andrerobot
Member
I missed having no Exchange support so I downgraded to KitKat after a couple of hours.
It's a shame.
It's a shame.
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Android 5.0 Lollipop announced
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BertramCooper
Banned
It pains me to think of the unspeakable things Samsung is going to do to this beautiful OS.
Unlocking the bootloader will let you flash anything. You can flash w/o rooting.
Google is not good about meeting release dates. Hence the vague announcements.
S3 will very likely have a version of L by way of CyanogenMod.
Moral Panic
Member
I just hope I can play music without having the cover art appear on the lockscreen. Dumbest design decision I have seen in a good while.
Pops Maellard
Member
Easily one of my favorite things about Android.
BoboBrazil
Member
Lol why would you not want this?
Whaaaat. The stock mail app stopped supporting Exchange Activesync? In that case, can't you use a different mail app from the Play Store to access your account?
Jzero
Member
wtf. that was one of my favorite features in 4.4.4.
I was pissed when they removed it in the L previews.
What are the chances the digital audio output will let my Nexus 4 work with a car audio system that has a newer iPod digital interface? I'm aware of the podmode app, but it only works with older cars that take analog audio. I'd love to be able to just plug in my phone and get song titles on my stereo with Spotify or Google Music. My car is a 2013 Hyundai Sonata with the basic radio, so bluetooth audio streaming works fine but just shows the name of the phone.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Play Music isn't included in the new preview, all you get is the old ugly Music app that hasn't been updated in years. So you have to install Play Music from the Store, and then you obviously just get the same version everyone else has. So no, no material design. The same goes for all other Google apps.
You're crazy, the lock screen media controls in KK are great!
Unfortunately, they haven't quite fixed them in the preview yet. The artwork is back, but not the proper controls. This is what I get on my lock screen (I use pattern unlock and have notifications set to hide sensitive content):
Uhm, yeah, that's very useful...
Media controls obviously need to show up no matter what. That's not sensitive content.
EDIT: This is what it looks like if you have notifications set to display their content on the lock screen:
So yeah, this is one of very few clear steps backward from KK, unless they fix it before the final release.
lemmykoopa
Junior Member
Link for your lockscreen background please?
Edit: nm, No need for link. It's dream theater artwork i see now
And what's even worse is seeing people lap it up like it's the greatest thing in the world.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Yeah, that's what the lock screen looks like when playing something in Play Music. DT, in this case.
Bob Dobalina
Member
I'm looking at some of the articles put up regarding 5.0 features and design and I gotta say, I can't believe this is a google product.
Where is the jank?
Where is the jank?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Eh, there hasn't really been much jank in stock Android since JB (4.1) or so. And it's gotten even better since then. But yes, 5.0 is a big step forward in terms of design, smooth interactions, animations and such.
BertramCooper
Banned
The new ringtone volume controls kind of confuse me.
Is selecting the NONE button on the volume bar the way you're supposed to silence the phone? Turning down volume all the way just puts it on vibrate.
Is selecting the NONE button on the volume bar the way you're supposed to silence the phone? Turning down volume all the way just puts it on vibrate.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Well, that stops all notifications and other disturbances from showing up. So it's kind of like a super-silenced mode. But you're right that there doesn't seem to be a regular silenced mode anymore, where you still get notifications but no sound or vibration.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
Member
I hope LG doesn't mute the colorful design when this comes to the G3.
Yeah that's a good point.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
If I can get appa and stuff like the ghosting features then that's all I need.
The rest of the Google account features are great.
From looking through the notes on the API, I think that it can be fixed with an update to the app itself rather than the OS, so I'm hoping the Material Design All Access update will sort it.
Have you guys seen or used any recent Samsung phone (S5 and Note 4) with the latest Touchwiz UI?
BertramCooper
Banned
Phoenix
Member
In my release it always appears as the bottom. Maybe there is some setting that came over from a previous flash, but its always there.
Bluetooth appears to have some issues in the preview. It took a number of times before it would find my car's head unit - but once it did everything was fine.
Phoenix
Member
Indeed. Whomever designed all of this needs a huge raise, because this OS is just stellar in its beauty and execution. Unless this is a fluke, Apple is going to have their work cut out for themselves to stay out in front.
Phoenix
Member
Its there - certainly. I've gone through Spotify and Google Play Music and its always fullscreen cover art on the lock screen.
Yes, and while better than previous versions, it's still a clusterfuck. I don't like any of the custom skins that the manufactures put on their phones. It's wasn't needed when Kit Kat was out and it sure as hell won't be needed when Lollipop releases.
I've had mine going the entire day and it's been good. 4G was on the entire time, Wi-Fi dependent on whether I was home or not. 3h40m of screen use and I got just under 11 hours out of it so far (with still one hour and ten minutes expected according to the battery report). It's not bad.
****EDIT: Figured you'd like a screenshot to supplement. Haven't really used my phone since then (aside form music). But I'm also not using battery saving mode so background data is free range, and my notifications are constantly coming at me. It's not bad.
It's all in due time for most of the apps, really.
Thanks! Sucks to have to wait so long.
Sucks, but at least by then most apps will be optimized for L and you won't experience the crashes. And you'll have all the material design at your finger tips. It'll be so glorious you forget the dev preview wasn't open to N4's. <3
I've never seen this before, is it anything like how Windows phone did it? Because that was my favorite feature from that OS.
I've never seen this before, is it anything like how Windows phone did it? Because that was my favorite feature from that OS.
Pretty much:
So if you use Hangouts as your default SMS app, your text get backed up to the cloud. And I don't mean Google Voice text messages.
All my text that I sent via my mobile phone # are there after the wipe. I've scroll back as far as June, and gave up. Don't know how far back but it seems all of them are there.
All my text that I sent via my mobile phone # are there after the wipe. I've scroll back as far as June, and gave up. Don't know how far back but it seems all of them are there.
That's an obscene amount. I'd just delete everything.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
How much apace is taken up?
See I don't think it downloads all your SMS. You need to scroll up (go back in time) to be able to see them. Hangouts then starts requesting them as you scroll back. At that point I think it starts to cache them in the phone.
It's just good to know that they are there. Hopefully you can eventually access them outside your phone.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Good to to know still.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
It really is nice. So smooth!
Is your vision of Google back from 2010?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
It's already back. Look at the screens I posted earlier in the thread, they show exactly that. The controls are a bit messed up at the moment though.
Yeah, that might be it.
What? I've never, ever seen Hangouts pull in old texts, just Hangouts messages. Nor have I ever heard about that being a feature. And I've wanted SMS backup/syncing for a long time. I use SMS Backup & Restore to do it manually.
Are you saying this is a new thing in L, or...? Or that it's a new Hangouts feature? I would love it to be true, but I've never seen it.
Got a link where I can learn?