I'm charging it now and transferring all info, I have a meeting to prep for so I didn't start to play with yet but the speed and the response is amazing. The screen is gorgeous. Once I'll get rid of the ATT apps on it, I'll breath easier. I hate clutter.

 

Smart Switch: Data Transfer for PC, Mac & More | Samsung | Samsung This Samsung app is beautiful.

 

I love the specs of the N6, but the overall size is a deal breaker for me. I'm going to see how 5.0 runs on my Nexus 4, and if it's not great, I'll probably pick up a Nexus 5 or Moto X.

I wish they pulled an Apple and made two versions, one 5" and one 6" but using the same processors, storage, etc., for those that don't want a tablet strapped to their hip.

 

Motorola wasn't going to manufacture a product that directly competed with their own flagship.

 

Is your screen set for super bright? I typically operate at brightness nearly all the way down just to save battery.

 

Right now it's on Auto. All my displays are dim. I don't like bright. I'll have a better understanding of what I like in a few days.

 

Well, I had planned on going Nexus for my next phone but the 6 is just a bit bigger than I want to go. Probably going to look at the G3 and see how it is. Or suck it up and go HTC M8.

 

I pulled out of school yesterday for my hour drive home. Get in the car, put the phone in the dock.

'OK Jarvis, turn on BT'
*opens BT settings, I tap 'ON'
'OK Jarvis, open Digitally Imported'
*opens Google, where it has a shortcut to open the app - I select Chillout

*fuckyeah.gif*

I love this phone. Voice commands are much better than I expected. Reading texts in the car is awesome.

 

Don't cloud my brain with wise business practices

 

Is that only on Moto X that you can rename "OK Google"? I would so do OK Computer since I'm a Radiohead and Star Trek fan.

 

I think the Moto G might have it too.

 

Yeah looks like only OK Jarvis is the only other option. Doesn't work on my ATT Note 2 on 4.4.2 KK

 

How do I transfer my music/ringtones from iPhone to Note? Everything transferred by this..

 

You'll probably have to pull them off your computer.

 

Do you have a microSD card? There's a $30 Samsung one available per slickdeals. Either transfer to your card if you have one or USB. Touchwiz has a folder directory called My Files that I strongly suggest you put on your launcher as a shortcut. In the phone storage is a folder (sort by alphabetical) called Ringtones where you can dump your tones. There are apps too where for free you can download ring/text tones like Zedge. With Android there's no restriction on using the phone for media storage.

 

Thank you, I'm pulling mp3s from iPhone with Appandora and will move to folder on the Note 4. So far so good. It's tough getting use to a device that allows you to do things, you know

 

It's a nice problem

 

got to hold and briefly play with a Note 4 tonight... and wow, the built quality has improved a LOT (from the Note 3)!

 

Loving the phone so far. It's very quick. I use to be jealous of my Note 10.1, well not anymore. =]

I'm still tweaking it to my likings. The only con I see which is very irritating is the fingerprint nonsense as it's really not well thought out. It takes me a few swipes to get into my phone if I'm walking around. I wish one day they can make a scanner where I can just place my thumb any where on the screen itself. Apple wins with its round button.

The phone is a RAM hog, 2GB without anything running in the background besides weather which takes about 90MB.

Also, what are my options for installing Flash? Via puffin?

 

FYI - Registering a device on samsung site gives 50% off on accessories. Nice.

 

Have you tried Turning Off apps via the Application Manager?

 

Yes, bunch of things running but they dont take much, I'll disable all the preloaded ATT crap I may free up 100MB max.

 

My moto x has been a hit or miss with doing the hands free voice trigger. How good is the new one? I know it has an extra microphone.

Also google needs to update google now so when you say turn on BT or wifi it does it automatically and no button needs to be pressed.

 

It can be hit or miss as well. Once you get it to respond, it's fine.

 

There's a design tradeoff to everything and I believe Google wanted the physical confirmation (pressing it on your screen) so that only you can turn it on and not some voice other than yours turning it on.

 

Don't be too concerned about memory usage. Android has a very effective
memory manager which in fact *tries* to keep your RAM "mostly" loaded to
improve system performance. It takes just as much electricity to
refresh 0's as 1's in RAM so whether there is data loaded or not is mostly
irrelevant to power consumption. Where you incur a cost is in the wiping of
memory (by killing a task) - that actually makes the CPU do work on top of
the cost of refreshing 2 or 3 GB or 0's and 1's anyway and in swapping a
running process in-and-out of RAM. Then there is the cost incurred the next time
you run a killed app, reloading it into memory takes time and CPU.

The memory manager tries to walk the tightrope of keeping RAM "mostly"
full with the most recently used tasks but not completely full so that when
a request to load a new task comes in it doesn't have to do a swap-out to
make space to satisfy the load, but at the same time trying to not prematurely
unload something that may need to run again "soon".

I generally assume that Google engineers are pretty smart and that the
memory manager that's built into the OS will do a better job than me and
some task killing app.

The only time I care about killing tasks is if they are consuming "unreasonable"
amounts of CPU time (subjective) for the value they provide (also subjective).
By using something like OS Monitor to hunt down the garbage in your running
system, and then a startup manager to prevent that garbage starting at boot
you can reduce the load on your CPU and increase the effectiveness of the
memory manager since only more "valuable" tasks will be being managed.
The memory manager will only swap out (according to its LRU algorithm) the
minimum necessary to accommodate active, higher priority tasks.

My

 

I use the stock RAM killer because my battery gets crushed when the RAM is high. Then again I'm on a 2 year old phone even with a fairly new battery. From the Note 3 and 4 owners, I might not have to do that anymore thanks to upgraded internals, better batteries, etc. But yeah if you're not seeing lag regardless of your RAM reading, leave it alone. The screen having to adjust since Techno has it on AUTO might cause a slight delay if any.

 

Last few of days with the X:

34 hours until 8%, about 2h SOT

15 hours until 22%, about 3h20m SOT

 

Lollipop is amazing. Been running the latest Dev preview from Friday on the Nexus 5 and its a lot more stable than the first preview. Still missing one crucial app that isn't working but I'll probably just dedicate one device to stay on KitKat if it doesn't get updated in the near future. Otherwise Lollipop is just awesome. Haven't experienced any stuttering although I rarely saw it in KitKat. From what I understand this preview isn't even running the latest implementation of ART either. So it should actually be even faster than it already is!

 

Nice! I've been eyeing the dev version on the N4 side as well, but there's still some bugs that I don't want to deal with.

For some reason, Chrome has been destroying my battery the past few days. I ended up clearing all the data on it and my battery seems to have returned to normal, but I'll be watching it for the next days.

 

Ugh Note 2 may have bricked yesterday. It won't pass the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 screen on bootup. Spent most of the day figuring out how to fix it. I was stock and it just randomly starting doing it. Took out SD card and Sim, did the 3 button reset in proper order, reboot from backup mode, wipe phone and cache in backup mode, nothing. Apparently I have to install Odin on my laptop and flash stock rom via download mode on my phone? Worst case AT&T said the deductible is only $99 instead of $199 and I'll likely get a Note 3. That pushes me back from getting a Note 4 next year and I don't have to touch my upgrade so I can wait. My backup phone, iPhone 4 with no LTE Any feedback is appreciated. XDA is a little advanced for me.

 

Any further updates/impressions?

Has anyone else obtained a Note 4 yet? Thinking about going from S4 to N4.

 

Sorry, I haven't had the chance to play with it much. I did organize it and made folders so now we are clean looking. I love the multi-tasking windows, it makes my life so much easier. I've played with the S Pen and it came in handy already few times where I had just down quick notes and reminders.

The battery life is amazing. I can tap all day long, browse the net, watch an episode and I still come home in the evening with 50-60% battery, which charges up super fast.

There a few cons. Sometimes the interface can lag just a bit, example when I hit to show all recent apps button, it's not instant, it take 1-2 seconds, which is ok. My biggest pet peeve is damn finger print, I think I'll change my login to a swipe. You must be pretty precise in order for it to recognize you. You can scan up to 3 fingerprints. So I did both of my thumbs and an index finger. It works well when I'm not in a hurry but when I need to do something quickly, a few swipes are definitely need it. I guess I'll learn eventually.

The sound is loud and crisp. The screen is pure awesomeness. The photography I need to fine tune it because when I take a photo in Auto it comes out bit smudged looking...Maybe because of the screen, I need to see the results on the computer. I haven't shot a video yet.

The heart monitor works just like a the finger scanner, you will need to learn how to precisely place your finger on the scanner, so by the time you do get the thing to work your heart rate is up anyways

I'll be back with more updates, but as a phablet, this phone is awesome. Truly is. My father in law has the S4, he now wants my phone. He was playing with it yesterday and he truly appreciates the size. You have 14 days to play with it so you have nothing to lose.

PS Can I install a flash apk on it?

 

I haven't caught up in this thread, but does anyone in here have a OnePlus? I saw a friend with it and I fell completely in love with it. I'm all for more screen and it didn't even feel huge in my pockets (and I wear fitted pants).

My only concern is the brand. I naively thought it was the "HTC One Plus" like the iPhone 6 Plus. But it's actually just OnePlus, a brand that I've never heard of. And then I saw Cyanogen on the back and was already familiar with that ROM. Hope Cyanogen isn't too keen on bloating the OS.

Any thoughts on this phone?

 

its an unique way to sell a phone.
the brand concept is a "for the people by the people" mantra.

so, they took all the cool aspects of different phones plus the software and sutffed it into the Oppo plus one.

which in theory sounds cool.
since its by the people, the software is always up to date with cool features.

however; the major caveat is that the hardware isnt supported by the brand.

if the motherboard on the phone goes out; tough luck. you'll have a $600 paper weight.

 

I played wth my friends one plus one. Pretty sweet phone.

 

Edit*
cost of phone is $300 not $600 for the plus one.


ive seen two accounts of where OPPO didnt warranty bad hardware.

 

Anyone uses Google Wallet or Softcard(ISIS)?

 

I've been using it for some time. I used it back when it first rolled out on my Nexus S in 2011 or something like that. Stopped when I got my S3 and started again when i got my Moto X

 

I tried it with my S3, but AT&T had it locked down. One of the reasons I went with a custom ROM, but even then it didn't work.

Now that I have an unlocked phone, I'll have to give it a go again. I had an opportunity a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot the phone even had that option.