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^Yes sir. 6.0.1 destroyed my battery. When I had 4.X back in the day it lasted forever. Granted new battery but still. And yeah, apps CAN fuck shit up.
I have been so busy, haven't had time to holler back... yup.. the nice thing about vanilla old school android, is that it just does what you ask and nothing more... it is not try to change your life, so it lasts forever... my lil Phablet just goes for days without me having to charge it... that might change once i use it for calls... but who really cares...it cost me 60 bucks!
Originally Posted by CCColtsicehockey
So my Pixel XL finally arrived yesterday. So far haven't had much time to use it but the battery is already amazing. Got 20hrs with 4hrs screen time on the first charge and I have heard it will only get better from reading about it. The Pixel launcher swipe up will take a few days to adjust to and so far I am not a fan of the Pixel in call screen or the screen for accepting in coming calls. Other than that I really like it. More coming once I have used it for a while.
long battery life was what made me fall in love with my nexus 6.... I had a changer in the car but I have had to use it only once or twice in the last 1.5 years... funny thing is... it actually works with my new truck's wireless charger too... but i don't ever use it... its nice to forget to charge things... IMVHO
Originally Posted by cu2wagon
Ugh. The swipe up for apps is still annoying. After so many years of clicking the center button to launch the app screen, now I keep launching the shortcut that's there.
I've had my lil' Pixel for just over a month now. Getting a cheapy plastic case for it has done wonders. It was too thin and slick to be able to use comfortably. Beefing it up just a little bit and adding some texture has really helped in usability.
Camera is really nice.
I m so glad the Pixel is turning out to be a good buy for you guys... as a Nexus guy... i really want to know where Google was going with this independent line of phones... please keep us updated as you use them more!!!!
LOL... glad you said something about a case... because I totally forgot to order a case for my daughter's iPhone..
Originally Posted by ChodTheWacko
I received my MI MIX. I'm pretty happy with it. It's pretty snappy and a pocketable huge screen is useful.
The camera is not good but I don't care - I almost never use cell phone cameras anyway.
MIUI, however, can kiss my ****.
The "battery saving" stuff kills off background apps ruthlessly, and I had to shut off
things left and right just to get gmails and wechat messages pushed through. I'm talking
like 5 different OS settings, and four toggles for EACH app.
That's just STUPID. It should be ONE toggle for each app, i.e. "leave this app alone".
It also doesn't help that it's a china only phone - getting the google framework in there has been
a bit tricky (although that's partially my fault since I couldn't read the (chinese) install
instructions).
Setup frustrations aside though, it's fun.
that's too funny because my Chinese phablet came with very rudimentary instructions in English... but I heard that some ppl got their instructions in Chinese, so I can totally see where you are coming from... but its really cool to hear that someone else has stepped out and gotten themselves and "nontraditional" phone to use, learn about and enjoy!!! Please keep all of us updated and send some pics of it when you have time... thanks! Rick
I'm really likely the Galaxy S7 Edge, coming from an S5. A lot of the small annoyances of the S5 have been taken care of.
Sammy has got those rigs so tight now....we are really ready to see the N8... I was using wife's Note 5 and I am still like wow this thing is smooth and qwik... I was writing some notes while seeing two patients during a home visit.. then I just emailed the notes to myself... LOL
Sammy has got those rigs so tight now....we are really ready to see the N8...
Just picked up an S7 after being with apple for years, love this thing. Threw Nova launcher on it added a 128gb class 10 sd card and called it a day. Now just waiting patiently for Nougat.. I might get tasker and some NFC tags to change basic settings on the fly when I get to work, car, home, bed etc. ITFFF doesn't do all I need it to and I don't have enough smart devices to really take advantage of it.
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Just picked up a Nexus 5x. Camera is important to me and my old nexus 5 took good pictures and this one states the camera is better than it`s predecessor.
^what?
the nexus 5 had the shittiest camera ever.
so, what I'm saying is anything you buy will be an upgrade from the shittiest cam ever.
which anything in 2016 will BLOW the doors off the nexus 5
^^Owned a bad copy? Maybe? Perhaps?
Picture taken from a moving vehicle on Nexus 5. Never had a problem but I did read about camera issues with the Nexus 5.
Android 7.1.1 was released recently for the Nexus 6! Woohoo! Prob. the last one though :-( I might go grab the image before the OTA update hits. Fun fun https://developers.google.com/android/images
Note 8 will be coming afterall this fall. I am surprised they are not going to change the name cause I am when it comes times for release the news will bring up the Note 7 stories again.
Consumers are clueless. Basically any Samsung is considered a bomb. My BiL has an S7 which is much smaller and they ask him. Samsung ain't changing their name.
I hoping the release it at the normal time so I can upgrade my work S6 to a Note8 instead. I would imagine any Samsung phone going forward will have the safest battery tech ever after this mess.
I hoping the release it at the normal time so I can upgrade my work S6 to a Note8 instead. I would imagine any Samsung phone going forward will have the safest battery tech ever after this mess.
and it sounds like the Note 8 is going to be a beast! I've been running the Note 7 ROM on my Note 3 and
its great, but I think the Note 3 needs a bit more horsepower. I will happily upgrade to the Note 8.
My Pixel had no apps installed on it but my work S6 on Verizon has a ton of preloaded apps. Almost too many to list. I would say at least 12-15 apps came already installed. About 8-9 were Verizon specific apps with matching red logos.
The S8 cant get here fast enough. My S5 is starting to die... (been swimming with me countless times, through the wash and dryer 2 times, dropped, handled by kids, etc.. all without a case and never a broken screen) Needless to say, I need it to last until the S8 comes out
My work S6 has been a tank for me but it needs replaced. The battery life is atrocious. It barely makes it 12hrs on a single charge with email and text coming in all day and only maybe 20min of phone calls. Hopefully the S8 has better battery life.
The best investment I ever made for my Note 4 was getting a 2nd battery with it's own charger. Sammy phones love sucking down battery after an OS update.
See I used to do that for all my phones. A second battery and a dedicated charger for that battery was a requirement. Started this back with Windows Mobile. My first phone I had that didn't have a removable battery was the HTC M8 and it wasn't bad at all. I still needed a usb battery pack on long days though. My Pixel XL is the first phone that 90% of the time I don't need a battery pack. I still keep one in the car when I travel but I don't use it near as much as I did before. In my opinion those are now bettery than a second battery. Especially with the fact you can have fast charge battery packs.
Battery technology is what is holding back so many different gadgets and devices. If they advanced at even a quarter of the rate that processors did, we would have phones that charge to full within minutes and last for days with heavy usage by now. And they wouldn't go to shit after a year or two.
12-12-2016, 11:48 AM
and that was from 2015 
and it sounds like the Note 8 is going to be a beast! I've been running the Note 7 ROM on my Note 3 and
