120 text's does seem like allot though at least for me.
I am lucky to do 5 a day most of the time.
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120 text's does seem like allot though at least for me.
I am lucky to do 5 a day most of the time.
Have to say, miss my RAZR. Not the most comfortable to hold, but it was damn fast. Lots of screen to work with. Motoblur and apps were good too.
On a Nexus S 4G now with ICS. Not as fast, less screen, but ICS is sweet. I'm just imagining the RAZR with moto ICS. Alas... Sprint and work discounts made it worth it.
Looking forward to next Nexus and Jelly Bean. 2012 right?
On a Nexus S 4G now with ICS. Not as fast, less screen, but ICS is sweet. I'm just imagining the RAZR with moto ICS. Alas... Sprint and work discounts made it worth it.
Looking forward to next Nexus and Jelly Bean. 2012 right?
shinshoryuken
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I only notice this on the lock screen but not on the actual home screen.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Where did you find that hard number? I think it depends on the user.
It's really crappy. I imagine it's to stop spam but there are better ways.
Circle T
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VZW Nexus. Stock (4.0.2), but rooted. For now. Will try some ROMs down the road when the need arrises.
I'm not sure that is true, or possibly not a hard enforced thing. I just went through my old text threads, and there are quite a few where the total was 400+ between me and someone else in single days. So, that would be roughly 200-ish from me, and I've never been shut down.
From reading the complaint thread on the Google forums it looks like it depends on how many different people you send to as well.
titiklabingapat
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I did not know about the text limit, wtf?
I text about 3000-5000 a month, so 120 is really low.
I text about 3000-5000 a month, so 120 is really low.
Jamesfrom818
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I do most of my texting from the Chrome extension. I wonder if they care about whether we're using our phones or the website.
Before I got my iPhone, I had a rooted Droid, and I pushed that thing as far as I could push it.
What version of Android are you running, 2.1 or 2.2. Is your phone rooted or not?
Being that the D1 is so old, a lot of custom roms have dried up for it (since everyone is moving onto newer phones).
First off, you going to need to root the phone (obviously). You're also going to need to install a new recovery mode. The easiest way to do that is to get Rom Manager and flash ClockworkMod Recovery
Second, you'll need to install a new kernel. The D1 can be pushed to about 1ghz (it can go higher, but it gets stability issues and gets really hot). 800 to 900mhz is the sweetspot for most phones. The best kernel that I've used is the Deprimed kernel. You can install the kernel via ClockworkMod Recovery.
After the kernel is flashed, SetCPU is a great program to change CPU speeds. Some custom roms allow you to set the CPU without using a 3rd party program.
I hate this generation.
Wow, my carrier gives me around 300 "free" texts a month and I think I've never gone over that! (I have never texted that much honestly).
Btw, thinking about getting a Nexus S with ICS, coming from an iPhone 3G with iOS 4 so right now anything else will feel fast like a comet.
Probably because capacitive blows goats compared to mechanical?
That really explains a lot to me.
My current phone is resistive touch with hardware buttons (mechanical I guess?)
The Faceless Master
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mechanical suck, one more part to wear down.
<3 US Samsungs with 4 capacitive buttons
Amen to that.
Corran Horn
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I took off my screen protector for my Samsung captivate today since it was getting bad. Holy hell I forgot how good that screen looks/feels bare lol.
No, why would you think that? Honeycomb is certainly much better than Gingerbread as a tablet OS. I've used both extensively. However, I have not used an HTC tablet, so I don't know how different they'll even look with all of HTC's Sense stuff.
The general consensus I got from Android is:
Gingerbread = Windows XP
Honeycomb = Windows Vista
Ice Cream Sandwich = Windows 7
I guess that's why there are so many capacitive volume and power buttons, then.
When the rubber meets the road, everyone knows that mechanical is better, which is why they're used for critical buttons. If your hardware buttons wear out, you use your phone too much (unless it's an iPhone, then it's understandable).
The Faceless Master
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i do, i'm a 22 monther.
that's just because the volume and power buttons usually also control low level functions like boot sequence.
that's especially funny because typical consumers only upgrade their OS when they buy a new PC!
Zombie James
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About 95% of the stuff he complains about in this article is everything to do with carriers and nothing to do with Android itself.
Probably because 95% of people will buy their phones through carriers and not root their phones.
Al-ibn Kermit
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Well volume buttons are physical since you have to be able to feel where they are so you can adjust the volume of music you're listening to without actually looking at the phone. Mechanical buttons are more solid feeling but they require more effort to press and they can eventually wear out and become squishy so I would rather just go with capacitive for buttons I press all the time.
Carton
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It has mechanical volume, power and home buttons, and capacitive menu and back buttons.
Mineshaft_Gap
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What is the best web browser for android? Using Opera and it's ok but I wonder what else is out there.
Carton
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I'm quite partial to Dolphin HD: I like how they've implemented tabbed browsing and sliding across to bookmarks. It's not quite as smooth as the stock browser for me (on Galaxy Note), but the features make up for it.
ghostofsparta
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What do the circle arrows mean? Something is updating?
Thats a pretty unfair handle for Honeycomb. There is nothing wrong with Honeycomb except everyone expected it to be on phones as well but that never happened.
Jamesfrom818
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I'll take capacitive buttons like what HTC does than mechanical buttons that are on Moto phones any day.
Yup that's the sync icon.
ghostofsparta
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Does it just like to hang out for a while? That screen cap was taking a good while after syncing.
Also I keep seeing the word "root" everywhere. What does that mean?
Depends on the apps you've got syncing, I know for a fact Google Currents used to take FOREVER to sync.
Root access. Basically like being the Administrator of a Windows PC. You have full access to everything on the device, including the entire OS file system.
Circle T
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Before I got my Droid Charge, I would have agreed with you. Between it with its 4 physical buttons, and my Captivate with its 4 capacitive buttons, though, I prefer the Charge's physical ones. Ultimately, I like the on-screen buttons in ICS the best, but if the hardware has to have buttons, I like the physical ones.
Guys, specific google searches have produced nothing so I'm gonna call on some general GAF knowledge here; hopefully one of you can point me in the right direction.
Yesterday my HTC Sensation suddenly got slow. Really slow. Not in the sense that it couldn't run apps and stuff fine, because it can, but everything seems to lag. When going into messages, it takes visible seconds to load the contents of a message. When typing on the keyboard, my thumbs are working far, far ahead of the text. The whole thing feels like my phone is drunk: still capable, but takes a while to realise what it has to do.
And it's really fucking me off. Killing the entire usability experience of it for me.
I have no idea why it has happened, either. I always keep the eye candy turned way down, I don't bother with any of HTC's widgets* and backgrounds are always static. About the only always-on app I use is Smart Keyboard to replace HTC's one, but disabling it doesn't fix the problem either.
*Side-note - if I'm not actually using any of the eye candy stuff most people want from Sense, are their better rom choices out there for me?
If anyone has any ideas of what avenues I can explore to try and identify the sudden problem, or if this is a known issue with HTC Sense/Sensation-handsets, please let me know!
edit - guess I should try a factory reset first. Still, that it's happened is confuddling. Will see if problem persists.
Yesterday my HTC Sensation suddenly got slow. Really slow. Not in the sense that it couldn't run apps and stuff fine, because it can, but everything seems to lag. When going into messages, it takes visible seconds to load the contents of a message. When typing on the keyboard, my thumbs are working far, far ahead of the text. The whole thing feels like my phone is drunk: still capable, but takes a while to realise what it has to do.
And it's really fucking me off. Killing the entire usability experience of it for me.
I have no idea why it has happened, either. I always keep the eye candy turned way down, I don't bother with any of HTC's widgets* and backgrounds are always static. About the only always-on app I use is Smart Keyboard to replace HTC's one, but disabling it doesn't fix the problem either.
*Side-note - if I'm not actually using any of the eye candy stuff most people want from Sense, are their better rom choices out there for me?
If anyone has any ideas of what avenues I can explore to try and identify the sudden problem, or if this is a known issue with HTC Sense/Sensation-handsets, please let me know!
edit - guess I should try a factory reset first. Still, that it's happened is confuddling. Will see if problem persists.
Capacitive buttons are more susceptible to accidental presses than mechanical buttons because capacitive buttons require only a touch from any part of the body to be set off while mechanical buttons require a bit of force. The capacitive buttons on the Galaxy Note are a particularly insidious problem when using the S-pen. Due to the size of the device the natural inclination is to rest the palm at the bottom of the screen while writing. The capacitive buttons can be set off by the hand resting on it which interrupts whatever action is taking place on the screen. Mechanical buttons make a lot more sense on this particular device.
Here I am sitting thinking something is really bad. Thanks for the heads up.
Official or rom?
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I actually have no clue what TW is, I just know its samsung UI for Android.
I've done 3000 in 5 days (with a chick). Come at me.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Yeah, I'd say factory reset.
First ICS on Galaxy Note (CM9): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNY8SYJ4P-c&feature=related
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