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**Splarg!** · 19th May 2012

Yikes...Motorola is a joke. Just took a look at their updated ICS upgrade page and not only is my less than 1 year old phone not getting it, most of their phones won't be getting updates for months. The Photon 4G is supposed to be getting Q4. Why even bother?

**jaykray** · 19th May 2012

I'm due an upgrade on my phone (LG GW620, my first smartphone, had it for two years or so, only has an old version of android). Looking through the website there were two phones that caught my eye, the T-Mobile Vivacity and the LG Optimus. Anyone have any experience with either of these phones? Or the HTC Wildfire, which I'm not too sure about yet.

Samuka97 · 19th May 2012

superstepa posted:

I think the joke is that the example guy says HTC instead of android

I know, I'm just generalizing that just straight out saying "your opinion sucks, go to hell" is the dumbest thing you can do to try and convince someone.

**roflcakes** · 19th May 2012

Splarg! posted:

Yikes...Motorola is a joke. Just took a look at their updated ICS upgrade page and not only is my less than 1 year old phone not getting it, most of their phones won't be getting updates for months. The Photon 4G is supposed to be getting Q4. Why even bother?

ICS for my Atrix is currently 'in development' for Q3 2012. Europe is still 'Evaluation and planning' though, which will probably mean no official release for me. Not fussed so long as the camera in ICS gets fixed.

**Cakebatyr** · 19th May 2012

God damn the Mail Exchange Service on the GNex is utter tripe.

My mum uses hotmail on her GNex and the Exchange process keeps the phone awake forever. So her phone goes from 100% to 0% in three hours even if its in her pocket the entire time. If I disable the process, she can't receive email from her hotmail account and doesn't want to use the gmail account she has.

And according to ICS' fantastic data tracking system, it appears the exchange service uses 100mb a day syncing her stuff even when no mail was received.

Who let that crap pass through QA?

a-k-t-w · 19th May 2012

cant you set it to check for mail every few hours or something?

Edited:

my dad does the same thing but it doesn't hog much battery at all.

**butters757** · 19th May 2012

Splarg! posted:

Yikes...Motorola is a joke. Just took a look at their updated ICS upgrade page and not only is my less than 1 year old phone not getting it, most of their phones won't be getting updates for months. The Photon 4G is supposed to be getting Q4. Why even bother?

Yeah my Bionic was promised ICS back in November, and now it's scheduled for Q3 this year.

**garychencool** · 19th May 2012

VLC anyone?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/05...ous-developer/

**Cakebatyr** · 19th May 2012

a-k-t-w posted:

cant you set it to check for mail every few hours or something?

Edited:

my dad does the same thing but it doesn't hog much battery at all.

Its set to manual retrieval.

**Cakebatyr** · 19th May 2012

Upgraded to CM9 an hour and a half ago. Its fantastic.

**dmillerw** · 19th May 2012

Getting a little ridiculous. Any idea what could be causing this?

Hunt3r.j2 · 19th May 2012

dmillerw posted:

Getting a little ridiculous. Any idea what could be causing this?

Corrupt batterystats.bin.

**FlamingSpaz** · 19th May 2012

superstepa posted:

I think the joke is that the example guy says HTC instead of android

Actually most tech illiterates call an android phone a htc because they look the nicest. I've had people stare right at the massive samsung logo on the top of my SII and still call it a HTC.

**Mr MP** · 19th May 2012

Hey everyone, I just got a Samsung Galaxy Spica. It has Android 2.2 on it. And Cyanogen mod. And tell me guys, first time I'm ever having a phone with Android. (I used Samsung Monte before. Never again.) Is it worth installing Gingerbread, and is there going to be any performance loss?

**PyroCF** · 19th May 2012

Mr MP posted:

Hey everyone, I just got a Samsung Galaxy Spica. It has Android 2.2 on it. And Cyanogen mod. And tell me guys, first time I'm ever having a phone with Android. (I used Samsung Monte before. Never again.) Is it worth installing Gingerbread, and is there going to be any performance loss?

Only performance gains really with gingerbread

**iCole** · 19th May 2012

dmillerw posted:

Getting a little ridiculous. Any idea what could be causing this?

That's average battery life in 300 years from now.

**mankind_me** · 19th May 2012

dmillerw posted:

Getting a little ridiculous. Any idea what could be causing this?

your phone has been going at it for 32 years

using extended batteries by any chance?

**ace13** · 19th May 2012

Decided to get myself some android action, breaking my earlier promise to myself that I'd only do it once my current phone dies. (I'd temporarily forgotten my current phone is a Nokia)
Ordered the Galaxy Nexus after looking through the list of phones for a week or so, hoping to receive it on Monday.

**PyroCF** · 19th May 2012

Silly wasp you don't have and hands, get off my S2.

**Wolfyhound** · 19th May 2012

FlamingSpaz posted:

Actually most tech illiterates call an android phone a htc because they look the nicest. I've had people stare right at the massive samsung logo on the top of my SII and still call it a HTC.

I had someone look at my SGSII and call it an iPhone

Goodthief · 19th May 2012

PyroCF posted:

Silly wasp you don't have and hands, get off my S2.

did you take that photo with a one X?

**PyroCF** · 19th May 2012

Goodthief posted:

did you take that photo with a one X?

Yeah

Goodthief · 19th May 2012

PyroCF posted:

Yeah

I want that phone badly, the screen looks incredibly nice

Edited:

and that camera is pretty sweet

**roflcakes** · 19th May 2012

Wolfmatyr posted:

God damn the Mail Exchange Service on the GNex is utter tripe.

My mum uses hotmail on her GNex and the Exchange process keeps the phone awake forever. So her phone goes from 100% to 0% in three hours even if its in her pocket the entire time. If I disable the process, she can't receive email from her hotmail account and doesn't want to use the gmail account she has.

And according to ICS' fantastic data tracking system, it appears the exchange service uses 100mb a day syncing her stuff even when no mail was received.

Who let that crap pass through QA?

Try using an alternative client. K9 mail is pretty sweet.

**FlamingSpaz** · 19th May 2012

PyroCF posted:

Yeah

Sexy.

**PyroCF** · 19th May 2012

Just installed MIUI to my One X, might as well give it a little try. Gotta love NANDroid.

**garychencool** · 19th May 2012

Wolfyhound posted:

I had someone look at my SGSII and call it an iPhone

Some people don't notice it, especially when you're playing games and they ask you what your Apple game center stats/account name is. Happened to me when I was using a friends SGSII. I had an interesting conversation where I denied giving her any info and I just kept on playing.

**JimJam707** · 19th May 2012

Mr MP posted:

Hey everyone, I just got a Samsung Galaxy Spica. It has Android 2.2 on it. And Cyanogen mod. And tell me guys, first time I'm ever having a phone with Android. (I used Samsung Monte before. Never again.) Is it worth installing Gingerbread, and is there going to be any performance loss?

Woah woah woah, why did you get such an old phone? The spica was great, and the custom roms on Samdroid were and still are good, but why did you get such a bad phone? The ZTE Blade is probably the same price and better.

**FPtje** · 19th May 2012

Flashing Cyanogenmod 7.2 rc. Please please please don't fuck over my phone like last time I had CWM installed D:

**Mr MP** · 19th May 2012

JimJam707 posted:

Woah woah woah, why did you get such an old phone? The spica was great, and the custom roms on Samdroid were and still are good, but why did you get such a bad phone? The ZTE Blade is probably the same price and better.

Naw, I didn't really pick that phone. I got it from my dad who ordered a new one. I'm thinking of getting Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman at this very moment.

Inplabth · 19th May 2012

Hell yes I might be getting a galaxy nexus today.

**PyroCF** · 19th May 2012

So I totally got S-Voice on my HTC One X.

**Ezhik** · 19th May 2012

tell me more

**iCole** · 19th May 2012

apk plz

I don't expect it to be any better than the voice whatever thing S2 had by default though.

**Ezhik** · 19th May 2012

It was the only thing I found interesting on the S3
Siri is awesome

**superstepa** · 19th May 2012

Ezhik posted:

It was the only thing I found interesting on the S3
Siri is awesome

There is a ton of perfectly working alternatives on market, which work as good as Siri. Samsung one is probably going to be worse then them
The one with some "personality"
Straightforward and simple
Parody made in 24 hours (works really well)

Vlingo is the only one with custom TTS though, all others use awful stock android one (but hey you can install a different one if you want)

**PyroCF** · 19th May 2012

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1662231

Koenigsegg · 19th May 2012

Can anyone recommend me a good Verizon android phone with a keyboard? Keep cost in mind as I'm going to be buying this with my own money. (It's off contract too)

**Ezhik** · 19th May 2012

Gonna try to keep my One X unrooted.

**Van-man** · 19th May 2012

Koenigsegg posted:

Can anyone recommend me a good Verizon android phone with a keyboard? Keep cost in mind as I'm going to be buying this with my own money. (It's off contract too)

AFAIK Only Motorola currently makes Android phones with a physical keyboard.
HTC used to (Desire Z and the complete joke named ChaCha).