Good point, not something I think about. It's awkward to leave your phone connected to watch something, so probably not a common use case. Off topic but slightly related, I wonder if any big companies would make a nice AV receiver built on Android TV or something. Seems like an area which could be disrupted ala Nest with thermostats. Just adding a nice software layer which would easily be much better than anything offered, built in video/audio chromecast and other features.
Agreed...a couple scatterbrain thoughts: I don't think its a zero sum game. I would love if I could watch content out of my phone via HDMI at our vacation home (we don't have WiFI or cable). For sure a low volume use case, but a very inconvenient one. Besides people with destroyed/broken charging connector, how many people have had the problem "I really want to charge my phone, but not do it via a connected cable"? Somehow we got wireless charging though. You can implement HDMI out without cannibalizing the Cast standard. Maybe I can hope for future iterations of type C with full power delivery spec (likely 3.1) that includes video out. As recently as this past weekend - I have used video out on my 2011 Moto Xoom on the TV because the chromecast feature in the ESPN app is always dropping the connection. Its not wifi that drops, its the Cast connection. Whats funny is that, in my usage, the most reliable way to cast is to cast your entire phone to the screen. That has never dropped for me. I routinely drop or get play issues via ESPN, YouTube, Netflix, or Play Movies. With all that said: Apple is going the same way. They stopped selling their AV adapter for non lightning devices while they still had non lightning devices in production. Re Android TV: I think the problem is as simple as Moore's law. Our hardware/software improves way faster than our things break down. I've had my big screen TV for 2.5 years. I just replaced my receiver after 5.5 years of use which worked perfectly fine. My new receiver supports 4k @ 60 fps but doesn't support Atmos or HDCP 2.2.Technically, it's already obsolete despite being only 1 year old. I've had my car for 6 years. Same story. Seems like you have to have devices that are small enough and cheap enough if you want to hope for the device to be your pathway for adoption (see Chromecast stick as perfect example). I would say in order for me to call Android TV a success: it must support Video thru. XB1 does this well. We'll see if we get a second gen Nexus Player with such. it would definitely satisfy the second part of your post.
I don't even have a chromecast, still see no reason to cast over having an actual UI (fire stick). At the very least it seems like they could have cast become more of a companion app to a real UI. That said, I did just get the audio chromecast and it's quite nice. It's nicely allows me to split the audio from my computer into music (to my real speakers) versus the rest of the sound. And I can easily switch between playing music from my computer or my phone depending on what's convenient. Really loving it so far, mostly just because windows sound control has always been terrible. If windows could handle Bluetooth well (Bluetooth connections are also terrible but I could live with that) and tell which sounds to go where I probably wouldn't have even bought it. As for the receiver idea, I agree having something not replaced often means it could become obsolete. But for the car examples look at Tesla, it's amazing how much software updates can add versus other car manufactures who have no idea how to do software. We're getting to the point where year over year android devices aren't becoming nearly as different as they used to be. Putting a beastly processor in a receiver, having a nice UI / Android TV and software updates and I bet it would be a great experience. I don't know if the number of receivers sold would ever make it worth it, and it's not like I would swap out now. But I guess I might have to in a couple years once type-C becomes needed.
Looking at the droid spcs made me lookup the Qualcomm snapdragon 820 (currently in hands of OEMs ) WOW. Lots of cool connectivity stuff with lte , but I doubt carriers can support it by mid 2016 at scale.
Kind of funny that one of the points is understanding when to use LTE when the your wifi is connected but not working. Seems like something that would be solved by software. I haven't looked at if/how marshmallow handles it yet, but it's crazy that it took this long to solve what seems like a simple problem.
And moto releases new phones on 5.1. That software team must have been stripped to the bone. Sad to see how far they've fallen.
New OnePlus X looks pretty nice. $250 for a 5inch phone which what looks like an iphone quality build. Might have to buy one at this price and hope roms come out for it with marshmallow. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/1...fficial-kind-of-coming-november-19th-for-250/ Compromises: 5.1, missing some bands, old processor.
Yeah, they did a great job. Performance is amazing, battery life is the best I've ever had (1.5+ days easy), marshmallow is very nice, camera is great, finger print reader is unbelievable, etc. My only real complaint is that Google's ambient display isn't nearly as good as moto. With moto I would just tap the phone sitting on a table and it would light up. Ambient display needs you to pick up the whole phone at which point it's already unlocked since the fingerprint verification is instant. But overall it definitely overachieves versus expectations.
Should be here next week. I am excite. My biggest fear was the poor battery life reviews so that's refreshing to hear that yours is doing so well. Biggest pain in the ass was getting someone at Sprint to send me a damn nano-sim.
I started searching as soon as I posted that. Haven't seen anything yet, have you seen anyone adjust it?
Yeah, it can be done. The ROM I use on my N6 has a "tap to wake" feature that starts active display. There has to be an apk around somewhere.
I've noticed that chrome is horribly laggy since marshmallow. It hangs for 2 seconds after loading every page. I disabled Javascript and it fixed the issue...are there any issues with disabling this?
Chrome has been a total dick to me. Stopped displaying youtube and then completely changed the order if my bookmarks. It's fucked and I don't know what they're trying to do here.
My note 4 is now going really slow when connected to wifi. I tried doing a few fixes via the internet but have not found anything to work. This seems like a known issue with some samsung phones. Any ideas? It also makes twitter and other social media apps take forever to load. Should reset everything? Root the sucker? Get a new phone?
It's kind of funny how much I'm enjoying nerding out on the USB cords recently. A google employee (works on the Pixel so uses Type-C connectors) started testing out the cords and seeing which aren't compliant. Luckily the one I already bought was one of his few good ones. https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3ri9ew/the_google_engineer_who_reviews_the_usb_a_to_usb/ But it's mostly interesting just to see some details on what makes cables different. I know there were some previous discussions on some cables allowing quick charging and other not, but I never actually read to spec to see how it worked. The main problem highlighted with these cables is that the resistor which identifies to the devices what kind of power supply it is hooked into is incorrect, making devices draw more power than the source is rated for. Also Ampere is a really cool app to see how fast you are charging: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gombosdev.ampere&hl=en
Anyone know how to install phone only apps on a tablet? The app I want is free but I can't find a site to download the apk.
I have had a bitch of a problem with my galaxy s6 this week. Ive had this one since April and everything was fine. Tuesday morning I wake up and see that I forgot to charge my phone so I hook it up to the charger and it doesn't charge. So I try another charger, same thing. Then I hook it up to my PC, still wouldnot charge So I take it in to the local store and of course he couldn't fix it and had never seen this before. So Verizon overnighted me a phone, Tuesday night and I received it Tuesday afternoon (around 330). So I was like great! Problem is this new phone freezes and restarts on it own constantly especially when I'm trying to DL or update an app. So I was very pissed and called and let them have it as this was the 2nd time this week I've had huge issues. So now they are sending me ANOTHER phone Good thing is on my phone of 5 months I had a crack on my screen I thought so I thought they were gonna have to use insurance and blame the "manufacturing error" on the crack screen. But we took the screen protector off in the store Tuesday morning and thank goodness it was the protector with the crack. Not The SCREEN So everything has been free this week (the 2 phones that got/is sending to me) besides the overnight shipping on Tuesday night Long story, and still not over yet
My coworker is on his 6th S6. He keeps sending them back and he keeps getting a phone with a new problem every time. I finally got him onboard the fuck Samsung train. There's still more room if you want to join.
milking the fuck out of my s5 to avoid shit like this. have it unlocked yet they keep trying to force software upgrades that probably just eat up hard drive space and kill battery
really wish i was still in that percentage, hell there are even people who pay attention to their promotions and get new phones then turn around and resell for a profit. whatever that small percentage is costs verizon
I've had to order 2 replacements for my boss's s6. The first two kept wiping his data. Verizon said it is a known issue.
Not on APKmirror (run by the Android police guys) ? many apps are there. If not, 1. Download the app on your phone 2. Download MyAppSharer on the same phone 3. Open MyAppSharer, it will show you a list of all apps you have on the phone (I think there is a toggle if you want it to show system apps, like clock, calendar, flashlight, etc) 4. tap on the app you're wanting to share. 5. There will be a toggle at the top between sharing the actual apk or just sharing the Play Store link. Select the Actual APK 6. Share via whatever method you prefer. 7. It will take the APK and deliver (I always do gmail to myself) 8. receive on tablet, install and then profit.
from the comments section of an article referring to the VZW increase ($20/line/month) on unlimited data plans next week. "Going out with a Bang #FVerizon"
So I just signed up for google fi and got the 64gb N6p. I've always been on ATT family plan with unlimited data. Pros, its free because family plan. Cons I'm almost 30, reception in the hospital sucks and I get throttled after 5 gigs. I think I'm making the right choice.
I have my sim card but I haven't activated it yet. With Verizon upping the unlimited plan, I might make the jump. I'm not sure yet.
This would be interesting. Pulled from DroidLife. Report: Google is Considering Building Its Own Smartphone From Scratch What if Google were to go the Apple route for its next smartphone? That would be controlling the entire process, from designing the chipset used to the entire manufacturing process and design of the body, alongside development of the software it runs. According to The Information, the search company is currently having internal discussions about this topic, though there isn’t exactly any word on Google signing off and moving forward. You may be wondering how this differs from Google’s Nexus line and the answer is sort of simple. With Nexus phones or tablets, Google joins with one or more of their close partners to co-develop a product. With the Nexus 5X and 6P, Google asked LG and Huawei to help build them. Those companies not only help manufacture the phones (with branding), but they more than likely help distribute them as well. Should Google decide to go the Apple route and do it all, they take on all of that without the help of LG or Huawei or Samsung or HTC. In the end, a phone designed from the bottom up by Google would help them push updates (even) easier and gain even more control over the overall Android experience. Honestly, though, it seems like a pretty silly idea. You basically get all of that with the current Nexus line, except Google doesn’t have to do any of the hard labor. By creating their own phone that doesn’t utilize close partners, they could potentially piss off many of them in the long run. And what’s the point? The Information argues that this is a control play that helps give Google a tightened Android ecosystem. But for that to actually happen, they would have to become Apple and sell hundreds of millions of phones. Otherwise, you just have a Google phone that isn’t a Nexus, not selling and not making any sort of difference in the big picture. I don’t get it.
either too much interference or the building itself doesn't allow the waves to go through easily. i only get 3G at work and that drops to 1X in one bathroom.
Fiance worked in the ER for several years. They actually had jammers installed so nurses and other staff wouldn't use their phones at work.
I ordered a 6p yesterday and Fedex says it's going to be delivered tomorrow. That can't be right can it? Did everyone get theirs that fast?