speedemon90

yea i'd never get things like that. Too much work to use your phone and i use my phone a lot

Professor

What work??? With a magnetic flap open and grab at the same time. When done, insert the phone, and the flap will close automatically.

Besides that padding on a flap is much better than any skin application, IMO.

Plus the phone is naked during use... a plus IMO because I don't care for the logoing on the shells and covering up what you bought.

speedemon90

but when you pull it out of your pocket with one hand you cant open and use it as easily.

I dunno its just my opinion. I dont really put cases on my phones. Never had one for my NS. Used one for my iphone 3g for a ltl and took it off.

speedemon90

my photosphere attempt.
turned out pretty good this time around, using your advice mike. By swiveling the phone and not my body. Just few small errors but pretty good for like 6 or 7 images.

CGFebTSX04

^Looks good. Taken with the S3?

speedemon90

yupp, my ns is crap now haha

TSXy Luster

so.......... photosphere can be put on any phone now?

CGFebTSX04

I think with a build.prop trick it can. However, CM 10.1 and other custom ROMs will most likely have it available by default.

CGFebTSX04

Looks like Franco just released a Screen Color Tuning app for the Nexus 4. Requires Root and its not free:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...displaycontrol

He said he'll be bringing it to his Franco.Kernel updater in the future so if you already have the app, maybe just wait until he does. I'm guessing he's automatically changing the values and setting to auto-boot via the app. You might be able to find what exactly those commands are and manually input them into terminal. The downside is it won't be automatic unless you create a script and your ROM/kernel supports init.d.

speedemon90

if you're rooted. My ROM i'm using had a link to add 4.2 camera/gallery. Thing i see missing though is HDR.

Also for some reason the view i see from the screen is a ltl zoomed in on the entire view im actually taking for normal pics. But its a ltl, i dont really car.

speedemon90

trust if i hadnt had the new camera or keyboard on my phone... i'd be on top of the N4 like no other and sell this S3.

WILLDOGS

The N4 I ordered on 11/27 with expected 1-2 week shipping.... Shipped as of 4AM this morning! Nice thing to wake up to

TSXy Luster

I'm just wondering now how much better would photos taken with the S3 or potentially OneX's better camera software would look vs. the N4.

CGFebTSX04

Falcon Pro is in the market:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...pro&feature=md

Love this app. Its so smooth and pretty compared to what's out there right now.

speedemon90

someones getting jealous its okk, you will get keylime pie, i most likely wont. Or at least have a stable version of it...

TSXy Luster

I still don't know why I fawn over camera tech in phones. Camera usage on my phone is only like 10% lol. I guess it's just nice to know that you can take awesome pictures if you need to.

speedemon90

haha i like having nice cameras, but its not like the N4 is a bad camera. Its good just not the best?

speedemon90

so i went to a new rom that seems to be more active than my old rom (now iknow what you are talking about tsxy luster)

anyway, this one has some of the samsung apps i dont care about.

Is it fine to just go into the root of the phone and rename the apps i dont want, for example. S voice.apk to s voice.apk.bak, or just delete it completely. Is there any harm in doing that?? I did that with the camera and gallery app so i dont have two cameras now.

I also lost 4.2 keyboard, with this ROM :/ i'm using swiftkey 3 for now, which is good just doesnt have the gesture typing. Where can i get 4.2, although i may try out swiftkey for a bit.

ohh last thing, whats your guys favorite third party free launcher so non pro versions. Nova, holo, whatever else there is out there

CGFebTSX04

Why not just disable them inside the Manage Apps of Settings? Unless you need the space? If you can disable them and there's no errors, then there's no harm in deleting them off completely.

You should be able to flash any of the 4.2 Keyboard apks:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1964814

I use Nova for my Nexus 7 and Apex comes a close second. ADW became very complex for whatever reason. Too many options and its not as user friendly any more.

speedemon90

for some reason i forgot about disabling.... lol i guess when i had to rename the camera and gallery since those i couldnt disable i thought i couldnt disable the others as well.. dunno. And thanks, i'll check out nova

ohh and do you recommend any of the samsung apps?? s memo or s voice and such... or the calendar. For now i'm just gonna go with the stock google apps

CGFebTSX04

I believe you should be able to disable any system app but in ICS 4.0 and JB 4.1 you had to uninstall the updates first. In 4.2 you can disable without uninstalling updates.

As far as the S apps, I haven't used any of them so I can't tell you. All I heard was that S-Calendar is crap but luckily Google put the stock Calendar in the Play Store now.

speedemon90

Yea i was able to prety much disable everything but s memo, so i'll just do that from a file explorer.

Hmm I know we all use chrome, or i think we do. But looking into it, i think dolphin browser may be as fast if not faster than chrome. I dunno they are close. Didnt know dolphin was that good though.

CGFebTSX04

Yeah Chrome is a little clunky. Supposedly, they're going to catch up to its Desktop relative by early next year. I use it mainly to view websites in Mobile mode. For everything else, I use the Stock Browser on my Galaxy Nexus and Holo Browser on my Nexus 7 (HoloWeb 2.2 Beta is the latest. You can grab it by going into settings then About, click on the download button in the top right and choose beta. Haven't seen any problems with the beta version and I've been using for a week and some days now.):

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1980630

It is based off Tint Browser and you can install one or the other as they share the same package name:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...m9yZy50aW50Il0.


^HoloBrowser and Tint are based of the stock browser and just as fast but much more lightweight. The interface isn't as great as the stock browser with its quick controls nor is it better than Chrome's but if speed is what you want without the privacy concerns that Dolphin brings, check them out.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1319529

speedemon90

seems like the issue was fixed?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/10...in-plain-text/

CGFebTSX04

Possibly. I haven't touched Dolphin in a while. Tint and Holoweb are plenty fast. Its not as feature packed but its a no-frills speed browser and I use it to stream all my flash content without any issues.

TSXy Luster

This smiley cannot adequately express how I feel right now

CGFebTSX04

^Sounds awesome. Would like to hear your impressions on it when you get the chance.

CGFebTSX04

GMail got updated with pinch to zoom for all Android 4.0+ devices today:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/12...d-4-0-devices/

Don't forget you have to enable it first inside the settings menu. Not sure why its not by default.

CGFebTSX04

XBMC released Beta 2 of their app for Android today:

http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/12/0...-with-android/

It doesn't work on Android 4.2+ devices so I haven't been able to test it out. Not sure if hardware acceleration is working on compatible devices but I'm reading both things. That it is working and that it isn't working. I'm guessing people aren't watching 720p videos and thinking that it does work. Beta 3 is supposed to come out soon to fix the 4.2+ crashes.

Compatibility list found here:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Android_hardware

CGFebTSX04

Upcoming new feature in SwiftKey Flow:


Want. I hope they release soon.

speedemon90

damn i'm gonna miss having a nexus device...

CGFebTSX04

AT&T S III Jelly Bean update out in Kies:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/12...ies-right-now/

asianspec

iTrader: (1)

is JB better than ics?

swoosh

iTrader: (5)

CGFebTSX04

JB brought a few changes to Android like the expandable notifications, Project butter, and I forget what other things.

http://developer.android.com/about/v...elly-bean.html

Samsung is supposedly going to bring the Multi-Window/Tasking update that's currently found in the Note II to the S3 but I'm not sure if its in this update or not. (Probably not or else it would've been mentioned.)

speedemon90

ohh shit they included spaces! Will this be an update to swiftkey 3 or will they make you pay another fee??

asianspec

iTrader: (1)

ah ok. since ATT S3 has it then tmobile should be getting is as well. hopefully.

CGFebTSX04

They haven't mentioned anything about it yet. Hopefully, its an upgrade but I wouldn't mind paying for that.

Well the T-Mobile S3 got the Jelly Bean update first then Sprint and now AT&T. The only one holding out is surprise surprise Verizon. Its probably not too far off though. The multi-tasking update has been showing up in leaked S3 Jelly Bean updates so it should be coming soon as well. XDA should have it if you really want it.

T-Mobile S3 Jelly Bean update info:

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4446


S3 Multi-Window support info:

http://www.androidpit.com/-galaxy-s3-jellybean-update

speedemon90

true but you gotta see if its that much better than 4.2 keyboard.

asianspec, what carrier do you have the S3 on??
I have it on Tmobile.

speedemon90

hey mike, was there a way to add 4.2 keyboard for non rooted phones??

edit: nvm there's one in the playstore

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...oard.f.g&hl=en