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03-26-2018, 07:43 PM | #28276 |
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My new S4 came on Friday. This thing is great!
I wish I had gotten the 32GB model but 16 is doing great so far. I've got tons of crap on internal memory and there's still GIGABYTES of free space! What a difference from the shitty old phone having something like 800MB total internal space, mostly used up by bloatware (which, of course, I uninstalled after rooting). Speaking of rooting, it rooted easily. Gotta throw a recovery image on it so I can get good backups, then I can really start hacking around. A few issues though... 1. Even with headphones plugged in, I can't browse and set ringtones/alarms/etc without the sound coming out of the speaker. That's fine if I'm alone somewhere, but I'm never goddamn alone anymore. 2. Why the fuck did I have to go to the Security settings and clear all certificates to undo my lockscreen security pattern lock (so I could have regular swipe lock back)? And why the fuck did Samsung go non-standard with the screenshot key combination? Gotta do home+power instead of volumedown+power. 3. Some kind of flaky crashing: The first time I turned it on and tried to get through the intro/new user wizard/whatever, it powered off and rebooted halfway through. I had to start over. Then it was fine for a while. Saturday morning I played music on it while doing stuff and it was fine. Then about noon, outdoors in the bright sun, I wanted to take some pictures. At first it worked fine, then it started crashing and rebooting. It was so bad that I was completely unable to use it; I'd start to draw my lock screen pattern or launch the camera from the lock screen and it would crash before I could even get in. Later, thinking about it, I realized it might be crashing when it pulls too much battery current. Immediately before it started acting up I connected to a WiFi signal that was barely there, and couldn't get it to work (but could mostly stay connected). I'm sure that reaching out to that weak signal required all the juice there was, plus in the bright sunlight the screen cranked up to 100% brightness and so on. I hope it's just the battery. I was already expecting to replace it anyway. New battery arrives in a couple days.
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03-26-2018, 09:16 PM | #28277 |
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1. How often do you set that shit? I agree that's annoying but after you have your tones set then you probably won't change them often.
2. and the screenshot thing is annoying but you'll get used to it pretty quick. I think as of the S8, it is power and vol down like normal. 3. Could be battery or maybe overheating? Hopefully battery...
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03-27-2018, 01:45 AM | #28278 |
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buys old ass phone complains about it being an old ass phone
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#3 was just discussing what might cause the symptom. ------- So yesterday I finally installed TWRP recovery. Tried to half-ass it without paying attention to what I was doing and soft-bricked it, then couldn't fix it (turned out the cable I was using was bad), had to leave work without it and go grocery shopping sans-smartphone, carrying iPad around Walmart. Got home and had it fixed in five minutes of work. Then I realized it has an IR emitter. Installed app, now I have universal remote control in phone, even put a few remote button widgets on a home screen. Awwwyeah! I keep seeing apps I don't use and having my reflexive feeling of need to delete, but then I remember that I have gigabytes of free space still. Wish I could install widgets on lock screen the way I did on my LG. Had my Google Keep notes there. Not sure if it's because different manufacturer-installed lockscreen or if because Android 5 vs. 4...thoughts?
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03-27-2018, 04:13 PM | #28280 |
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I haven't seen lock screen widgets in a long time. RIP
Also, yeah, IR blaster ftw. I use mine regularly. Also comes in handy when you need to turn on a random projector in a random room at work and don't have a remote.
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03-27-2018, 06:45 PM | #28281 |
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I iz kiddin cow........................I use the ir remote a lot too.
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03-27-2018, 09:09 PM | #28282 |
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WTF is this shit? Turning into Apple for no raisin! Fuck. Lock screen widgets FTMFW.
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03-27-2018, 09:29 PM | #28283 |
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shit, I never even see my lockscreen
dat fangleprint unlock
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03-27-2018, 11:29 PM | #28284 |
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kinda point of lock screen isn't it to keep ppl out of my phone? camera will work while locked though.
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03-27-2018, 11:36 PM | #28285 |
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yeah, but they could have kept widgets as an option, just like how you can hide notifications on the lock screen or show them. They just don't think of Rick. #bovinelivesmatter
camera works on the lockscreen but won't show you existing pics, only ones you take while it's locked this time
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03-28-2018, 03:09 PM | #28286 |
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yeah but somebody could put 15 dicks on it
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03-28-2018, 04:29 PM | #28287 |
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so you delete them the point is your info/data isn't compromised
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03-28-2018, 06:39 PM | #28288 |
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yeah unless someone puts titty pics on there and you splainin to do when old lady uses your phone
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03-28-2018, 08:31 PM | #28289 |
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You guys...
The point of the lockscreen, when not secured with a pattern/pin/fangleprint/etc, is to prevent butt-dialing, pocket-deleting, etc. Phone in pocket will unlock and do all kinds of shit if there is NO lockscreen. A simple swipe is good enough to prevent that without adding much annoyance when wanting to unlock it. Found a widget lockscreen app that does almost what I want. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...qlocker.widget Close enough. Added one of my Dark Sky weather widgets, another failed. Added Google Keep and the actual notes don't show like they normally would with the homescreen widget (and like they did with the lockscreen widget on old phone) but that's not a deal-breaker for me; at least I can go straight to Google Keep from the lockscreen, which doesn't have configurable shortcuts. Neither of my flashlight widgets work from it though. Actually, just realized widget lockscreen doesn't have camera and phone shortcuts. DGAF about phone shortcut but I'll either need to add a widget to launch camera or try a different lockscreen app. Also, what's this I hear about free tiddy pics?
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03-28-2018, 09:17 PM | #28290 |
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im saying I could see fgts at work stickin shit on my phone
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03-28-2018, 10:25 PM | #28291 |
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work with less fgts then
cao - just put all that stuff on your homescreen and unlock the damned thing real quick before hitting your shortcuts/widgets
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03-29-2018, 02:16 PM | #28292 |
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I cant work no where else 4 years I retire
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03-29-2018, 03:52 PM | #28293 |
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How do fgts at work get your phone?
Sheit, retiring in 4 years...so fkn jelly.
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03-29-2018, 04:12 PM | #28294 |
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go pee or something they get it off the console take pics of shit
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03-29-2018, 04:42 PM | #28295 |
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luckily I don't work with dooshbegs
dfw 4 yrs til retire though
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03-29-2018, 05:35 PM | #28296 |
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room full of smart asses........they fun at least
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03-29-2018, 05:39 PM | #28297 |
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oh we are all smart asses here, but no pen0r pics will be happening
and we're even all dudes so it would be easy to get away with it lol
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03-29-2018, 06:09 PM | #28298 |
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juan posting pics on phones I see now
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03-29-2018, 08:46 PM | #28299 |
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My phone is in my pocket. What good does it do on the console...you get up to pee and that's exactly when people call.
And your cow-orkers are dicks.
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03-29-2018, 09:24 PM | #28300 |
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my phone is usually on my desk but as soon as I move, I grab it and take it with me
if I'm takin a dump, gotta have something to read/play
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