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whoa dolphion browser is working already?! Did it require an update? does quick ics browser work on 4.4?
Kill Your Masters
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Add to Homescreen gone in Chrome beta 
Randy Lanzarote
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Anyone think we'll get a Nexus 10 (2013) announcement this week in time for Black Friday, or shall we just give up all hope of a new 10" Nexus tablet?
Remember when Sprint used to cut back on bloatware
Bloat aside, I hope HTC uses that same chassis design for next years flagships. I really really love it. I'm not sure they could improve upon it. Just use the same design and tighten up the Quality Control and improve the internals.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I hope the current version lasts another year.
I got my new phone 1 month ago and i've used ~500mb. It might go up next month since I've been downloading apps as I remember to download them. I'm on wifi alot too.
Just received and been playing with my new htc one.
All I can say is WOW, it's not so much better than my iPhone and iOS that I'm glad I moved over, it's just different.
I do notice the jank but that is expected and acceptable with an OS that's so open.
I love this phone so much that I constantly want to use it.
And why apple bought Siri and not swype baffles me.
All I can say is WOW, it's not so much better than my iPhone and iOS that I'm glad I moved over, it's just different.
I do notice the jank but that is expected and acceptable with an OS that's so open.
I love this phone so much that I constantly want to use it.
And why apple bought Siri and not swype baffles me.
The stock clock widget can do this (at least in KitKat). Just add the cities you want in the clock app.
Randy Lanzarote
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If the price keeps dropping in the UK then so do I, I'd happily pick one up If it drops to around the £200 mark.
Although given that the reception to 4.4 on the N10 has been pretty negative, I wonder if it's high on their priority list. Google doesn't seem to have supported it all that well. :-/
The raised plastic rim on the max and mini looks awful compared to the design on the one though
Wow. This is extremely maddening.. So, with my N5.. I've tried to transfer music via my Mac using Android's File Transfer utility. I've done this three times now, and eventually it gives me the "cannot access your device, please disconnect and reconnect." Which I do, and it's fine. Then it eventually gives me something about restarting my device. I do so, reconnect it.. and it fucking erases all of the music I just transferred.
WTF is going on?
WTF is going on?
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Just use something else like Airdroid or upload tunes to Google Music.
Hydrargyrus
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I'm in the same situation.
This has happened to me 3 times today, until I've left that...
Thanks. Though I wonder why its still not pushed out to my nexus.
I got the update yesterday, and I really think that Google broke the record of slower rollout ever.
Yeah. Though only to stream music that I uploaded. The subscription music catalog (as with the others I've tried(rdio, spotify, music unlimited)) lack enough stuff that I'm put off paying 10-15$ a month.
ThatObviousUser
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I don't even bother with file transfer via cables. I use Wifi File Explorer.
Opening the app assigns your phone an IP address that you can connect to via web browser. You'll see every directory (except root), and you'll be able to navigate to whatever section you want. Choose your files and watch them upload super quick.
Back when I would use cables, I would still have trouble transferring files when there were a lot of small file sizes. It would seem to hang after every file for some reason. No issues using the app method.
shamo42
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About Dolphin, yes there was an update and it works. But slower compared to 4.3.
Quick ICS browser gives me a FC.
Now the only thing I can imagine that is holding the update is business reasons. Maybe a way to push the Nexus 5 in this early days as the only KitKat phone.
VZW e-mailed me today...what are they up to?
It's called keeping my unlimited plan, Mr. Verizon. I've been eligible for an upgrade since 12/29/2011.
Those evil fucks. They want to see how many people are intentionally holding on to their unlimited data so they can assess whether the fallout from them killing the grandfathered plans would be huge or not.
ThatObviousUser
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Impossible.
Just plug it into your computer and drag the tracks to the "Alarms" folder (I think that's it.) Then you can select them in the Clock app, I think.
You can use Alarm by Double Twist, but that requires an additional app to access on-device music. But because Google Music hides them in a secure folder, no normal app would be able to access them. However, it is possible to find them, as they exist somewhere in the root directory where secure app files are held. They're named something like 12345.mp3, 12346.mp3, etc.
Technically, you could retrieve these files and play them, but it's a lot of work.
Moneyhats2k5
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They should just do it. Lte service is getting hammered in big metro cities.
abstract alien
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Kill Your Masters
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Google is starting to act just like another Manufacturer of phones rather than a software company. Release new flagship, ignore older devices. 4.4 was apparently made primarily for the Nexus 5 in mind, otherwise how would one explain something like this:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...on-android-gets-cleaner-brighter-more-useful/
The new folks running the Android show simply don't care. Watch the HTC One GPE receive the update before the N4...
And btw, 4.4 runs like absolute shit on my 2012 Nexus 7...
MightGoThere
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Got a Nexus 5 a few days ago and so far almost everything has been good, I'm really impressed with the battery life, that is, until I start playing music.
This was taken after about 10-15 minutes of music playback and mediaserver has gone from not showing up at all to this. Is it normal? I'm pretty sure it wasn't this bad on my GS3.
To put it in context, I played PAD for ~5 minutes and it usually is quite the battery hog.
This was taken after about 10-15 minutes of music playback and mediaserver has gone from not showing up at all to this. Is it normal? I'm pretty sure it wasn't this bad on my GS3.
To put it in context, I played PAD for ~5 minutes and it usually is quite the battery hog.
yggdrasill
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Do backup apps actually backup your game saves or just the apps so you don't have to download them again? I'm about to root my Nexus 7 (2012) and would like to save my game saves.
The bastards!
Usually no, but I've noticed Helium backup actually manages to do so without root. So what I do is backup only app data to the cloud (Dropbox, Drive, Box) and then restore from there. Though keep in mind some apps/games don't work with even this. For example the Rayman games.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
You tell me. You're the one switching and calling iOS boring.
Nicktendo86
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You've been really grumpy lately AJ lol
Not my fault iOS is crappy. It's just a simple tray of Apps. Hooray for customisation!!!!
I've heard so good about Android customisation, if you have nothing better to say, leave it.
GoldenEye 007
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So my N4, of course as soon as my N5 is on the way, decides to crap out. First apps started to crash, then I rebooted. Or at least tried to. Phone no longer properly boots into Android and gets stuck on the X logo.
Phone was not rooted or anything. Any pointers? Already tried a factory reset via recovery and the issue persists.
Phone was not rooted or anything. Any pointers? Already tried a factory reset via recovery and the issue persists.
Have you tried installing a factory image? Considering you hadn't made any alterations I don't know how much that would help, but it can't hurt to try.
wsoxfan1214
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...it IS boring. And shitty.
GoldenEye 007
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That's the next step I guess. Weird. Never had this issue before.
It sure sounds strange if it started doing it out of the blue. Hope it all works out, N4s deserve to live forever.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I'm just baffled by "I can't wait to switch! Someone tell me why." I don't know. What about Android makes you want to switch?
I just told you. The amount of customisability with the OS itself.
I was just asking what in terms of that you can do, I've heard the basics, just want to know more in-depth user based tricks etc.
Such as custom UI's etc. etc.
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