• Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43205002]But the issue with T-Mobile, is that they are AWFUL in my area. Like, I'm lucky to get _Edge_ around here. 3G is spotty as fuck, and LTE I assume even more so. I'm on T-Mobile's $30 100 mins, 5GB of data a month plan. Prepaid. [/QUOTE] What area are you in exactly, I've been over a bunch of the Pacific Northwest and in every single city HSPA was everywhere at the minimum outside of most of the Oregon Coast thanks to a AT&T GSM monopoly and differing bands. T-Mobile has terrible coverage in rural areas but 95% of people don't live in a rural area. 3G networks haven't really been rolled out or expanded in ages now, do you not have a HSPA phone? I've heard that many carriers are suspending all expansion of 3G/HSPA to focus solely on LTE so it's very possible that you could have perfectly good LTE coverage if you're in a odd coverage area. Sprint and Verizon are pretty terrible around here outside of their great coverage areas, Sprint seriously has like one LTE tower in the shitty part of town. Even then the tower is so loaded down you might get 12mbps anyways, dropped calls, missing texts and not being able to call Sprint phones is very common. Verizon previous to this year would have week long outages of being able to call their customers as well as very spotty quality of service anyways. AT&T's HSPA network is brutally old and hasn't been updated much and has similar issues to Sprint. T-Mobile is honestly the only carrier here that never has any sort of issues and brutally smacks down any other carrier's speeds around here. On top of being non-contract, cheap, 100% free roaming w/ data and covering any city I've ever been to. I just personally can't find a way to fault them other than small coverage areas and poor building penetration due to AT&T swiping up the low bands. I guess I'm just really optimistic to see how far wireless carriers can go in the coming years, I can see LTE being slapped down all over the US far surpassing any sort of rural physical cable, phone or internet connection. I'd also love to see a carrier such as T-Mobile spearhead this rather than one who abuses their monopoly on many areas like Verizon and AT&T do who are right along cable monopolies like Comcast. [editline]16th December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=garychencool;43205665]Solid Explorer unlocker is now only $0.99! [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer.unlocker[/url][/QUOTE] What exactly does it unlock?
ABC Australia finally released their iView app for Android, only 1 and a half years after they first mentioned it was coming. Looks fairly ok, has a phone and a tablet interface. [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.net.abc.iview&hl=en[/url] Only works in Australia, no unquoted data no matter the ISP for this client.
[QUOTE=slayer3032;43204631]Korean LG G2 slated to have 4.4 by the end of this year and other variants to be rolled out by the end of Q1 2014. [url]http://www.xda-developers.com/android/korean-lg-g2-receiving-kitkat-before-new-year-france-in-late-january-canada-by-late-q1-2014/[/url] Take that FPtje! :v:[/QUOTE] You have a promise, I had them too. Whether they live up to it is the problem they've had in the past. I hope for you that they will. Having the Nexus 5 as similar device does help your chances. In the meantime my HTC One has been running kitkat with Sense 5.5 for quite a bit now. :v:
[QUOTE=slayer3032;43204463]$20 gets you completely unlimited data on T-Mobile, $10 gets a 2.5gb at full speed and unlimited at "2G" which does Pandora/Audio streaming perfectly still. T-Mobile doesn't incur any extra charges for anything but going over your minutes(who actually does this) and international. You can get 200mb of free data on your tablet for life as well. Anyone who's still wilfully using Verizon in an area where a good alternative is available is an idiot. Verizon has brainwashed their customers to stay where they are with their still grandfathered data plans just so they can hold onto what customers they've had. If your carrier charges you for a data cap then you just need to change carriers. While many carriers aren't an option to certain people, easily far more than half of people have better carriers as an alternative and blindly choose not to take it.[/QUOTE] After looking at Cell phone signal maps, for best results, bar no carrier, live as close to a Freeway as possible. Looks like T-mobile has improved quite a bit since I had them a couple years ago though. I'll probably switch to them when my contract with Verizon is up.
[QUOTE=a-k-t-w;43207606]yes, set the status bar and nav bar opacity all the way to the left [t]http://puu.sh/5Pcxv.png[/t] [editline]17th December 2013[/editline] the lockscreen stays black unless youre on the homescreen, then its transparent. changing the opacity doesnt do anything.[/QUOTE] Nice one, after looking around for quite a while on XDA, using 66000000 as the colour brings back the stock GEL gradient bars, I just applied that to GEL and the lockscreen, works great.
I just noticed how naked and vulnerable I feel without that 133g weight in my right front pocket that I call phone.
I am seriously loving the tinted status bar module on the Xposed framework. The last time I had it, it didn't detect the colours of the app, so the play store would be just orange. Now it changes per section, which is really cool. It should be part of stock Android in my opinion.
Camera sucks shit on AOKP. It will sometimes flash and then take the photo after the flash, even when flash is set to always on...
I feel like tonight I'll dive into xposed for my potato phone
[QUOTE=slayer3032;43208551]What area are you in exactly, I've been over a bunch of the Pacific Northwest and in every single city HSPA was everywhere at the minimum outside of most of the Oregon Coast thanks to a AT&T GSM monopoly and differing bands. T-Mobile has terrible coverage in rural areas but 95% of people don't live in a rural area. 3G networks haven't really been rolled out or expanded in ages now, do you not have a HSPA phone? I've heard that many carriers are suspending all expansion of 3G/HSPA to focus solely on LTE so it's very possible that you could have perfectly good LTE coverage if you're in a odd coverage area. Sprint and Verizon are pretty terrible around here outside of their great coverage areas, Sprint seriously has like one LTE tower in the shitty part of town. Even then the tower is so loaded down you might get 12mbps anyways, dropped calls, missing texts and not being able to call Sprint phones is very common. Verizon previous to this year would have week long outages of being able to call their customers as well as very spotty quality of service anyways. AT&T's HSPA network is brutally old and hasn't been updated much and has similar issues to Sprint. T-Mobile is honestly the only carrier here that never has any sort of issues and brutally smacks down any other carrier's speeds around here. On top of being non-contract, cheap, 100% free roaming w/ data and covering any city I've ever been to. I just personally can't find a way to fault them other than small coverage areas and poor building penetration due to AT&T swiping up the low bands. I guess I'm just really optimistic to see how far wireless carriers can go in the coming years, I can see LTE being slapped down all over the US far surpassing any sort of rural physical cable, phone or internet connection. I'd also love to see a carrier such as T-Mobile spearhead this rather than one who abuses their monopoly on many areas like Verizon and AT&T do who are right along cable monopolies like Comcast. [editline]16th December 2013[/editline] What exactly does it unlock?[/QUOTE] I'm in Makawao, Maui (kind of..very rural :v:) I'm pretty sure I have a HSPA phone (Moto G). And no, LTE is awful around here, as verified with a few other people I know with LTE phones. When I get out of job corps and move back onto the mainland (fuck islands), I'll probably pick up an LTE capable phone. Maybe a Moto X.
Just bought a Nexus 5 after being annoyed at WP8 (or rather devs) for lack of app support How do I get my Facebook contacts and their numbers in the People app like I had on WP8?
[QUOTE=sambooo;43213350]Just bought a Nexus 5 after being annoyed at WP8 (or rather devs) for lack of app support How do I get my Facebook contacts and their numbers in the People app like I had on WP8?[/QUOTE] When you sign into facebook it'll ask you if you want to synchronise your facebook friends into your contacts.
I signed in and it didn't ask, is there a way to have it ask again? [editline]17th December 2013[/editline] Well it either didn't ask or I didn't notice
[QUOTE=sambooo;43214173]I signed in and it didn't ask, is there a way to have it ask again? [editline]17th December 2013[/editline] Well it either didn't ask or I didn't notice[/QUOTE] Just go into settings in the app and select syncing there. Unless they've changed it, I haven't used Facebook in 7 months.
I see photo syncing but not contact syncing It's going to be a pain in the ass if I have to manually add loads of numbers since they're stored on Facebook
[QUOTE=ikermitkiller;43212665]I am seriously loving the tinted status bar module on the Xposed framework. The last time I had it, it didn't detect the colours of the app, so the play store would be just orange. Now it changes per section, which is really cool. It should be part of stock Android in my opinion.[/QUOTE] It should, but if it was, Apple would probably go all ape-shit on Google with their patent nonsense.
[QUOTE=ikermitkiller;43212665]I am seriously loving the tinted status bar module on the Xposed framework. The last time I had it, it didn't detect the colours of the app, so the play store would be just orange. Now it changes per section, which is really cool. It should be part of stock Android in my opinion.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it uses the colours of the actionbar to get the colour value. It's awesome. I think it's a part of Paranoid Android, too.
[QUOTE=ikermitkiller;43212665]I am seriously loving the tinted status bar module on the Xposed framework. The last time I had it, it didn't detect the colours of the app, so the play store would be just orange. Now it changes per section, which is really cool. It should be part of stock Android in my opinion.[/QUOTE] It doesn't work with the kitkat full screen on every app thing, or maybe it doesn't work on sense at all. Either way I love the real estate on my screen with the full screen in every app thing. Also, can anyone tell me what chrome 's action bar hiding policy is? When I scroll down on a page, sometimes the action bar goes away and sometimes it doesn't. It pisses me off. My first thought would be that it doesn't hide when it's still loading, but that's not it. It doesn't go away even when it's long done loading. Sometimes when I go to another tab and back again it suddenly works. Fuck, Google, be goddamn consistent.
[QUOTE=Jeller;43214956]It should, but if it was, Apple would probably go all ape-shit on Google with their patent nonsense.[/QUOTE] And the US judges would go with Apple, just like they do with everything. I wish the US government would just go "You know what, fuck you Apple with you shitty little patents, you did not invent the rectangle, you don't own rounded corners, fuck you, fuck you and your shiny asses". But that won't happen to my disappointment.
Anyone have change suggestions? [t]http://i.imgur.com/sZd9TFR.jpg[/t]
Add one icon.
[QUOTE=nikomo;43216396]Anyone have change suggestions? [t]http://i.imgur.com/sZd9TFR.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Not overly keen on that wallpaper
[QUOTE=Jeller;43217167]Not overly keen on that wallpaper[/QUOTE] [t]http://i.imgur.com/GrpkD4B.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=nikomo;43217288][t]http://i.imgur.com/GrpkD4B.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] looks bad unless you change your notification sound to the ka-woosh noise, then it's perfect
[QUOTE=nikomo;43216396]Anyone have change suggestions? [t]http://i.imgur.com/sZd9TFR.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] The yellow BG makes it really hard to read the white text. At least on my monitor.
[QUOTE=nikomo;43217288][t]http://i.imgur.com/GrpkD4B.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Seems pretty low-res, unless thats just the upload compression.
God damnit find another thing to add in that one space just ONE MORE ICON
[QUOTE=Jeller;43217973]Seems pretty low-res, unless thats just the upload compression.[/QUOTE] Looking at it on a big screen, yeah, it does look low-res. Looks fine when you're looking at the device though, 1080x1920 on a 7" screen is damn fine.
How about just a super closeup of Teal'c's face instead
[QUOTE=person11;43218279]God damnit find another thing to add in that one space just ONE MORE ICON[/QUOTE] Alternatively, remove one icon has it has a cascading shape. Or localise all icons to the bottom right/left corner, depending on which hand you use, so that the icons are all super accessible to your thumb while using the phone one-handed
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