There's an idea. The Plus is a bit expensive for a stopgap phone but a standard G5 that I give to my grandmother as a gift 4 months later could work.
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There's an idea. The Plus is a bit expensive for a stopgap phone but a standard G5 that I give to my grandmother as a gift 4 months later could work.
Have you tried slamming the power button? Imagine the power button is a a hammer head a hard surface is the nail. Worked for me when I had boot looping with the phone. Of course the phone stopped recognizing Sims after that.My Nexus 5 boot-looped.It didn't even have the courtesy to wait for J8sus, Xperia ZX Spectrum or the Pixel 2 to come out before dying.
Good to see that worked. Was a master of Macgyvering my Nexus 5. Too mich time spent googling solutions.
Baroquemantic
Member
64GB, 4GB RAM Moto G4+ is $199 today on Amazon and B&H. Quite tempting.
Check out the offers variant on amazon for a bit cheaper.
I replaced the batteries of two Nexus 5s, my first experiences of phone surgery so I can empathise!
Moto G5 Plus is a Carphone Warehouse exclusive here.
Baroquemantic
Member
Go to battery settings, tap the 3 dot menu, go to advanced settings, turn off app power monitoring or something like that. It's Samsung's version of Greenify or doze or whatever. That may be the cause.
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2017/05/oneplus-ceo-reveals-new-phone-coming-soon.html
Oneplus hype train is starting. Weeeee.
Oneplus hype train is starting. Weeeee.
Vanillalite
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We need an official Floss OT complete with all of his catch phrases and a pic of Xerxes.
The Faceless Master
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floss goin' in
Jazzy Network
Member
Xerxes too cute. Shout out to the white shoes.
Moto Z Play. For a comparison, my Pixel with that same usage would be somewhere between 15 and 20 percent.
I think what impresses me the most about the phone isn't even the battery life: performance is silky smooth, even on a midrange processor.
Even coming from a Pixel, and I can hardly tell any difference at all in terms of smoothness. If the Pixel were a 10/10 in terms of performance, the Moto Z Play feels like a 9.5/10, and it feels significantly smoother than the LG G6 I used for a couple weeks.
It's crazy.
Yep. Secretly one of the best phones last year. Smoother than my s8+ at the very least lol.
BoboBrazil
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LG G6 $500 brand new on T-Mobile starting tomorrow with free Google home. Flop.
Rodney McKay
Member
Yeah, I played with a Moto Z Play at a Verizon store and found it to be really smooth compared to my S7 Edge.
Unless a phone is really able to blow me away this year (not sure what would impress me at this point), I think I might buy a Z Play for cheap once I pay off my S7 Edge for the great battery life. No other features really matter to me these days (other than having an SD card support).
Only Samsung Pay is something I think is cool on Samsung phones, but I've almost never used it (my bank still doesn't support their debit cards with it). Having double the battery life would be worth giving up I think.
Not hard to accomplish
Wish reviews would notice!
Maybe I'm just super sensitive to this stuff but there's been plenty of reviewers that have reviewed pixel and oneplus 3t that praise the performance of a US s8.
BoboBrazil
Member
They aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.
I bought my 5x week one. Still pretty happy with it.Or at least happy enough to ride it out till after O I guess when updates stop. By then I'll see whether I go to a Pixel 2 or jump to an iPhone 8.
Though maybe OnePlus will finally sell phones in Australia and I'll consider them.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Eh that's a Nexus. Doesn't count
Will still bootloopEh that's a Nexus. Doesn't count
Sticky Fingers
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talking about bootloop my nexus 5 is getting worse, everytime I push the power button it launch the camera and restart every hour. at least I'm lucky it's not stuck in bootloop.
Vanillalite
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Honor 6X finally getting the big update.
Might be a worthy competitor to the Moto G5 Plus now.
Might be a worthy competitor to the Moto G5 Plus now.
crazy monkey
Banned
I have lg g3 still perfect.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
That is arguably the last great LG phone.*
*V20 a wild card as it's newer and I've heard conflicting reports on the boot loop
Hype!
GAF, being a board of people who care deeply about 60FPS and are constantly looking for it, are way, way, WAY more sensitive than the general population.
I literally cannot tell the difference smoothness wise between my S8 and my Pixel when side by side.
"_______ doesn't have the best graphics because I can't run it at 4K and 60 FPS. Doesn't look that great"
"Nope, not buying because it doesn't run at 60 FPS" (regarding ______ console game)
Ruddock is going on about the scroll jank on the S8 -
Now, I have a Pixel XL, Exynos S8+, and a Mate 9 in front of me, and honestly, I see it. Pulling down the notification bar, I see frame drops. Swiping up/down the menu, I see it.
Chalk it up to early software, I guess, but I see the complaints of 'lagginess' while using my S8+. Maybe it's an Exynos thing?
Just needs more polish, imo.
Now, I have a Pixel XL, Exynos S8+, and a Mate 9 in front of me, and honestly, I see it. Pulling down the notification bar, I see frame drops. Swiping up/down the menu, I see it.
Chalk it up to early software, I guess, but I see the complaints of 'lagginess' while using my S8+. Maybe it's an Exynos thing?
Just needs more polish, imo.
It's the delay that's the most noticeable for me.
Sometimes I hit home I have to wait a sec for a response. Same with multitasking button.
Just not consistent.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
While I agree that for most people it's a non issue it would be nice if in 2017 people who are paying say $800 on a new Samsung didn't even have to wonder if they'll care about this in the first place cause it doesn't exist.
I'm using a Exynos.
I don't see any delay on the home button etc that I don't see on my Pixel. Even iOS doesn't consistently deliver less than one second home button responsiveness.
Junior Mint
Member
I notice a delay on the S8 as well. It's not as bad as the S3 days though when there was something like a 3 second delay if you had the trash heap known as S Voice enabled.
Could be just snapdragon issue. Samsung really has no excuse. Both chipset are coming out of their own ass. Should be able to optimize for both.
crazy monkey
Banned
100% agree. 0.5 sec delay is end. If speed is only criteria then iPhone should be your only option.
Baroquemantic
Member
Eh. I find Android phones much faster at navigating around the OS and accomplishing certain tasks, despite Apple having the best processors.
Jzero
Member
I Pre-ordered mine April 28th and I get a LG Watch style and maybe a Google Home (if i receive the phone before may 22nd)
I ain't even mad.
Jazzy Network
Member
Got my G6 for 500. No Google Home but I would have just flipped it. Oh well I ain't even mad. Super happy with it.
Walter White
Member
How is it? I've been heavily contemplating getting the S8, coming from a Nexus 5x. However, if the G6 is $500, that is now another thing to consider. What's your hot take on the G6?
Jazzy Network
Member
Love it. I've never had an edge phone before and have no desire to get one. There's little things on the LG UI that I like better than the Samsung one (for example album art on lock screen) that sways me to LG.