Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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4.1.1 is not ICS.
yep, that's Jelly Bean. And so is 4.2 and 4.3.
Ice Cream Sandwich was 4.0.
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Also, my MyBat Tuff case for the Nexus 4 just arrived (took you forever, postal services around the world).
I'm 100% sure this is the most protective case you can get for your Nexus 4.
(vid about it here [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVLWTzzVP0[/url])
I read about people having a problem with the proximity sensor with this case on, but it seems like this is fixed already, since mine is working fine.
Google maps has become shit.
So I want to navigate some place, so I enter it in Google maps. I see ONE button: navigate with bicycle. I am by car, where the fuck was the car button (that whole row of car/public transport/bicycle just wasn't there)
So after a bit of messing about, I turn off the bicycle overlay hoping it would stop navigating with the bike. I re-navigate, find no bicycle icon so I guessed it selected the car. It didn't.
So I had to stop halfway to figure out how to select the car option. At this point I [i]did[/i] find that row of transport methods.
So I follow the route, it's bloody hard to see because the blue lines are barely any wider than the actual roads. I go wrong. [i]"Oh my bad, OH WAIT IT ISN'T REROUTING"[/i] I kept driving, but it didn't re-route.
At this moment I stop the car, shout at my god damn phone [b]IT'S NOT FUCKING ROUTING[/b].
In rage, I looked at the settings. Guess what, it was navigating "From <destination> To <Your location>"
First of all, it switched the two around for no apparent fucking reason and second, where the [b]fuck[/b] is the sense in navigating to YOUR position?
Here's the evidence:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/hvUMp4n.png[/t]
On top you see the "go straight forwards you knob", but there are no blue lines. I drove past them and it NEVER re-routed. Obviously when you're routing from <destination> to <your position>
Ooooh but that's not all.
While I was raging about the thing not routing, I drove over a slight bump. Now here's a little fact: I live in the Netherlands, which is pretty much the flattest country on this god forsaken planet. There was this ever so slight bump in the road, I barely noticed it. Google maps, however, did notice it; "Looks like you shook your fancy HTC One, do you want to send feedback?"
I'm [b]driving[/b] you god damn malicious piece of shit.
Also, there was this situation where I had to go right. It was a road where the lanes for the different directions were separated by like 100 meters. Instead of saying I should go right immediately, the motherfucker said I had to cross the road and go right into the lane that you can't go into because it's in the wrong fucking direction.
I followed the instructions because I didn't know the fucking road and I was already raging.
Jesus Christ how in the fuck can you mess up a navigation app so badly?
I've never had any of these problems with previous versions of Google Maps.
I got into the Aviate beta and it's a really pretty launcher. Wish I could change the icon pack and change icon size, though. A 4-wide grid on a phablet like the Note 2 is not an efficient use of space.
[QUOTE=FPtje;41746029]google maps rant[/QUOTE]
Weird, I just tried navigation today and didn't have this problem at all.
And if it's a real problem, you can always turn off the feedback shake option...
[QUOTE=iCole;41746408]Weird, I just tried navigation today and didn't have this problem at all.[/QUOTE]
I don't get it either, every previous experience with Google maps has been great, but today it acted like a twat.
I just needed a vent for my rage, really. I'm not the best driver, so when an app fucks me over I get really mad.
Have you tried deleting app data? AFAIK there is literally nothing you need to manually set up again. Unless you have offline map layers saved, those you'd have to download again.
Well, yesterday the latest Android Revolution HD came out, so I took it as an opportunity to wipe everything and reinstall.
I must say titanium backup (or Jellybean?) has improved in restoring app data. The last time I tried that on my LG, the whole phone fucked up royally with apps corrupting, data not recovering etc. This time, everything went fine :D
So today I'd thought I'd try Firefox on my Nexus 7.
Not even one minute in and this happens.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/pics/Screenshot_2013-08-07-13-28-33.png[/t]
Looks like I'm not using that.
They changed the UI [I]again?[/I] Mozilla, make up your mind already.
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[B]Android Device Manager website is now online.[/B] Remember that you need the newest Google Play Services on your device and you have to enable ADM under Settings - Security - Device Administrators.
[url]https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager[/url]
it's not showing my device yet though
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;41747655]it's not showing my device yet though[/QUOTE]
did you enable it under device admins in settings?
This doesn't seem to be a staged rollout either. Or Google actually put me in the first wave of something.
Ringing my [I]Nexus 4[/I] (yes, the silent phone) made my ears hurt.
[QUOTE=iCole;41747573]They changed the UI [I]again?[/I] Mozilla, make up your mind already.[/QUOTE]
might be a tablet only thing
Shows on my S3
Edit: Doesn't seem to work though
[QUOTE=iCole;41747669]did you enable it under device admins in settings?
This doesn't seem to be a staged rollout either. Or Google actually put me in the first wave of something.
Ringing my [I]Nexus 4[/I] (yes, the silent phone) made my ears hurt.[/QUOTE]
yep i enabled it
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;41747452]So today I'd thought I'd try Firefox on my Nexus 7.
Not even one minute in and this happens.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/pics/Screenshot_2013-08-07-13-28-33.png[/t]
Looks like I'm not using that.[/QUOTE]
That happens on Nightly, basically firefox but it's towards testers and devs, I just go to home screen and back into it, though it is only one bar on the right side of the screen.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;41747880]yep i enabled it[/QUOTE]
still not showing in google settings
weirde
still using cerberus, any benefits beyond what cerberus can do?
Cerberus is much more in depth, this is "just" location, ring and wipe.
Cerberus also persists through wipes if installed via recovery. I don't think this does
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41748332]Cerberus also persists through wipes if installed via recovery. I don't think this does[/QUOTE]
Yeah I believe Cerberus will keep it's known settings...
I like that cerberus can snag a shot of whoever's holding the phone, I know a number of people who've at some point or another suspected someone took their phone but couldn't pin it
[url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrotpop.www.smth]App of the Year[/url]
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;41748439][url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrotpop.[url]www.smth]App[/url] of the Year[/url][/QUOTE]
You know what's also a fun game? Running in the freeway.
You can't win Running Armed Into The White House though.
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Unless you're Secret Service, but that's cheating.
[QUOTE=iCole;41749085]You can't win Running Armed Into The White House though.
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Unless you're Secret Service, [B]but that's cheating.[/B][/QUOTE]
That's not cheating, that's being resourceful.
Looks like Qualcomm's lawyers are blocking the release of factory images and possibly driver blobs for the new Nexus 7. Similar thing happened with the Nexus 4, but Google solved that one.
JBQ is angry because he was warning everyone that it would happen again months before the N7 was released, but nobody listened and now it happened and JBQ gets blamed.
[url]http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/08/07/jean-baptiste-quru-post-nexus-7-factory-image-debacle-im-quitting-aosp/[/url]
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