Sprint is only listing the 16GB model, no 32GB anyone have any clue of when/if availability will change?
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Got an s4. It's great. My only problem thus far is actually with android 4.2 where I really don't like the recommended shortcut bar in the notification area when headphones are attached.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited April 2013
Okay I feel like an idiot.
When trying to set a custom wallpaper. Why do I always have to do this crop that forces me to use a very small and zoomed in picture of the image?
Like it is impossible to just use the dang full image. As in none of these
The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
edited April 2013
Ok, so with my HTC One would you guys recommend using the Web App or the Chrome App? They are both built in, but I've heard vague good things about mobile Chrome.
Edit: Also, under storeage I'm reading 76.64MB in music, and 417MB in Photos & Videos, yet I don't have any of either on the phone yet. When I check both sections are empty. Might that just be the space that the programs that govern both features take up?
Mobile Chrome is pretty great. The default browser is basically a very slightly tweaked version of the default 4.1 Android browser, which is a kind of lightweight mobile Chrome. Since they both use WebKit (though Chrome will soon be switching to the WebKit fork Blink), sites get rendered in pretty much the same way, so the differences are more in features. Both will sync with your desktop Chrome bookmarks, but mobile Chrome will also pick up passwords and desktop tabs.
Mobile Chrome also has a few nifty little features like page pre-rendering, font size boosting and, my favourite, if you've got a bunch of links close to each other, when you try to click on one, Chrome zooms in automatically on them all so you can hit the right one. Really good for when you're browsing through a multiple page thread on a forum. The only real feature of the default browser I like that Chrome doesn't have is the quick options pie menu you can activate, but that isn't exactly a killer feature for most.
If you use Chrome on your desktop already, it's worth giving Chrome on Android a go. If you're not too tied into Chrome, Firefox for Android (particularly the beta version in the Play Store) and Tint Browser (a slightly more privacy-orientated fork of the 4.1 browser) are solid options, too.
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
Maybe try the Firefox Beta in the Play Store, then. Or regular Firefox. I just have a predilection for alphas and betas and nightlies and such things.
You can set up Firefox Sync to sync bookmarks, history, tabs and saved passwords between desktop and mobile. If you use bookmark or search keywords, they get synced, too. Really handy.
Bah, I couldn't wait, so I ordered the 16GB S4 from Sprint, online using my discount. Now to find a case/protector and some screens! A day or two ago someone posted some screen protectors and nobody replied. Is there a 'standard' for these? Or just grab the most reviewed? Cheapest? Also, for the S4, I plan on carrying it mostly in my front pocket, so I don't really need/want a flip case, are those ones that just go around the edges a good choice and does anyone have any preferences?
Bah, I couldn't wait, so I ordered the 16GB S4 from Sprint, online using my discount. Now to find a case/protector and some screens! A day or two ago someone posted some screen protectors and nobody replied. Is there a 'standard' for these? Or just grab the most reviewed? Cheapest? Also, for the S4, I plan on carrying it mostly in my front pocket, so I don't really need/want a flip case, are those ones that just go around the edges a good choice and does anyone have any preferences?
if you're talking about my post a few days ago, the more I read about those Spigen glass screen protectors the more I'm happy I ordered it. All the reviews on amazon are like "it's so nice maintaining the glass-feel of the screen instead of a plastic feeling."
and I still haven't seen a case I like the look of more than Spigen's Slim Armor
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
whoa
I did not know they made glass screen protectors. Big reason I don't use screen protectors is on account of the feel. But I've only gotten a few tiny scratches on any of my devices over the years. I'm fairly careful with them.
Might need to get one of those minimalist cases though. I bought the One because it looks so dang nice, don't want to get a big bulky case that covers it all up
I did not know they made glass screen protectors. Big reason I don't use screen protectors is on account of the feel. But I've only gotten a few tiny scratches on any of my devices over the years. I'm fairly careful with them.
Might need to get one of those minimalist cases though. I bought the One because it looks so dang nice, don't want to get a big bulky case that covers it all up
Bah, I couldn't wait, so I ordered the 16GB S4 from Sprint, online using my discount. Now to find a case/protector and some screens! A day or two ago someone posted some screen protectors and nobody replied. Is there a 'standard' for these? Or just grab the most reviewed? Cheapest? Also, for the S4, I plan on carrying it mostly in my front pocket, so I don't really need/want a flip case, are those ones that just go around the edges a good choice and does anyone have any preferences?
if you're talking about my post a few days ago, the more I read about those Spigen glass screen protectors the more I'm happy I ordered it. All the reviews on amazon are like "it's so nice maintaining the glass-feel of the screen instead of a plastic feeling."
and I still haven't seen a case I like the look of more than Spigen's Slim Armor
Woah, $39 for a screen protector? Hurm.. not plastic though... what about when I fuck up putting it on?
Well great. Got my new phone, downloaded Carbon on my old phone and PC, hook it up, and only a fraction of a percent of all the apps are even listed. Not a single game, so no transferring saves for me.
Edit: Rebooted everything and yay all listed, get to the point I want to back shit up and it's asking me for money. Awesome...
I've never used Carbon, I used Titanium Backup so far. it has a pay version, but even the free version works for backups and such. It backs up apps + data on the SD
So having worked the cell industry for 3.5 years combined with my own experience owning several different smartphones I simply must speak out on screen protectors. The only instance in which one is a good idea is if your phone is always in a pocket/purse with the screen exposed to your keys/metallic scratchy things (in which case reevaluate how you store your phone.) Smartphone screens now are resilient enough on their own that they're not going to get common use scratches and you're someone who's likely to drop or launch your phone into hard surfaces you're either going to come out perfectly fine (it hits at an angle, on the back, etc.) or absolutely shattered. There's no inbetween and a screen protector's not going to help that, you should probably pick up a cushiony case if that's going to be happening.
Screen sensitivity and smoothness without a screen protector is far too valuable and scratches far too unlikely to ever justify their use.
Yeah, Ive had my S3 since Verizon launch and I dont have any scratches, but I do have a crack in the screen which would have happened even if I did have a screen protector (although I have no idea how the crack happened, woke up one morning and there it was) but I assume even a simple bumper case would have prevented it.
Got an s4. It's great. My only problem thus far is actually with android 4.2 where I really don't like the recommended shortcut bar in the notification area when headphones are attached.
Pretty sure that's a Touchwiz addition. My Nexus 4 doesn't have that.
Oh my god guys I just got the best phone in the world!
It's the Droid razor HD Maxx (Model XT926M).
Here's the whole story.
I had an original Droid 1 with the pull-out keypad, and the only plan I has for it is the Unlimited Data, text and email plan through Verizon I got years ago. I never got a voice plan. (So I get charged about a dollar and some change per minute if I make a phone call.) However, my plan was only $54.99 a month, and I had unlimited data and texting so I was happy. Now Recently my screen died on the droid and I was in the market for a new phone. I love the unlimited data because I tether to my computer when I'm out in the boonies and just a touch inside cell range. I also use it when I'm in the office because connecting a personal device to my companies wiifi is a no-no.
Now recently I went to London, and discovered that I couldn't use my phone because I was CDMA and the rest of the world was GSM. So I decided that I wanted to go with a GSM phone this time. I went to AT&T first, as I have my landline through them. I was going to buy the phone full retail and just ask for a sim card so I didn't have to worry about that stupid "unlocking" thing. That's when I ran into a gigantic wake-up call on how the cell companies screw you. No only did they refuse to just give me a sim card, I discovered that not only is there no such thing as an unlimited data plan any more, the maximum they had as far as data went, (a 250M plan) they won't even give me because it required the purchase of a tablet.
I said thanks and went to Verizon.
There they said they had a "Worldphone" that did do both CDMA and GSM. It was the Droid razor HD Maxx. I told them that my data plan was very important to me, and if they were going to take the unlimited data away, I wasn't going to buy the phone from them and I'd just be happy using my old broken droid as a tether point for my laptop. It was the data I wanted, not the phone.
They said to call customer service to see what they could do...
That night I called them and discovered that If I bought an unactivated phone they would just do an IMEI swap on my current plan and I could keep the unlimited data plan.
However, researching further, I discovered that they intentionally locked out the US GSM bands from the factory on the phone so that even though I can do GSM, I could not take the phone to other carriers, such as AT&T and T-Mobile. That was just some bullshit! However I did find an out...
When I went to buy the Razor HD the next day, Verizon actually refused to sell me the phone, because they were required to activate it in the store and they would have to take me off the plan I had. I was forced to go to Best buy, and pick up the phone there. I then took it home and had it activated by customer support though an IMEI swap. I had full 4G speeds with my old plan. They told me as long as I kept buying the phone via a 3rd party at full retail, they can swap my IMEI as may times as I wanted!
YAY! Victory #1... Now for the GSM cock-up.
Once I was on their network I immediately rooted the phone. It was a one-click deal, super easy. After that I was able to pin down a firmware package that re-flashed my radio, unlocking the GSM band to allow the US frequencies I needed. Today, I went to my mom's place and took out her T-Mobile sim and put in my phone. I switched to GSM and *BAM* I had her plan + data.
I now have a universal phone for the U.S. Market. I'm so happy with this thing I can just cry! Now I can even buy prepaid sims and pop them into my phone and not touch my voice plan at all. I will suggest that if there is anyone who is thinking of getting an upgrade soon, this is the best way to go. Full universal connections with the ability to ditch to any network.
The phone cost me $750, but for what I got out of it, I was able to take it on the chin for that.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
That thing has a beast of a battery too.
Also yeah I wish getting carriers to unlock phones wasn't such an awful chore. I have a palm pre that is useless (I restored it to factory settings, and you can't do any phone setup without a phone plan.. so.. my plans to use it as just basically an mp3 player are for naught. Though I guess if somebody here has a solution that would be nice) and a Galaxy S2 that can't be taken to other carriers. Though I might be trading that S2 in to HTC for the hundred bucks.. or keeping it as a wifi/gaming/mp3 device. Still mulling it over.
I could have gone with a factory unlocked Dev edition of the HTC One but I was tired of waiting so locked Tmobile variant it is. Though I figure I'm gonna be with tmobile for a while anyway so hey
I've decided, since Verizon S4's aren't going to ship till 5/30 anyway, I'm going to hold out on pre-ordering and hope public pressure makes them stock 32GB models.
Got an s4. It's great. My only problem thus far is actually with android 4.2 where I really don't like the recommended shortcut bar in the notification area when headphones are attached.
Pretty sure you can toggle that off in Settings>Display>Page Buddy. That's how I got rid of it on my Note 2, anyways.
Anyone know of an app/program to get the small screen onto your PC monitor. Doesn't even have to control the device (Kindle Fire to be specific) just get the screen to show up. Plenty of stuff to control the PC from the Fire, but the other way around is the goal.
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
So my new HTC One keeps dimming and then auto-sleeping from inactivity while playing games. Basically any time I'm watching a cutscene, or at some point where you don't press anything, the phone decides that it's not being used so it's going to go to sleep. What's the setting to stop this from happening during games without completely turning off the setting?
So my new HTC One keeps dimming and then auto-sleeping from inactivity while playing games. Basically any time I'm watching a cutscene, or at some point where you don't press anything, the phone decides that it's not being used so it's going to go to sleep. What's the setting to stop this from happening during games without completely turning off the setting?
The app should have requested permission to disable sleep when you installed it, and if it did and the screen is still turning off, then I'm surprised.
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So my new HTC One keeps dimming and then auto-sleeping from inactivity while playing games. Basically any time I'm watching a cutscene, or at some point where you don't press anything, the phone decides that it's not being used so it's going to go to sleep. What's the setting to stop this from happening during games without completely turning off the setting?
The app should have requested permission to disable sleep when you installed it, and if it did and the screen is still turning off, then I'm surprised.
Maybe it's a bug in the One's software. I wouldn't discount it, the phone is brand new to the market.
Does this happen at other times when the screen should be active but you don't touch it for a while? Like, say, watching a video?
I'll try Netflix or YouTube later.
Edit: Ok tested it on YouTube. I'm almost completely through a music video and the screen has not turned off. So just with apps it's doing this. I've had multiple games where I'm watching the intro or a cutscene and it starts to dim, and then pops off.
As a temporary workaround, can you just increase the timeout duration before your screen sleeps? I can't imagine many phone games have cutscenes that last more than one minute.
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As a temporary workaround, can you just increase the timeout duration before your screen sleeps? I can't imagine many phone games have cutscenes that last more than one minute.
That's my thought. I currently have it set at 15 seconds, cause the auto-sleep setting was getting ridiculous.
The first time I saw that sleep behavior in apps happen with the One, I thought it was the phone rebooting itself. A few rhythm games seem to have unusual amounts of audio lag, but overall it's been great. Been ending days after 11-12hrs off charger at 70% (light use), which blows my old Evo out of the water.
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I think it's just bad devs. I've had this happen in some games myself (*coughGTA3cough*), but others wakelock properly.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
Yeah I've been liking my One battery life as well. 12 hour day of moderate use put it down to 40. It went from 50 to 40 pretty quick though, forgot what did it
Oddly enough, Spotify downloading offline playlists seems to use my battery more than games. But they're the two killers so far.
Which is fine by me. I usually don't play games on my phone, anyway, and Spotify doesn't have much longer to go with the downloads.
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
I feel like such an idiot. I paid 5 bucks for that damn app to transfer my data, and then tonight while rooting around in my phone settings I found that a data transfer program is built into the phone...
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anyone else with an S4 noticing that the main battery drain is Google Play Services? I disabled it and haven't noticed anything breaking yet, so I'm assuming it was nothing I was using actively
Well great. Got my new phone, downloaded Carbon on my old phone and PC, hook it up, and only a fraction of a percent of all the apps are even listed. Not a single game, so no transferring saves for me.
Edit: Rebooted everything and yay all listed, get to the point I want to back shit up and it's asking me for money. Awesome...
I've never used Carbon, I used Titanium Backup so far. it has a pay version, but even the free version works for backups and such. It backs up apps + data on the SD
well the first thing it says when you click on the restore is that restoring from the cloud requires the premium version, backing up from an SD card does not.
though i wasn't able to copy the files from my dropbox backup to the phone since i couldn't figure out where to put what.
though honestly 5 bucks to have non root easy backup is nothing
Under preferences is a setting for where the app looks for the backups it's going to restore from. You can either put the backups you made before into that folder, or you can put them wherever you want and then set the backup location in TB to that directory.
Both options will get you a list of all the apps you have backups for and allow you to restore.
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why is this program awful at doing simple things
When trying to set a custom wallpaper. Why do I always have to do this crop that forces me to use a very small and zoomed in picture of the image?
Like it is impossible to just use the dang full image. As in none of these
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vjsv9rh2bcbumgt/QP4ogtZdHp#/
Have any of you figured out how to get a usable crop of anything?
edit: just used a third party app. this is just
weird and I wish I knew why it was the way it was
Edit: Also, under storeage I'm reading 76.64MB in music, and 417MB in Photos & Videos, yet I don't have any of either on the phone yet. When I check both sections are empty. Might that just be the space that the programs that govern both features take up?
Mobile Chrome also has a few nifty little features like page pre-rendering, font size boosting and, my favourite, if you've got a bunch of links close to each other, when you try to click on one, Chrome zooms in automatically on them all so you can hit the right one. Really good for when you're browsing through a multiple page thread on a forum. The only real feature of the default browser I like that Chrome doesn't have is the quick options pie menu you can activate, but that isn't exactly a killer feature for most.
If you use Chrome on your desktop already, it's worth giving Chrome on Android a go. If you're not too tied into Chrome, Firefox for Android (particularly the beta version in the Play Store) and Tint Browser (a slightly more privacy-orientated fork of the 4.1 browser) are solid options, too.
You can set up Firefox Sync to sync bookmarks, history, tabs and saved passwords between desktop and mobile. If you use bookmark or search keywords, they get synced, too. Really handy.
if you're talking about my post a few days ago, the more I read about those Spigen glass screen protectors the more I'm happy I ordered it. All the reviews on amazon are like "it's so nice maintaining the glass-feel of the screen instead of a plastic feeling."
and I still haven't seen a case I like the look of more than Spigen's Slim Armor
I did not know they made glass screen protectors. Big reason I don't use screen protectors is on account of the feel. But I've only gotten a few tiny scratches on any of my devices over the years. I'm fairly careful with them.
Might need to get one of those minimalist cases though. I bought the One because it looks so dang nice, don't want to get a big bulky case that covers it all up
yeah this is the one I'm getting
edit: shit, didn't read you're getting the One. I don't think they make a protector for that yet.
Woah, $39 for a screen protector? Hurm.. not plastic though... what about when I fuck up putting it on?
Any thoughts on this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Incipio-SA-375-DualPro-Samsung-Galaxy/dp/B00BRI4XR0/ref=sr_1_6?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1367126101&sr=1-6&keywords=Incipio+DualPro+galaxy+s4
I use Wallpaper Wizadrii for changing my wallpaper as you can set things with no crop at all.
Screen sensitivity and smoothness without a screen protector is far too valuable and scratches far too unlikely to ever justify their use.
With new flagship phones like the S4 and One coming out with Gorilla Glass 3, I'd expect them to be even more resilient.
Had an Invisible Shield protector on my old Droid X2. Did not care for the feel of it at all. Much happier to go without a protector.
Pretty sure that's a Touchwiz addition. My Nexus 4 doesn't have that.
It's the Droid razor HD Maxx (Model XT926M).
Here's the whole story.
I had an original Droid 1 with the pull-out keypad, and the only plan I has for it is the Unlimited Data, text and email plan through Verizon I got years ago. I never got a voice plan. (So I get charged about a dollar and some change per minute if I make a phone call.) However, my plan was only $54.99 a month, and I had unlimited data and texting so I was happy. Now Recently my screen died on the droid and I was in the market for a new phone. I love the unlimited data because I tether to my computer when I'm out in the boonies and just a touch inside cell range. I also use it when I'm in the office because connecting a personal device to my companies wiifi is a no-no.
Now recently I went to London, and discovered that I couldn't use my phone because I was CDMA and the rest of the world was GSM. So I decided that I wanted to go with a GSM phone this time. I went to AT&T first, as I have my landline through them. I was going to buy the phone full retail and just ask for a sim card so I didn't have to worry about that stupid "unlocking" thing. That's when I ran into a gigantic wake-up call on how the cell companies screw you. No only did they refuse to just give me a sim card, I discovered that not only is there no such thing as an unlimited data plan any more, the maximum they had as far as data went, (a 250M plan) they won't even give me because it required the purchase of a tablet.
I said thanks and went to Verizon.
There they said they had a "Worldphone" that did do both CDMA and GSM. It was the Droid razor HD Maxx. I told them that my data plan was very important to me, and if they were going to take the unlimited data away, I wasn't going to buy the phone from them and I'd just be happy using my old broken droid as a tether point for my laptop. It was the data I wanted, not the phone.
They said to call customer service to see what they could do...
That night I called them and discovered that If I bought an unactivated phone they would just do an IMEI swap on my current plan and I could keep the unlimited data plan.
However, researching further, I discovered that they intentionally locked out the US GSM bands from the factory on the phone so that even though I can do GSM, I could not take the phone to other carriers, such as AT&T and T-Mobile. That was just some bullshit! However I did find an out...
When I went to buy the Razor HD the next day, Verizon actually refused to sell me the phone, because they were required to activate it in the store and they would have to take me off the plan I had. I was forced to go to Best buy, and pick up the phone there. I then took it home and had it activated by customer support though an IMEI swap. I had full 4G speeds with my old plan. They told me as long as I kept buying the phone via a 3rd party at full retail, they can swap my IMEI as may times as I wanted!
YAY! Victory #1... Now for the GSM cock-up.
Once I was on their network I immediately rooted the phone. It was a one-click deal, super easy. After that I was able to pin down a firmware package that re-flashed my radio, unlocking the GSM band to allow the US frequencies I needed. Today, I went to my mom's place and took out her T-Mobile sim and put in my phone. I switched to GSM and *BAM* I had her plan + data.
I now have a universal phone for the U.S. Market. I'm so happy with this thing I can just cry! Now I can even buy prepaid sims and pop them into my phone and not touch my voice plan at all. I will suggest that if there is anyone who is thinking of getting an upgrade soon, this is the best way to go. Full universal connections with the ability to ditch to any network.
The phone cost me $750, but for what I got out of it, I was able to take it on the chin for that.
Nothing but love love love on this side.
Also yeah I wish getting carriers to unlock phones wasn't such an awful chore. I have a palm pre that is useless (I restored it to factory settings, and you can't do any phone setup without a phone plan.. so.. my plans to use it as just basically an mp3 player are for naught. Though I guess if somebody here has a solution that would be nice) and a Galaxy S2 that can't be taken to other carriers. Though I might be trading that S2 in to HTC for the hundred bucks.. or keeping it as a wifi/gaming/mp3 device. Still mulling it over.
I could have gone with a factory unlocked Dev edition of the HTC One but I was tired of waiting so locked Tmobile variant it is. Though I figure I'm gonna be with tmobile for a while anyway so hey
there is that
Pretty sure you can toggle that off in Settings>Display>Page Buddy. That's how I got rid of it on my Note 2, anyways.
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The app should have requested permission to disable sleep when you installed it, and if it did and the screen is still turning off, then I'm surprised.
I'll try Netflix or YouTube later.
Edit: Ok tested it on YouTube. I'm almost completely through a music video and the screen has not turned off. So just with apps it's doing this. I've had multiple games where I'm watching the intro or a cutscene and it starts to dim, and then pops off.
That's my thought. I currently have it set at 15 seconds, cause the auto-sleep setting was getting ridiculous.
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Which is fine by me. I usually don't play games on my phone, anyway, and Spotify doesn't have much longer to go with the downloads.
well the first thing it says when you click on the restore is that restoring from the cloud requires the premium version, backing up from an SD card does not.
though i wasn't able to copy the files from my dropbox backup to the phone since i couldn't figure out where to put what.
though honestly 5 bucks to have non root easy backup is nothing
Both options will get you a list of all the apps you have backups for and allow you to restore.