• Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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Less than 2 hours, down 30 percent. Yeah my battery is getting worse lol [editline]13th June 2014[/editline] Oh, wait. 2 hours 46 min.
[QUOTE=DiavelZzZ;45093150]Nexus 5 PA y/n?[/QUOTE] I'm on the 4.4.3. Build, searching in the chrome Omni box crashes Chrome for some reason.
I bought the Nexus 5 with bumper case. Sweet fuck it adds up.
[QUOTE=WhiteHusky;45093909]I bought the Nexus 5 with bumper case. Sweet fuck it adds up.[/QUOTE] speaking of cases, I've been looking at cases that cost less than $2 again
[QUOTE=BlueYoshi;45091453]Yes, but you say that it's a huge thing, so it seems like it would be a deciding factor if you were to purchase a new device, over other specifications. Or I just might be reading you wrong :v:[/QUOTE] it totally is a deciding factor for some why would that be a bad thing? [editline]13th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=garychencool;45092166]You don't even need a DSLR and fancy expensive glass anymore. Literally anyone with a recent iPhone or any recent phone with a decent camera (even the nexus 5) can take a good photo, edit it, make it look and get their photo onto a newspaper or magazine. [/QUOTE] uh, that's an exaggeration but phone cameras are a lot better now than ever
[QUOTE=.Lain;45094425] uh, that's an exaggeration but phone cameras are a lot better now than ever[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]You don't even need a DSLR and fancy expensive glass anymore.[/QUOTE] That is the exaggeration (for anyone who doesn't get it)
[QUOTE=Winner;45098321]did some customizin' [t]http://i.imgur.com/0oNaVWD.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/axvZi1p.png[/t] nova launcher, voxel icon pack, disabled app dock, disabled lock screen, forced immersive mode[/QUOTE] what music widget is that
[QUOTE=Ezhik;45092383]with how expensive glass replacements are he might as well just get a new phone.[/QUOTE] It'd cost about $100-150 AUD
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;45092745]1 hour 30 minutes into the day and my phone is already down 15%. I think my battery is actually getting worse.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure you just own a Samsung AMOLED phone with Touchwiz lol.. With a permanent wakelock my LG G2 couldn't ever think of burning up a battery like that. My phone's even 9 months old now and has has the battery heavily abused so it's beyond broken in and starting to degrade.
[QUOTE=slayer3032;45099438]Pretty sure you just own a Samsung AMOLED phone with Touchwiz lol.. With a permanent wakelock my LG G2 couldn't ever think of burning up a battery like that. My phone's even 9 months old now and has has the battery heavily abused so it's beyond broken in and starting to degrade.[/QUOTE] I'm using an S4 and I typically come home from work (12hr day) with about 70% battery left. Sounds like an app wakelock issue.
I'm on a Note 2 with TouchWiz installed and my battery only gets raped when the screen is on. I can only muster 1.5 to 2 hours of screen on time with low brightness. But it's idle battery life is great.
Looked around and unsurprisingly you can override the OBB files just like you can VPK files; by placing stuff in the application's main directory. Custom map on HL2 Android: [thumb]http://i57.tinypic.com/rwo175.png[/thumb] Of course this means you can have custom models, textures, sounds, configs, etc. as well. Now if only the game ran better. Though I suppose I could lower the settings... Oh and apparently Nvidia released more than just the old HL2 maps. They released what looks to be internal testing / Source engine example maps. Have those been released before? First time I've seen them ( and they play fine on the PC ).
On my G2 I had 3.5 hours of screen on time, full brightness, 11 and a half hours of usage and my battery was at 10%
Finally get to upgrade from my Droid 4 this August, anyone have any suggestions as to what I should get? The LG G2 looks interesting but I've also heard a G3 is coming out soon. Also, is there an easy way to back up everything on my current phone (SD Card and all) somewhere so that I can restore it on the new phone when the time comes?
Gather around children and hear the ridiculous tale of retarded PollytheParrot and his LG G2Polly had an LG G2 with a Nightly CM11 on it. He went on a vacation to New England. Since installing the update and using (a nightly) for about two weeks he finally had enough with a glitch where a group text he was in would constantly not download messages and it was all messed up and he was angry. Well in the hotel, he decided to update in-OS to a newer version, much to his chagrin he encountered the same issue. Then he had the terrific idea of downloading a months old snapshot and installing that on top of the new stuff, otherwise known as dirty flashing.Thus begins the tale of PollytheParrot and his Dirty Flash adventure. Upon rebooting, he encountered com.android.phone process crashing in a loop, with other processes also crashing, making it nigh impossible to do anything on the phone. The radio was disabled, messaging phone, everything wouldn't work. Polly not only had vacation folders but saved snapchats and other important, unbacked up files on his phone as well. In cooperation with one of his close friends and allies (LordCrypto), the duo brainstormed ways to retrieve the files from the phone. Much to their chagrin ./adb version revealed a dreaded 10.0.29, where the process failure could not be stopped by the RSA Fingerprint verification, making using the phone require an instantaneous double-tap and then a tap or scroll to navigate around for a split second before it came back up. Eventually we decided that we could try to remotely install foldersync and get the files off the of the phone remotely. Because the radio didn't work we'd try to enable the WiFi. Bad idea. Horrible idea. Terrible. Fucking. Idea. Immediately upon enabling it the phone restarted and got stuck in a tumultuous bootloop. Polly and his partner discovered that he did indeed have a custom recovery installed, CWM. Eventually this became frustrating enough that we just camped CWM, thinking of options. We considered mounting the data in CWM and using MTP or PTP to transfer files from CWM mounting to the computers. He didn't bring his own laptop on the vacation, but his sister and mother had a Mac, and his father had PC. Upon plugging the phone into the Macs, nothing would recognize, and Android File Transfer would not see a device. He then tried it on his father's laptop, but alas because it was a work computer he was unable to install drivers. Using Parallels on his mother's mac, he saw that the phone would show up in Device Manager, but no messing with drivers would get the phone to show up in Explorer. After many attempts and wonders, he eventually gave up to the point where he would wipe a few caches and install the very first CM11 snapshot ever installed on the phone, month old and still in a folder in /sdcard/. After that was installed, and to their disappointment the phone was still in a shitty bootloop with the same issues. As he went to shut the phone off to go back into recovery, (and what he had to do to do that was as the Cyanogen splash screen was on, start tapping the power button so immediately when the lock screen popped up, the shutdown/reboot box came up he would hit shut down so upon booting up again he could go into recovery). But what he discovered was the most beautiful third option of all time. Airplane mode. Upon hitting that button, the boot-loop immediately ceased and he was left with the process shutdown notifications but was able to get into the phone. For some reason, opening snapchat immediately triggered an RSA Fingerprint verification for unknown reasons, but was dutifully and gratefully accepted. Now the phone was stable. Of course, MTP and PTP were still broken so the only thing that could be done were ./adb pulls. Now because I'm more savvy with computers and more general topics hardware related, and LC is more android savvy, we put our heads together when he was talking about doing file pulls with ./adb and I just said that I was too lazy to do that and I'd rather do the directories if possible.He hadn't known one could do that and lo and behold, you could. I quickly was able to easily grab all the directories containing files or photos or videos that I wanted and they were all safely backed up on my mother's mac. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Now he wanted to try to rescue his thousands of text messages. Using ./adb pushes he got me a Helium apk and I installed that. Sadly, the messaging was too fucked to do anything with. On with the charge to a better phone, however. First we wanted to install TWRP over CWM for better functionality. After attempting to use Loki to install TWRP, we discovered that we were using too new of a version, and had to use an older version. We downloaded the latest CM11 Snapshot and Gapps along with the newest version of TWRP and flashed the latest after rebooting into recovery after having flashed the older version of TWRP. After TWRP was successfully up-to-date, we salted and burned the earth out of the entire phone, no file remained basically. CM11 was flashed and Gapps installed and rebooted to begin work on the new system. We would've of course if there wasn't a curious fastboot notification on boot. We at first assumed it took a while to reconstruct /sdcard/ but after 10 minutes we decided to look into the problem. We then discovered that Polly, being retarded downloaded a version of CM meant for the d802 version of the G2 instead of his own d800. After another 20 minutes of downloading, they wiped everything again and pushed the files back onto the /sdcard/ and installed everything. Finally he got everything to work, booted successfully into 4.4.3 Latest Snapshot CM11 and set up his phone. Mission Success Moral of the story kids? Make sure your stuff backs up somewhere constantly and [B]dont fucking dirty flash anything. Dirty flashing is what led to the Black Plague, the Holocaust, and the contamination of the oceans with seepage from Satan's asshole. [/B]Literally fucked up my phone in one of the worst ways possible and got so insanely lucky and was able to fix it while recovering the most important of my data after over 8 hours of work in the middle of the night two nights in a row Android is a fucking battle sometimes and this was a fucking victory, booyah
I dirty flash everything on my D801 and LS980(TMO/Sprint LG G2's), I've never had a single problem :v: I think I've dirty flashed at least 15 builds in a row and everything from Beta 2 to RC 1(4.4.3) now. Although I use TWRP, PA and ParanoidOTA to do all of it.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45100461]But what he discovered was the most beautiful third option of all time. Airplane mode. Android is a fucking battle sometimes and this was a fucking victory, booyah[/QUOTE] Now, I never knew that Airplane Mode would not only rescue my sleep at nights, and prevent a shitstorm because my phone goes off at school.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45100461]Then he had the terrific idea of downloading a [b]months old[/b] snapshot and installing that [b]on top of the new stuff[/b][/QUOTE] What the fuck were you smoking, drinking, and/or injecting to make you think that was anything remotely resembling a good idea?!
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45100461]Then he had the terrific idea of downloading a months old snapshot and installing that on top of the new stuff, [b]otherwise known as dirty flashing[/b]. Moral of the story kids? Make sure your stuff backs up somewhere constantly and [B]dont fucking dirty flash anything[/b]. Dirty flashing is what led to the Black Plague, the Holocaust, and the contamination of the oceans with seepage from Satan's asshole.[/QUOTE] Umm, dirty flashing just means flashing without wiping /data. It's usually fine for minor updates. But yeah, doing a dirty [i]downgrade[/i] is never going to work properly.
[video=youtube;Py3VCy1K7-M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py3VCy1K7-M[/video] Testing out my M7 camera.
[QUOTE=lavacano;45100537]What the fuck were you smoking, drinking, and/or injecting to make you think that was anything remotely resembling a good idea?![/QUOTE] This was 1am me annoyed and not thinking in the slightest [editline]14th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;45100896]Umm, dirty flashing just means flashing without wiping /data. It's usually fine for minor updates. But yeah, doing a dirty [i]downgrade[/i] is never going to work properly.[/QUOTE] Sorry, I still have retarded-level android experience, this was just what LC called it, but I did dirty flash the updates and then the downgrade so technically I did that? Or no? Help me understand, thanks
I started to use the Google+ auto photo back up since I flashed PA and of course I made back ups whenever I flashed anything. I did dirty flash the latest PA, I don't flash the radios or bootloader.
Would it be possible to use both the mouse AND keyboard for it?
Speaking of Google+ Auto Backup for photos is there a way to turn off the automatic notification? The "12 photos are ready to share!" thing?
I was kinda overdoing how bad dirty flashing is (minor updates are fine, changing from CM to PA requires clean), but a dirty downgrade is definitely very bad [QUOTE=Banana Lord.;45102860]Speaking of Google+ Auto Backup for photos is there a way to turn off the automatic notification? The "12 photos are ready to share!" thing?[/QUOTE] there should be a setting for it in g+ app notification settings
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;45102787]Would it be possible to use both the mouse AND keyboard for it?[/QUOTE] android doesn't seem to give apps raw mouse input so probably not.
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;45102787]Would it be possible to use both the mouse AND keyboard for it?[/QUOTE] For using your phone or tablet like a computer yes, to use mouse input for apps no. I found out I couldn't use the mouse when I was trying to Chrome remote desktop with a bluetooth mouse. Too bad it doesn't work that way. Although there may be some root methods on making Android give raw mouse input to apps and games tho. [editline]14th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Banana Lord.;45102860]Speaking of Google+ Auto Backup for photos is there a way to turn off the automatic notification? The "12 photos are ready to share!" thing?[/QUOTE] In the google+ app go to settings, notifications, scroll down and uncheck photos added from auto backup on the photos list. [t]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SdXILcq-qtQ/U5yTNqSqj2I/AAAAAAAAj7s/XECEGCv8M2I/w427-h759-no/2014-06-14.jpg[/t]
My phone was acting up. Factory reset it. Got stuck on the Verizon logo. Went to the Verizon store and they reset it again, with their shit in the back, and it worked. But seriously, fuck Samsung. Pure, 100% stock, and it fucks up a [I]factory reset[/I].
Sorry for asking all these stupid questions about the Nexus 5, but I'm trying to get as many information as possible before I buy the device, march straight to developer options and unlock the bootloader with ADB to customize it. I've seen the name hammerhead quite a lot about the N5, what is this name supposed to be? Apparently it's some kind of name for the N5 itself, and in the Omnirom download section there's a folder called hammerhead, but I'm not 100% sure.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;45105606]Sorry for asking all these stupid questions about the Nexus 5, but I'm trying to get as many information as possible before I buy the device and will customize it. I've seen the name hammerhead quite a lot about the N5, what is this name supposed to be? Apparently it's some kind of name for the N5 itself, and in the Omnirom download section there's a folder called hammerhead, but I'm not 100% sure.[/QUOTE] It's the codename for it, so yes.
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