osiris3355
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Its paning out exactly like it did last year so far. No one has gotten better as far as I can see?
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Its paning out exactly like it did last year so far. No one has gotten better as far as I can see?
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
If you want the extra nvidia stuff it is IMO.
It's actually useful added value vs the usual 3rd party bloatware.
Kill Your Masters
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Stable? Probably still at 0.
Aizo
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I need some help. I just bought a Galaxy S5, and I'm really frustrated that I cannot change the language to Japanese (on my Galaxy Nexus, I could). This is causing problems for some of my applications, and it's kind of a huge annoyance. Do Android phones no longer support the Japanese language option in North America? Is there anything I can do? I've spent hours trying many different things.
My Nexus 5 has it. (I think, it says Japanese in Japanese characters so I had to look that up and it looks like it matches)
It looks like you might need to root the S5 to get it additional languages on it :/
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-change-language-samsung-galaxy-s5
Aizo
Banned
Verizon doesn't support that phone 
Do the Note 4 or Note Edge support the Japanese language option?
I just used developer mode to enable the Japanese locale, but that only affected some apps, because the Japanese language version of the OS just isn't in the phone?
Edit: this may have fixed all that I needed.
Do the Note 4 or Note Edge support the Japanese language option?
I just used developer mode to enable the Japanese locale, but that only affected some apps, because the Japanese language version of the OS just isn't in the phone?
Edit: this may have fixed all that I needed.
Jazzy Network
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Verizon doesn't support that phone
Do the Note 4 or Note Edge support the Japanese language option?
I just used developer mode to enable the Japanese locale, but that only affected some apps, because the Japanese language version of the OS just isn't in the phone?
Maybe Samsung doesn't support it out of the box.
Moto still hasn't updated all 2nd gen G and X phones.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I learned about it from you, I think, but no one is talking about it so I reposted.
It looked fine on my 1440. If people don't have 1440 already, ugh. Put me on ignore because I don't want any association.
Is so funny that Motorola updates the normal version first and the gpe later.
I'm not surprised since they are slow to adopt version releases since they are working in closing their code branch for Jelly Bean....edit.. Ha! I mean Kit Kat.
RaySpencer
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I think I've solved my Nexus 5 lollipop problems.
I used to have everything crash all the time and home reloads and shit. But I deleted a lot of unused programs and wallpapers and then ran an antivirus app. It didn't find any viruses, but seemed to clean up some bullshit stuff. Haven't had an issue since.
I used to have everything crash all the time and home reloads and shit. But I deleted a lot of unused programs and wallpapers and then ran an antivirus app. It didn't find any viruses, but seemed to clean up some bullshit stuff. Haven't had an issue since.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
G3 is based. Zero complaints.
I like the new green better. But damn if they don't fix the rest of the app.
Don't hold your breath too long, Groof, you might just die waiting for the perfect Hangouts.
Oh no, I've already given up on that. I'm just hoping for a slightly improved Hangouts.
Google and perfect are two words that were never meant to be uttered together.
Anti-virus apps do more harm than good.
I wonder if it was one of those apps that you removed. Maybe it was rogue or didn't play nice with lollipop....
RaySpencer
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Yeah, not sure what it was that solved it. I deleted the antivirus app imediatly after, but it already seemed to have wrecked my pocket casts. Haha.
Bought the Moto X, but realized it doesn't have a notification light... I liked that feeling of waking up in the middle of the night and glancing at my phone to see a green light indicating a message from a friend. Ah well.
But this doesn't matter with Active Display, right? Does the white text notification always fade in and out, or is it only when you interact with it? Hard to find any information on it online.
EDIT: wait, how does Active Display work with Lollipop's lock screen? Loved the notifications previews.
But this doesn't matter with Active Display, right? Does the white text notification always fade in and out, or is it only when you interact with it? Hard to find any information on it online.
EDIT: wait, how does Active Display work with Lollipop's lock screen? Loved the notifications previews.
RoadHazard
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Don't know, but it sure is annoying.
Guys, Wire is an awesome messaging app. Unfortunately, it's also proprietary
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wire
Note to Google: Fire the Hangouts team, buyout the Wire team.
brotkasten
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Except that the app won't look as good with low res pictures of your non-super model hipster friends.
Wish we knew why Chrome was doing that. I cleared cache and data and still ldidnt get the prompt to open in the YouTube app. Google's lost their minds.
beta chrome?
brotkasten
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While I agree on the hardware side (again, the only thing my next phone needs is better battery life and a better camera), I'm not really sure what other big features in the OS are still missing. At least nothing that would be convenient to someone like me, who isn't locked to one ecosystem. Of course I never would've thought of something like smart unlock, but I've been lamenting the lack of location aware profiles for a while now and I guess trusted places is a good step in the right direction and I hope they're going to expand on that. But what else could be done? Again, purely from a platform agnostic standpoint.
Mercury Fred
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Has anyone tried the Tap & Go feature on Lollipop?
I was wondering about using it to clone my N5 over to my old N4 and to be able to use the N4 as a data backup so that I can do a clean install on my N5 but not sure if the feature can work that way. Anyone have any insight?
I was wondering about using it to clone my N5 over to my old N4 and to be able to use the N4 as a data backup so that I can do a clean install on my N5 but not sure if the feature can work that way. Anyone have any insight?
Regular Chrome
Worked as advertised. Brought over my settings, wallpaper, and apps (well, temp links to them as they gradually installed). No complaints doing it from my One Plus to the N6
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Hardware still has a ways to go. Memory usage needs help. Tabs and home screens constantly refreshing is unacceptable. I don't think software can fix it completely yet.
Software needs help on phones and tablets bigger than 5". We need proper multi app on screen use.
RoadHazard
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Pretty sure it doesn't actually transfer app data and such. It just saves you some time by setting up your home screens like you had them, etc.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Sill have that voucher for £100 off a moto X2 from the Moto maker not sure if I should go for it or not my N5 is strong enough for me.
Also on the topic of hangouts i'd love to use it but it seems the majority of Android users don't know what it even is or how to add their friends on it (from my circle anyway)
IMO if they unlicked Hangouts from G+ and made it kinda of like how I message works on iOS (argh mentioned the unmentionable) and if Google made it so all OEM had it as the default messaging app perhaps that would help it take off? but that's just my thoughts of course it might not actually be the best idea.
Also on the topic of hangouts i'd love to use it but it seems the majority of Android users don't know what it even is or how to add their friends on it (from my circle anyway)
IMO if they unlicked Hangouts from G+ and made it kinda of like how I message works on iOS (argh mentioned the unmentionable) and if Google made it so all OEM had it as the default messaging app perhaps that would help it take off? but that's just my thoughts of course it might not actually be the best idea.
Vanillalite
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To be fair 3 gigs of RAM should fix that. The problem is all of the phones and tablets with 2 gigs are so borderline especially if they have a QHD or higher resolution.
From what I've read 1080p on down uses 256 of RAM for VRAM above that res they all use 512. That really would only leave you 1 gig for programs if you count that the OS itself needs RAM on a super high res tablet like the N9 with 2 gigs of RAM total.
DDR4 will help with performance on the 810, but it won't solve multitasking if you just don't have enough RAM to go around.
I'm gonna do some research on how much base aosp takes up just to run the OS.
Link?
GamerKingFaiz
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Deciding which new phone to get and stuck between LG G3 and Note 4 at the moment. What are your guys' thoughts?
Note 4 for the screen camera and s-pen
It should pulse even when you're not interacting with it. If you don't want to wait for the next pulse, you can wave your hand over it to get it to show up. As for Lollipop, you should be able to choose between Moto Display and Lollipop Ambient Display somewhere in settings....
Thanks. Is there a link to the Moto G zip?
Vanillalite
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Depends on price, and if you are willing to deal with a big ass phone with touchwiz.
Note 4 has better hardware internals and camera, but G3 has better hardware design with a large display in a smallerish package.
G3 also doesn't have wiz.
Depends on how much you can stand the wiz and if you want to pay the Note 4 premium price.
For the record I got the G3 last week and love it.
Google Now.
Was the S6, M9 and new Sony Z4. Just don't care. The only two things to me would be battery and storage; cameras I could care less about.
The Faceless Master
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Optimus UI is basically TouchWiz
they even have 'SmartShare Beam' and other features pioneered by Sam
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