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I dont think the ram question was answered haha
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I dont think the ram question was answered haha
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mentioned couldnt find it in the video ... but forgot to say it here.
Good video. Any comment on any noticeable lag throughout the phone, whether it be opening/closing application, scrolling through menu?
And any comments on GPS use? People have been complaining it doesn't pickup signal very well, and the cursor hops.
Cheers
msedhom said:
Good video. Any comment on any noticeable lag throughout the phone, whether it be opening/closing application, scrolling through menu?
And any comments on GPS use? People have been complaining it doesn't pickup signal very well, and the cursor hops.
Cheers
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ill make a video with those questions, but i can tell you now. the samsung widgets like the feeds one which has twitter facebook myspace causes lag. the friends one causes lag, the rest is ok.
I disabled those that caused the lag and everything was fine.
The GPS i have had no problems as of yet.
Thank you!
I have never used an android phone, so I just had a few more questions.
Is there a way to sync 3 email accounts (hotmail, gmail, outlook) into the one inbox? So from the home screen I can click on my mail account and it will display one inbox for all my emails, or do I have to click on each inbox seperately? Also, is there a widget, or a way to preview email from the home screen?
Im not liking samsungs overlay and im concerned by the lag its causing.
msedhom said:
Thank you!
I have never used an android phone, so I just had a few more questions.
Is there a way to sync 3 email accounts (hotmail, gmail, outlook) into the one inbox? So from the home screen I can click on my mail account and it will display one inbox for all my emails, or do I have to click on each inbox seperately? Also, is there a widget, or a way to preview email from the home screen?
Im not liking samsungs overlay and im concerned by the lag its causing.
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The gmail how i have it setup is with the gmail client stock to android.
But if you use the other email client for exchange, hotmail, yahoo etc. All those could be in one inbox. Meaning you click the email app and you see all the emails from all three account there. You would be able to distinguish them if u look on the left u see colors showing blue for hotmail, green for yahoo etc.
And yes there are widgets to show a preview of an email on desktop.
Fringe ringtone... NICE!!
I've got another question:
Is it possible to use a Nexus One-style Lockscreen?
Anyway, thanks for this great video!
Knobibrot said:
Fringe ringtone... NICE!!
I've got another question:
Is it possible to use a Nexus One-style Lockscreen?
Anyway, thanks for this great video!
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the nexus one lock screen, that i am not sure of.
Please look at end 8:28. The guy pressed Homescreen button and it took 6 seconds till homescreen appeared ??!!!
What ist that? Desire and Nexus need not more than 1 second for that from video player.
BuddyLee said:
ill make a video with those questions, but i can tell you now. the samsung widgets like the feeds one which has twitter facebook myspace causes lag. the friends one causes lag, the rest is ok.
I disabled those that caused the lag and everything was fine.
The GPS i have had no problems as of yet.
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How do you disable them?
is there any way of getting the SMS/Phone notification in lock screen to tell you who has called without opening the phone to see? ie my Iphone will tell me i have a new SMS but also that it was from "chris" or whoever...
im also concerned about 8.28 and the 6 second delay to return back to home screen, the whole phone seemed a little laggy which im hoping is due to just launching the LauncherPro app and the phone readjusting ?
i have asked this in another thread but if anyone could test the game emulators and see if they actually work that would be awesome....
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How do you disable them?
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basically, remove them from the home screen. and to make sure use a task manager like advanced task manager and check to see if its not there. if it is there have it set to autokill
Generally happy with your new Xperia Arc? So do I;-) But...!!! I know the phone is quite fresh, but it has some bloopers, that I have noticed, which I want to have repaired as fast as the next bulid from SE arrive to me:
-repair touch bug ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034319 )
-reduce batrery consumption
- it opened web browser instead of messages ..wtf (reboot helped)
- add make call option in message app
- no more sins I remember;-)
Plz add your suggestions to make this phone better than it is now;-) Hope that SE notice this post, and also hope to upgrade 3.0.A.2.181 soon
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1. The screen flickers when brightness is set to ~60% or lower (especially when displaying mostly white). Fix this and also add option to disable autobrightness.
I have also youtube screw up. Sometimes when I browse comments it frozes and removing battery is necessary:-/
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Now the messages open tapatalk.. Wtf!!!!!! Se fix this
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1. I would like very much a better calendar app. This is my first Android phone and I think even the calendar of my previous SE C510 was better. Didn't expect that.
2. The contact management can be improved too. I miss the tabbed contact editting interface of previous SE phones.
Please SE keep the excellent existing functionality of previous phones!
Karooluss said:
Now the messages open tapatalk.. Wtf!!!!!! Se fix this
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I noticed that once. This happens when you use too much back button and especially when sending sms not directly from sms app.
silasdm said:
1. I would like very much a better calendar app. This is my first Android phone and I think even the calendar of my previous SE C510 was better. Didn't expect that.
2. The contact management can be improved too. I miss the tabbed contact editting interface of previous SE phones.
Please SE keep the excellent existing functionality of previous phones!
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Actually I was surprised by this because I think Calendar and Contact management on Arc is excellent.
I want my mediascape back =(
And wma file support =(
I don't have the phone yet (waiting for LT15a) but here goes...
1.add smart dialing.
2.power control in notification bar.
3.theme change (even if it's just the color. not the biggest fan of blue on a phone.)
4.smoother browser
5.release LT15a already!
That would make me happy
can somebody help with the auto-running programs .. just like Whatsapp, facebook and twitter .. how can i close them if i want to
is this a problem or am i just a noob ... its ok im a learner
HELP me ^_^
noah's ARC
Main thing i'd love to see fixed is the HD video recording stutter it was doing my head in when recording my mates band last night. Happened about 4-5 times in 7 minutes.
d4rkwind said:
Main thing i'd love to see fixed is the HD video recording stutter it was doing my head in when recording my mates band last night. Happened about 4-5 times in 7 minutes.
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Did you try to turn off "image stabilizer" in video mode?
Mano1982 said:
Did you try to turn off "image stabilizer" in video mode?
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I haven't yet will give it a go when Im next recording something nice one . Surely such a good feature shouldn't cause such an annoying problem -_-.
doministry said:
Actually I was surprised by this because I think Calendar and Contact management on Arc is excellent.
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Well maybe I exaggerated a little bit, i'm still getting used to this new exciting gadget
But in the Calendar you can't really get a good overview of upcoming days because you always have to scroll through the whole day/week hours. The default view when opening the calendar app is always the day view. The month view could display some more info instead of basic square blocks.
For the contact management, again you have to scroll a lot when editing and viewing a contact. A solution may be adding tabs that group information? Something I also miss at the moment is the birthday entry. In my previous SE phones I could enter a birth date and then it asked if I wanted to add it to the calendar. Now I can't even add birthday info.
Despite these (small) annoyances I think it is still one of the best smartphones currently on the market.
Karooluss said:
I have also youtube screw up. Sometimes when I browse comments it frozes and removing battery is necessary:-/
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That happened to me after watching about 20-25 videos plugged to the TV through the HDMI.
omaritta said:
can somebody help with the auto-running programs .. just like Whatsapp, facebook and twitter .. how can i close them if i want to
is this a problem or am i just a noob ... its ok im a learner
HELP me ^_^
noah's ARC
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Those run as services, so no need to actually "close" them, because they're closed. They launch when you check notifications. In any case, just disable notifications from Twitter and Facebook; I have them totally disabled and just check manually. Leave WhatsApp the way it is, it doesn't consume anything and works like a charm.
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Actually I was surprised by this because I think Calendar and Contact management on Arc is excellent.
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I think the calendar and contacts are great too! IDK why the complain.
Nice idea,
just a suggestion:-
I hope someone start organizing the thread so we have a list of all bugs/misses in the very first post and each one with a link to the corresponded post
For example
Bugs
1. screen flicker when brightness is set to 60% or lower. ( post #2 )
2. Messages mislink the messaging app sometimes. ( post #4, post #5 )
Suggestions
1. Improving the Contact app, including
- A. adding birthdays and anniversaries with automatically adding or updating these in the calendar app.
- B. adding smart dialer. ( post #9 )
- C. when sync. with facebook or any other service try to use higher res. profile image.
Xajel said:
Nice idea,
just a suggestion:-
I hope someone start organizing the thread so we have a list of all bugs/misses in the very first post and each one with a link to the corresponded post
For example
Bugs
1. screen flicker when brightness is set to 60% or lower. ( post #2 )
2. Messages mislink the messaging app sometimes. ( post #4, post #5 )
Suggestions
1. Improving the Contact app, including
- A. adding birthdays and anniversaries with automatically adding or updating these in the calendar app.
- B. adding smart dialer. ( post #9 )
- C. when sync. with facebook or any other service try to use higher res. profile image.
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Yup, you're right.
By the way, on the "Battery drain" thread, a few users have tested and confirmed that the camera continues to drain battery a lot even after the camera app is closed.
I also tested and seems that using a 3rd party camera app is the only workaround. Tested with Vignette, took some pics, let the phone idle... but no more abnormal battery drain.
I'm searching for a way to assign a custom MP3 ringtone for each contact on my 6P, just like I did for my Galaxy S3 & my Note 3. A free or paid Play Store app (doesn't matter which because I have that $50 Play store credit) would be ideal!
It's really bumming me out that the latest & greatest Nexus 6P just doesn't have that capability, or am I missing something blatantly obvious here?? For example, on my Note 3 when my Sister calls, I would hear Weird Al's "White & Nerdy". When my mother calls, I would hear "Like a G6". And when my boss calls, I would hear Cheech Marin's voice knocking on the door saying "It's me, Dave...D A V E!" His name actually is Dave, so that just fits! You get the idea.
Any suggestions for an app that would watch for incoming calls, then play the ringtone I would assign to that person? I've already transferred all of the MP3's, notifications & ringtones from my Note 3 to the appropriate folders in the 6P AND they are selectable for a default sound, but no custom contact ringtones or custom notifications sounds for each event.
Not rooted (yet, but most likely will in time) so still all stock with build MDA89D
You help will be greatly appreciated. And if I'm missing the obvious here, please feel free to laugh at my pain!
I use Light Flow for that. Other folks here have posted that it works for them without root for LED customizations, but I haven't received my 6P yet to test it myself... If it works, it should do both custom LED and sound notifications.
If you go to contacts and edit the contact you want once you hit edit touch the 3 dots it should show set ringtone in the options thats just for incoming calls only not for messages
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I use Light Flow for that. Other folks here have posted that it works for them without root for LED customizations, but I haven't received my 6P yet to test it myself... If it works, it should do both custom LED and sound notifications.
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I will definitely look into that this evening.
Jarheadflip said:
If you go to contacts and edit the contact you want once you hit edit touch the 3 dots it should show set ringtone in the options thats just for incoming calls only not for messages
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That solves the custom ringtone problem. How did I miss that one?? I tried to edit the contacts as you said, but I completely missed the three dots menu. [face palm!]
But Light Flow sounds as the way to go. I'm used to having a blue LED for missed calls, green for text messages & red for voicemail. If the 6P has those options already built-in, then a lil customization of those couldn't hurt!
On that note, it is *ridiculous* that Android doesn't have the possibility of individual text tones.
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Use Rings Extended in Play Store...can assign any ringtone or notification, ANYWHERE
If you use Hangouts for SMS, you can set a custom tone for each conversation. I still prefer Light Flow, though, because it lets me change LED colors, blink rates, and durations per notification type/person. It also allows similar options for custom vibrations.
I may get the anti VZW hate on this one....but I use Verizon messages. Can use individual text tones on that. I like the app as when I switch roms, it syncs all texts and pic messages for me. No need to back them up and they are also on my tablet. However, I agree that it's BS that google does not make this a feature in the stock messaging app. I used to use Hangouts before switching to VZW messages.
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Use Rings Extended in Play Store...can assign any ringtone or notification, ANYWHERE
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Just tried this with no joy. Only the stock ringtones seem to work. Will we have to root to assign custom sounds?
If you go into the default messenger app
click on the thread with your contact
Hit the 3 dots in upper right
Select People and Options
Click Sounds
Select your custom notification tone
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If you go into the default messenger app
click on the thread with your contact
Hit the 3 dots in upper right
Select People and Options
Click Sounds
Select your custom notification tone
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Got my 6P on Friday, and for the life of me couldn't find how to set this, even though I had it set on my Nexus 5. Thank you!
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On that note, it is *ridiculous* that Android doesn't have the possibility of individual text tones.
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Then you don't know Android... Try again.
The solutions for messenger & hangouts are temporary. If you delete the conversation, they'll reset next time you get a message from that contact. If you want permanent solutions, you need something like textra or handcent.
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Then you don't know Android... Try again.
The solutions for messenger & hangouts are temporary. If you delete the conversation, they'll reset next time you get a message from that contact. If you want permanent solutions, you need something like textra or handcent.
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I don't think it should be necessary with a third-party app to do that. On the iPhone the feature is build into the OS.
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LosserKlosser said:
I don't think it should be necessary with a third-party app to do that. On the iPhone the feature is build into the OS.
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That's the stupidest argument ever! If you're gonna compare every feature to what the iPhone can do, why not get an iPhone?
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That's the stupidest argument ever! If you're gonna compare every feature to what the iPhone can do, why not get an iPhone?
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Well, I'm just comparing ideas and that happens to be one that I like. I don't get why you react so aggressive to me saying that I would like it to be a core feature of Android. After all, you could do this on a Nokia 3310. I don't get why it is a bad thing to request these much more sophisticated devices to do the same. I won't ever get an iPhone an have been using Android for years - but the ring tone thing - I *personally* think that iPhone handles that better.
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Well, I'm just comparing ideas and that happens to be one that I like. I don't get why you react so aggressive to me saying that I would like it to be a core feature of Android. After all, you could do this on a Nokia 3310. I don't get why it is a bad thing to request these much more sophisticated devices to do the same. I won't ever get an iPhone an have been using Android for years - but the ring tone thing - I *personally* think that iPhone handles that better.
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No one's being aggressive. I just think it's stupid to compare features that way. Well the iPhone has it, why can't I? Do you want a big round button on your phone too? Do you want an apple logo? The iPhone has them. And I'm going to assume you're semi intelligent, being that you are on these forums... Making a request, as you put it, will get you nowhere here. Messenger & hangouts are Google Apps. No one here is going to add those features for you. So your request here is gonna get you a 3rd party app. But since you already said you didn't want that, guess you're out of luck. Enough on the that. Good day & good luck in your search for a 1st party app that has those features
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No one's being aggressive. I just think it's stupid to compare features that way. Well the iPhone has it, why can't I? Do you want a big round button on your phone too? Do you want an apple logo? The iPhone has them. And I'm going to assume you're semi intelligent, being that you are on these forums... Making a request, as you put it, will get you nowhere here. Messenger & hangouts are Google Apps. No one here is going to add those features for you. So your request here is gonna get you a 3rd party app. But since you already said you didn't want that, guess you're out of luck. Enough on the that. Good day & good luck in your search for a 1st party app that has those features
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I know all those things. That's why I've been a Handcent user for years.
Here is the solution.
Download a file explorer app such as ES file explorer.
That's it.
Now where you chose to select ringtone, you will be ask to chose from..
1. ES file Explorer
2. Media Storage
Choose ES file explorer and find the song you wanna put as ring tone or alarm tone.
That's it.. Work done for free.
This even works for individual contact tone.
Open the contact in the edit mode..
Click on those three dots for further options.
Set ringtone and then chose the ES file Explorer option.. ?
Why do my custom ring tones and notifications reset themselves sometimes? I'm using stock, locked, unrooted N6P.
custom messenger tone
quinmar said:
If you go into the default messenger app
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Hit the 3 dots in upper right
Select People and Options
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Thanks Quinmar, that was exactly what I was looking for!
I knew it had to be in there somewhere
I just read that the always on display so far shows only text, Email and missed calls. I'm owning a moto x and the active display is one of my favorite features. Especially that it shows me a preview of the message and the sender. So I know whether it's worth to open the app or just dismiss it. For those who already got the phone, how do you deal with that? Any 3rd party apps that supports the always on display and whatsapp.
Hey,
Unfortunately, it is not like the active display, it only shows missed calls or messages no 3partyapps if need one like the moto active display u can download the app " Ac display its almost the same like the moto one here a link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.achep.acdisplay
And a screen from the always on options and possibilities
http://imgur.com/a/uzUfR
But in my opinion its a nice feature so u got always in time
Greetings Paddy-
Thanks Paddy,
I played a little bit with acdisplay the last days. Do you know how I can make as a always on display? It only pops up when I have notifications. I would like to use like samsungs active display for testing.
Just received my pre-ordered S7 EDGE. To cut it short, with no ROOT or other tweaks at the moment, the AOD only shows missed calls and text messages (not even e-mails). So although a nice attempt, if fails lamentably. It is only really useful if you want to check the time or battery power most of the time.
Also, off topic, the edge display is also nice, but not actually useful since it does not pop up when screen is off and a notification arrives.
Just my 2 cents.
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Just received my pre-ordered S7 EDGE. To cut it short, with no ROOT or other tweaks at the moment, the AOD only shows missed calls and text messages (not even e-mails). So although a nice attempt, if fails lamentably. It is only really useful if you want to check the time or battery power most of the time.
Also, off topic, the edge display is also nice, but not actually useful since it does not pop up when screen is off and a notification arrives.
Just my 2 cents.
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I agree is pretty useless atm - i think wish the clock would work with the green pines image combination - i hope they make it more useful otherwise much about nothing
I did have it on overnight and i noticed in 8h it only eat up 5% which is not bad at all
PS: where did you pre-ordered the phone from? are there any shops selling in on preorder in Romania??
thanks
Yeah it's really just a way to check the time. using a 3rd party text app (google messenger in my case) you don't even get the text. All i get is the missed calls and time and battery. I'm ok with that though. I get notifications on my Gear S. the time and battery are usually the only things I look for if screen is off. If I get a blinking LED i know i have a notification waiting anyways.
Agreed that it's a bit limiting at present, but looking at other areas of the phone (themes / camera) Samsung have added options to download additional functionality. They'll almost definitely do something similar to always on display!
If you ask me, I think Samsung quickly implemented the Always-On screen after their "spies" found out that LG will have it, or maybe seeing the V10 success with the second screen. Otherwise I really can't understand why would you bother to implement such a useful feature in such a horrible manner. Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one. Yet missed SMS messages are are part of the feature while missing any other useful notification. Even their own email application doesn't use the feature. I really hope that the next update brings huge improvements on this.
I remember in my S6 edge there was the Edge display which could be always on with ROOT and Mods.. And laso it would show new notifications. Hopefully development will start soon as we have Root
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If you ask me, I think Samsung quickly implemented the Always-On screen after their "spies" found out that LG will have it, or maybe seeing the V10 success with the second screen. Otherwise I really can't understand why would you bother to implement such a useful feature in such a horrible manner. Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one. Yet missed SMS messages are are part of the feature while missing any other useful notification. Even their own email application doesn't use the feature. I really hope that the next update brings huge improvements on this.
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Careful about your assumptions, there are plenty of people that still use SMS (such as myself and most of my friends/family/coworkers). That being said, I agree the implementation of this basically misses the point, unless you just want a desk clock.
Root for the S7/ s7 edge is not looking good
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I remember in my S6 edge there was the Edge display which could be always on with ROOT and Mods.. And laso it would show new notifications. Hopefully development will start soon as we have Root
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I was reading on another thread in here I forget which, but the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, refuse to flash anything not digitally signed by samsung.
even the stock firmware if uncompressed and re-compressed it looses the samsung signature and fails to flash to the system partition
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If you ask me, I think Samsung quickly implemented the Always-On screen after their "spies" found out that LG will have it, or maybe seeing the V10 success with the second screen. Otherwise I really can't understand why would you bother to implement such a useful feature in such a horrible manner. Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one. Yet missed SMS messages are are part of the feature while missing any other useful notification. Even their own email application doesn't use the feature. I really hope that the next update brings huge improvements on this.
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This is funny. I don't know anyone that does NOT use text messaging. I guess it's the circles you run in but I've never heard one single person in my life mention giving up SMS.
SMS is so 2014! I only use whatsapp as do all of the people i know. Texting sucks.
Surrylic said:
This is funny. I don't know anyone that does NOT use text messaging. I guess it's the circles you run in but I've never heard one single person in my life mention giving up SMS.
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The problem is that you missed the point of my post. There are tons of applications delivering notifications, and if the always-on screen is to fulfill its promise, all the notifications should be displayed in some way.
Cst79 said:
Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one.
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LOL?? Every person I know uses SMS.
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I was reading on another thread in here I forget which, but the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, refuse to flash anything not digitally signed by samsung.
even the stock firmware if uncompressed and re-compressed it looses the samsung signature and fails to flash to the system partition
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CF Auto Root is here Already so i dont see issues now.. its matter of time we get the MODs
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LOL?? Every person I know uses SMS.
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in the US most of the guys are using text messages... asked my cousin couple of weeks ago if he could give me his number, that i can write to him via whatsapp ... answer: what is whatsapp, we use text...
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tim2london said:
I agree is pretty useless atm - i think wish the clock would work with the green pines image combination - i hope they make it more useful otherwise much about nothing
I did have it on overnight and i noticed in 8h it only eat up 5% which is not bad at all
PS: where did you pre-ordered the phone from? are there any shops selling in on preorder in Romania??
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All major retailers in Romania offered pre-orders. I've got mine with the gear vr for a really good price. Mine arrived on the 9th of March as well.
My question is: can be the what's app, facebook, gmail ecc notifications on AOD implemented by software in the future?
i use the always on feature all the time ,but like the rest of us, i wished it showed part of sms message if not all and the email message who the call was from etc , would be good if could just reply as well ,i think i am getting ahead of myself there lol
Hi, My friend has the Note 7 Global Lavender version, like me, he is 82 years old and is having some trouble with answering calls because of the not-so-easy to use green phone slider. Even I sometimes have problem with this one.
So can someone help me with an alternative and a small guide on how to install it(if not like other Apps) and set it as default, so when call comes in that is the one he see? There is no need to change anything else.
Please don't refer me to google, the problem is not that there aren't any Apps but that there are too many of them, and I can't try them all until i find one without a slider but where you just push the green button to answer call - He is starting to regret he bought this phone, as it is not so friendly for old people.
I hope someone here can help.
Jan
May be u can use Truecaller
Ryamoz said:
May be u can use Truecaller
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Thank you, and yes it looks like what I wanted though it is a very sophisticated app with a lot more functions than I wanted, maybe too much - it is still for an elderly man. Also looks like there have been some complaints that you get more spam calls after you use Truecaller and that they upload your data to their servers for everyone to see - not for me!
I like to hear other options if there are some Preferebly close to the stock dialer, but without slide and only push or an option to set it yourself. And not one that takes advantage of people.
Thank you
insomniacno1 said:
Thank you, and yes it looks like what I wanted though it is a very sophisticated app with a lot more functions than I wanted, maybe too much - it is still for an elderly man. Also looks like there have been some complaints that you get more spam calls after you use Truecaller and that they upload your data to their servers for everyone to see - not for me!
I like to hear other options if there are some Preferebly close to the stock dialer, but without slide and only push or an option to set it yourself. And not one that takes advantage of people.
Thank you
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You could try google dialer apk from apkmirror.com, it has a simple slide gesture to answer and end calls and isn't too bloated with useless features
Saad. Mk said:
You could try google dialer apk from apkmirror.com, it has a simple slide gesture to answer and end calls and isn't too bloated with useless features
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Thank you for your answer, I will look at it but would prefer to avoid slide since that is the problem. The Note 7 has slide, but its not easy to use not even for me and I have had many phones with "slide dialer".
Finding "push button" dialer has proven to be some of a challenge, also when you take in mind it should be one not stealing your data
Hope someone can come up with a solution for this
Guess not, but i found this one and it might do the trick, testing next week when my friend available: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luckyme.dadapp2
Update: forget the app above - it works just after install but doesn't do anything when pushing the Answer button. After that it never pop up anymore . Uninstalled it!
If you can root the device and install google dialer framework , you can set the google phone app which has better slider : you just need to slide up, holding the phone icon isn't necessary. And custom roms can also be easier for him as compared to miui.
anyways, i wonder if you could find a feature in miui that makes the incoming calls screen always in 'heads up' mode. That way he just needs to touch the accept or reject. I m not sure if miui provides that
Walden0 said:
If you can root the device and install google dialer framework , you can set the google phone app which has better slider : you just need to slide up, holding the phone icon isn't necessary. And custom roms can also be easier for him as compared to miui.
anyways, i wonder if you could find a feature in miui that makes the incoming calls screen always in 'heads up' mode. That way he just needs to touch the accept or reject. I m not sure if miui provides that
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I'm sorry and tank you for your input, but I'm not rooting his phone to solve this - too many things can go wrong because you have to unlock bootloader and then install TWRP first before you can root - or so the guide here on XDA states.
I hope for a different solution