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Has anyone tried the free unlimited Sprint for a year deal? https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/offer...unlimited.html
I just signed up and ordered 2 sim cards last night for our Nexus 5x and 6. Plan on using my google voice number so only difference will be the network.
Not sure why Sprint is basically giving us $700 but hey, ill try it. I just hope they don't suck as much as they did 8 yrs ago. Can't really complain about free I guess.
Android phones that are eligible:
I just signed up and ordered 2 sim cards last night for our Nexus 5x and 6. Plan on using my google voice number so only difference will be the network.
Not sure why Sprint is basically giving us $700 but hey, ill try it. I just hope they don't suck as much as they did 8 yrs ago. Can't really complain about free I guess.
Android phones that are eligible:
- Essential Phone
- Google Nexus 5 (16 & 32 GB – black/white/red) (Verizon only)
- Google Nexus 5X (all versions)
- Google Nexus 6 (32 & 64 GB – black/white)
- Google Nexus 6P (all versions)
- Google Pixel
- Google Pixel XL
- Google Pixel 2
- Google Pixel XL 2
- HTC One A9 (Sprint Version only)
- LG X Charge
- moto e4
- moto e4 plus
- moto g4
- moto g4 play
- moto g4 plus
- moto g5 plus
- moto g5s plus special edition
- moto x pure edition
- moto x4
- moto z2 play
- Orbic Wonder
- Samsung Galaxy Note8 Special Edition
- Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Special Edition
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Special Edition
- Samsung Galaxy S8 (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile)
- Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile)
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Special Edition
- Samsung Galaxy S8+ Special Edition
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Phone just shipped, should be here monday or tuesday.
WTF Google, using OnTrac, possibly the worst delivery service known to man. One time the literally never even stopped the truck and just threw a package into a bush in my front yard.
WTF Google, using OnTrac, possibly the worst delivery service known to man. One time the literally never even stopped the truck and just threw a package into a bush in my front yard.
$97
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Not really. I think I've seen a Moto E4 or something sometimes on sale.
https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-...9-and-s9-plus/
https://www.wired.com/story/samsung-...9-and-s9-plus/
EAGER TO PUT the Galaxy Note 7 disaster in the rearview, Samsung used 2017 to double down on impressive, feature-packed smartphones. Last year's Note 8 and S8 handsets both impressed in a big way, bringing edge-to-edge, AMOLED-powered displays into the mainstream long before Apple was able to get the iPhone X to market. Naturally, as the smartphone expo of Mobile World Congress gets going today in Barcelona, Spain, it's time to welcome the Samsung Galaxy S9.
The new S9 looks almost like last year's S8, and that's completely intentional. Both the S9 and S9+ refine the Galaxy's already mature design. Perhaps the biggest physical change here (besides the addition of a badass Lilac Purple color option) is around the back of the phone, where the fingerprint scanner has been moved to sit just below the camera. This addresses one of the biggest gripes users had with the S8, since it was stupidly easy to smudge up the camera's glass cover when feeling around for the tiny fingerprint pad.S9
SAMSUNGTwo versions of the flagship Sammy phone will be available: a 5.8-inch S9 and a whopping 6.2-inch S9+. All the standard Samsung features have been branded this generation as "Galaxy Foundation," and no, that's not a new non-profit charity. This term sums up all the things that make a Galaxy a Galaxy—stuff like IP68 water and dust protection, fast wireless charging, and microSD memory expansion. New in the S9 and S9+ is an enhanced biometric security setting that combines the slower, more secure iris scanner with facial recognition. There's even a headphone jack, which seems like such a luxury in 2018.
Sure sounds like a Samsung phone, doesn't it?
The thing Samsung hyped the most when debuting S9's is its new-and-improved camera. The marquee ability of the S9's upgraded imaging hardware is a variable-aperture camera. The 12-megapixel, optically-stabilized main cameras of both the S9 and S9+ have two aperture settings thanks to an aperture plate on both phones that slides in place whenever it's needed. Wide open, the camera gathers more light in dim situations at a fast f/1.5 aperture. When stopped down, it shoots in f/2.4, which is better for brighter environments. The camera's other major trick is a super slow-motion setting, which leverages an on-sensor data buffer to shoot up to 960 frames per second.
Jumping into the animated, facial-mapped emoji craze, Samsung is introducing AR Emoji. Competing with the iPhone X's Animoji, AR Emoji gives users a cartoon version of themselves they can use to express a range of emotions and reactions. The animations can be sent via SMS, and you can export a custom animation as a GIF, though Samsung's take on this is more Nintendo Mii than anything.
Additionally, Samsung has added improvements to DeX, the app that lets you connect the phone to a keyboard and monitor for desktop-like experience. The new phones also get stereo Dolby Atmos-powered speakers, ever-so-slightly narrower bezels, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip, and some new Bixby abilities for good measure.
Preorders for the S9 and S9+ begin Friday, March 2. Retail stores will start carrying the new models on March 16. The S9 will start at $719 unlocked, while its larger Plus-sized sibling will go for $839.
The new S9 looks almost like last year's S8, and that's completely intentional. Both the S9 and S9+ refine the Galaxy's already mature design. Perhaps the biggest physical change here (besides the addition of a badass Lilac Purple color option) is around the back of the phone, where the fingerprint scanner has been moved to sit just below the camera. This addresses one of the biggest gripes users had with the S8, since it was stupidly easy to smudge up the camera's glass cover when feeling around for the tiny fingerprint pad.S9
SAMSUNGTwo versions of the flagship Sammy phone will be available: a 5.8-inch S9 and a whopping 6.2-inch S9+. All the standard Samsung features have been branded this generation as "Galaxy Foundation," and no, that's not a new non-profit charity. This term sums up all the things that make a Galaxy a Galaxy—stuff like IP68 water and dust protection, fast wireless charging, and microSD memory expansion. New in the S9 and S9+ is an enhanced biometric security setting that combines the slower, more secure iris scanner with facial recognition. There's even a headphone jack, which seems like such a luxury in 2018.
Sure sounds like a Samsung phone, doesn't it?
The thing Samsung hyped the most when debuting S9's is its new-and-improved camera. The marquee ability of the S9's upgraded imaging hardware is a variable-aperture camera. The 12-megapixel, optically-stabilized main cameras of both the S9 and S9+ have two aperture settings thanks to an aperture plate on both phones that slides in place whenever it's needed. Wide open, the camera gathers more light in dim situations at a fast f/1.5 aperture. When stopped down, it shoots in f/2.4, which is better for brighter environments. The camera's other major trick is a super slow-motion setting, which leverages an on-sensor data buffer to shoot up to 960 frames per second.
Jumping into the animated, facial-mapped emoji craze, Samsung is introducing AR Emoji. Competing with the iPhone X's Animoji, AR Emoji gives users a cartoon version of themselves they can use to express a range of emotions and reactions. The animations can be sent via SMS, and you can export a custom animation as a GIF, though Samsung's take on this is more Nintendo Mii than anything.
Additionally, Samsung has added improvements to DeX, the app that lets you connect the phone to a keyboard and monitor for desktop-like experience. The new phones also get stereo Dolby Atmos-powered speakers, ever-so-slightly narrower bezels, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip, and some new Bixby abilities for good measure.
Preorders for the S9 and S9+ begin Friday, March 2. Retail stores will start carrying the new models on March 16. The S9 will start at $719 unlocked, while its larger Plus-sized sibling will go for $839.
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Nokia had some interesting news!
introduced a new flagship and a mid-tiered phone and re-introduced the Nokia 6 for 2018.
All apart of the Android GO experience, meaning; will have stock vanilla android and latest security updates.
interesting.
Nokia just became the new "Nexus" line of Androids.
introduced a new flagship and a mid-tiered phone and re-introduced the Nokia 6 for 2018.
All apart of the Android GO experience, meaning; will have stock vanilla android and latest security updates.
interesting.
Nokia just became the new "Nexus" line of Androids.
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For a little less than $500 I'm interested in the mid-tiered phone
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I read one of the Nokias is a poor man's Pixel 2.
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i mean; Nokia intentially did it that way. became a Android GO partner.
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Got my Note 8 over the weekend. love the fact that while it is bigger, it is actually easier to handle than my S6 Edge+ because it is not as wide.
Hate the finger print sensor location tho.....
Hate the finger print sensor location tho.....
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yay, it arrived...
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Congrats. I'd love to get a Pixel 2.
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Thx, its pretty good so far, honestly I am not seeing huge differences in usage from the Nexus 5x, but I run Apex launcher so it always looks the same to me...
It sure is snappy, though.
It sure is snappy, though.
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One thing I am noticing (I seem to remember this form the 5x, too) is that when I am in chrome on a web site, I can choose to "add to homepage" to make a link to the site as an icon on the home page, but no link is ever actually created. This appears to be a known issue, lots of people noting this online.
I use Apex launcher, but tried to make a link even after switching to the Pixel launcher. No dice...
Some people are reporting that it will work if you completely uninstall the alternate launcher, but the stock launcher is no bueno for me (new pages only to the right, no grid layout changes, etc.), so I will keep Apex.
I use Apex launcher, but tried to make a link even after switching to the Pixel launcher. No dice...
Some people are reporting that it will work if you completely uninstall the alternate launcher, but the stock launcher is no bueno for me (new pages only to the right, no grid layout changes, etc.), so I will keep Apex.
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The battery on the Note 8 is .... all day from 8am to 6pm, with some game playing between breaks and music streaming, only used 23%
My 6 edge plus usually dies before 5pm
My 6 edge plus usually dies before 5pm
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I'm still on my Pixel XL and have been very happy with it. Waiting for the Pixel XL 3 or whatever comes out later this year.
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Ken, if you open a website in chrome, are you able to host the menu three doors and "add to home screen" and actually have the shortcut appear on your home screen?
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Thx, dammit.
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nexus 6p checking in..I am able to add browser shortcut to my homescreen
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Pixel 2 XL, I can also add it to my home screen no problem.
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FFS, I need to uninstall Apex and see if I can do it.
Thanks all.
Thanks all.
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Yup, has something to do with Apex. Uninstalled and it worked fine... Dammit.
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This is going to get buried, but it's nice as a reference.
I hosed my phone today (or so I thought). I had stuff on /data that I wanted to try to recover.
I've had good success recovering data from corrupted memory cards - the most important thing to do being to NOT put any files on the card until recovery is done. Otherwise, you risk overwriting data.
The ROM was hosed (was trying to go to Oreo from 7.1 again). I could get into recovery and fastboot.
After a bunch of tinkering I managed to rip the entire memory into a "memory card" file via the following steps:
1) Boot into recovery mode
2) The phone needs to be rooted (I think) , and dd needs to be on the phone. (I installed Busybox).
3) I was on windows. The magic command was: adb exec-out cat /dev/block/dm-0 > dm0.img
Breakdown on the command: exec-out is needed on windows to prevent corruption due to LF/LFRC conversion.
exec-out exists on old versions of adb, but doesn't work! This was frustrating as hell to figure out.
dm-0, on my phone, is the root of the entire memory of the phone. In theory I just needed /data, but I didn't know what the right /dev/block was.
Before you try pulling down the entire card (which takes forever), try pulling down just a .jpg and see if you can read it! Or you'll waste a LOT of time.
4) Use a program like photorescue that can image a disk/memory card to a file, and then recover from that file.
Most programs should do this since usually (or at least I recommend) you do multiple scans of the same card/file with different programs.
Recover from img as normal.
Ever few minutes, copy dm0.img to another file and see what you can pull from it.
If the first few jpgs ( probably emojis from the ROM) look good, you are okay.
If you only get handful of corrupted images...... you might want to abort and re-test with smaller files!
I hosed my phone today (or so I thought). I had stuff on /data that I wanted to try to recover.
I've had good success recovering data from corrupted memory cards - the most important thing to do being to NOT put any files on the card until recovery is done. Otherwise, you risk overwriting data.
The ROM was hosed (was trying to go to Oreo from 7.1 again). I could get into recovery and fastboot.
After a bunch of tinkering I managed to rip the entire memory into a "memory card" file via the following steps:
1) Boot into recovery mode
2) The phone needs to be rooted (I think) , and dd needs to be on the phone. (I installed Busybox).
3) I was on windows. The magic command was: adb exec-out cat /dev/block/dm-0 > dm0.img
Breakdown on the command: exec-out is needed on windows to prevent corruption due to LF/LFRC conversion.
exec-out exists on old versions of adb, but doesn't work! This was frustrating as hell to figure out.
dm-0, on my phone, is the root of the entire memory of the phone. In theory I just needed /data, but I didn't know what the right /dev/block was.
Before you try pulling down the entire card (which takes forever), try pulling down just a .jpg and see if you can read it! Or you'll waste a LOT of time.
4) Use a program like photorescue that can image a disk/memory card to a file, and then recover from that file.
Most programs should do this since usually (or at least I recommend) you do multiple scans of the same card/file with different programs.
Recover from img as normal.
Ever few minutes, copy dm0.img to another file and see what you can pull from it.
If the first few jpgs ( probably emojis from the ROM) look good, you are okay.
If you only get handful of corrupted images...... you might want to abort and re-test with smaller files!
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This is going to get buried, but it's nice as a reference.
I hosed my phone today (or so I thought). I had stuff on /data that I wanted to try to recover.
I've had good success recovering data from corrupted memory cards - the most important thing to do being to NOT put any files on the card until recovery is done. Otherwise, you risk overwriting data.
The ROM was hosed (was trying to go to Oreo from 7.1 again). I could get into recovery and fastboot.
After a bunch of tinkering I managed to rip the entire memory into a "memory card" file via the following steps:
1) Boot into recovery mode
2) The phone needs to be rooted (I think) , and dd needs to be on the phone. (I installed Busybox).
3) I was on windows. The magic command was: adb exec-out cat /dev/block/dm-0 > dm0.img
Breakdown on the command: exec-out is needed on windows to prevent corruption due to LF/LFRC conversion.
exec-out exists on old versions of adb, but doesn't work! This was frustrating as hell to figure out.
dm-0, on my phone, is the root of the entire memory of the phone. In theory I just needed /data, but I didn't know what the right /dev/block was.
Before you try pulling down the entire card (which takes forever), try pulling down just a .jpg and see if you can read it! Or you'll waste a LOT of time.
4) Use a program like photorescue that can image a disk/memory card to a file, and then recover from that file.
Most programs should do this since usually (or at least I recommend) you do multiple scans of the same card/file with different programs.
Recover from img as normal.
Ever few minutes, copy dm0.img to another file and see what you can pull from it.
If the first few jpgs ( probably emojis from the ROM) look good, you are okay.
If you only get handful of corrupted images...... you might want to abort and re-test with smaller files!
I hosed my phone today (or so I thought). I had stuff on /data that I wanted to try to recover.
I've had good success recovering data from corrupted memory cards - the most important thing to do being to NOT put any files on the card until recovery is done. Otherwise, you risk overwriting data.
The ROM was hosed (was trying to go to Oreo from 7.1 again). I could get into recovery and fastboot.
After a bunch of tinkering I managed to rip the entire memory into a "memory card" file via the following steps:
1) Boot into recovery mode
2) The phone needs to be rooted (I think) , and dd needs to be on the phone. (I installed Busybox).
3) I was on windows. The magic command was: adb exec-out cat /dev/block/dm-0 > dm0.img
Breakdown on the command: exec-out is needed on windows to prevent corruption due to LF/LFRC conversion.
exec-out exists on old versions of adb, but doesn't work! This was frustrating as hell to figure out.
dm-0, on my phone, is the root of the entire memory of the phone. In theory I just needed /data, but I didn't know what the right /dev/block was.
Before you try pulling down the entire card (which takes forever), try pulling down just a .jpg and see if you can read it! Or you'll waste a LOT of time.
4) Use a program like photorescue that can image a disk/memory card to a file, and then recover from that file.
Most programs should do this since usually (or at least I recommend) you do multiple scans of the same card/file with different programs.
Recover from img as normal.
Ever few minutes, copy dm0.img to another file and see what you can pull from it.
If the first few jpgs ( probably emojis from the ROM) look good, you are okay.
If you only get handful of corrupted images...... you might want to abort and re-test with smaller files!
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Fucking copycats
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I really like the look of the X. Also just read a few articles on the G7. Very promising as long as the camera is on par with the Pixel..
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I'd be fine losing a bit of it, like the google esential.
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wtf is a "Doogee V"?
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if my nexus 6p broke today; I would pick up an Essential.
waiting for either Pixel 3 or Essential PH-2
waiting for either Pixel 3 or Essential PH-2
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Switched our Nexus 6 and 5x over to Sprint. Free year of service for both phones - 2 weeks in I've got to say it does not suck! 50Mbps down 7Mbps up
Now should I buy my new phone now(pixel2) or wait until the free year is up and get something better? Decisions!
I'm looking at this like I'm getting a phone for free with the $ saved :-)
Now should I buy my new phone now(pixel2) or wait until the free year is up and get something better? Decisions!
I'm looking at this like I'm getting a phone for free with the $ saved :-)
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Well, well.
I have to hand it to them: The S9 Plus Exynos is the first thing I've seen that gets very close to the iPhone X in real world performance. Excellent.
Trouble is, in the United States, they're giving us the 845 version instead of the Exynos version. :-)
The 845 is no small shakes, but there is an obvious difference in the performance between it and Exynos when you are doing heavy work.
I have to hand it to them: The S9 Plus Exynos is the first thing I've seen that gets very close to the iPhone X in real world performance. Excellent.
Trouble is, in the United States, they're giving us the 845 version instead of the Exynos version. :-)
The 845 is no small shakes, but there is an obvious difference in the performance between it and Exynos when you are doing heavy work.
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^Like playing multiplayer VR games while on 3-way with your teammates, blasting away the enemy. All while streaming music and recording game play?
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or are you one of those heavy texters?
"heavy workload"
"heavy workload"