If you have a Galaxy S7 and you have noticed severe battery drain and overheating in the past few days. Uninstall all the GearVR and SamsungVR apps. I had to do all my uninstalls with ES Explorer. I uninstalled and rebooted and the phone is running cool and low power drain again.
Nexus question time! My attention has been brought to a 6P that is behaving strangely with type C chargers. The issue has been narrowed down to the phone itself, since it won't charge off the brick it came with, and only gets "charging" on the brick my 5X came with. My phone gets "charging rapidly" on both bricks, and the 6P can still charge off a regular brick with an A to C adapter cable.
Is this likely to be a software/firmware problem and thus theoretically easily fixable, or is it gonna be hardware based and thus much more of a hassle?
Nexus question time! My attention has been brought to a 6P that is behaving strangely with type C chargers. The issue has been narrowed down to the phone itself, since it won't charge off the brick it came with, and only gets "charging" on the brick my 5X came with. My phone gets "charging rapidly" on both bricks, and the 6P can still charge off a regular brick with an A to C adapter cable.
Is this likely to be a software/firmware problem and thus theoretically easily fixable, or is it gonna be hardware based and thus much more of a hassle?
It will still be under warranty, I'd return it.
Will pass that on to the phone's owner. Any particular insight as to the issue, or just a general it's easier to go that route if you still have warranty?
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
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Nexus question time! My attention has been brought to a 6P that is behaving strangely with type C chargers. The issue has been narrowed down to the phone itself, since it won't charge off the brick it came with, and only gets "charging" on the brick my 5X came with. My phone gets "charging rapidly" on both bricks, and the 6P can still charge off a regular brick with an A to C adapter cable.
Is this likely to be a software/firmware problem and thus theoretically easily fixable, or is it gonna be hardware based and thus much more of a hassle?
It will still be under warranty, I'd return it.
Will pass that on to the phone's owner. Any particular insight as to the issue, or just a general it's easier to go that route if you still have warranty?
When it comes to phones that charge/don't charge I will always just say return it while still under warranty. It's less likely to be software, and it's an early sign of a hardware problem with the only way to charge/plug in the phone, and if that problem continues and gets worse once the warranty is up you're kind of screwed.
If you have a Galaxy S7 and you have noticed severe battery drain and overheating in the past few days. Uninstall all the GearVR and SamsungVR apps. I had to do all my uninstalls with ES Explorer. I uninstalled and rebooted and the phone is running cool and low power drain again.
My coworker has been experiencing this badly this week. The phone will discharge from full in about a half hour even when the phone was charging. She doesn't have GearVR or SamsungVR installed but she does have Oculus installed. Oculus did just update so maybe that might have been it? Her phone was refusing to connected to our WiFi network, but relogging in seems to have fixed that too. I'm going to unplug it from the charger and see what the battery percentage is in half an hour.
Edit: belated update: Phone seems to be back to normal. Whether it was a WiFi or the Oculus app I don't know, but I have the feeling it was the WiFi trying incessantly the connect and not being able to.
Picked up a new phone for the hell of it. The Posh Mobile Micro X S240. I call it the "HTC Where's My Glasses?"
It's tiny. 2.4" screen. This screenshot below has not been cropped in any way. I wouldn't recommend it for anything more than the most basic of texting and phone calls.
The thing is, I don't really know why I got it. My current phones earpiece isn't working, so I have to use the speakerphone when I get calls. Only, in the year I've had it, I've only made 2 hours and 17 minutes of phone calls, and an hour and a half of that was all at once. Guess I just wanted something new to play with.
No notification light (a must in my book), and the notification bar doesn't show the icons for notifications you have. So I basically miss texts and emails a lot. Had to install Nova launcher and TeslaUnread to get the iOS-ish number bubble on the icons.
Only two points of multitouch. And only if they are not on the same horizontal axis.
And this is way more of a review than you all care about and more than I should have done.
On a scale of 1 to 2.4, I give it an enthusiastic meh.
Edit: Some (a lot of) dead pixels showed up to the party.
those super cheap phones fascinate me because there is a giant chunk of the world's population that use phones like that. Places where even $100 US for a phone is out of reach for a great many people. Seeing what the experience is on those types of phones is super interesting.
those super cheap phones fascinate me because there is a giant chunk of the world's population that use phones like that. Places where even $100 US for a phone is out of reach for a great many people. Seeing what the experience is on those types of phones is super interesting.
That's a pretty ignorant statement. I use a $50 phone not because higher end phones are "out of my reach", but because I don't see the purpose in spending fourteen times the price for something that is nowhere near fourteen times the product. I'm assuming I'm not alone in that respect.
When a quadcore device with a 4.5" screen, gig of RAM and 8GB of storage can handle 99% of your intended usage I think the main reason most people overspend on phones is less utility and more vanity.
those super cheap phones fascinate me because there is a giant chunk of the world's population that use phones like that. Places where even $100 US for a phone is out of reach for a great many people. Seeing what the experience is on those types of phones is super interesting.
That's a pretty ignorant statement. I use a $50 phone not because higher end phones are "out of my reach", but because I don't see the purpose in spending fourteen times the price for something that is nowhere near fourteen times the product. I'm assuming I'm not alone in that respect.
When a quadcore device with a 4.5" screen, gig of RAM and 8GB of storage can handle 99% of your intended usage I think the main reason most people overspend on phones is less utility and more vanity.
whoa, calm down. I was only pointing out that there is a good part of the world where it is a straight up fact that those types of phones are the norm, not that you're a bad person for feeling that that's also enough phone for you.
Like, I didn't even mention any specific people. So ya, calm down maybe?
Facebook on my Galaxy S6 is behaving strangely. It's bugging me with notifications and pokes but I check Facebook notifications every day. Today that number has changed from 17 notifications to 19. What am I not doing that these are piling up?
That being said, when it comes to phones, people do get hung up on their must haves. Gotta have the best camera or gotta have 4GB RAM. They don't stop to think if the can get mostly the same for a fraction of the price.
And then I have to explain why I pay $20 for service on my phone AND tablet, and my wife is stuck paying $100 for her phone service.
It's probably unwarrranted, because Android builds seem relatively stable now; but one of the big selling points on Nexus/Pixel is the fact that there is negligible lag between Android releasing any OS updates and them being pushed to the phone. With something like the OP3, that's much less defined.
yea, everyone has the things they must have. Each is valid for that person, though the reasons may be more superfluous for some than others. And different people place different emphasis on different things.
those super cheap phones fascinate me because there is a giant chunk of the world's population that use phones like that. Places where even $100 US for a phone is out of reach for a great many people. Seeing what the experience is on those types of phones is super interesting.
I kind of felt the same way about my Cubot. In some places this thing would be a flashy phone, as it knocks on the door of that $100US threshold. I've seen the occasional fascinating thing written about the Chinese phone "scene", if you will, especially the budget phones that come out of it, so it's been interesting actually now having one as a daily driver and comparing it to typical flagships and the like.
It certainly proves that a cheap phone can impress you just as much in its own way as a fancy flagship phone can in its own, very different way.
It also gets more attention than any flagship! People have been pretty curious about it, which is kind of awesome.
Facebook on my Galaxy S6 is behaving strangely. It's bugging me with notifications and pokes but I check Facebook notifications every day. Today that number has changed from 17 notifications to 19. What am I not doing that these are piling up?
It's been doing that on my Note 7, too. It seems that it's adding notifications up that you receive, but if you check them somewhere else (computer maybe), it doesn't clear them.
I really hope the rumor of ~$650 Pixels is false. Cause I'm not sure I could justify it to myself in the short term.
I'm running a Nexus 4 and the only thing stopping me from upgrading to Pixel the moment they're open for preorder is price. 650 would probably be too steep for me.
I really hope the rumor of ~$650 Pixels is false. Cause I'm not sure I could justify it to myself in the short term.
I'm running a Nexus 4 and the only thing stopping me from upgrading to Pixel the moment they're open for preorder is price. 650 would probably be too steep for me.
$650 for a 5.5 screen is a flat out deal-breaker for me which sucks since it's about time I replace my Note 4.
I'll be watching the new release with interest to decide if I should attempt to find myself a Nexus 6P or the new Pixel XL. I'm leaning towards the 6P so far for the stereo front facing speakers. Sadly it looks like the Nexus website barely has any stock anymore and not a single carrier in Canada that I've talked to has ever had anything but a dark grey 32gb version. I was hoping to find a 64gb "frost".
It's worth noting that I have an awesome plan I don't want to lose and Rogers is insisting on charging me a premium for the phone to let me keep it. (6gigs data, 250minutes, early evenings/weekends, visual voicemail etc for $85. It's the only one that fits my usage perfectly)
to be honest I'm not buying a Pixel, so my real interest won't happen today. I want to know what, if any, of the new software features that are in the Pixel will make their way to nexus phones. Like we know 7.1 will come to the Nexus line for sure, but what things will be Pixel exclusive? that's the more interesting part to me.
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It will still be under warranty, I'd return it.
Will pass that on to the phone's owner. Any particular insight as to the issue, or just a general it's easier to go that route if you still have warranty?
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When it comes to phones that charge/don't charge I will always just say return it while still under warranty. It's less likely to be software, and it's an early sign of a hardware problem with the only way to charge/plug in the phone, and if that problem continues and gets worse once the warranty is up you're kind of screwed.
My coworker has been experiencing this badly this week. The phone will discharge from full in about a half hour even when the phone was charging. She doesn't have GearVR or SamsungVR installed but she does have Oculus installed. Oculus did just update so maybe that might have been it? Her phone was refusing to connected to our WiFi network, but relogging in seems to have fixed that too. I'm going to unplug it from the charger and see what the battery percentage is in half an hour.
Edit: belated update: Phone seems to be back to normal. Whether it was a WiFi or the Oculus app I don't know, but I have the feeling it was the WiFi trying incessantly the connect and not being able to.
It's tiny. 2.4" screen. This screenshot below has not been cropped in any way. I wouldn't recommend it for anything more than the most basic of texting and phone calls.
The thing is, I don't really know why I got it. My current phones earpiece isn't working, so I have to use the speakerphone when I get calls. Only, in the year I've had it, I've only made 2 hours and 17 minutes of phone calls, and an hour and a half of that was all at once. Guess I just wanted something new to play with.
Antutu of 9850.
No notification light (a must in my book), and the notification bar doesn't show the icons for notifications you have. So I basically miss texts and emails a lot. Had to install Nova launcher and TeslaUnread to get the iOS-ish number bubble on the icons.
Only two points of multitouch. And only if they are not on the same horizontal axis.
And this is way more of a review than you all care about and more than I should have done.
On a scale of 1 to 2.4, I give it an enthusiastic meh.
Edit: Some (a lot of) dead pixels showed up to the party.
*depending on your own personal feelings on A2DP Bluetooth.
Edit: Oh shit, this thing has a menu key?
That's a pretty ignorant statement. I use a $50 phone not because higher end phones are "out of my reach", but because I don't see the purpose in spending fourteen times the price for something that is nowhere near fourteen times the product. I'm assuming I'm not alone in that respect.
When a quadcore device with a 4.5" screen, gig of RAM and 8GB of storage can handle 99% of your intended usage I think the main reason most people overspend on phones is less utility and more vanity.
whoa, calm down. I was only pointing out that there is a good part of the world where it is a straight up fact that those types of phones are the norm, not that you're a bad person for feeling that that's also enough phone for you.
Like, I didn't even mention any specific people. So ya, calm down maybe?
That being said, when it comes to phones, people do get hung up on their must haves. Gotta have the best camera or gotta have 4GB RAM. They don't stop to think if the can get mostly the same for a fraction of the price.
And then I have to explain why I pay $20 for service on my phone AND tablet, and my wife is stuck paying $100 for her phone service.
And, yet, I still think I'd prefer the experience of a Pixel over a Oneplus 3.
I kind of felt the same way about my Cubot. In some places this thing would be a flashy phone, as it knocks on the door of that $100US threshold. I've seen the occasional fascinating thing written about the Chinese phone "scene", if you will, especially the budget phones that come out of it, so it's been interesting actually now having one as a daily driver and comparing it to typical flagships and the like.
It certainly proves that a cheap phone can impress you just as much in its own way as a fancy flagship phone can in its own, very different way.
It also gets more attention than any flagship! People have been pretty curious about it, which is kind of awesome.
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It's been doing that on my Note 7, too. It seems that it's adding notifications up that you receive, but if you check them somewhere else (computer maybe), it doesn't clear them.
I'm running a Nexus 4 and the only thing stopping me from upgrading to Pixel the moment they're open for preorder is price. 650 would probably be too steep for me.
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$650 for a 5.5 screen is a flat out deal-breaker for me which sucks since it's about time I replace my Note 4.
well, you're probably screwed because the dollar was at 95 cents when the N5 was new. It is...much lower now. Just a reality we have to face up here.
Yes of course I'm expecting to take it in the posterior on that front. I always am when it comes to exchange rates.
It's worth noting that I have an awesome plan I don't want to lose and Rogers is insisting on charging me a premium for the phone to let me keep it. (6gigs data, 250minutes, early evenings/weekends, visual voicemail etc for $85. It's the only one that fits my usage perfectly)
I wants it.
My precious.
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The 3.5mm jack job at Apple was pretty good.