android. I feel like this hasn't really been the case with Android since like 2012, though -- when phones like the Galaxy s3 and Droid Maxx's came around Android kinda hit a good state on a lot of devices for average users. Seems like there's less reasons every year to root your device and flash a custom rom or whatever.
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Bob A Feet posted:Agreed. I would say there is no reason to root now unless you gotta have lollipop right now (aka no one). Lollipop finally hit a good state on my Moto G with the latest OTA update that Motorola pushed out. They've pushed out three OTA Lollipop updates in a month and a half - a crazy pace I've never seen any OEM do. It was needed though because the first two were horribly broken and wouldn't even allow basic multitasking. The last one seems like it cleared things up; I can finally Play music and use Navigation at the same time again.
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Dec 23, 2014 18:18
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kazmeyer posted:So I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a Moto G LTE, and when doing a quick Google search to make sure I'm getting the right version, I see all this noise about the 2nd gen Moto G LTE leaked on a Brazilian site. I've been using babby's first prepaids before this so I don't have any idea what release cycles are like; could the updated LTE phone be coming out anytime soon, or is this a "couple quarters away" kind of situation? Could be soon, but the only difference between the 1st gen Moto G with LTE and the second gen are the bigger screen and front facing speakers.
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Dec 30, 2014 19:21
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bronin posted:Plus better camera. Yeah, I guess on paper the camera on the second gen is better but in reality the improvement is barely noticable (2nd gen moto G is my daily driver).
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Dec 30, 2014 19:42
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LastInLine posted:The two groups are merging because they're the ones that no one uses. The only thing that's going to define a "winner" is Apple including one and until they do it doesn't matter what happens in the space. Apple will probably just make their own standard for this poo poo and not user any of the existing ones because hey it's work for them before so why not?
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Jan 6, 2015 17:03
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Lblitzer posted:I'll argue that Lollipop hasn't gone OTA for the 2nd gen but I flashed it anyways and it runs like poo poo. Not that Blu phones are any better (except the ones that do run a Snapdragon), they still have some great devices if you choose other than a Moto G. Yeah, I'm at the point where I'd rather have a nice stable phone than BLEEDING EDGE SOFTWARE!!! It really sucked when my Moto G got an OTA to Lollilpop and I suddenly couldn't use maps and music together anymore without them kicking each other out of memory. I eventually gave up on the Moto G and bought my friends Galaxy s4 and I've been way happier even though it "only" has 4.4. deadlyrhetoric posted:Is there like an Android portable music device that isn't my mobile phone? Pick up a used Moto E from somewhere, throw an SD card in it, tell Google Music to store your music on the external card and boom.
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butt dickus posted:There is now! drat, that's a sexy device. Price is steep, but crazy audiophiles have been known to throw away $500 on "premium" cables or some poo poo sooooo
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BoyBlunder posted:Hahah, keep dreaming, buddy! Lollipop isn't worth it, anyway. At least not right now.
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Thermopyle posted:Which is why it was not appropriate for Google to update the 2012. They took a perfectly fine device and made it objectively worse. Yeah, they would have caught a lot of poo poo for not updating a ~*nexus*~ device but the 2012 nexus 7 was already dog poo poo slow and had trouble doing simple things like playing music and using chrome without the music skipping, popping, and buzzing before it's 5.0 update.
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Endless Mike posted:Nothing is more crippling than Touchwiz. Eh, I can't live without muilti-window now.
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RZA Encryption posted:What apps do you commonly put side by side? Awful and Youtube, Chrome and Twitter etc. Pretty drat useful.
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Kidney Stone posted:So, dilemma time for me. They're both great phones. Pick whatever one will fit better within the ecosystem that you use. Use a lot of google services? Note. Have a predominately mac household? iPhone.
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You can get rid of the unknown source notification on Galaxy s4 and s5 by holding down the notification and force closing the setup wizard. That'll get the notification to go away until you restart. As for the phone working, you need to enable roaming in the settings. Since it's a Verizon phone and not a Verizon sim, you are technically roaming to the phone. I use a Verizon Galaxy s4 on cricket this way with absolutely no problems.
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You guys must be mistaken. LastinLine's phone works just great, yours should too!  Motorola was smart to hold off their lollipop updates until they fixed some of the nastyness.
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Feb 11, 2015 16:52
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LastInLine posted:To be fair, I don't run high memory applications simultaneously so the memory leak has never affected me. The lollipop memory bugs absolutely affected the 2014 Moto G. It took Motorola two additional more lollipop updates to fix that.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:28
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New Galaxy's are sexy as gently caress. To bad about the SD card though. Funny that they got rid of them when everyone else added them back. Samsung supremacy, suck it.
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Mar 1, 2015 21:44
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Three Olives posted:It's funny how this is now the prevailing wisdom when it wasn't that long ago that phone makers were very upfront that phones were getting bigger because LTE chipsets and the processors that Android needed not to run like dog poo poo required bigger batteries and the batteries were driving screen size. This isn't why big phones happened at all. Big phones happened because they were a way to differentiate Android phones from iPhones.
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Mar 2, 2015 22:32
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My favorite useless google now feature is the parking spot card. Thanks to google now, I can see that I parked my car somewhere in this large bubble that covers 3 streets! Wow thanks google!!
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LastInLine posted:I really hope someone defends this because I've been trying to come up with a way to even theoretically use this card and I haven't come up with a way. It would have to involve drinking and a multiple uses of public transportation but then I wonder whether or not it would be able to distinguish the secondary transportation from another car ride. The only thing I can think of, is city parking. I know a friend of mine that went into NYC to take the NYPD test and forgot where he parked his car. Walked around for like 2 hours before finding it. I guess the card would have helped him out in that specific instance, but I can't think of anything else.
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Mar 3, 2015 15:47
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axeil posted:Ah okay. Are Motorola and VZW good at getting updates out? I've only ever had Samsung/VZW Android Phones (S4, VZW Gnex and the Motorola has been better lately. It's fairly new for them though - they never used to be this "good" about updates.
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Droid Charge) and the update speed is atrocious. I ended up rooting/unlocking my S4 just so I could load stuff myself.
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Reverse Centaur posted:Most big cities have multi-level parking either underground or stacked high. I usually can't even get a cellular signal where I park because I'm three storeys underneath a tower. Yeah, who knows. He parked it on some random side street somewhere in Brooklyn irrc.
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I've been using messenger for almost 4 years now, no problems here. That's good enough for the lollipop defense brigade, should be good enough here too!
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hotsauce posted:I've found that just leaving all the shitware apps turned on (disabling nothing) results in better battery life these days. Seems disabling system apps causes the OS to endlessly try to use them, burning battery. This is the correct answer.
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Mar 25, 2015 16:50
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Tunga posted:You needed Light Flow uninstalled for work? I'm not following. Thermophysical needs voicemail notifications for work, so turning off the voicemail notification box in lightflow is not an acceptable solution.
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nerve posted:Is there a consistent way to remove something like Google play music from the notification shade? It's sitting in there and I'm not listening to anything, but when I swipe right on it it just bounces back and stays. Won't let me do anything. Mine has been doing this lately too, and it's pretty annoying. I think the behavior was introduced after the most recent update. Sometimes there's no little X in the corner to click on either, so you're at the mercy of the Android gods to make the notification go away eventually. swampface posted:My S4 just updated to lollipop last night and now the messaging notifications don't actually have the message in them anymore: Check the new notification/privacy settings that lollipop introduced. They're probably set to "restricted" or whatever they're called.
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MC Hawking posted:Take everything written in this thread with a gigantic grain of salt as most of the regular posters are in a never ending arms race to troll the poo poo out of each other with increasingly stupid word strings. This is a good post.
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Cultural Imperial posted:The latest Facebook app features the ability to turn off notifications. This and hibernating with greenify seems to be jacking up my battery life hardcore. You could always turn off the notifications. At least since the great big 2011 redesign of the facebook app.
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comper posted:Do people really get 10+ (or even 8-10) hours of SoT with the Turbo? I thought the battery was on par with a Note 4 which would usually max out around 6 hours of SoT for me. 10+ seems absurd unless it was just sitting there on a black screen. I've pulled ~5 with my 2014 Moto G before. 8-10 doesen't too farfetched tbh, as long as a number of conditions lined up (were they hammering cell radios? In an area with great reception? etc).
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Longbaugh01 posted:Hi. Today I received the Lollipop OTA option for my at&t LG G2. It probably wanted you to actually hit an "ignore for X hours" button, instead of just ignoring it. Chances are the notification you got was something like "The phone will restart and update in 10 minutes" or whatever LastInLine posted:A carrier or OEM doing the right thing and forcing users to be on the latest software? No precedence I can think of but it's a welcome step. LastInLine posted:Forced updates should be the norm and there's no reason at all not to do it. Users should not have the option to forgo security patches and API updates because it puts them at risk for things they do not and cannot understand. You're missing the point. The poster wasn't mad that his/her phone updated, the poster was mad that the phone updated when he/she wasn't ready for it. It would suck pretty hard if he/she actually had to use the phone for something but instead it was in the middle of an update.
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uninterrupted posted:That last point really strikes me. This is why most phones make you either hit a button to update, or wait until your phone restarts (or turns off/on). E: it could have been some flukey poo poo like the phone kernel panicked and restarted on its own, triggering the delayed update to install. Wouldn't be too far fetched.
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You can't install apps to the SD card on a Moto G. I have the second gen Moto G, and honestly I'm not hurting for space at all. I have an SD card for music/photos (second gen has an SD card slot) and I have a ton of apps installed. No games though.
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Tunga posted:So, umm, I'm not saying you're wrong but I eventually dug up this page where Motorola says I can: That's media, not apps. If you store media on the internal storeage somehow, the second gen moto g gives you an option to transfer it to your SD card without you having to muck around in a file manager.
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TraderStav posted:Thanks, for those who were used to it on the left was it tolerable after a period of T You won't even notice it after 3 days. You're over-thinking it.
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Thermopyle posted:I just factory reset my phone because I was having weird issues that I didn't feel like troubleshooting. Plus it gave me a chance to reevaluate what apps I want to keep installed. Yeah, it really is poo poo. I don't want to hear the excuse of different OEM's gently caress around with Android too much; just give me a way to keep the apps I have on my phone with the settings inside of them. Stuff like wallpaper and phone specific settings I don't really care about. You can say that app developers have the option to include user settings and such in ~*the cloud*~ so they'll be restored when you download them again, but pretty much no ones uses that feature so Google should probably just finally step up with a solution.
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Tunga posted:One of the problems is that Android apps were historically allowed to poo poo their settings/data all over the SD card if they wanted to. It's hard to back that up and attribute it to the correct apps, especially if it is intentionally shared data or large media files. Mooktastical posted:You said it yourself though, that's a historical issue. Apps are no longer allowed to poo poo random garbage out all over your sd card as of KitKat. Yup, Google could have figured some poo poo out in the 7 years Android has been out in public now.
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Google Butt posted:I'm using the multi window function or whatever they call it on my s6, top half of the screen has a live stream and forums on the bottom and I'm blown away with how well it works. Yup, don't know why Google hasn't made that an ~*official android*~ thing yet. Multi-window owns on my Samsung tab.
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Desk Lamp posted:Multiwindow on touchwiz 4.3 was probably the best implementation so far, no need for apps like Linkbubble. Allegedly it works the same way on the Note 4 Lollipop but I can't get it to work that way with Awful which is the main reason I liked it so much. You can turn off the built in browser for Facebook in the settings.
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May 18, 2015 15:39
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Vykk.Draygo posted:The other 99.5%. Normal people don't buy nexus phones
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Do apps need to include support for Google's multi-window solution, or do they just work?
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