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Frodo

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Going back to a 4.5' Moto G after using a Nexus 6P since launch just highlights how awesome the 6P is. Hopefully I'll have another 6P by Monday or Tuesday the latest, after the tragic incident with my 6P. Rest in pieces.

I don't believe I'll ever want a phone with a smaller screen again.
 

Minto

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Hey Guys.

Just got my Nexus 6P for christmas, already have a pretty good case on it but now I'm looking for a good screen protector. Any particular ones or brands I should go for? Or will the cheap-ish tempered glass ones from ebay do the trick just fine?
 

Frodo

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I reckon most screen protectors will do just fine. Just make sure it has the cut for the sensors under the top speaker so your screen won't be completely dark when receiving calls.
 
So I received my nexus 6p a couple of days ago and I really love it. The only issue with the phone so far is the battery life. It's a little disappointing. I am getting about 4 hours of on screen time, but the worse thing is on stand by. The doze feature doesn't seem to activate at all and I lose over 10% of battery overnight. I installed all my old apps and it might be one of them stopping the phone from deep sleep, but I thought the os will be smart to recognize that and put a stop to it, but it doesn't. If you guys have any tips, please share.
 

Maximus.

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Just curious if anyone's had experience with dropping their phone in water and it coming out unscathed after similar initial issues. I don't even really mean the question to be Nexus 6P specific.

It's a silly question because there is no guarantee. There may be internal damage that will cause problems later, there may not be any issue.
 
It's a silly question because there is no guarantee. There may be internal damage that will cause problems later, there may not be any issue.

It really depends on the quality of the water. If it's drinkable and has very little salt content, it shouldn't do much damage.
 
Yo, Pocket Casts is WAY better than Stitcher! It's better in every single way, except one: no sequential playback. I really like that Stitcher will automatically play the next episode in a series, and so far I haven't found a way to make Pocket Casts do it.
 
Guys I have a question about the screen.

Without even turning it on, the first thing I did was smack an Orzly screen protector on the front, so now I don't know if the issue I have is the phone, the protector on even a fault.

When I tilt the screen, in any direction, the colour gets noticeably lighter. Think of it as the phone being on warm 1 and when tilted, goes neutral, cool 1, etc.

This is noticeable on any direction tilt, on standard or sRGB.

What's causing this?
 

ScOULaris

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Guys I have a question about the screen.

Without even turning it on, the first thing I did was smack an Orzly screen protector on the front, so now I don't know if the issue I have is the phone, the protector on even a fault.

When I tilt the screen, in any direction, the colour gets noticeably lighter. Think of it as the phone being on warm 1 and when tilted, goes neutral, cool 1, etc.

This is noticeable on any direction tilt, on standard or sRGB.

What's causing this?

Sounds like it's the screen protector bending/diffusing the light coming through it slightly, so it changes the brightness/color that your eyes perceive when viewing it at an angle. The actual AMOLED screen shouldn't do this.
 
Yo, Pocket Casts is WAY better than Stitcher! It's better in every single way, except one: no sequential playback. I really like that Stitcher will automatically play the next episode in a series, and so far I haven't found a way to make Pocket Casts do it.

You use the "Up Next" queue for this in Pocket Casts. You've gotta do it beforehand but there's an "Add to Up Next" button in the episode detail screen. Just start playing a podcast then add the next few episodes to your "up next" queue and you've got sequential playback. You can do this from the podcast list screen because the "Add to Up Next" button is added to the App Bar when you start multiselecting episodes.

I prefer this way over the app just playing the next episode because it doesn't mess with the "listened" state, I like to control which episodes I have downloaded, and I can have multiple podcasts in my queue instead of just listening to the same series.

The thing I love the most about Pocket Casts is how they've opted for fewer but more flexible features, rather than having every option under the sun like other podcast apps. I think this is a way better design: the app is less buggy because the developers have less surface area to test, I can develop a robust mental model of how the app works because there's less to keep track of, the interface is clean and comprehensible, and the developers can spend a lot of time making a few features work well under many different scenarios instead doing a shitty job of implementing every request that comes in.

I have a big issue with the equivocation of "lots of options" with "high quality app". It's always better to build up an existing feature to support another use case instead of adding extra buttons and settings (as in this example, getting rid of the "continuous playback" option by making the "up next" queue more flexible and easier to use).
 
You use the "Up Next" queue for this in Pocket Casts. You've gotta do it beforehand but there's an "Add to Up Next" button in the episode detail screen. Just start playing a podcast then add the next few episodes to your "up next" queue and you've got sequential playback. You can do this from the podcast list screen because the "Add to Up Next" button is added to the App Bar when you start multiselecting episodes.

I prefer this way over the app just playing the next episode because it doesn't mess with the "listened" state, I like to control which episodes I have downloaded, and I can have multiple podcasts in my queue instead of just listening to the same series.

The thing I love the most about Pocket Casts is how they've opted for fewer but more flexible features, rather than having every option under the sun like other podcast apps. I think this is a way better design: the app is less buggy because the developers have less surface area to test, I can develop a robust mental model of how the app works because there's less to keep track of, the interface is clean and comprehensible, and the developers can spend a lot of time making a few features work well under many different scenarios instead doing a shitty job of implementing every request that comes in.

I have a big issue with the equivocation of "lots of options" with "high quality app". It's always better to build up an existing feature to support another use case instead of adding extra buttons and settings (as in this example, getting rid of the "continuous playback" option by making the "up next" queue more flexible and easier to use).
I'm still fiddling around with it, but hopefully this solves my issue. The problem I have is that I'm something like 100 episodes behind on Freakonomics, which I try to get in sequentially but interrupt to listen to new episodes of things I am caught up on. I don't really want to manually enqueue some 100 episodes each time. I can also always just manually start the next episode each time, too, but this particular show intersperses 5-minute episodes and 1-hour ones.

Aside from that, I agree that it's just a better podcasting app in general. I especially like that it downloads the episode first and then plays it (and then deletes it), so you don't get playback interruptions like you sometimes do on Stitcher, and I like that you can remove shows from your favorites list or rearrange the order of that list, which you can't on Stitcher for no discernible reason.

I don't agree that continuous playback is superfluous, though.
 
I'm still fiddling around with it, but hopefully this solves my issue. The problem I have is that I'm something like 100 episodes behind on Freakonomics, which I try to get in sequentially but interrupt to listen to new episodes of things I am caught up on. I don't really want to manually enqueue some 100 episodes each time. I can also always just manually start the next episode each time, too, but this particular show intersperses 5-minute episodes and 1-hour ones.

Might want to create a permanent playlist if you have that many episodes instead of using Up Next. Then you can just listen to the playlist. "Add to playlist" is in the overflow menu in the episode detail page.

I don't agree that continuous playback is superfluous, though.

Yeah, it's a matter of opinion, but I think it's always better to adapt the playlist features to better accommodate the use case of continuous playback rather than add a special option or default behavior.
 
Might want to create a permanent playlist if you have that many episodes instead of using Up Next. Then you can just listen to the playlist. "Add to playlist" is in the overflow menu in the episode detail page.
Man, I wish there was an easier way to do this. I think I'm better off just manually playing each episode.
 
Sounds like it's the screen protector bending/diffusing the light coming through it slightly, so it changes the brightness/color that your eyes perceive when viewing it at an angle. The actual AMOLED screen shouldn't do this.
That's a shame if that's the case. I had Nillkin protectors on my N4 and N5 and they were both great. Read a few posts comparing Nillkin or...anything and they all said Nillkin was the worst of the lot. Many recommended Orzly so I grabbed it and it sucks!

Back to Nillkin, and a waste of £8, pfft.
 

Josue

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After having an iPhone 5 for the longest time, I think I'm gonna go for this.

I've never had an Android so I'm wondering if rooting and all that is as easy as jailbreaking and installing tweaks?
 

Elitist1945

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After having an iPhone 5 for the longest time, I think I'm gonna go for this.

I've never had an Android so I'm wondering if rooting and all that is as easy as jailbreaking and installing tweaks?

I wanna say it involves putting a .ROM or some other type of file onto the phone and then safebooting something rather I don't know what I'm talking about lol.
 

snacknuts

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After having an iPhone 5 for the longest time, I think I'm gonna go for this.

I've never had an Android so I'm wondering if rooting and all that is as easy as jailbreaking and installing tweaks?

You don't need to worry about rooting at this point. Get the phone and see how you like it. If you run into bothersome limitations that rooting can solve, worry about it then. Coming from iOS, it's already going to feel wide open.
 

vypek

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Ordered mine on January 5th as I am about to test out Google Fi. Should be here soon. I'm l9oking forward to it.
 

CS_Dan

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After having an iPhone 5 for the longest time, I think I'm gonna go for this.

I've never had an Android so I'm wondering if rooting and all that is as easy as jailbreaking and installing tweaks?

You probably won't need to root to get Android to do what you want nowadays, especially if you're coming from iOS.

What features did you jailbreak for?
 

lightus

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Ignorant Question: If I buy a 6P but want to use it with Verizon, do I just bring it to a Verizon store to activate it?

If you have an activated nano SIM you can just switch out the card. If you have an activated normal or micro card you can either try to get a new nano SIM activated or just cut yours down to nano size.

I cut mine using this with no issue at all.
 

Josue

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You probably won't need to root to get Android to do what you want nowadays, especially if you're coming from iOS.

What features did you jailbreak for?

Mostly customizing icons and the general look of my phone.

Also, I found the case I'm going to be using but should I even bother getting a screen protector? My iPhone 5 never needed one
 
The Matte Gold color is now available in the US on the Google Store for those interested. Looks pretty good imo.

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So, I got the Galaxy Note 5 a few months back and while I'm really liking it, I can't help but wonder if I should have gotten the Nexus 6 instead. Are there any significant differences aside from the default launcher?
 

Frodo

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So, I got the Galaxy Note 5 a few months back and while I'm really liking it, I can't help but wonder if I should have gotten the Nexus 6 instead. Are there any significant differences aside from the default launcher?

Hardware wise both should be great the only thing is the Nexus will get updates when they are released, the Note 5 will depend on Samsung's good will.
 

Bboy AJ

My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
So, I got the Galaxy Note 5 a few months back and while I'm really liking it, I can't help but wonder if I should have gotten the Nexus 6 instead. Are there any significant differences aside from the default launcher?
Massive differences. Enjoy your Note 5!
 
Got a 32GB in Aluminum. I love everything about it except for the fact that the size may end up being just a bit too large for me after all.

On the one hand, everything looks amazing on it. But I sorta miss the easy one handed use of a ~5-inch phone.
 

vypek

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Got a 32GB in Aluminum. I love everything about it except for the fact that the size may end up being just a bit too large for me after all.

On the one hand, everything looks amazing on it. But I sorta miss the easy one handed use of a ~5-inch phone.

Yeah, I just got the 128GB model and I can't one hand this one so well. And getting used to the differences of default apps, the keyboard and button placement.
 

DrFurbs

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Is anyone having microphone problems with people not being able to hear when on a video call or if the phone away from mouth area?

People are telling me constantly they can hear a word I'm saying when on a video call.

I googled and it appears to be a common experience.
 
I heard back from the phone company about the repair for the issue the phone came with. This was the third time I sent it off for the same repair which they hadn't fixed it, the previous two times they just factory reset it and said it fixed it even though it arrived to them already factory reset. They told me previously that if it isn't fixed after the third time they would give me a replacement.

However, they said today that their repair company rejected my repair claim and are sending the phone back to me not fixed. Because it was rejected, it doesn't count as not being fixed after the third repair. So I am getting the unfixed phone sent back to me for a third time, and no replacement. They did not say why it was rejected but I was told that I will need to wait until I get the phone back (estimated to be in three days) to read the document they sent with it. I need to get this before I can follow up.

EDIT: Good news! They called me about 7 hours later to tell me that I am getting a replacement! They said I should have been given a replacement off the bat (as I first reported the issue within 28 days). It should take another two weeks for me to get the phone.

They read the reason why the repair request was rejected: they couldn't reproduce the 'freezing'. But the issue wasn't freezing at all, it was audio static and I was 100% clear on that!

They gave me $30 off my next bill as I have been using the plan on a different phone in the meantime and they already gave me the full $60 off my previous bill.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
What are those launcher apps? They organize them so that it's easier to find what you want to use? How is it better than stock?
 
What are those launcher apps? They organize them so that it's easier to find what you want to use? How is it better than stock?
They are home screen replacements. They aren't necessarily better, but they offer different features.

For example, Nova Launcher lets you set multiples of your app bar row (or whatever it's called; it's the one with the app drawer icon), so you can swipe left or right for more rows of pinned apps, which I like a lot.
 
What are those launcher apps? They organize them so that it's easier to find what you want to use? How is it better than stock?
I don't know if you mean any in particular but they can allow you to hide apps you don't want to see in the launcher, they can resize the icons and show a different number of apps, they can have sorting options, you can set different animations and looks. If it is better than the stock Google Now Launcher is up to your tastes.

They also can change what the home screen is like dramatically. Check out the Yahoo Aviate Launcher for an example.

I use Apex and it has gesture recognition. I set it so if I swipe up on the home screen it brings up the recent apps.
 

ctfg23

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Hopefully a future update lets you turn on ambient display for notifications and picking up the phone separately. I'd rather only have it for notifications.
 
Hopefully a future update lets you turn on ambient display for notifications and picking up the phone separately. I'd rather only have it for notifications.

There's lots of little customization options I feel are missing from the current OS. Setting up a separate lock screen wallpaper, altering the notification light's color/pattern, etc.

You can do some of this with third party apps, but I feel you really shouldn't have to.
 

MattDoza

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Is there a way to set custom text ringtones for individual contacts? I'm using Textra if that matters
In the conversations list, long press the contact you want to change the tone for, then hit the 3 dot menu in the upper right and select "override default settings" then head into notifications and you can change stuff for that particular contact.
 

CS_Dan

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Anyone else rocking the SRGB mode for better colour accuracy? It's jarring at first but so much better after a couple of days getting used to it.
 

Fletcher

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Around this time every year I have that android itch. Currently on a perfectly fine i6s, but really want to try marshmallow and a 6p.

Worried about that phone size, though. And dropping $450 on a phone.
 

andthebeatgoeson

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Around this time every year I have that android itch. Currently on a perfectly fine i6s, but really want to try marshmallow and a 6p.

Worried about that phone size, though. And dropping $450 on a phone.

Me too. Does the 6p have any good software, like Moto's assist program? I was driving yesterday and it read my text I recieved, and sent one back, hands free. I need to use that more, while driving.

But that fingerprint scanner may be enough. Lose in one area, gain in another.
 
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