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Android 5.0 Lollipop announced

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WhiskerFrisker

Member
SimleuqiR said:
Wow! Love how it asked me from which device back up I wanted to restore my "new" phone from.

That...and how the not yet installed apps on your homescreens show opaque, ghost like.

IMG_20141017_213610.jpg


AND...your screens and icon placements are saved!! No longer do you have to worry about rearranging icons!!

GOAT!
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Haha, I'm watching a video by Phandroid on the Google restore feature and the guy showing it off was totally having a nerdgasm. Shit, I would be too due to the fact that it sets your icons to the way you left it on your old device.
 
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MildSoss

Member
Man, Android L looks gorgeous. Are any roots available for the Note 4 already? After using stock android on my Note 7 for a while now going back to Touch Wiz is pretty bad.
 
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RuGalz

Member
WhiskerFrisker said:
I'm not interested in the One Plus. I read of bugs with Cyanogenmod and I don't have time for that. Besides, I think the Note 4 display looks gorgeous. I thought it looked sharper than the S5 which BestBuy has for display in the Samsung section.
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Samsung phones have plenty of bugs and you wait months to get fix because they go through the carriers.

ArchAngel said:
You can even transfer you Google Profile to the new phone via NFC at the new setup ^^
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After I did that there's a notification on the device I transferred from that cannot be dismissed until you tell it to ignore message that type altogether, pretty annoying.
 
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BoboBrazil

Member
WhiskerFrisker said:
I'm not interested in the One Plus. I read of bugs with Cyanogenmod and I don't have time for that. Besides, I think the Note 4 display looks gorgeous. I thought it looked sharper than the S5 which BestBuy has for display in the Samsung section.
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The Note 4 screen does look really nice. I love how vivid amoled is. It looks nicer than my OPO screen. The problem is you usually get burn in on the status bar.
 
RoadHazard

RoadHazard

Gold Member
GK86 said:
Is the flash images updated for N4 as well? Or only N5/7?

I really want to check it out.
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Only N5/N7 for now, sorry. Unless someone ports the preview to the N4 you're gonna have to wait until it's officially released in mid-November or so.

SimleuqiR said:
Wow! Love how it asked me from which device back up I wanted to restore my "new" phone from.

That...and how the not yet installed apps on your homescreens show opaque, ghost like.

IMG_20141017_213610.jpg


AND...your screens and icon placements are saved!! No longer do you have to worry about rearranging icons!!

GOAT!
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Pretty great (although I personally decided not to restore my old phone - which is the same phone - and instead start fresh).

But hey, here's a tip: Volume Down + Power = screenshot.
 
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SimleuqiR

Member
RoadHazard said:
Only N5/N7 for now, sorry. Unless someone ports the preview to the N4 you're gonna have to wait until it's officially released in mid-November or so.



Pretty great (although I personally decided to not restore my old phone - which is the same phone - and instead start fresh).

But hey, here's a tip: Volume Down + Power takes screenshots.
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Didn't want to bother with a screen shot. The phone was too busy downloading all my 150+ apps...stuttering like creasing when I try to browse the web.
 
RoadHazard

RoadHazard

Gold Member
SimleuqiR said:
Didn't want to bother with a screen shot. The phone was too busy downloading all my 150+ apps...stuttering like creasing when I try to browse the web.
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Ah, ok. Yeah, that happens when all that restoring shit is going down. But it's pretty damn smooth once that's done!
 
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SimleuqiR

Member
WhiskerFrisker said:
Haha, I'm watching a video by Phandroid on the Google restore feature and the guy showing it off was totally having a nerdgasm. Shit, I would be too due to the fact that it sets your icons to the way you left it on your old device.
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This is a nice feature, specially for those of you (modders) that are constantly changing ROMs.
 
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JoeFu

Banned
Lol the flappy bird easter egg. On par with the nyancat one I think. Maybe even better since it's interactive.
 
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AyaisMUsikWhore

Member
SimleuqiR said:
Wow! Love how it asked me from which device back up I wanted to restore my "new" phone from.

That...and how the not yet installed apps on your homescreens show opaque, ghost like.

IMG_20141017_213610.jpg


AND...your screens and icon placements are saved!! No longer do you have to worry about rearranging icons!!

GOAT!
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HNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG Google delivering.

Android L is so sexy like Ugh. The material design makes Kit Katy feel like shit. It's so beautiful!!!
 
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Vyer

Member
SimleuqiR said:
Wow! Love how it asked me from which device back up I wanted to restore my "new" phone from.

That...and how the not yet installed apps on your homescreens show opaque, ghost like.

IMG_20141017_213610.jpg


AND...your screens and icon placements are saved!! No longer do you have to worry about rearranging icons!!

GOAT!
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All of that has been the iOS restore for a while, except the 'ghosting', which sounds cool. It's a great feature when moving to a new device.
 
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Iacobellis

Junior Member
WhiskerFrisker said:
Haha, I'm watching a video by Phandroid on the Google restore feature and the guy showing it off was totally having a nerdgasm. Shit, I would be too due to the fact that it sets your icons to the way you left it on your old device.
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Android never had a backup restore feature like this before?
 
RoadHazard

RoadHazard

Gold Member
Iacobellis said:
Android never had a backup restore feature like this before?
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It has had backup/restore for quite some time, but previously you could either restore everything on your account or nothing at all when setting up a new device. Now they've made it a lot more granular, letting you choose from which previous device to restore, and even which individual apps you want back. Might actually use this now, I never liked the "restore EVERYTHING" deal.

diaspora said:
Anyone using the lollipop preview know if the camera has a 3:2 option?
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Just 4:3 and 16:9 at various resolutions, I'm afraid. This is on the N5.
 
RoadHazard

RoadHazard

Gold Member
WhiskerFrisker said:
No. There were ways to back up your files and games but nothing this seamless. The tap and go feature requires NFC and not all phones support it. I can't do it because my phone does not support it.
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Well, that's just an easier way to restore from a specific device that you still own. You can still do the same thing manually.
 
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Ceebs

Member
Flashed the Dev build to my Nexus 5 to check it out.

Stumbled on to an android lollipop themed flappy bird easter egg.
 
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BertramCooper

Banned
Well, I thought I had the flashing figured out, but after I began flashing, I got errors about the archive not containing boot.sig and recovery.sig. Did a Google search which said I should be able to ignore them, but the entire process stopped and didn't go any further.
 
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Kabuki Quantum Lover

Member
BertramCooper said:
Well, I thought I had the flashing figured out, but after I began flashing, I got errors about the archive not containing boot.sig and recovery.sig. Did a Google search which said I should be able to ignore them, but the entire process stopped and didn't go any further.
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Strange. It normally stalls there for a bit and then resumes.

The gallery app is unchanged. Arrgh...
 
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Sch1sm

Member
I'm loving this on my Nexus 5 already. No troubles yet. Clean design. Really loving the fact that there's notifications on the lock screen via native settings rather than using something via root or a limited app through Google Play Store. Still familiar, which I love. I'll never understand the Flappy Bird easter egg deal, though.
 
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capslock

Is jealous of Matlock's emoticon
BoboBrazil said:
The Note 4 screen does look really nice. I love how vivid amoled is. It looks nicer than my OPO screen. The problem is you usually get burn in on the status bar.
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Good god. Stop spreading misinformation. AMOLED burn-in has been a thing of the past for a few years now.
 
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Nightengale

Member
Shit, Lollipop looks so beautiful.

I'm now holding back any intent of buying any Android devices until I see how OEMs are going to bastardise their version of Lollipop.
 
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Esqueleto

Banned
EmptySpace said:
does flashing erase data i.e. music, texts, etc.?
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Yes but you can skip the wipe by deleting the -w from the script. I flashed from the first preview to the new one without wiping and haven't had any problems on my n5. I don't know if it causes any problems coming from KK.
 
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titiklabingapat

Member
I wasn't convinced with Material Design before, but it looks like it's gonna best IOS8. I just got an iphone 6 as a secondary phone and IOS8 just feels clunky, even compared to KitKat. Lollipop should obliterate it for me. Can't wait.

SimleuqiR said:
AND...your screens and icon placements are saved!! No longer do you have to worry about rearranging icons!!

GOAT!
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Yes! This always annoyed me whenever I has to replace my Nexus 5.
 
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Mayyhem

Member
Do you guys think if I order a Nexus 5 off Google Play right now that it will arrive by the time Nexus 5 has Lollipop?
 
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scently

Member
Esqueleto said:
Yes but you can skip the wipe by deleting the -w from the script. I flashed from the first preview to the new one without wiping and haven't had any problems on my n5. I don't know if it causes any problems coming from KK.
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I am sorry if this should be obvious but how do you remove the -w from script?
 
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iavi

Member
Mayyhem said:
Do you guys think if I order a Nexus 5 off Google Play right now that it will arrive by the time Nexus 5 has Lollipop?
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Chances are super high it won't have lollipop. Old stock, and Lollipop's looking like a Nov official launch, if the Tmobile Nov date for the N6 release is right.
 
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JoeyJungle

Banned
scently said:
I am sorry if this should be obvious but how do you remove the -w from script?
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Open flash-all.sh in a text editor and delete the part that says -w.

I didn't have any problem when I did this to go from 4.4.x to 4.4.4, but I just did this and it still formatted my nexus 7 so...

But I think other people have done it without losing their data so maybe I'm just an idiot.

SuperSU not working is kind of a bummer, the only program I use that needs root is rootdim, but I really need that to use my tablet at night.
 
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