For some reason in stock android this only works on tablets and not phones.
GravityBox really is awesome for customising stock android.
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Nexus 5 |OT|
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GravityBox really is awesome for customising stock android.
Does Cyanogenmod pretty much have everything GravityBox has?
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Nope, but what I do is swipe down the right corner with a finger or thumb, instantly lift my finger and tap it right there once. It's literally as fast as swiping down with 2 fingers. Works better with a thumb. Very handy if you a) Don't use power toggles or b) You're using it with one hand.
Want to know if this is possible since I am in need of a new phone with my S3 acting up. Was going to pass by my local T mobile store and pick up the N5 with T mobile offering
. But I will pay everything off next month. My brother has an account with T mobile so was just going to add a line and then cancel it when I am done paying the $396.00. Whats my pros and cons with doing this. Also I will be using my AT&T sim card.
Why not buy the Nexus 5 directly from the Google Play store for $350?
I want to purchase the 32 GB
Ah ok, it's pretty much the same price then as buying it directly from Google. The only downside I can see is you plan on paying for a month of service at T-Mobile, that's unless you're going to port your number to T-Mobile, then port back to AT&T?
**edit** On Tmobile's website the 16gb Nexus 5 is $396. The Google Play store has the 16gb for $350 and the 32gb for $400.
I just want T-Mobile to make a dummy number and I receive the phone. Not looking to put a plan on the account I may pay $20-$30 if T-Mobile has a old person talk plan.
I thought Tmo charged more for the n5?
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
3.5 hours and still 51% battery left. I'm gonna break my 6 hour screen time record for sure.
Damn. That's some beautiful on screen time!
I went to the T-Mobile and talk with the rep. Dude told me that I would not have to put anything down for the phone this month(for T-mobile payment plan). That I will just have to start paying next month. My issue is that the phone will not be unlocked when I purchase it and that I have to wait two payments for T-mobile to unlock the phone(So I have to wait until next month). T-mobile does not have 2 yr contracts but I will need to place the phone on a plan that is $30 talk and unlimited data for $20. To be paid off next month. Not sure if I want to pay a extra $50 to use T-mobile network for a month when I just want to use the phone on AT&T network. Thinking about calling the call center the see if they can work something out for me. If not I will wait until next month and next day ship the N5 for $20.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
If T-Mobile even carries the 32GB, it's not $400. They charge that for the 16.
Just buy it from Google?
smartphones have key functions related to sound:
alarm clock
phone call ringer
notification alerts
music/video players
etc
Android mobile OS has separate volume levels for most of those functions
(you might think having a single volume level is better but see complaints in the Windows Phone thread about missing a phone call because the volume of the music player was lowered)
The hardware buttons on your phone can be used to change any of the separate volume levels depending on the context during which they are pressed. If you're playing music and press the volume buttons then it'll affect the media volume level. If you're at the home screen, and no music player is running, then the volume buttons will affect the call ringer. If you have a music app on the lockscreen then pressing the volume buttons won't change the ringer volume
You can tell which particular volume level is being changed by the icon, beside the volume bar, that appears when the volume button is pressed; a phone icon is for the call ringer, a speaker icon is for the music volume, and so on.
If you want to be completely precise when changing the volumes then get a widget or notification app like Slider widget. It'll allow you to see the current level of each volume and change them quickly and easily.
Notes: iirc touchwiz (or was it cynamogen?) has a nifty feature that allows the user, when changing the volume, to tap on the icon beside the volume bar and be presented with all the other volume levels for the device. So even if you're listening to music, you may easily change the ringer volume too.
TouchWiz does have that. I kinda miss it.
The Faceless Master
Member
they both have that
cartoon_soldier
Member
custom kernel?
DJ_Lae
Member
Cool, thanks for the indepth response!
I'm still wondering if there's a bug as I have had it a couple of times change music volume at the home screen with nothing else running. So I'll probably nab something like you suggest to be able to change individual volume when I want.
I am finding the placement of the volume buttons and power button kind of annoying in that I have to be very careful how I hold the phone when I press power, but that might just be my case.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
Nope, stock. Using lux lite for brightness control, really helps a lot.
IMACOMPUTA
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hey, thanks for that. Just bought a new 32gb n5 for $380 total. Sounds too good to be true.
And the guy just so happens to live 20 minutes away.
Hope im safe using swappa..
Pretty sure stock android used to have this as well. Maybe pre ICS
massivekettle
Member
Got a Nexus 5 - where do you find that "Centralized File Management" this article (and many others are referencing?
http://www.androidpit.com/android-4-4-hidden-functions
http://www.androidpit.com/android-4-4-hidden-functions
That blog makes it sound like a file manager but actually it's just for selecting files when doing stuff like attaching an image to a hangouts message.
It's not a launchable app and not like like a regular file manager - I see that only when I do a certain task like click on a "file upload" button in a browser, for example. You can use it to select desired files or you can also launch other file managers/explorers from that centralized file selector to do the same task.
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
You sent your old phone back before you received your replacement?
Usually you wait until you receive the new phone, pack the old phone into the same shipping box the new one came in, toss on the RMA slip, and send it to UPS.
The temp authorization is so you can receive a new phone first, and not have to go a week without a phone, and Google has a bit of coverage. If you told them that you would ship the phone first, they probably wouldn't have even bothered with a temp authorization.
When I had to RMA my phone, they told me to keep using it until my new one arrived.
They have access to the RMA shipment info/tracking. As soon as their system knew it was in transit, they took the hold off my card. I shipped it in the morning, by the next day, my card was freed.
I'm using one of the Cruzerlite TPU cases. They offer good drop protection and are cheap on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FH90MWU/?tag=neogaf0e-20
RockAction
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If anyone is in the UK/Ireland looking at a replacements from LG specifically; I sent mine away for a replacement screen, got word around a week later that it would be £105.
Not as bad as i was expecting, said it would be 7 - 10 days to return.
Not as bad as i was expecting, said it would be 7 - 10 days to return.
Outdoor Miner
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After a minor flirtation with the Xperia Z, I'm finally on board the Nexus 5 train. Ahhhh sooo good.
Its incredible how light and relatively small the phone feels given its screen size. Solid engineering on display.
Its incredible how light and relatively small the phone feels given its screen size. Solid engineering on display.
Tempting, but the Google cases are now 25% off for a 'limited' time and I gotta say I'm tempted. Especially since they work with wireless charging (do the Spigen/Cruzer cases work with it too)?
EDIT: HOLY SHIT the shipping from Google Play is £5.99?!?!
Someone needs to explain to me how Google can justify having £10.99 shipping on the quickcover, and £5.99 shipping on the bumper. I'd have bought the quickcover if it wasn't so damned expensive.
Yep, been thinking about it for a long time, and finally decided to jump on this. Got the white back 16gb and it'll be here sometime next week. Can't wait!
Feels weird finally going to andriod, I've been planning on getting rid of this iphone for a while now, and now's the time.
Feels weird finally going to andriod, I've been planning on getting rid of this iphone for a while now, and now's the time.
Solideliquid
Member
Which iPhone model did you have?
JaseMath
Member
You will love the Nexus 5. Coming from an iPhone myself, iOS seems so limited compared to what you can do with Android. Enjoy!
http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
If you have any specific questions, let us know, happy to help.
You're going to love the 5.
So I'm THIS close to pulling the trigger on a Nexus 5, but was wanting to see if anyone could tell me if I'd encounter any issues doing what I want to do.
I'm wanting to move to Pre-paid T-mobile, and I'm currently on Sprint using their Google Voice integration, and my contract ends in June. I'm at the point where my ETF is at the minimum it will be (never goes below $100), so it seems to make sense to get off Sprint now and the money I save in monthly fee going to pre-paid will cover the ETF in like half the time left on my contract.
However, is it easy enough to use Google Voice with T-Mobile pre-paid? What I'd do is actually port my current "everyone-knows-it" phone number into Google Voice, and then just do normal GV integration, hopefully using GV voicemail and text and the GV client on the phone. I'm not interested in trying to get around using cellulary minutes, so I assume the normal setup of making calls via Voice would work fine.
However, I'm reading weird things about Voicemail being a pain with GV and T-Mobile prepaid due to how conditional call-forwarding is handled (or not) on the prepaid plans.
Does anyone have any experience with this and can give me some feedback? I suppose, if worse comes to worst ditching GV and just porting my number to T-Mobile wouldn't be horrible, but I rather like being able to call from my Google Chat account when I'm sitting at the PC and having my actual phone number show up properly for people on their Caller ID when I do so - and I'd lose that porting the number to T-Mobile I assume.
I'm wanting to move to Pre-paid T-mobile, and I'm currently on Sprint using their Google Voice integration, and my contract ends in June. I'm at the point where my ETF is at the minimum it will be (never goes below $100), so it seems to make sense to get off Sprint now and the money I save in monthly fee going to pre-paid will cover the ETF in like half the time left on my contract.
However, is it easy enough to use Google Voice with T-Mobile pre-paid? What I'd do is actually port my current "everyone-knows-it" phone number into Google Voice, and then just do normal GV integration, hopefully using GV voicemail and text and the GV client on the phone. I'm not interested in trying to get around using cellulary minutes, so I assume the normal setup of making calls via Voice would work fine.
However, I'm reading weird things about Voicemail being a pain with GV and T-Mobile prepaid due to how conditional call-forwarding is handled (or not) on the prepaid plans.
Does anyone have any experience with this and can give me some feedback? I suppose, if worse comes to worst ditching GV and just porting my number to T-Mobile wouldn't be horrible, but I rather like being able to call from my Google Chat account when I'm sitting at the PC and having my actual phone number show up properly for people on their Caller ID when I do so - and I'd lose that porting the number to T-Mobile I assume.
The Faceless Master
Member
can't do it with prepaid IIRC.
some prepaid carriers also do other nitpicky stuff like disable 3 way calling.
some prepaid carriers also do other nitpicky stuff like disable 3 way calling.
Well, reading some more it seems the issue is when people want to use their T-Mobile number as their primary number and then forward to Google Voice so they can use the voicemail there.
I want to do the opposite and port my long-standing phone number to Google and then forward to T-Mobile, that seems like it won't be an issue and I'll only have to worry about getting my T-Mobile voicemail disabled if I want to use GV Voicemail. If T-Mobile gets their Visual Voicemail app upgraded promptly for use with 4.4/Nexus 5 then I won't worry about that though.
I'm coming from the iphone 4. D: I'm long due for an upgrade.
Thanks! You're just making me more excited than I already am. It's my first Android phone, and I'm hoping I love it too.