Something (most likely an app) is preventing your phone from sleeping when the screen is off. There is a hell of a lot more awake time there than there should be given the screen time.
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Something (most likely an app) is preventing your phone from sleeping when the screen is off. There is a hell of a lot more awake time there than there should be given the screen time.
Aahhh that's Pandora. What I find extremely weird are those spikes... Its like the battery recharges itself. I am sure its due to a Calibration issue so I am gonna try to recalibrate it and see if it goes away.
Jazzy Network
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I was trying so hard last night to kill my Epic 4G Touch battery last night. From 10% - 0% took me like 2 hours. Fucking insane.
You're really taking this shit way too seriously. Like, console gaming side seriously.
All this best galaxy nonsense is just silly chest thumping. No one actually thinks all other phones are crap.
Never heard anyone say good things about LG smartphones. Considering the cost of a data plan, you shouldn't go cheap on on the phone.
I'm going with Page Plus ($30 a year) with no data plan (wifi only)
Just want to get my feet wet with smartphones since I have to buy a new phone anyway.
basic_element
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Circle T
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Besides, it's all a subjective thing anyway. I like the color blue, Pepsi, and Mustangs, whereas you might like green, Coke and Camaros. For ANY of us to try and honestly say which phone is the definitive "Best Galaxy" is pretty ridiculous. Let's all just drop it, enjoy the amazing hardware we all own, and move along with things. New phones announced in a week or so will likely dwarf everything we all own anyway.
*AndroidGAF group hug*
Circle T
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Speaking of, I never really followed anything with the Continuum. Was the second screen the cause of all the update delays/issues, or was is more Samsung/VZW didn't give a shit because it didn't sell well (did it)?
Probably the latter. I still remember the rumors that the Nexus S was supposed to be announce at the same time. lol
I would go with an original Droid. It has no locked bootloader and its dead simple to flash new rom on it. Plus it was very popular and support is very easy to find.
You should be able to find a refub/new one for 120-140.
Al-ibn Kermit
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What phone is it? My GS2 gets a bit hot when I play some games, but I think that's just because of the thin back cover.
Well I'm surprised.....I took my dad to look for a phone to replace his HD2 and I was sure he would go for the iPhone but he wasn't interested at all, out off all the HTC variants, (which all look the same now) Xperia Arc S and various Galaxy's he picked the nexus as his favourite. I told him to wait though because the Note is meant to come out here soon and I really want to see how that compares with my s2.
Also, windows phone is actually a decent OS after playing around with it for a bit.....the hardware is just terrible, still no Lumia or Titan here in Australia which is pathetic
Also, windows phone is actually a decent OS after playing around with it for a bit.....the hardware is just terrible, still no Lumia or Titan here in Australia which is pathetic
Whoa whoa. We have a badass over here.
worth selling my htc sensation (asian unlocked version) for ~$400 and grabbing an unlocked galaxy nexus for $550?
sensation
+ more portable form factor
+ microSD
- awful dev support
nexus
+ 720p OLED!
+ 720p OLED!
+ 720p OLED!
+ dev/cyanogen support
- mediocre camera optics
sensation
+ more portable form factor
+ microSD
- awful dev support
nexus
+ 720p OLED!
+ 720p OLED!
+ 720p OLED!
+ dev/cyanogen support
- mediocre camera optics
Good Job Bob
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Definitely. Go for it.
Definitely. Go for it.
Just got 2 Maxx phones thanks to the b1g1 deal and they are great so far.
Built well but still thin, fast, nice display, and the battery lasts forever.
Definitely worth checking out.
My old og Droid used to do that when I overclocked it, nothing bad ever happened to it. So no need to worry really.
gregor7777
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My Rezound gets rather hot under certain games. Check the temperature tolerances for your model to be safe, but you're probably OK. These things have 1.5ghz dual cores and no active cooling. Heat is inevitable.
So if I were to get an Incredible 2 though Amazon Wireless would the $0.01 be the actual price I pay (not considering data) when I have had the same basic phone for the last ~4 years?
I assume you just bring it into a physical verizon store or call to activate.
Dev support seems to be healthy and it's officially getting ICS so I don't see any problems on that end.
I assume you just bring it into a physical verizon store or call to activate.
Dev support seems to be healthy and it's officially getting ICS so I don't see any problems on that end.
The Faceless Master
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gVoice is back on the Android Market and is on sale for 99 cents!
i don't know how it stacks up to GrooVe IP though.
i don't know how it stacks up to GrooVe IP though.
Circle T
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Amazon Wireless will ask during the purchase for your account phone number, and can activate the phone on your account, and it will show up all ready to go. When I bought my Droid Charge from them, it was all ready to go when I opened the box. I still had to call in, though, because the LTE SIM wasn't active. The Incredible, though, doesn't have a SIM, so it should be ready to rock right out of the box.
moojito
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So I'm thinking of diving into the murky world of smart phone ownership for the first time. Since I don't know how much I'll find myself using it I'm taking some other good sounding advice and getting one of the cheaper ones to see how it suits me then maybe get a better one next time around.
Anyway, the one I'm looking at is the galaxy ace which I can see on amazon for £173 sim free. I was planning on going with giffgaf's £10 a month unlimited internet type sim only deal.
One thing that I reckon is a good idea based on the random stuff I've been looking up is installing the cf7.. thing. rom? whatever. I believe as a requirement for it you need android 2.3, which I've read the galaxy ace supports, but on the amazon page there it says it comes with 2.2.
Does anyone know if indeed cf7 works on the galaxy ace? would I be able to just get an upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 from the samsung site and then install cf7 from there?
Also, if any of you lot own or have owned a galaxy ace, any good or bad opinions of it? Most reviews I've read say it's pretty decent value for the money.
Anyway, the one I'm looking at is the galaxy ace which I can see on amazon for £173 sim free. I was planning on going with giffgaf's £10 a month unlimited internet type sim only deal.
One thing that I reckon is a good idea based on the random stuff I've been looking up is installing the cf7.. thing. rom? whatever. I believe as a requirement for it you need android 2.3, which I've read the galaxy ace supports, but on the amazon page there it says it comes with 2.2.
Does anyone know if indeed cf7 works on the galaxy ace? would I be able to just get an upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 from the samsung site and then install cf7 from there?
Also, if any of you lot own or have owned a galaxy ace, any good or bad opinions of it? Most reviews I've read say it's pretty decent value for the money.
I'll probably walk into the Verizon store today or tomorrow to ask so I can be sure, but the contract is what I'm most worried about. I have only owned one phone and so I have the upgrade/discount promotions from verizon retained from when they still had that program, so would getting a new phone require an early termination fee?
Are you referring to Cyanogen Mod (CM7 or CM9)? Check the phone's subforum on XDA Developers for everything you need to know.
The Faceless Master
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i assume you mean CM7 and i would suggest just using the phone unmodified for a few months before deciding to try a custom rom.
moojito
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Ah, yes. cm7 it was. I saw a graph and it showed it something like doubled the performance of the phone on some benchmark. That's quite something.
Cheers for the link to the forum, I'm sure that'll come in handy.
Aye, that's a good point, it will certainly be a good idea to do that in case there's any problems with the phone itself. Also to appreciate the difference before and after.
BootlegSnackz
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Steriletom
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I just received an invite to music beta on my phone. Does this mean it's available in Canada now?
Circle T
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An ETF is only charged when you are ending a contract early. So, unless you renewed a contract with then recently, you shouldn't have anything. And given that you've owned the same phone for that long, I would doubt it. Like you said, though, can't hurt to just go talk to them and ask.
How did you receive it exactly? Through text, email, ???
RoadHazard
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Huh? Sweet, hope that means a world-wide rollout is near!
(I don't really care about the music store, since I still buy physical CDs (WUT!), I just want the uploading and streaming.)
Or the hat is officially part of america's ensemble now.
I usually stream over wifi, so I'm usually near a charger anyway. I have a paltry 16 gig phone(awesome Googs!), and about 30 gigs of music.
The Faceless Master
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try using the invite and seeing if it works!
RoadHazard
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I'm mostly excited about having access to my entire music library on my phone at any time, and the ability to change up what's available locally on my phone when I feel like it (sure, I can already do the latter, but not as easily). I probably wouldn't actually stream all that much music since I imagine that'd burn through my monthly data allowance pretty quickly. Or would it? If I upload a 10 MB song to Google Music, and then stream that song to my phone, does it actually use 10 MB of data or is the music further compressed when streaming to a phone?
The thing I like about Google Music is I can have my most used playlists/albums cached locally on the phone so the majority of the time I'm not streaming. However my whole library is available to me at any time without taking up space. Plus it's nice that I can listen on any computer as well.
use music streaming every single day. Don't notice a big difference in battery life at all.
I use Google music (in Canada
) and it's awesome. I mostly use it to cache playlists to my phone so it doesn't use any bandwidth whatsoever.frankie_baby
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Hi guys, well my girlfriend dropped my desire hd and smashed the glass on the screen still works thankfully though I do keep getting glass splinters in my fingers, I was worrying it'd cost me a fortune to fix but as luck would have it I rang up and found out I'm due an upgrade in 2 weeks, cool I can cope that long with the the sharp pains
So now the question is which phone to go for next, I've basically got 2 choices either the HTC sensation XE or the Samsung galaxy nexus
So now the question is which phone to go for next, I've basically got 2 choices either the HTC sensation XE or the Samsung galaxy nexus
That's cool, didn't know you could do that. I guess that you cache those things when you're at home or connected to wifi? I mean, caching things on your phone while out and about on 3G still means it downloads the songs to your phone, right? Or...
Al-ibn Kermit
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If they're the same price, then you should get the GN unless it's too big for you.
It only downloads them once. So if I check my "Favorites" playlist to be available offline, it will download those songs to its cache folder. It's called cache, but it's permanent until you uncheck the "available offline" box.
frankie_baby
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Haven't checked the exact price I'd get yet (usually get a little discount for being a good customer) but for new customers on my network its a couple of pounds extra per month for the nexus
Wouldn't have thought it'd be too big haven't held it yet but the width is pretty much the same as the DesireHD I think
The Faceless Master
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get some of that wide clear tape people use on boxes and use it to cover the screen.
Galaxy Nexus
frankie_baby
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Would the touch screen still work? And might it not do more damage when I do finally get some money together to get it fixed which I will do at some point cos I'm assuming it'll cost less to fix than I'll get selling it
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