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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:46 
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Bear in mind you can install the vanilla Google launcher from the Play store so even if Samsung's newer skin annoys you you don't have to suffer it.


:this:

Since DocG mentioned this to me it's the first thing I do on any Android device (tablets as well as phones).


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:47 
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The Nova Launcher is a creditable replacement. Nice and configurable, but can be made to look and feel almost exactly like the GN launcher


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:54 
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The Nova Launcher is a creditable replacement. Nice and configurable, but can be made to look and feel almost exactly like the GN launcher


Yeah, that's the one most people seem to go for. Before I got on the Nexus bandwagon it was the Apex launcher I used to use, though I can't remember why I picked that one specifically.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:07 
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does putting a launcher over the top use up system power/capability?

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:32 
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does putting a launcher over the top use up system power/capability?


Not to my knowledge, though I admit I've never looked into it. My Pixel C tablet has two launchers installed by Google themselves so I wouldn't they wouldn't have done that if there was any impact.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:40 
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Some other recommendations here Joans:

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Android/ ... sp?c=73784


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:45 
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It's not so much the launcher as the whole notification/toggles bit (I'm sure there's a proper name for it), although I'm not entirely sure what stock looks like anymore anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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I think a OnePlus 3T is going to be my next phone.


Don't you have a Note something-or-other at the moment? I'd be interested to know why you're thinking of moving to the 3T?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:11 
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I have a Nexus 6P. It's... Er... Expensive.

Do you have me on ignore?

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:35 
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I have a Nexus 6P. It's... Er... Expensive.

Do you have me on ignore?


Given that I just quoted you, no.

Sorry, I read all that a few days ago, then thought I remembered you having a note and wondered why you were going from Samsung to OnePlus. Then I posted, then re-read the rest of the thread, realised I was mistaken and couldn't be bothered to do anything about it.

Did you ever have a Note, or was that huge thing in your hands always the 6P (yes, I know, Title)?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 13:24 
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I did indeed, I had a Note 3, and I loved it. It was also hugely expensive, but it performed well until the day I got rid of it.

I'm somewhat tempted to get a newer one, but I suspect the cost will put me off.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Exploding Kittens is 10p on Android today...

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 22:32 
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I've picked up a "very good" S7 Edge from music magpie. Condition-wise, I can't see much wrong with it and it even came in the proper box. I'll probably have more of an opinion on it when I get a new sim and can actually use it as a phone.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 22:38 
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I've picked up a "very good" S7 Edge from music magpie. Condition-wise, I can't see much wrong with it and it even came in the proper box. I'll probably have more of an opinion on it when I get a new sim and can actually use it as a phone.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 23:16 
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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Bloody old news I know, but I've been enjoying Lara Croft GO immensely on my phone. One of the most enjoyable mobile games I've played in years. Lovely rigid sense of logic to it, and perfectly suited for playing on a phone.

So I was very pleased to discover Hitman GO and Deus Ex GO are also on sale on Android at the moment for 79 pennies each, which seems like a bargain to me.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 9:24 
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Bloody old news I know, but I've been enjoying Lara Croft GO immensely on my phone. One of the most enjoyable mobile games I've played in years. Lovely rigid sense of logic to it, and perfectly suited for playing on a phone.

So I was very pleased to discover Hitman GO and Deus Ex GO are also on sale on Android at the moment for 79 pennies each, which seems like a bargain to me.

Ooh, I enjoyed this a lot but on my old phone which really couldn't cope with the graphics. Now I've got a newer phone I think I'll re-download so I can finish it.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 10:11 
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Findus Fop wrote:
Bloody old news I know, but I've been enjoying Lara Croft GO immensely on my phone. One of the most enjoyable mobile games I've played in years. Lovely rigid sense of logic to it, and perfectly suited for playing on a phone.

So I was very pleased to discover Hitman GO and Deus Ex GO are also on sale on Android at the moment for 79 pennies each, which seems like a bargain to me.


I think they're all currently free on Amazon Underground.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 10:11 
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Bamba wrote:
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Bloody old news I know, but I've been enjoying Lara Croft GO immensely on my phone. One of the most enjoyable mobile games I've played in years. Lovely rigid sense of logic to it, and perfectly suited for playing on a phone.

So I was very pleased to discover Hitman GO and Deus Ex GO are also on sale on Android at the moment for 79 pennies each, which seems like a bargain to me.


I think they're all currently free on Amazon Underground.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:48 
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At fully £400 less than the comparable (for me) Pixel phone and £200 less than a similar S8 it looks like the OnePlus 5 will be my next phone:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/20/oneplus-5-review/


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:51 
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See, I was all over the OnePlus, but everyone on Reddit that has a OnePlus phone seems to say "I wouldn't have another one".

There's a few reasons, but customer support being dire seems to be the most common, along with OnePlus seeming to drop the older models as soon as a new one comes out - something their "never settle" motto seems to make fun of.

Still though - both those things happened to me with a Nexus phone, so meh.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Oh, wow. It's not quite as cheap as it used to be, is it?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 13:18 
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I dropped and totally wrote off my Nexus 5, and now in trying to flash my old HTC One m7 with a newer custom rom, I appear to have softbricked that too. Hooray.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 13:44 
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Yeah, as a OnePlus One owner I'm not having another. If anything bug-fixing and ongoing support for older models appeared to *get worse* after they dumped Cyanogen to do better at exactly that.

Helen dropped hers on gravel breaking the touchscreen completely. Got her a moto g5 asap looking as the best sub-200 model. She doesn't much like it unfortunately, but doesn't seem to want to take me up on my offer to have it and we'll get her another (the radio in mine hates WiFi and cell networks now).


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:11 
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So here's a thing, I bought my Chromebook back in September 2014. It's a basic Toshiba affair and only cost £200, but it's done solid service and continues to do so.

For a little while after I bought it, it updated itself reasonably regularly, but then it stopped. Even a manual 'check for updates' reported that it was up to date.

After a few months Gmail started nagging me that my version of Chrome was out of date and that I needed to use a supported browser (amusingly, offering a link to the Firefox site), yet a check for updates would have the Chromebook insisting it was up to date.

In the end I had to create a recovery USB key using the Google App, and rebuild the Chromebook with the latest version of Chrome OS using that.

This has happened several times over the last three years, in exactly the same pattern. Gmail eventually starts nagging me that Chrome is out of date, the Chromebook insists it's up to date, I create a new recovery USB drive, and rebuild it.

So last week we were away in the UK and I took my Chromebook with me, and we had wifi in the hotel.

The Chromebook updated itself twice during the week.

The difference? UK IP versus IOM IP.

I know we get a gimped Play Store here because Google treat us as 'Rest of the world', but I'm surprised that extends to devices not picking up updates that will of course include security fixes.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Might be worth setting up a VPN connection for the future. I know the software I use has UK servers available. Although I use it mainly for US servers and Netflix.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Chrome OS isn't Android. How are we supposed to have a coherence and continuity to the conversation if you're just going to post in random threads?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Bamba wrote:
Chrome OS isn't Android. How are we supposed to have a coherence and continuity to the conversation if you're just going to post in random threads?

Almost as bad as people who post regularly in the movie thread then moan each movie doesn't have its own thread.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Chrome OS isn't Android. How are we supposed to have a coherence and continuity to the conversation if you're just going to post in random threads?

Almost as bad as people who post regularly in the movie thread then moan each movie doesn't have its own thread.


Jesus dude.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:36 
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Why on earth doesn't 'set up this android device from another android device' copy texts? How can leaving out the fundamental device things be a thing that you would think is sane to do?

Is this still your fault, DocG? Get it fixed then go back in time so it works when I do it a week or two back.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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I don't think it copies 8-tracks either ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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If my phone had an 8-track in it I would be outraged about that too.

Now I'm just a bit upset that phones don't have 8-tracks


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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What do you update on a clock?

'Now features 25 hours per day'.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 18:54 
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What do you update on a clock?

'Now features 25 hours per day'.

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We did that 3 years back. Only just got to IoM?

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The clocks in my office genuinely have 6 'seconds' between every fifth number.

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Time zones. Countries are fucking stupid so they fuck over technology all over the world by fucking with time zones every year at very short notice.

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Oh the buttons and sliders on the alarm screen are a nice pastel shade of blue now, whereas before they were a sort of pinky red.

This is the sort of bold new direction I've been yearning for in Android for years, and I applaud this update to Clock.


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Also pastels. Time zones and pastels.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Gotta future-proof that clock

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I upgraded my phone to *sigh* Oreo yesterday and it's made close to zero difference, which I'm fine with. Well, except for one annoyance: there's now a notification settings permanently in the window blind telling me that I have two apps running in the background. Which I know about; mostly because they both also have their own permanent notifications making the Android system one utterly redundant and really annoying. I don't suppose anyone knows how to get it to fuck off? Apparently in previous versions of Oreo you could go into that settings and say you didn't want to be told about background apps but now that, and all the other associated switches, are disabled so you can't turn any of them off. Which is weird and annoying.


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Another minor Oreo annoyance: Google have made a big deal about the new 'notification dots' feature and there's both global and application level settings for it available. Does it work with the Google Now launcher? Does it buggery. I understand trying to make the Pixel launcher all exclusive and shit to try and shift your over-priced hardware but why even expose features to me that haven't been implemented?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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The Nova launcher does that on Nougat, fyi


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DavPaz wrote:
The Nova launcher does that on Nougat, fyi


Yeah, I think most of the third party launchers have similar features which Google are now reintroducing as if it was a new idea. It's very Apple-esque of them.


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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09 ... -reviewed/

Exhaustive (as in, 20k words) review of everything new in Android O. It's well structured though so you can skip sections you're not interested in and skim others, which alleviates the book length somewhat.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Wait, the blob emojis are gone? Nope. I'm done. Need to find a new phone OS.


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The blob emojis are gone? Great.

No need for another 19,994 words, I'm sold already

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So, umm, hi!

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So, umm, hi!

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So, umm, hi!

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I presume you've brokered a special deal with Google so that they don't sell your personal information?


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