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my galaxy s3 won't connect to my wifi network for absolutely no reason, even though it was perfectly fine this morning. it doesn't even start connecting, just goes back to "saved, secured" (and sometimes "authentication error occured") after i tell it to connect. is this common at all? tried googling but didn't get any solutions
[QUOTE=Protocol7;43909302]Same way you use your phone, I bet. It's just physically larger. I've had no problems with the size of my Note 2 - I like it a lot, in fact.[/QUOTE] I would return my phone if I got a phone which looks like it has a 480x800 6" screen. Here's what my tweaked 380dpi looks like compared to the absolutely horrendous stock 480dpi. Although, just consider it twice as bad or view each on your phone because this only conveys about half of how bad 480dpi looks on a 1080p screen. God help us when the 1440p screens come out in the next years because 4x4 launchers are already a joke and a total leftover from the 480x800 era. 480dpi vs. 380dpi [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/2014-02-15%2005.44.30.png[/t][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/2014-02-15%2005.43.30.png[/t] Apex 6x5 vs. GPE 4x4 and horribly pixelated app drawer. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/2014-02-15%2005.51.20.png[/t][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/2014-02-15%2005.54.12.png[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/2014-02-15%2006.00.40.png[/t][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/2014-02-15%2005.53.34.png[/t] If the resolution gets any bigger, this is going to have to change. [editline]14th February 2014[/editline] I really don't think screenshots convey this argument very well though, it's kinda difficult to explain that the icons are as big as my thumb and look like crap at the stock Android dpi/layout.
Why does this newer device not have kitkat already while some older device (G2 wasn't it?) does? LG is really weird. [url]http://m.androidcentral.com/small-ota-rolling-out-att-g-flex-notkitkat[/url] [editline]15th February 2014[/editline] To contrast: [url]http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/14/htc-all-updates-flagship-device-two-years/?ncid=rss_truncated[/url]
The only issue I've found with having a high DPI screen is that a bunch of apps just don't provide resources for it, so it uses lower scaled images and upscales them. I don't have any issues with blurry icons in the launcher (apart from a few outliers), and by having an integer scale over the base DPI means things don't get "funny".
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;43918593]my galaxy s3 won't connect to my wifi network for absolutely no reason, even though it was perfectly fine this morning. it doesn't even start connecting, just goes back to "saved, secured" (and sometimes "authentication error occured") after i tell it to connect. is this common at all? tried googling but didn't get any solutions[/QUOTE] I have this problem at my family home a lot. I think the issue on my end is caused by the fact we use a signal booster which my android device have trouble separating from the original network. Usually fixed by rebooting or forgetting and re entering details for the network.
What kind of signal booster is it? Does it just re-broadcast the signal or is it a proper AP in its own right?
[QUOTE=FPtje;43919049]Why does this newer device not have kitkat already while some older device (G2 wasn't it?) does? [b]LG[/b] is really weird.[/QUOTE] That's why [sp]sorry i'm still bitter about my L9[/sp]
I've heard that many Android devices have trouble connecting to wifi networks that use the 5ghz frequency
[del]I don't[/del] I get the hate for LG (my problem with them is mostly the horrible shit they put ontop of Android), but I love my N5, and I wish people would make that distinction; It's a Google phone, not an LG!
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;43920274]That's why [sp]sorry i'm still bitter about my L9[/sp][/QUOTE] I'm still bitter about my optimus 3D [editline]15th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Gulen;43920563][del]I don't[/del] I get the hate for LG (my problem with them is mostly the horrible shit they put ontop of Android), but I love my N5, and I wish people would make that distinction; It's a Google phone, not an LG![/QUOTE] Their software is the biggest problem. Nexus devices don't suffer the LG curse because LG don't make the software for them. I don't have a problem with LG nexus devices.
Anyone know if Hangouts will save messages if i factory reset my nexus 5?
[QUOTE=Eddie;43921048]Anyone know if Hangouts will save messages if i factory reset my nexus 5?[/QUOTE] actual hangouts yes sms no
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;43919677]What kind of signal booster is it? Does it just re-broadcast the signal or is it a proper AP in its own right?[/QUOTE] I believe it's an AP, if only because when you reboot the booster, it shows up as NetGear#### briefly before switching it's name to that of our network. Honestly not sure though.
[QUOTE=Eddie;43921048]Anyone know if Hangouts will save messages if i factory reset my nexus 5?[/QUOTE] Hangouts messages are synced to your account so you can access them on any device and on your computer or browser.
If I set my phone to choose automatically what data connection it'll use, it defaults to GPRS for some reason, even though there's HSPA where I live, so I have to set it to use only WCDMA in the settings (the only option). [editline]15th February 2014[/editline] Is there a reason why it does that?
[QUOTE=Akasori;43922834]If I set my phone to choose automatically what data connection it'll use, it defaults to GPRS for some reason, even though there's HSPA where I live, so I have to set it to use only WCDMA in the settings (the only option). [editline]15th February 2014[/editline] Is there a reason why it does that?[/QUOTE] check your APN settings
[QUOTE=FPtje;43919049]Why does this newer device not have kitkat already while some older device (G2 wasn't it?) does? LG is really weird. [url]http://m.androidcentral.com/small-ota-rolling-out-att-g-flex-notkitkat[/url] [editline]15th February 2014[/editline] To contrast: [url]http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/14/htc-all-updates-flagship-device-two-years/?ncid=rss_truncated[/url][/QUOTE] They've only rolled out Kitkat to the Korean LG G2's, everything else is still in-progress. The GFlex was designed alongside the G2 and was mostly just a "hey look at the cool shit we can make too like Samsung!" No one is actually buying the GFlex. The G2 Pro however is going to be interesting since it's LG's response to the Note 3. [QUOTE=roflcakes;43919666]I have this problem at my family home a lot. I think the issue on my end is caused by the fact we use a signal booster which my android device have trouble separating from the original network. Usually fixed by rebooting or forgetting and re entering details for the network.[/QUOTE] Every wifi problem I've ever seen comes down to the shitty Touchwiz "Wifi Smart Mode"(auto connect on verizon). It turns the wifi on when you turn on your screen and disconnects you from wifi if it thinks wifi speeds are slower than network data.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;43920523]I've heard that many Android devices have trouble connecting to wifi networks that use the 5ghz frequency[/QUOTE] My S3 has no problem connecting to the 5ghz band on my router, but 5ghz doesn't penetrate walls as well so it's basically useless for any device that's going to do a lot of moving around.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;43927069]My S3 has no problem connecting to the 5ghz band on my router, but 5ghz doesn't penetrate walls as well so it's basically useless for any device that's going to do a lot of moving around.[/QUOTE] On the other hand, your wifi doesn't have to share signal space with just about every wireless thing ever (blutooth, most cordless homephones, [i]the fucking microwave[/i])
I had an interesting issue yesterday, after connecting to a public wifi hotspot in the afternoon, my phone kept using the DNS settings from it all day. Only found out at night because their DNS was broken and didn't return IPv6 results at all (Re-wrote them to a OpenDNS ad page). [QUOTE=roflcakes;43922435]I believe it's an AP, if only because when you reboot the booster, it shows up as NetGear#### briefly before switching it's name to that of our network. Honestly not sure though.[/QUOTE] Check if you can change the channel it broadcasts on, WiFi networks are explicitly designed to allow for that kind of overlap, but they need to be on multiple channels for it to work (And that's why devices shouldn't have issues moving between them, because although they show as a single network to humans, they're technically different networks to the device)
Not going to bother going through every page to find this but if anyone at all has the Huawei Ascend y300, what do you think of it? I don't know anyone who has it so I want to know other peoples opinions of it. I love the thing, just a bit slow and the WiFi is crap.
[QUOTE=Sergeant Turtle;43904368]I don't have one, but I've heard that the back is a hard plastic unlike the soft-touch of the black. The sides are a glossy hard black plastic (again unlike the black)[/QUOTE] It is a hard plastic, but it's not the piano-gloss finish of the Galaxy line. The back is matte polycarbonate and the sides are glossy polycarbonate.
If anybody still has the best Facepunch app, can you throw me the APK and I'll try to get it working again. [editline]16th February 2014[/editline] Looks like I can't, API is dead.
This is kind of unrelated to anything but [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slidelock[/url] In the screenshots of this, the signal bars are circles on the top left... Is this like, for CDMA devices or something?
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43928637]This is kind of unrelated to anything but [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slidelock[/url] In the screenshots of this, the signal bars are circles on the top left... Is this like, for CDMA devices or something?[/QUOTE] You get those by purchasing the full version.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;43927370]On the other hand, your wifi doesn't have to share signal space with just about every wireless thing ever (blutooth, most cordless homephones, [i]the fucking microwave[/i])[/QUOTE] I've never really had a problem with interference, but I guess if I lived in an apartment or something it would be a different story. My phone only detects 2 other access points so I'm not in a really congested area
I've seen it before though, I think on iPhones and once or twice on android devices...I dunno.
Is there an app to auto switch the default keyboard app based on whether a bluetooth keyboard is connected or not?
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