Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
You just need to install the AOSP browser and you have something better than Safari. Chrome is garbage.
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You just need to install the AOSP browser and you have something better than Safari. Chrome is garbage.
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-Pyromaniac-
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As someone that uses both iOS and Android at the same time, it's not so bad that it'll bug you a lot or turn you off. BUT, it is noticable enough that you'll think about it, at least until you get used to it. I use both OSs at the same time so I don't really get used to it much, but I've made peace with it, google still needs to step it up.
It's just little things like not reacting to the touch fast enough you press links, the amount of time it takes for text to recalibrate (or whatever) when you zoom in and out, scrolling during certain times, etc...just a lot of little things.
Chrome still has better features than safari, it's why I use chrome on iOS as well. Just wish chrome on android was as good as chrome on iOS smoothness wise. They've made strides though, but still not there.
BootlegSnackz
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i was thinking this exact same thing... someone said something about chrome being a viable app platform and i'm thinking...chrome on android doesn't even have apps...
at least i think that's what you were thinking...
ghostofsparta
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Its also slower when turning off the screen. There's an obvious pause after pushing the power button.
Some things seem faster, but animations sometimes get janky. Gnex is showing its age.
I hate how the new clock app looks( who thought ALARMS in all red looked good?) but the way the alarm works is now better. You can slide to left to snooze and right to dismiss. Much better and mimics the phone.
BootlegSnackz
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because of the thermal throttling it will probably be on par with performance lol...
but cm10/aokp is so great right now. i'm getting a lot of stable releases on my one X(L)
EDIT:
would a flagship phone with 64gb of onboard memory be too much to ask for? honestly if i had that i wouldn't need a microSD slot...i know most people wouldn't use it, but memory and battery (and LTE, looking at you Google, you could have put some ATT LTE up in that Nex4) seem to be the only two things manufacturers keep skimping on that at least some people want.
Not even talking Nexus though, everyone is missing this, except for maybe Apple, they at least give you the choice. Too bad iOS is just not my cup of tea
I think the main thing with iOS is that i kinda need a file system that i can control, not one that is laid out for me. have to have control of my own products i think.
Psychotext
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Bit of help please...
For some reason the app I used to use for playing movies from my local server has been turned into a bag of wank by a recent update. Can anyone suggest a good player which will work over the network / a UPnP layer?
I just tried UPnPlay and the video app seemed to stop half way through which isn't great.
For some reason the app I used to use for playing movies from my local server has been turned into a bag of wank by a recent update. Can anyone suggest a good player which will work over the network / a UPnP layer?
I just tried UPnPlay and the video app seemed to stop half way through which isn't great.
BootlegSnackz
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does dice player or mplayer not work well with upnp? (or not at all?)
Psychotext
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Just tried DicePlayer. Doesn't seem to.
zephervack
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So any one have issues with every GIFs lagging in every browser? My iPhone 4 displays them nice but Android just seems to chug, is there a reason why?
BootlegSnackz
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what about bubbleupnp? on the play store
edit:
have you tried every browser?
Android Browser
Chrome
ICS Browser+
Dolphin HD
XScope
Firefox
Firefox Beta
Aurora (new Firefox beta?)
Opera
and the wealth of other me too browsers on the play store? To be honest I haven't had any issues with GIF's...
It should if you have SMB setup in your home network. Get a NAS.
zephervack
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Kill Your Masters
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Its also an issue on Nexus 7 there is this slight delay and its annoying...ugh and I have noticed that apparently there is no indicator for text input anymore wtf?
So conflicted. With the news of the Nexus 4 not coming to NL and all the little bad news quirks (they're scaring me) I just want to go for a Galaxy Nexus or a Galaxy S3. What are some of the main hardware differences (SD cards? battery life?) The Galaxy Nexus received 4.2 today and it's basically such a sexy phone... But I'm worried it's already at the end of its lifespan and I wonder if I should jump on it or not. If the S3, I'll root and put stock rom on it asap because I loathe touchwiz.
HTC One X+? IIRC it's got 64GB of memory in it.
The Faceless Master
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So good. I love CM10. Yeah I think this is going to be it. Need to do some hardware research on the S3 though; and I think the Galaxy Nexus looks prettier though... Though the S3 is prettier than the S2.
Texas Instruments to lay off 1,700 employees in cost-cutting move as it exits the smartphone processor market
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/14/3646450/texas-instruments-1700-job-cuts
It is a shame that we will have less companies competing in this space. Plus that is quite a few lay-offs. I had thought that the OMAP 5 was supposed to be competitive as well?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/14/3646450/texas-instruments-1700-job-cuts
It is a shame that we will have less companies competing in this space. Plus that is quite a few lay-offs. I had thought that the OMAP 5 was supposed to be competitive as well?
BootlegSnackz
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yeah but it's no longer a flagship, and i think it only has 32GB in the US and it's on AT&T only, which is fine i have AT&T, and 32GB is great(!) but, it's yesterdays hardware...
need me an s4 pro now lol, (i'll take it w/o the thermal throttling thanks) oh and it doesn't even have 2gb ram ( i know it probably is not a big difference from 1gb or 1.5gb, but it makes me feel all warm inside, and that feeling is worth my dollars. at least to me.
also, supernexus? maybe i should just get an S3 off contract now, and then wait happily with a 64gb microsd until the S4 comes out...
i dunno, i could stick with the One X- at least until then, aokp makes this phone great again.
ghostofsparta
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What do you mean?
Seriously. Did some executive who worked on ICS/4.1 quit or something?
I suggest avoiding Exynos devices if you plan on using AOSP-based ROMs. One of the main Exynos 4 (GS2/Note 1 etc.) device maintainers has been writing a series of posts on Google+ over the past couple of weeks about how poorly he feels Samsung have supported the open-source community. Starts here, if you care to get a sense of the misery.
I assume this is the browser we need to install: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990292
It's odd that they include it in the AOSP rom, but not in shipping devices. They should give us a choice.
Question about installing APKs--how are they updated? Can they be updated from Google Play if they weren't installed from there?
Is it just me or does 4.2 seem like it was made while Duarte was looking the other way? Defintely a lot of odd aesthetic changes made seemingly for no other reason than just for the sake of change. I hope Duarte lays down the law hard so that we see the same aesthetic/consistency changes made with 4.2 -> 5.0 as we did with 4.0 -> 4.1.
Lock-screen widgets and the quick settings pulldown seem half-baked, too. Some head-scratching omissions made with both of those features. They have a lot of promise if the ability to customize them is increased though.
BootlegSnackz
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i assume he means the vertical line that tells you where you will be entering text next
and about the clock i think the bold vs non-bold font is pretty ugly...
damn straight. i love google now, just wish it wouldn't give me cards i don't need every 5 mins...lol. have to find a way to make them come up sparingly.
get ready for next year when it is all exynos, maybe they will step up dev support when exynos comes back to all US devices...wonder how the note 2 is fairing...i know they release the source, but i wonder if they hold back on all the exynos stuff and make it difficult.
seems like that's the one, but it rarely needs to be updated. it works pretty well, but i think they will stop supporting it soon in favor of chrome, but i thought there were problems with chrome because it wasn't all open-source? oh and no you can't update from Google Play unless it was downloaded from there.
they made those changes to get people to start using Google Now. Guaranteed. If they can get the 70% of people in the smartphone market using Android phones to somehow look up from their texting and use the internet and thus Google Now, they will be set. Turns out most Android users just wanted a cheap phone, and android has had it's open sourceness used up to create cheap phones. aren't most prepaids android now? hopefully they are not still selling the G1... and are making their prepaids from newer handsets like the one v and the galaxy s iii mini and express.
The Friendly Monster
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Just installed 4.2 on my Nexus 7.
Have to say it's very disappointing at first glance. Honeycomb aside each major update has also been an upgrade. From dodgy settings notification to ugly lock screen to less responsive performance I'm not sure I can say that this time. I hope we get a special 5.0 in the summer.
edit: ok the swype keyboard seems nice.
Have to say it's very disappointing at first glance. Honeycomb aside each major update has also been an upgrade. From dodgy settings notification to ugly lock screen to less responsive performance I'm not sure I can say that this time. I hope we get a special 5.0 in the summer.
edit: ok the swype keyboard seems nice.
BootlegSnackz
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i actually wonder this myself. are they going to go 5.0 with a new Nexus 7 in the summer? or will they have a new nexus 7 and 10? or will they wait until fall for the full 5.0 upgrade with the Nexus 5? their 2nd 7 and 10 inch tablets are just going to be so beastly, i know it.
hopefully they will get the Nexus 5 on AT&T LTE since they will have further built out their network and they don't have any restrictions with unlocked phones on their network.
Also Anandtech says that the Nex 4 could run LTE on AWS bands with the radios it currently has. does AT&T use AWS 700 bands for LTE?? and isn't T-Mobile slated to? technically the Nexus 4 could gain LTE from a software update...crazy...
my prediction for Next Nexus is this (5 inch, 1080p Nexus 5) beyond that i don't know.
they will probably only put 16gb of space in, not learning from the fact that the nexus 10 32gb sold out while the 16gb is still in stock even now.
criesofthepast
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Just said fuck it and started uploading my collection to google music. Don't know when match is ever coming to Canada. 685 of 8,524 songs complete! Looks like I'll get 1000 songs every 24 hours at this pace. lol
Not 100% sure about this but I think that because the AOSP Browser is a system app you can't install it like regular apps, you need to copy it into the /system/app folder, which requires root access.
About updating, if the package ID of the installed APK matches that of the app in the Play Store it will show up in the My Apps section. Free apps can then be updated but paid apps will give you an error if you try. Otherwise you can update by just installing a newer APK. The app data will carry over.
BootlegSnackz
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yeah, it's a system app, you have to copy it into system/app/ and change permissions to rw-r--r-- (which does require root access)
i believe you also have to change the name of a file called defaultbrowser.apk or something or other. no need to delete it, just change it to defaultbrowser.apk.bak and restart.
i'm fairly good with a computer...maybe missing some of the details, but i think i'm going to look into compiling ROMs for myself. always wanted to try to make changes that no one else cared about. that might feel good to accomplish. I may start for the Nexus 7 since it is technically the only developer device i have lol. wish me luck, i'm not terribly good at finishing things that i st
This is why I said there's hope for an LTE version, the radio does support 700/AWS LTE, which is what Tmo/ATT use for LTE
KEEP HOPE ALIVE
OriginalThinking
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I'm beginning to think it's a Tegra 3 thing, cos 4.2 on the Galaxy Nexus is even better than 4.1 and definitely an improvement in performance again. It bothers me that my dual core device is out performing my quad core one.
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The new Jelly Bean 4.2 AOSP Keyboard has been ripped in it's current form and it's up for free download on the Google Play Store! It requires 4.1 though. :/
Still if you have say an updated GS3 or One X or the like or you are running a phone with a Jelly Bean based ROM you can grab it!
Phandroid Article!
Play Store Link!
Still if you have say an updated GS3 or One X or the like or you are running a phone with a Jelly Bean based ROM you can grab it!
Phandroid Article!
Play Store Link!
Android 2.0 Oct 2009 Moto Droid
Android 2.1 May 2010 N1
Android 2.2 Dec 2010 NS
Andoird 3.0 Feb 2011 Xoom (tablet)
Android 4.0 Oct 2011 GN
Android 4.1 June 2012 N7 (tablet)
Android 4.2 Nov 2012 N4/N10
I think next version upgrade is next summer and I predict is a 5.0 major upgrade.
I am hoping a new UI that allow multiple apps on the same screen (like Windows RT's snap interface, but better.) And of course, a Nexus 5.
Psychotext
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File sharing isn't really an appropriate solution. Some of the files are huge and really don't play nice over wireless. Transcoding works much, much better.
BubbleUPnP seems to work, I just need to find a decent player to go with it.
720p file play just fine wirelessly on my setup. If you want to involve transcoding than it all depend on the PC software. Any video player on the client should play the video.
overthehill99
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Is there any way to get the keyboard logo to stop popping up in the notification bar when I use the 4.2 keyboard?
Psychotext
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Not on mine, plus the original galaxy tab I'm watching them on is SHIT.
So deserved. No Smartphone/Tablet feature introduced this year even sniffs the rear end of Google Now. Its really a great system, with an incredibly bright future. I nearly peed myself when they said Google has over 100 different Now cards currently in development, waiting to be implemented over time.
Now, along with Google Maps/Navigation, NFC support and a vastly superior notification center design have become killer apps for me. Really don't want to buy any phone that doesn't have these things.
opticalmace
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Boo, my Nexus S won't get 4.2.
Humbug.
Humbug.
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