The Faceless Master
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get the GS5.
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Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Yeah, it's daily driver ready.
goddamit I didn't get an invitation
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
The worst is when people get invited, talk for two days, then leave completely/forget about it.
RoadHazard
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Definitely the Z2, if only to avoid Samsung's awful software/skin. Their hardware is also ugly and feels cheap, IMO.
There are some bugs, but nothing really major (except for MMS not working well, in case that's important for you). Some apps don't work, but the vast majority do. I've been using it as my daily driver for a week now, and it's great. Very stable, and I can deal with the small bugs that are present.
You don't need root to flash an image onto a Nexus. What you do need to do is to unlock your bootloader, which will wipe your phone. But that's something you need to do when flashing this version anyway, you absolutely do not want to dirty flash it (flashing while keeping your data), people who have done that have reported all sorts of issues.
Yeah while playing with both phones for a few minutes I have to say I do love the fact that the Z2 isn't made out of plastic. S5 feels almost like I'm still using the same phone, software wise and cheap plastic wise.
I'm quite set on the Z2, but would go with the S5 if the phone itself would be more stable, had better battery life and all the obvious stuff.
I have an excuse for why I talked for a few weeks and left. There's no viable option for me to have hangouts open on PC (the extension is bull and having G+ tab open is not a solution for me) nor does it have chatheads on android. Love me some chatheads.
In case you want that OK Google hotword detection to be enabled anywhere:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/03/still-dont-have-ok-google-everywhere-try-this-simple-trick/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/03/still-dont-have-ok-google-everywhere-try-this-simple-trick/
truthiness
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I cannot believe that this actually worked. Google must be trolling us
.It seems like it might not work for all languages according to some of the posts, but it definitely works for English.
I cannot believe that this actually worked. Google must be trolling us
It seems like it might not work for all languages according to some of the posts, but it definitely works for English.
Yeah i think only U.S. English, tried for Canada but the options were disabled.
OriginalThinking
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Seriously that place is filth and they barely ever talk about Android. I'd say about 75% of that chat is about mturco's sister. You ain't missing anything.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
It's a mailing list.
RoadHazard
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I cannot believe that this actually worked. Google must be trolling us
It seems like it might not work for all languages according to some of the posts, but it definitely works for English.
I wish anything related to voice worked in Swedish. You can do a regular Google search by voice, but that's it. No intelligent answers to questions, no voice actions, no "Ok Google", no nothing. Sigh.
Isn't it a Hangout? That's not a mailing list, but a group chat. (I'm not in it.)
OriginalThinking
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I doubt you could call it a hangout. It's a place where people go to express their mutual passive aggressive hatred of each other and circlejerk about how bad Touchwiz is. Look through this thread and notice all the posters you feel should be banned and/or blocked. They're all in that hangout. It's so cliquey it's unreal.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Truth. Bring the funk!
So it's happening again. After a couple of hours on Android L, my Nexus 5 now reboots every 10 seconds or so. I booted into Safe Mode as suggested on here, and it's running fine in that mode. I have no idea what app is causing this. Everything was working and I didn't install anything at all before the reboots started to happen.
Edit: I'm now removing root access to see if that has anything to do with it.
Edit: I'm now removing root access to see if that has anything to do with it.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Strange. I clean wiped 100% and have no issues. Bad luck
I went into safe mode, uninstalled a bunch of apps and rebooted. Its working now. Posted from my phone, no reboot for a few minutes. Just have to figure out which app it was.
OriginalThinking
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Lightflow is known to cause boot loop issues.
That could be it. It's installed now but seems OK so far. It was one of the apps I uninstalled previously. I'll wait a few hours and see if the problem comes back. If so I know the culprit.
Seems like it might indeed be lightflow
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72809
Any alternatives out there that people use?
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72809
Any alternatives out there that people use?
Jazzy Network
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New Tmo G2 update unlocking Knock Code and Google wallet. So good.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/03/still-dont-have-ok-google-everywhere-try-this-simple-trick/
Worked for me. Even works with the screen off
Worked for me. Even works with the screen off
Schrade
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Do it then go to the Play store and check your My Apps. See if there's an update for Google Search there.
I had to do that to get it.
Hmm does not work on lock screen unless I press the power button first.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
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I thought it was screen off while charging.
Yes and no. As long it is in google play or a normal apk, like nova or dodol launcher no problem , but some oem launchers do have something else running in the background , that is why you can't run their apps and widgets easily on other launchers and phones from oher manufacturers.
That same thing running on the background doesn't always stop running even if you install a different launcher, so it eats resources, especially if we are talking samsung. So you have like on my note 8, TW running with all those samsung services and apps and the launcher.
Google has done the right steps with android wear tv and auto afaik, not allowing oem personalisation. We will see how it develops.
Schrade
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Did you go into the settings and configure the ok google stuff there?
You're right. Just tried it now That's really odd :/
Not really, probably uses more power to keep that feature always listening, so it makes sense to only have it active while charging. The use case I can see is in a car while driving,. I usually have my phone plugged in and charging in the car, so this will be handy.
Edit: Also an update for those who were following my Android "L" reboot issue. The problem was indeed LightFlow. After uninstalling LightFlow last night, I haven't had any reboot issues. Phone is working as normal, and battery life is great. Went to bed last night at 100%, woke up 9 hours later to 96%. Battery sipping while doing nothing.
Why would anyone perform such a horrible feat?
RoadHazard
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I can only tell you that I don't have any such issues with my N5 running the L preview. I also have adaptive brightness (which auto brightness has been changed to) turned off, as I hate when the screen keeps going brighter and darker all the time, and my brightness stays at what I've set it to.
Hi guys. Please I need some help.
I have a Nexus 5 but my phone has refused to update to 4.4.3. It will download and then restart to install. A little while into installing it stops and says "error". It then restarts. Sometime later I will get the alert to download the update again but the same thing happens every time. Any way to solve this?
I have a Nexus 5 but my phone has refused to update to 4.4.3. It will download and then restart to install. A little while into installing it stops and says "error". It then restarts. Sometime later I will get the alert to download the update again but the same thing happens every time. Any way to solve this?
Baroquemantic
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Are you rooted or anything? I don't know how updates work with the N5, but my S4 had to be unrooted before I could update. I had the exact same problem where it would download, reboot into recovery, try to install the update, and fail because of an error.
Rooting and updating on the Nexus 5 has no bearing. OTA updates should work even if you're rooted.
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