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My want is fading

Is it true that i went be able to download files to my phone from the browser?
And apps will be limited in options in dramatic ways? Any truth to these?
Well i be able to install programs not in the market? Like different camerasoftware or custom made clock app? I can install modifications through a custom recovery and feel i will miss this badly. But i have wanted a Windows phone for a while
I love and use all my email options including labels galore. My want for the 8x had went from around 90% to about 5% just reading forums the past few days.
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hoola20055 said:
Is it true that i went be able to download files to my phone from the browser?
And apps will be limited in options in dramatic ways? Any truth to these?
Well i be able to install programs not in the market? Like different camerasoftware or custom made clock app? I can install modifications through a custom recovery and feel i will miss this badly. But i have wanted a Windows phone for a while
I love and use all my email options including labels galore. My want for the 8x had went from around 90% to about 5% just reading forums the past few days.
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As a huge Windows Phone fan, I can't understand why ANYONE would want the 8x over the Lumia 920. But I digress...
To install apps not in the market, you have to register your device as a dev device (all 3 of my Windows Phone devices are registered and I'm able to install non-market apps).
I have several Android devices and personally, I believe Windows Phone buries it. If you were closer, I'd loan you one of mine to use for a while to see if you like it. I have converted a few to Windows Phone from iPhone 4's as well as Android devices. Only ONE person so far has switched back to the iPhone and it had a lot to do with the fact that she worked with other women who had iPhones and she felt like an outcast. Seriously.
-Mc

For his perspective how does WP8 "buries it" when it does none of what he wants?
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The 920 isn't an option. Verizon. I'm going to play with one in store for a while and see how it plays out. I have an sgs3 as i type and the phone i go to will HAVE to feel like an upgrade in every way. No step backward
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vetvito said:
For his perspective how does WP8 "buries it" when it does none of what he wants?
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Well, his biggest concern is that he can sideload apps. Since WP8 CAN, the correct sentence should have been that it does SOME of what he wants.
The Gmail tags are nice but between subfolders and a web client, those needs are basically met as well.
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hoola20055 said:
The 920 isn't an option. Verizon. I'm going to play with one in store for a while and see how it plays out. I have an sgs3 as i type and the phone i go to will HAVE to feel like an upgrade in every way. No step backward
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Personally, I'd have to give serious consideration to the Nokia Lumia 822 as well.
Nokia's Windows Phone support and Nokia apps are great.
Given that those are your only options though, the 8X is a great phone. The 16GB and lack of MicroSD card was the only disappointment for me with it.
I have an OLD HTC Surround (the first Windows Phone device AT&T carried) and I still prefer it to anything Android or iPhone related. Windows Phone is a VERY fast and fluid OS. The tight integration between services is pretty awesome and nobody can touch their Email/Calendar/Office apps.
I hope you can get enough time in the store to give it a thorough going through. I'd hate for you to buy it because I said it was awesome and after 3 weeks you hate it. While many people I've "helped" convert to Windows Phone are now true converts, one of their wifes is still missing her iPhone. So not everybody that jumped in feet first was happy about it.

Still ignoring his very first question?
Yes it does SOME if you're only talking about sideloading apps by paying to register a device at the moment.
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vetvito said:
Still ignoring his very first question?
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Nope. I don't know the answer first hand yet. Do *YOU* know the answer?
Nice trolling though...

Yes, it's the exact same as on WP7.
Nice response with the "troll" thing.
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vetvito said:
Yes, it's the exact same as on WP7.
Nice response with the "troll" thing.
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Ugh. If you knew the answer DEFINITIVELY, why didn't you just answer the question? But since you're an iPhone user in a Windows Phone forum specifically for the purpose of bashing Windows Phone, what do YOU call it?

Show me where I bashed anything, please.
Not my fault you're offended about a OS.
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Buddy of mine just ordered an 8x so I'll get some hands on in a week or so. He is coming from htc rezound (android) so I'll get his impressions plus maybe enough of my own to make a decision. If nothing else I'll have the option to switch back and forth(micro Sims) until i decide permanently. Thanks again everyone. I know people get heated about these things but was not my intention. I've used Palm os. Ios..android and even Windows back in the day.(touch pro and tp2 and omnia 2) win 8 seems fresh but android has been very satisfactory for me since original droid 1. Thanks again everyone!
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Is vetvito STILL coming here just to trash WP? Its been 2 years dude, c'mon
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^Mr lost? Welcome back.
If you've been around, you'd see I'm in the market for an 8x, and your memory sucks. I haven't trashed anything, so don't assume.
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hoola20055 said:
Is it true that i went be able to download files to my phone from the browser?
no
And apps will be limited in options in dramatic ways? Any truth to these?
yes and no, depends on the app, if it is coded to allow backgrounding, etc. there are good reads on this.
Well i be able to install programs not in the market?
yes, pay to dev unlock, then sideload. there aren't many though
Like different camerasoftware or custom made clock app?
if you can find one, yes
I can install modifications through a custom recovery and feel i will miss this badly.
absolutely no. no full phone backups to sdcard. no restoring of the phone to yesterdays recovery from sdcard. a computer must be present to restore from any and all backups.
I love and use all my email options including labels galore. My want for the 8x had went from around 90% to about 5% just reading forums the past few days.
5% is a little low. use the browser for gmail and get those niiiiice features back ?
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sorry, I can't do nifty things like italics and bold to clean up my responses in your quote from tapatalk (on my android device, while eating a plum, from california, on a Sunday)

[Q] Block contact on whatsapp

Hi
I have bought a nexus 4 for my daughter and I would like to block a guys contact on her whatsapp,
If I use the normal whatsapp blocking she can unblock it easily. What I want is to block a number on her whatsapp such that its not visible to whatsapp at all
Thanks

7thAkash said:
Hi
I have bought a nexus 4 for my daughter and I would like to block a guys contact on her whatsapp,
If I use the normal whatsapp blocking she can unblock it easily. What I want is to block a number on her whatsapp such that its not visible to whatsapp at all
Thanks
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Sorry there is no such mod/settting in official whatsapp to block a contact as like you are saying..

Should I be the one that says that's bad parenting? The more you cage a bird, it will take its first chance it can escape. Who's to say she will use another phone instead of the one you gave making your question rather useless.
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Misledz said:
Should I be the one that says that's bad parenting? The more you cage a bird, it will take its first chance it can escape. Who's to say she will use another phone instead of the one you gave making your question rather useless.
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Hi, Misledz I know u from this forum since... years, and I respect u a lot, but I don't think he's asking how to educate his daughter. I also think that's bad parenting, and I wouldn't do that, because I think u have to let ur sons and daughters crash with reality and problems, but that's not the funtcion of this forum, is it?
@7thAkash, as they said, there isn't such mod, but if she wants to contact him she will use facebook, viber, skype, or whatever.

luiseteyo said:
Hi, Misledz I know u from this forum since... years, and I respect u a lot, but I don't think he's asking how to educate his daughter. I also think that's bad parenting, and I wouldn't do that, because I think u have to let ur sons and daughters crash with reality and problems, but that's not the funtcion of this forum, is it?
@7thAkash, as they said, there isn't such mod, but if she wants to contact him she will use facebook, viber, skype, or whatever.
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Hahaha likewise. I didn't mean to do so but I apologize if it does seem that way, was just trying to explain the logic behind that decision. Since I had to bring up my sisters the same way. But I agree with you on that.
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I know its bad parenting
I know its bad parenting, well lets leave that topic out of this thread
well I no nothing on the official whatsapp but no app does this for me !!!
certainly a requirement for all those blocking applications !!!

Or how can i exclude someone from Contacts to be listed in whatsapp.

7thAkash said:
Or how can i exclude someone from Contacts to be listed in whatsapp.
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The easiest way is edit the contact to remove the country code lol. The way whatsapp works is it makes sure that the country code-phone# matches before it displays. I've had some contacts without the country code and they dont show up. That is until that person messages you.
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suggest
There is an app which allows me to hide my contact from any whatsapp user
This means if any user even saves my number in his contact , it will still not show on his whatsapp contacts
But it will to show to everyone else except him
Any idea which app is this ?

Zenfone 2 Love

Oh zenfone 2 sitting over there,
Where has the time gone?
It feels like just yesterday we met.
You treat me oh so well.
Gathering my emails, texts and more.
Making me glad to have you in my life.
Oh zenfone 2 thank you for showing me,
True love of a cellular phone.
May this winter spirit bring you joy.
With the new Illusion cover to,
Make you shine bright as day.
When your sitting in my pocket.
Making me happy as can be.
With a beautiful Intel chip,
And 4 gigabytes of ram.
I say good day to you zenfone 2.

Is this a poem?

wtf

Is this really happening? I just wish the hell my zenfone 2 would let me send and receive a damn mms. people send me a text and I don't get for days or at all.

mastermarkofroms said:
Oh zenfone 2 sitting over there,
Where has the time gone?
It feels like just yesterday we met.
You treat me oh so well.
Gathering my emails, texts and more.
Making me glad to have you in my life.
Oh zenfone 2 thank you for showing me,
True love of a cellular phone.
May this winter spirit bring you joy.
With the new Illusion cover to,
Make you shine bright as day.
When your sitting in my pocket.
Making me happy as can be.
With a beautiful Intel chip,
And 4 gigabytes of ram.
I say good day to you zenfone 2.
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I was moved

go home your drunk

Chocketbear said:
Is this really happening? I just the hell my zenfone 2 would let me send and receive a damn mms. people send me a text and I don't get for days or at all.
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Make sure your texting app is enabled on asus auto start manager....

compliments! you are a true poet?
Inviato dal mio ASUS_Z00AD

Oh zenfone 2 zenfone 2.. we were the first ones who bought you last april twenty 2..
Now so much wait on marshmallow and with the latest update ...
you brought a store shop bloatware update with you...
Oh i love you my zenfone 2 have to say goodbye
Because i bought my new LG too

m3t4lw01f said:
Make sure your texting app is enabled on asus auto start manager....
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I did try to do that, but the default sms app isn't in auto start at all.

Chocketbear said:
I did try to do that, but the default sms app isn't in auto start at all.
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Isn't it listed in the pre-installed app section? I'm on CM13 so I can't look, but I remember there being two tabs in that app... One for downloaded and one for system apps...

m3t4lw01f said:
Isn't it listed in the pre-installed app section? I'm on CM13 so I can't look, but I remember there being two tabs in that app... One for downloaded and one for system apps...
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I'm on the Asus stock rom right now because I don't want to root and install another rom just yet and it's not in there. but today there's an OTA update for my build that "I THINK" may just fix the issue. I hope so because it's been huge PITA for me not getting text and such.

Nexus 6P Update (Google Assistant , Pixel Features)

Hey guys.
Just heard that Google is actually releasing the Google Assistant to some devices , including the 6P , through the Google play services.
Seems like Google is giving us more Pixel Features , so first the dialler and messaging apps and stuff like that , now we're getting the assistant.
Does anyone know when we are going to get it ? (Heard something like next week)
And does anyone know what Google is actually doing , are they going to give us the pixel launcher , the blue accents , the solid navigation buttons? Let me know is you know anything about this. Thanks !! ✌?✌?✌?
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New a apk's are at APKMIRROR but they didn't enable Assistant.
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Wrong section. This belongs in Q&A.

N1ghtr08d said:
Wrong section. This belongs in Q&A.
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But does it cause you any harm?

No it doesn't, very little does, but there are rules in place for a reason, so we don't have anarchy with people posting wherever they feel like. However, the next time someone comments that you posted in the wrong section, maybe realise that it's not an attack or an insult to your intelligence but rather simply pointing out that you did something you shouldn't have and helping by passing along the information instead of trying, and subsequently failing, to be a smartass. If I had reported the thread or had it deleted then you'd have a right to be upset if even if I said you were stupid or negligent then again you'd have the right but alas no, but I'll be sure to point it out to you next time.
Goodnight gentlemen.

i42o said:
But does it cause you any harm?
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Post has been reported to facilitate transfer to the correct thread. No need to start any arguments. So chill
@op The Voice Assistant update is a staged roll-out, meaning more and more users will get it within the next few days. No one really knows the full extent of Google's plans for bringing pixel features to other devices like the Nexus line. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
All I can say is that such initiatives are welcome, especially if the changes are not merely cosmetic in nature, but instead add useful features to our device.

So yeah ... Did anyone get the assistant during the week ?
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I'd also like to know if anyone has got Assistant yet
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josepmanel said:
I'd also like to know if anyone has got Assistant yet
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Not me , have you ?
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DavidSantos said:
Not me , have you ?
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Sadly I got it. Now trying to figure out how to permanently get rid of it. Still can't figure out what is useful about GA. Sort of like Google Inbox - terrible idea with terrible implementation.

GroovyGeek said:
Sadly I got it. Now trying to figure out how to permanently get rid of it. Still can't figure out what is useful about GA. Sort of like Google Inbox - terrible idea with terrible implementation.
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Huh? It's literally the same thing as Okay Google. It just has an introduction page. Lol.
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easy switch between 6t and 7pro

Hi guys so I'm using 6t my wife 7pro but it's to big for her so I'm looking for easy option to switch "one to one" between devices is this possible?
Thanks for your help

lukers said:
Hi guys so I'm using 6t my wife 7pro but it's to big for her so I'm looking for easy option to switch "one to one" between devices is this possible?
Thanks for your help
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Congrats to you both.
Android setup on the new phone will give option to copy settings, etc from another device, and gives direction on how to pair the devices.
After the new install, it will be a simple matter to factory reset the phone you will no longer use--bearing in mind that a factory reset will erase ALL user data, such as images, music, etc.

lukers said:
Hi guys so I'm using 6t my wife 7pro but it's to big for her so I'm looking for easy option to switch "one to one" between devices is this possible?
Thanks for your help
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It's easy,OnePlus literally have an app called OnePlus Switch which moves over all your stuff.Its pretty easy to use. Get it up on each phone and follow the steps
Oh and congratulations,I bet when your wife was like it's too big, you were like,yea I think it is sweet heart but I'm gonna do you a favor.Ill take it....lol