speedemon90

4.3 works fine with me

MTEAZY

I have an N4 and saw much better battery life with 4.3. Mainly for data & wifi. Touch response is a little better too but there is a bug with Netflix.

mdkxtreme

Oh wow I didn't read much on 4.3's improvement on battery. Guess I might take the plunge on updating.

speedemon90

I dont think 4.3 is really supposed to have battery improvements for the most part? Maybe its an indirect result of managing something else better. Battery life improvements are supposed to come with KLP

mdkxtreme

But then again, is battery really improved or is it just a placebo effect of having an updated firmware?

TSXy Luster

I can only say from my experience, but I noticed a big enough increase in on screen time for me to say that 4.3 improved my battery efficiency. Tested it doing the same exact things on one phone and also with 2 N4s side by side, one running 4.2.2 and the other 4.3.

Don't know the how, but I'm just glad it does. Haven't tested it on my N7, but I never worry about battery life on that anyways.

The whole "leaving wifi on in the background silently while not actively scanning for wifi networks to connect to when an app just needs it for location settings option that also makes it seem like wifi is on all the time, but not really" is a bit harder to understand, but it works.

speedemon90

Do you guys prefer go sms, handscent, or stock?

Is go sms and handscent basically the same thing?

Doom878

For SMS? I just use stock.

twigglius

iTrader: (6)

Handcent 5.0 ftw!

is300eater

to those of you that got 4.3, any of you have Netflix? I hear there's a conflict

is300eater

So far the battery consumption improvement is noticeable

mdkxtreme

^ You got the update on the N4? I got it just now.

#1 STUNNA

Samsung caught boosting benchmark performance numbers on Exynos deviceshttp://www.anandtech.com/show/7187/l...ons-galaxy-s-4
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/30/samsung-benchmarks/

speedemon90

So you know how android has a problem with the group messaging, at least those bellow 4.2

Go sms has a setting to have proper threads for group messaging like the iPhone or how it should be! That's pretty neat I thought as I always hated it being split up. I dunno of it works on all phones but the feature works on my gs3

Mizouse

good, i hated group messaging android devices and that person would always reply with their own separate sms.

TSXy Luster

Remember that one video of that tiny girl doing a photosphere in the snow all odd, but said it was the best way to get great photospheres? Turns out she was right lol. Here is an official Google video on photosphering

speedemon90

And I hate getting messages in separate threads I dunno why this wasn't released way before. Surprised not even samsung did it on their own.

Tell people to get Gosms

mdkxtreme

Holy cow you guys are right. I'm getting much better battery life with this new firmware. Not sure if it's just the "day one" effect but I'm at 70% and I usually have about 50% at this time of the day.

opboarding

Got a little something something in the mail today

is300eater

That's cool, but maybe post in the Android Tablet thread?

TSXy Luster

Dammit Moto!
Google really needs Eric Schmidt back in charge to help them get better at business acumen.

opboarding

Didn't read title of thread very closely. This is just the one I've had bookmarked forever.

is300eater

truthfully, I think there should just be ONE thread on Android, but

speedemon90

There was way too much hype for the phone.
The one thing I a, curious about how much this will cost off contract. No way this is a $650 phone

That's exactly what I think. There's way top much overlap and everything gets posted I'm here that's android other than what ROM you're running on the nexus tablets.

stogie1020

My RazrM is still stuck on 4.1.2 and I am pissed... COME ON VERIZON

My nexus 7 is on 4.3 and I love the lock screen widget with the custom notifications, etc that came with 4.2..

Really want this shyt on the RazrM... 4.2 on the handset would be fine for now...

CGFebTSX04

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/derloos">@derloos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nerdtalker">@nerdtalker</a> off-contract is $575 / $625.</p>&mdash; Eric Zeman (@phonescooper) <a href="https://twitter.com/phonescooper/statuses/363014009202552832">August 1, 2013</a></blockquote>
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I wish Motorola priced this like the Nexus cause I would've picked up a spare just to tinker with. Then again, the bootloader is locked and they haven't said if there will be a way to unlock it.

CGFebTSX04

And for the people dismissing the Moto X because of the specs...

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vmO5LeWUEeM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Seems like Motorola optimized this phone to the max. You also have to remember not that many apps utilize the quadcore processors yet, let alone dual core processors. I'm guessing the 720p resolution vs. 1080p also played some part to the Moto X just being a tiny hair faster. I'm more interested in the always on listening mode. I hope that gets ported to other devices. (Probably will if it hasn't been done already.)

speedemon90

Do you think the droids were optimized like the moto x

CGFebTSX04

Possibly. It probably also has to do with the fact that the new Moto skin is very minimal its close to stock Android nowadays.

CGFebTSX04

HTC One Google Play Edition 4.3 builds are out.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2390346

Supposedly the IR Blaster now works. I just need confirmation that Zoe works and I think I'll flash it or I'll just flash it any way. Lol. The S4 Google Play Edition 4.3 builds are out as well I'm guessing.

speedemon90

Alright I have a problem with my N7.
Putting it here since more people see this thread

So I guess my N7 restarted sometime at night and when I turned it on, I noticed that first my password lock wasnt there, nor was there a lockscreen.

Then a notification came up saying:
"Unfortunately, Google partner setup has stopped.

My notification bar, wifi, and home buttons dont work. I can force stop apps in the settings, but anytime i click clear cache it reboots.
I tried to do a factory reset and when I enter my password lock and click ok, then settings force closes. I'm not sure what to do.

I forced stopped google partner setup and gallery, those two popups came when the N7 would turn on that it wouldnt work. Now they dont come up anymore but that didnt solve anything.

Any help??

Kinda annoyed with this...

speedemon90

some other things to add, if i uninstall an app, it reboots and the app wont uninstall.
The notification bar actually comes down, its the other one with the toggles that doesnt.

speedemon90

Well looks like i fixed it. I had to go into recovery mode to do a factory reset. I hope its fixed...

Doom878

Any way to fool the Xfinity video app or any other app that you're on WiFi when you're on 4G but without rooting? I know with iPhone you had 3G Unrestrictor but had to be jailbroken.

TSXy Luster

ooooooh pretty!

Doom878

And while on a call, how do you make it so that the caller doesn't hear your texts? WTF is that all aboot

speedemon90

didnt know that even happens lol, put your phone on vibrate?

speedemon90

Here's an app that kinda of mimicks the feature of the Moto x for opening the camera app from anywhere as long as your phone is unlocked.
Obviously not quite as good as the moto x cause the phone needs to be unlocked but still pretty nifty!

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

the paid version lets you do two other motions for any app you choose. Free version just gives camera option

speedemon90

Man the LG G2 has some beastly specs!

CCColtsicehockey

Definitely impressed with the LG G2. Waiting to hear a release period from Verizon for it.