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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 14:20 
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Why would anyone put a "back" button on the right hand side of anything? (unless it's in a RTL country, obviously)


Every computer keyboard I've ever used has placed the back(space) button on the right-hand-side. There's an almost equivalent logic.


You don't use a normal keyboard one-handed, as a rule


You haven't seen me type.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 14:24 
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The reason Russell knows that costs is because he uses that to illustrate me doing anything in a computer.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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The reason Russell knows that costs is because he uses that to illustrate me doing anything in a computer.


Kermit looks like a power user to me.

I tried to find a gif of Homer single-digit typing, but all I could find was the typing bird and "this weird typing quiz"*.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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I remember someone at work having "A Google Phone" back in the day. I liked the keyboard and did it have a little trackball in the middle? I seem to remember that being pretty cool too.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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My S7 edge reset itself three times and then powered down. Hard resets do not work. Balls.

That's exactly what happened to my S4.

Contact Samsung for warranty repair. Do you have a spare phone?


I'm tot take it into the shop and they'll have a look. Hopefully, the smashed rear glass won't color their opinion that it's a "phone bricked2 issue as it ran quite happily for months and months with the damaged rear.


"Because the back is smashed, that means it is out of warranty. The main board is broken so all in £280"

"Yeah, I'll have a think, ta"

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 20:07 
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My S7 edge reset itself three times and then powered down. Hard resets do not work. Balls.

That's exactly what happened to my S4.

Contact Samsung for warranty repair. Do you have a spare phone?


I'm tot take it into the shop and they'll have a look. Hopefully, the smashed rear glass won't color their opinion that it's a "phone bricked2 issue as it ran quite happily for months and months with the damaged rear.


"Because the back is smashed, that means it is out of warranty. The main board is broken so all in £280"

"Yeah, I'll have a think, ta"

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 21:21 
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My S7 edge reset itself three times and then powered down. Hard resets do not work. Balls.

That's exactly what happened to my S4.

Contact Samsung for warranty repair. Do you have a spare phone?


I'm tot take it into the shop and they'll have a look. Hopefully, the smashed rear glass won't color their opinion that it's a "phone bricked2 issue as it ran quite happily for months and months with the damaged rear.


"Because the back is smashed, that means it is out of warranty. The main board is broken so all in £280"

"Yeah, I'll have a think, ta"

Contents insurance? Gadget cover through your bank account?


Will read fine print. Ta

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:28 
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Only a minor thing, but after getting increasingly annoyed with Words With Friends and its stubborn refusal to stop vibrating on every notification (despite the setting being turned off and nothing allowing it at OS level) and Zynga not fixing it, I remembered that I saw a sequel to it, so gave that a try instead. Seems more or less the same as the original with a few more bells and whistles, but at least the damn thing doesn't vibrate now, so it stays.

Oh and I might now be addicted to the new 5 vs 5 Lightning Round feature that WWF2 has.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:18 
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Anyone else found that the latest release(s) of Chrome are starting to turn into buggy, crashy messes? (And it's not exactly a zippy web browser any more, either. I actually use Firefox on the media centre PC for Netflix as it just runs it a lot better.)

Also there's something weird going on with the colour saturation that only manifests itself in Chrome. I've Googled it and I'm not the only one.

I'm getting quite used to seeing this on some webpages. Edge and Firefox do not have this problem.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 15:55 
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MaliA wrote:
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My S7 edge reset itself three times and then powered down. Hard resets do not work. Balls.

That's exactly what happened to my S4.

Contact Samsung for warranty repair. Do you have a spare phone?


I'm tot take it into the shop and they'll have a look. Hopefully, the smashed rear glass won't color their opinion that it's a "phone bricked2 issue as it ran quite happily for months and months with the damaged rear.


"Because the back is smashed, that means it is out of warranty. The main board is broken so all in £280"

"Yeah, I'll have a think, ta"

Contents insurance? Gadget cover through your bank account?


Will read fine print. Ta


I wrote to CEO and said £280 is balls and offered less than half that as business be business.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 15:57 
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 19:29 
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Some guy replied asking further questions so we're now in a dialogue situation.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:31 
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I have sorted out the washed out colours in Chrome 62.

Browse to

chrome://flags

Find the entry for 'Force color profile' (#force-color-profile) and set it to sRGB.

I now have normal colours in Chrome again.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Microsoft Edge is no longer in beta mode on Android.. I'm using it now to type this.

It seems alright.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:23 
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I loved my Nexus 6P, then the battery went to absolute dogshit.

I have a bit of spare cash, so I'm tempted to buy a new phone outright, ride out the current contract (5 months left) then get a sim only deal.

So Oneplus 5T seems to be a no brainer, right?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 8:59 
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I loved my Nexus 6P, then the battery went to absolute dogshit.

Google may replace that out of warrantee. They are for me.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:55 
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I loved my Nexus 6P, then the battery went to absolute dogshit.

Google may replace that out of warrantee. They are for me.

For freesies?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:21 
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Yes. Well, not for me, but that's just me. It's a long story.

But yes, it would be free.

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Yes. Well, not for me, but that's just me. It's a long story.

But yes, it would be free.

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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Just got my new phone. A Xiaomi Mi A1.

It seems really nice, has 64GB of memory, a nice screen, a camera that's ok and it was only £160!


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:47 
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It's not interesting, I promise.

Did you drop it in a stream?

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:57 
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Just got my new phone. A Xiaomi Mi A1.

It seems really nice, has 64GB of memory, a nice screen, a camera that's ok and it was only £160!

Just in time for the Android 8.0 update.

It's a great phone.

Edit: where did you buy it from? Was £160 including delivery and any taxes?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Yeah it seems pretty decent, it certainly doesn't feel cheap. Time will tell I guess but right now there is nothing about it that makes me wish that I had spent four times as much.


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£160 was from a UK seller but using that 20% off deal ebay had going on the other day.


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Nice. I paid a fraction more than that (I think it was like £165), but that was for getting one shipped within Asia from Hong Kong, so had free postage and no import duty.


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
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Bastards.

Why do Google hate the Isle of Man so much? 10,000 public views would have made my channel eligible for monetisation, now I have achieved those views I get told this.

NO JUSTICE.

(Not that I would have monetised the channel, I believe it would besmirch the CREATIVE PROCESS, and it'd only be worth about £1.67p per month anyway, but I guess it links into how we still only get the free Play Store on the IOM, and have to VPN to get the full store.)

EDIT - Any of these countries would be fine though, Zimbabwe, Oman, Guatemala, Azerbaijan.

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Can you not just set your country on your account to the UK, or is it geolocating you?


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Geolocating, which is why we have to use VPNs to get the full Play Store. (My ISP actually run their own VPN service as a freebie for all their customers, specifically for issues such as this.)

It's not even a problem really, as I wasn't going to monetise the channel anyway. It's more of a pain on YouTube as we sometimes get 'The uploader has not made this content available in your country' for some videos, as we're lumped into the 'Rest Of The World' category rather than a distinct country or part of the UK (and we're not part of the UK, so it's accurate in that regard).

So for example I get this trying to watch the latest Last Week Tonight video, so I have to VPN if I want to watch it.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:17 
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Why is this in the Android thread?


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 Post subject: Re: Google Android
PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:25 
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Because it looks cool.

I dunno, Android is close to Google and Google is YouTube and there's a synergistic theme going on?

If anyone can be arsed please feel free to move the posts to the correct place. Although if we're going to start asking 'Why is Thing Y in Thread Z here at BEEX?', mods gonna be busy as fuck.


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Because I have to use a VPN on an Android device to watch some stuff on YouTube.


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What should be is the new GPD XD I ordered over Christmas. It came on Saturday and I've had a quick play with it so far and it seems to be a pretty competent machine. I've been playing some PSone games and Amiga games but it'll do much more.

I'll post more about it when I get to grips with it if anyone is interested?


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Because it looks cool.

I dunno, Android is close to Google and Google is YouTube and there's a synergistic theme going on?

If anyone can be arsed please feel free to move the posts to the correct place. Although if we're going to start asking 'Why is Thing Y in Thread Z here at BEEX?', mods gonna be busy as fuck.

Jesus. You're the one who freaks out when people don't use THE PROPER THREADZ


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Why is discussion of what is the proper thread to post things in clogging up the android thread?


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Why is discussion of what is the proper thread to post things in clogging up the android thread?

Meta.


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What should be is the new GPD XD I ordered over Christmas. It came on Saturday and I've had a quick play with it so far and it seems to be a pretty competent machine. I've been playing some PSone games and Amiga games but it'll do much more.

I'll post more about it when I get to grips with it if anyone is interested?

Yes please.


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What should be is the new GPD XD I ordered over Christmas. It came on Saturday and I've had a quick play with it so far and it seems to be a pretty competent machine. I've been playing some PSone games and Amiga games but it'll do much more.

I'll post more about it when I get to grips with it if anyone is interested?

Yes please.


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Decided to get a cheap spare Android phone to use for work. I'd initially looked at small tablets, as I'll mainly be using it for running apps, so didn't plan on needing a SIM, but the cheap tablets all seemed a bit naff, so I went with a Spark X phone instead. For £70, it seems pretty good so far, and it runs Nougat, which my main phone doesn't. Some really mixed reviews on there, but figured it was worth a go.

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Although, I might need to buy a new charging stand, considering the location of the socket on the damn thing.


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I've just downloaded an APK file which I was going to use on my new handheld but it has installed fine on my phone through the ES file explorer. I didn't think a phone would install anything other than apps from the official Play store?


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