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Android |OT5| The Sonic Cycle
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Unknown Soldier
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Verizon hasn't launched VoLTE AFAIK
newdayrocks
Member
Fed up with my VZW G3 not having Lollipop yet, I pulled my Note II out of retirement, and updated it to the latest CM12 Nightly. It's glorious, and I'm tempted to ditch my G3 in favor of it as my daily device.
Is the interface pretty close to stock 5.0, or did CM add a bunch of stuff on top?
Is the interface pretty close to stock 5.0, or did CM add a bunch of stuff on top?
Baroquemantic
Member
Here's a link to an old article. I think this is the reason.
PSA: New Lollipop OTA Procedure On Nexus Devices Means Your Update Will Fail If Your System Is Modified In Any Way At All
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...e-means-update-will-fail-system-modified-way/
Jzero
Member
Lame i guess i'll wait for the factory image then.
Yeah they have. "Advanced calling 1.0"
You Are Viewtiful
Member
Discovered Tasker today *_* my life has changed forever.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Same.
Unknown Soldier
Member
OH DAMN
I had no idea...looks like it just rolled out a few months ago. This should make my future Note 5 happy.
Unknown Soldier
Member
None of the other available SoCs are anywhere near the performance of Exynos 7420. Given the choice, Samsung will obviously prefer their owh flagship in-house SoC over third party ones for their flagship devices. The reason Samsung used Qualcomm Snapdragon in North American Galaxy S3/S4/S5 and Note 3/4 is because Exynos didn't have native support for radio/baseband chips and there wasn't anybody except Qualcomm who produced CDMA-capable radios anyways.
So it made sense on the NA flagships to just use the whole Snapdragon SoC with integrated radio/baseband rather than do what they did with the Note II which was use Exynos and then also an outboard Qualcomm radio/baseband chip. The all-important time-to-market was probably the reason for this decision, they didn't love Qualcomm or anything to begin with. Exynos was having issues anyways during this period as the transition to octa-core big.LITTLE was messy and early Exynos octa-core SoCs had some notable performance problems.
However now that Samsung has kicked Qualcomm to the curb because the Snapdragon 810 manages to get itself outperformed by a Mediatek SoC (lol) and runs way hotter than Exynos produced on Samsung's 14nm FinFET (LOL), they will probably go back to using Exynos + outboard Qualcomm radio/baseband.
Sell your Qualcomm stock if you have any.
Wolfson DAC coming back to Galaxy S6 and Note 5 will make anybody who uses their phone as their music player really happy.
Only 2 companies are currently on the 14nm node: Intel and Samsung. Being in Intel's company means you are pretty fucking advanced. Nobody else is remotely close to 14nm right now, although Intel is making way bigger dies at 14nm than Samsung are.
outunderthestars
Banned
Is the Wolfson DAC confirmed?
Unknown Soldier
Member
Nope.
But who else are they going to use? They got burned by Yamaha in the Galaxy SII. Not a lot of other people out there making integrated mobile audio hubs.
Exynos variant Galaxy S3/4/5 and Note II/3/4 all used Wolfson DACs, I would be shocked if Exynos Galaxy S6 and Note 5 didn't use them.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Can't change chrome cast volume, too, though.
Milpool
Member
When a sound plays it sometimes cuts the start, ie. notification sounds, sounds in games. Plus all sounds seem to slowly fade in, again notification sounds, ringtone, and when you switch to speaker phone.
-Pyromaniac-
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So the Nexus 5 is officially dead. Google is done selling them. There will be more inventory.
Bring on nexus phone 2015 full of fingerprint love and usb c and I'm sure 8 inch screen.
Bring on nexus phone 2015 full of fingerprint love and usb c and I'm sure 8 inch screen.
flashed and did a fresh wipe and re-reoot / custom recovery of my Nexus 5 to 5.1. Everything going excellent so far. Think I have the rooting process pretty much completely down now (only my second time doing it)... so the next time there is an OS update I think I can handle it a lot faster.
Anyway, it's damn nice having a Nexus device. I chose to skip the N6 and wait for its successor later this year... still happy with that choice. N5 is still a really great phone.
Please add a fingerprint sensor to the N6 successor, Google! It's time to make it standard.
Anyway, it's damn nice having a Nexus device. I chose to skip the N6 and wait for its successor later this year... still happy with that choice. N5 is still a really great phone.
Please add a fingerprint sensor to the N6 successor, Google! It's time to make it standard.
-Pyromaniac-
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Considering Android Pay will most likely be a very large part of Google I/O this year it would be laughable if the Nexus phone didn't have one.
Then again, this is google and doing weird things is their specialty. I also hope they copy Apple and give 3rd party access to the sensor which I'm not sure Samsung did, or at least they didn't mention it.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Well there seems to be some sound issues remaining on my N6 after the OTA but i'll leave it to sit a day or two just to make sure but i'll probably end up jumping back on cyanogenmod after they update to 5.1.
Speaking of cyanogenmod i'm real surprised they haven't fixed the lag issue when using a secure lockscreen! the whole system staggers and has lag when you turn it on.
Speaking of cyanogenmod i'm real surprised they haven't fixed the lag issue when using a secure lockscreen! the whole system staggers and has lag when you turn it on.
Seriously, the thing hasn't even hiccuped once today, even flitting around apps like a madman.
Will have to try the camera later.
EDIT: Fuck it, tried it now. In videos, it now doesn't focus as you move, only when you stop moving. It also feels a bit quicker to focus, so an improvement.
No idea if that's good enough or whatever since I never use cameras on the phone.
WhiskerFrisker
Member
Moto please. I need this on the Moto X.
Unless it's an N7 LTE...
Damn, I haven't had my Nexus 6 that long (so the freshness if the upgrade hasn't worn off yet) but I can definitely feel the difference in speed that the 5.1 update brings. It was worth the hassle of manually sideloading the update!
EDIT: apparently that's because the phone is now running in full Quad Core mode constantly
EDIT: apparently that's because the phone is now running in full Quad Core mode constantly
manfestival
Member
I wish I knew that feeling...
Jazzy Network
Member
I never use Google Now.
ok then
Sony Nexus phone?
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Vaio is not part of Sony. This is a smartphone for the Japanese market to complement Vaio's laptop lineup. My guess is that they don't want to spend mobey on software so they are going to ship it with stock Android plus Google services.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Yes, but you can turn that off if you want. It's in settings under storage.
brotkasten
Member
My Nexus 5 is serving me pretty well today (for some reason).
I took if off the charger around 8 or 9 am, got 2,5 h SoT so far and still have 38% battery left. I did mostly web browsing on WiFi and some podcast listening.
It's not impressive by any means, but I feel like closing in on 3 hours SoT is rarely possible. Turning off voice commands from any screen could help as well. I still hope they're going to have a good follow up on the N5 for 349 this year.
The cached data blowing up for no reason is still annoying me. Here's my post about this from last week:
After that post, I delete it. Now I'm checking again and it's already over 3 GB big. I really don't understand it. I thought it might've been Tapet and it's randomly generated wallpapers that I set to change every 12 hours. Perhaps it didn't delete the old ones properly, so I deleted the app. Nope.
Maybe 5.1 can fix this.
I took if off the charger around 8 or 9 am, got 2,5 h SoT so far and still have 38% battery left. I did mostly web browsing on WiFi and some podcast listening.
It's not impressive by any means, but I feel like closing in on 3 hours SoT is rarely possible. Turning off voice commands from any screen could help as well. I still hope they're going to have a good follow up on the N5 for 349 this year.
The cached data blowing up for no reason is still annoying me. Here's my post about this from last week:
After that post, I delete it. Now I'm checking again and it's already over 3 GB big. I really don't understand it. I thought it might've been Tapet and it's randomly generated wallpapers that I set to change every 12 hours. Perhaps it didn't delete the old ones properly, so I deleted the app. Nope.
Maybe 5.1 can fix this.
weekend_warrior
Banned
ok then
Looks like a pretty good low/mid tier phone, maybe something to compete with the moto E.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
$400 offline. They may not be part of Sony any more but the ethos is clearly unchanged.
The N7?
There's not even a factory image yet, never mind an OTA. It's... conspicuous by this point.