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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #950 on: January 31, 2014, 08:33:25 AM »
My mom bought a Galaxy S4 a couple weeks ago. I tried for months to convince her not to get a smartphone because she rarely answers her phone, isn't allowed to have her phone on her at work (she's a nurse), and is home 95% of the time she's not at work. There's absolutely no reason why someone with my mom's minimal technological requirements would need a smartphone. It's her money so I threw my hands up and walked away. She has no idea how to use it and since I've never had an Android phone, I have no idea where anything is to help. She asks me things about it and I facepalm repeatedly. This is my nightmare.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #951 on: January 31, 2014, 12:40:46 PM »
My mom bought a Galaxy S4 a couple weeks ago. I tried for months to convince her not to get a smartphone because she rarely answers her phone, isn't allowed to have her phone on her at work (she's a nurse), and is home 95% of the time she's not at work. There's absolutely no reason why someone with my mom's minimal technological requirements would need a smartphone. It's her money so I threw my hands up and walked away. She has no idea how to use it and since I've never had an Android phone, I have no idea where anything is to help. She asks me things about it and I facepalm repeatedly. This is my nightmare.

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I recently  got the same phone. Up until now, I cited similar reasons as you (with your Mom) for not bothering but I gotta tell you, I use the damn thing a lot. More than I expected. It is a decently powerful, fully connected computer in my pocket. Most impressive.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #952 on: January 31, 2014, 08:14:29 PM »
On the next episode of fix that phone company we have HTC who decided to have a high end multimedia based phone without expandable memory and decided to just completely **** up the button placement.
Wait, what's wrong with the buttons? I could have sworn it was like the rest of them.


HTC One has no multitask button.
And they decided to put the home button on the side. Seriously, the only company that has created a good alternative to the standard layout is Samsung.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #953 on: February 04, 2014, 12:01:43 AM »
Speaking of Samsung apparently Samsung is planning to scale back it's app development stuff.

The way I see it if I had to choose i'd say keep the S-planner(oh I love that app so much) and gallery apps they made(along with the Multiwindow and s-pen related software) and after that pretty much toss everything else out in terms of their google app clones.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #954 on: February 04, 2014, 05:25:51 AM »
I had the Moto G for one whole day before i sent it back.

The phone is great, but there's a bug (even after a factory reset) when you unplug the headphones all sounds (including system sounds) fail to play through the speakers and the phone requires a reboot to work.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #955 on: February 07, 2014, 10:47:04 AM »
Why is stock Android more prevelant on tablets than smart phones? Practically every tablet manufacturer that isn't Samsung uses stock Android, but the only phones that use it are either Nexus phones or the Moto X / G.

I really hope Lenovo keeps supporting the "Moto" line, because I don't want my Moto G purchase to go to waste after a few months.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #956 on: February 07, 2014, 10:50:13 AM »
Most phones are subsidized by carriers, who tend to like to screw with that kind of thing, whereas most tablets are not.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #957 on: February 07, 2014, 12:11:05 PM »
Details of the Motorola purchase by Lenovo are out.
It turns out that in order to purchase Moto, Lenovo actually sold part of itself to Google.
So Google is still connected (for now)

"The purchase price is approximately US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments), including US$1.41 billion paid at close, comprised of US$660 million in cash and US$750 million in Lenovo ordinary shares (subject to a share cap/floor). The remaining US$1.5 billion will be paid in the form of a three-year promissory note."

http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0129.html

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #958 on: February 07, 2014, 04:24:39 PM »
That and the other major phone makers seem to avoid tablets for the most part

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #959 on: February 12, 2014, 11:01:23 AM »
I decided to disable Google Now. It just uses too much battery for what little it offers me. Right now Google now is complete and utter bloatware

I will say that nexus fanboys can get off their high horse about bloatware.
http://www.alsutton.com/nexus5-bloatware.html
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #960 on: February 12, 2014, 01:06:36 PM »
I rooted my Note 2. How is possible that it's slower than it was before. The only app I installed other than SuperUser is an adblocker (which doesn't always work, piece of shite).
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #961 on: February 12, 2014, 01:14:07 PM »
Get adfree android from bintincan.com instead.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #962 on: February 12, 2014, 01:15:11 PM »
And none of those apps are bloatware in that link. Bloatware comes from the OEM and/or carrier. Those are from Google.


Also Firefox for Android just plain sucks, so his argument is both wrong and invalid.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #963 on: February 12, 2014, 01:17:06 PM »
That's what I use.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #964 on: February 12, 2014, 02:18:36 PM »
And none of those apps are bloatware in that link. Bloatware comes from the OEM and/or carrier. Those are from Google.
So if it comes from Google it can't be bloatware? Somehow that logic seems a bit broken.

Bloatware by definition refers to any non-essential app that comes with your device and cannot be deleted and is unnecessary for how you use your device.

For example if I don't want to use Gmail there is no reason to have it installed. Therefore I should be able to delete it.

Although I will concede google+ isn't bloatware, IT'S A FORM OF CANCER.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #965 on: February 12, 2014, 03:08:19 PM »
You can disable it, dude. I've disable all of the Google Music/Movies/etc which includes deletion. Something tells me you don't know your Nexus 5 very well.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #966 on: February 12, 2014, 05:49:42 PM »
So by pokepal's definition, everything that is not the dialer is bloatware.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #967 on: February 12, 2014, 07:17:27 PM »
Disabling doesn't delete the app itself although it deletes anything it collected.
So by pokepal's definition, everything that is not the dialer is bloatware.
Did tj spyke come and hack brandogg's account? :D

I'm just saying people who jump up and down over nexus devices can get off their high horse.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #968 on: February 12, 2014, 08:35:12 PM »
TJ Spyke would have started with "umm,"
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #969 on: February 12, 2014, 08:47:53 PM »
True, you know I kinda miss the little bugger *sheds one tear*

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #970 on: February 12, 2014, 09:00:36 PM »
He was forum bloatware.
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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #971 on: February 12, 2014, 09:21:39 PM »
Still not as bad as google+

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #972 on: February 13, 2014, 02:19:47 AM »
Disabling doesn't delete the app itself although it deletes anything it collected.


So, you're calling me a liar that doesn't know his own phone? When I "disabled" the "bloatware" that comes preinstalled on my Nexus 5, it is deleted too. It's completely gone from my menu, including my list of all apps.


Nice troll, though.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #973 on: February 13, 2014, 03:04:08 AM »
Get adfree android from bintincan.com instead.

I still think sideloading F-Droid and using Adaway is a better idea. At least it looks decent.

I'm just saying people who jump up and down over nexus devices can get off their high horse.

I like nexus devices and i've had every one since the S. I'd like to experience the GPE phones, but Google forgets - as usual - that not-america exists.

In other news i decided to order a new Moto G to test, in case it was a hardware bug that caused the sound failing over bug. Within 2 hours of receiving the replacement it happened again. So it goes back. There is a chance its Pocket Casts doing it (and it was one of two apps i installed after upgrading to kitkat then immediately doing a factory reset - the other app is dropbox), but there's no real way to know whats causing the sound to fail as you don't get an error on-screen... it just stops.

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Re: Everything Android - The Official Android Thread
« Reply #974 on: February 13, 2014, 03:20:08 AM »
I'm just saying people who jump up and down over nexus devices can get off their high horse.


And why the **** did this need to be said in this first place? No one in the thread was saying this; certainly not the only guy who owns the fucking device on this forum. You're trying to create an argument out of nothing. What pisses me off is that it's working.