The Faceless Master
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Edge.
better than what? 3-4 months after a source drop is great.
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Edge.
better than what? 3-4 months after a source drop is great.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
That doesn't sound great to me. That's pretty cray. I think 1 month would be acceptable.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
There are plenty of G4 phones here in Seoul already. It's trash.
Yeah, go for the N6 then.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Of course there are. People want the best!
So I just inherited a Note 8 (Gt-N5100) and while I love it so far, there's noticeable lockscreen lag. Is there any way to fix this? I don't have any widgets running on the homescreen and I factory reseted everything. Is that just the way it is or can I do something about it? When I swipe, the animation is super choppy and there's a pause before it unlocks.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Damn son. Does it run android Pineapple? What else does the future hold.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Not sure this will fix that issue, but the two things you need to do are
1) Make sure you are fully up to date
2) Turn of S Voice
The second in particular makes performance jump.
It's 4.3 and supposedly will be upgraded to Lollipop (lol). The performance is sort of hit and miss, but I don't want to tinker with it in terms of rooting/unlocking unless I absolutely have no other solution using stock. Battery life drains suuuper quick for some reason, but lasts seemingly forever when it's off just playing music. I might have to do another factory reset and start from scratch to see what's causing the performance inconsistencies.
Thanks. I'll check out the S Voice thing. It's up to date as that's the first thing I checked when I got the device after resetting. I've never had a Samsung device before (other than borrowing my partner's Note II sporadically) and the amount of options this thing has is confusing as heck.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
shiftplusone
Member
I actually hated all that stuff on my s4
I think the edge looks really stupid but I haven't seen one in person.
Just decided on the nexus6 which will be here Monday. Thanks guys!
The Faceless Master
Member
Well, that's what it's called.
Granted, it's "8.0," not just "8."
And holy heck, the amount of Samsung apps I'm allowed to turn off. I just hope I don't turn off something important. I figure the ones that I'm allowed to won't cause any problems. *crosses fingers*
I might be getting my SO a Note 5 depending on what they come out with. He's an adamant Note addict and I don't mind, because I'm suddenly getting all the old models for every upgraded device.A note 8?
I love my note 4
I might be getting my SO a Note 5 depending on what they come out with. He's an adamant Note addict and I don't mind, because I'm suddenly getting all the old models for every upgraded device.
One of my favorite features that I thought I'd never use is ultra power saving mode. LOL I always seem to be low on battery at the worst times so I just throw it in ultra power saving and gets me through no problem.
Does it come at a major performance loss, though? I've noticed that when I turn on Power Saver, the screen isn't as responsive to my touches and movement through apps is laggy. I don't know if future versions of TWZ have found better ways to make this less obviously debilitating. Though it does seem to keep the battery from getting sapped.
Vanillalite: Thanks for that suggestion. After disabling S Voice and a few dozen Samsung apps that I probably won't use, it seems the lockscreen is no longer emulating molasses.
Hoping it's not a placebo effect.
[edit] Also noticed that Google Now commands on this are sooo much faster than my Moto X.
My S4 just died, I think.
Was out with some friends in the afternoon, the phone randomly shut off and I couldn't turn it back on the whole day. The Samsung logo shows up and then it immediately shuts off.
I have 2 batteries, swapped but neither seem to work.
Just noticed that when I put the battery in, the phone tries to turn on.
I read that there are some power button issues with the phone but I tried smacking it a little, didn't seem to do anything. The power button still clicks fine I think.
No idea what to do now, I was supposed to wait 4 more months to upgrade due to my contract. I have some junky S3 I could use, and I can just charge it at work (the battery is a bit poopy on that now).
Was out with some friends in the afternoon, the phone randomly shut off and I couldn't turn it back on the whole day. The Samsung logo shows up and then it immediately shuts off.
I have 2 batteries, swapped but neither seem to work.
Just noticed that when I put the battery in, the phone tries to turn on.
I read that there are some power button issues with the phone but I tried smacking it a little, didn't seem to do anything. The power button still clicks fine I think.
No idea what to do now, I was supposed to wait 4 more months to upgrade due to my contract. I have some junky S3 I could use, and I can just charge it at work (the battery is a bit poopy on that now).
Now I'm not sure if I even want to get a Samsung phone, wanted a Note 5.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Yeah if my poopy spare S3 doesn't last it's moto for me.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
So is there a way to get more control of wireless networks. I have xfinity, and they have their newer cable modems set-up to have a 'guest' network that is available to any compact user. Which is good in some circumstances, but I only ever want to manually chose that network, I never want it to automatically connect. I don't want to delete the network because then I have to enter my credentials anytime I use it.
Unknown Soldier
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Apple tends to not support technologies which fail to be elegant enough and usually they are right. Flash is a technical disaster and only became the de-facto standard because there was nothing else to fill the vacuum. Now we have HTML5 and Flash can go fuck itself as it should.
Their refusal to support Blu-ray has been prophetic as well. Anyone who's tried to watch a Blu-ray movie on a PC knows what a shitshow that is because the people who implemented that standard went out of their way to make it a pain in the ass to play back on computers, believing it would help reduce piracy. In fact it's had no effect on piracy but it has effectively killed shiny optical disc playback on PCs even as streaming has taken off in a big way. Blu-ray shot itself in the foot there, and people who still care about video/audio quality and use round movie discs avoid trying to play them back on PCs at all costs.
Scrolling in EVERYTHING is terrible, Twitter especially.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
#ProjectCan'tBelieveIt'sNotButter
Vanillalite
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What carrier?
Not that I know of. Local preference of said wireless network has to do with signal strength. Are you running 2.4 and 5 GHz channels? If your Guest is 2.4 and your "home" wireless network is 5, depending on location in the house, it will automatically connect you to your Guest network due to signal strength.
longdi
Banned
Tabs switching in Chrome is still hilarious.
Every time i tried switching tabs, it would either open a new tab, or bring up the keyboard.
Which morons at Google still think switching tabs via the address bar on 5 inch phones is a good thing? Apple wont have allowed this, and neither would they silently wait for the Android L storm to blow over.
Every time i tried switching tabs, it would either open a new tab, or bring up the keyboard.
Which morons at Google still think switching tabs via the address bar on 5 inch phones is a good thing? Apple wont have allowed this, and neither would they silently wait for the Android L storm to blow over.
Junior Mint
Member
Yup. I switched to an iPad when I couldn't even scroll through my Evernote notes smoothly on my old 2013 Nexus 7. It's literally just text. Pretty fucking sad.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
The hate is strong today
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Don't do what I did and try the dev version of Chrome
now that scrolling is infuriating
I'm on Bell in Canada
osiris3355
Banned
Huh? Tab switching is on tablets not on phones.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Im sorry, i meant swipe to switch tabs. On phones with Chrome, it is near unusable.
Does Google thinks through such implementation? ¯\_(ツ
Is there not a little box with a number at the top right hand side? you shouldn't need to swipe :S
On another note this issue with the N9 is beginning to get seriously annoying. I can't background play youtube videos while doing anything else as the video's audio will just freeze up :/
osiris3355
Banned
Im sorry, i meant swipe to switch tabs. On phones with Chrome, it is near unusable.
Does Google thinks through such implementation? ¯_(ツ
It works fine if you just dont hit the menu buttons on the right side. Its also less actions than the iOS counterpart.
I prefer to hit the tab box because then I get to choose from all the tabs I have open.
What phone? I need a video of this.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Use the multi task button to switch tabs. That's the new direction. And it's better than the address bar.
Stupid, high, or both? You decide.
This purported lagless scrolling of yours.
Really? What shit phones does everyone else have that chrome scrolls less than 60fps locked?
Anyway, there's zero way to show this. Screen record and YouTube makes it 30fps.
While I won't say a framerate, I'm getting lawless scrolling in Chrome on a Nexus 6 too.
Doesn't matter if YouTube limits to 30fps, you'd still be able to see the jank (if present).
I have an S6, my girlfriend has a Nexus 6. I'll record a video of both scrolling a simple NeoGaf page. It's pathetic. Not only that, hitting the button to show the "Off Topic, Gaming, Subscriptions, etc." buttons on mobile GAF sometimes takes several seconds to show up and the another several seconds when clicking on an item. I experienced this on my Nexus 5 and S6. I'll test it on the Nexus 6, but I'm not hopeful that it's some night and day difference. It's not like the N5 has a shit CPU or anything.
There's a major issue with either your network connection or a rogue app installed. Even at its worse, Chrome would simply...hesitate, once a new page came up. Then be fine.