Recently Google put a notice in my phone that they were discontinuing Google Latitude and if I wanted to continue using similar location service I would need to go to Google+
I don't like being funneled into places I have no interest in going.
What other service (besides Google Reader) will they suddenly pull the rug out from their users?
I don't like Microsoft because of their monopolistic intent nor Apple for similar reasons.
That leaves Linux or Firefox and when there will be a decent phone sporting either os I will jump on it
They killed Latitude? *victory dance*
It ate battery, it kept track of you...
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ShadowLea said:
They killed Latitude? *victory dance*
It ate battery, it kept track of you...
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Surely you didn't think this out.
Latitude wasn't killed.
It was mearly moved to Google+.
This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen.
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They decided to stop supporting it. That isn't exactly a "evil corporation" move, you can still download whatever GPS app you want.
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They killed Latitude? *victory dance*
It ate battery, it kept track of you...
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You do realize it could be turned off right? And from my recollection it was opt-in....
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They decided to stop supporting it. That isn't exactly a "evil corporation" move, you can still download whatever GPS app you want.
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Yeah,
they decided to stop supporting it but only to get you to use Google+ and also to get you to persuade all the friends you have on your latitude list to also join Google+.
Yes, there are other share location applications but it is a hassle to start all over again after "do no evil" Google pulls the rug from under you.
What other services will Google discontinue in order to get you to move where they want you to?
I get what you mean. I don't really want to be forced to use services either. I know I don't have any interest, at least for now, to use Google+
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Surely you didn't think this out.
Latitude wasn't killed.
It was mearly moved to Google+.
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I know, I was over dramatising in response to the original post's "the world is ending by the hands of the evil overlord" attitude.
BPinard said:
You do realize it could be turned off right? And from my recollection it was opt-in....
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Yes, and every other update turned it back on inside google maps, leading to yet another few thousand complaints about "crap phone dies in 7 hours" on tech-support helpdesks...
As for opt in, locationservices doesnt work without latitude anymore on Maps. Hasnt for a while now.
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Recently Google put a notice in my phone that they were discontinuing Google Latitude and if I wanted to continue using similar location service I would need to go to Google+
I don't like being funneled into places I have no interest in going.
What other service (besides Google Reader) will they suddenly pull the rug out from their users?
I don't like Microsoft because of their monopolistic intent nor Apple for similar reasons.
That leaves Linux or Firefox and when there will be a decent phone sporting either os I will jump on it
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Dude grow up seriously. I can't believe what I'm reading. But I guess it's your opinion..... Bye.
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The fact that you own and test a cellular tracking device.......why are you surprised?
bbrad said:
This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/11/google-announces-android-special-event-for-november-16th-in-lo/
This could be what we were all waiting for...
The image has T-mobile sign... fingers crossed.
As many people around the web have been stating, the "goes to eleven" reference is a Spinal Tap reference, meaning this is probably something to do with Google Music.
However, this was posted on Android's G+ page about an hour and a half ago: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104629412415657030658/posts/UggjKRhTn58
I knew someone would post this so I didn't. Lol. Yeah, could be more to it, but this is definitely something about google music
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As many people around the web have been stating, the "goes to eleven" reference is a Spinal Tap reference, meaning this is probably something to do with Google Music.
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I'm excited about it. I want them to push Google Music more.
However, this was posted on Android's G+ page about an hour and a half ago: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104629412415657030658/posts/UggjKRhTn58
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We already know what that's about, they're giving away 10 Galaxy Nexus' the next 10 days via a Twitter contest.
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I'm excited about it. I want them to push Google Music more.
We already know what that's about, they're giving away 10 Galaxy Nexus' the next 10 days via a Twitter contest.
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I'm aware as I made that post too...this was before that contest was announced.
If it's for a music thing, why is there a giant T-Mobile logo on the building in the photo?
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If it's for a music thing, why is there a giant T-Mobile logo on the building in the photo?
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Could be more, but the Beatles on the wall of the building
I think it is primarily going to be for Google Music (given the plethora of references to music on the pic) but I imagine they are going to announce some big info about the gNexus (more likely GSM) right at the end of the event (or anytime.. but at the end.. would be cooler)..
This could be the event that never happened in the US for the nexus.. Googles way of making it up to us by revealing maybe a release date/pricing of unlocked 32GB nexus in the US.. through sammy/google site?
Something to do with this: http://stupiddope.com/2011/10/05/mr-brainwash-artist-invitation-2011-art-show/
But also Android (obviously), T-Mobile, and Spinal Tap.
Hmm...
So TMO and the billboard are added. I thought the billboard meant something but couldnt figure out what. The left hands make a heart
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The 4th Derivative said:
So TMO and the billboard are added. I thought the billboard meant something but couldnt figure out what. The left hands make a heart
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The billboard is just for an LA art show. It says "Art Show 2011" on the billboard lol.
Ah. Forgot about that part. So... only tmo is added?
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Ah. Forgot about that part. So... only tmo is added?
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Only T-Mobile and the Android logo. But I can't figure out what these things have to do with Mr. Brainwash, his ArtShow2011, and Spinal Tap. Google Music is about...music, but ArtShow2011 is a visual art show. Maybe they are just using the space?
Read from a post on Engadget that made sense to me. Tmo introduced the myTouch Fender (Fender is on the picture) awhile ago. So, it's probably a new phone that has the Fender name tied to it or another special edition. It revolves around the whole music theme.
I'm hoping I'm wrong though.
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Read from a post on Engadget that made sense to me. Tmo introduced the myTouch Fender (Fender is on the picture) awhile ago. So, it's probably a new phone that has the Fender name tied to it or another special edition. It revolves around the whole music theme.
I'm hoping I'm wrong though.
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Where do you see Fender?
Yah I didn't see it either I see the start of fender but only the f.
I still think the galaxy nexus sch-i515 and the. GT-I9250 are two different phone internally and colors ect on the outside shape may be the same. But I think this is what everyone's missing.
I bet the gt series Will be the the nexus prime still
Looks like t-mobile has also sent out invites for the same event. So there may be a possibility for us to see GN announced for t-mobile too.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/t-mo-invites-us-to-experience-the-world-of-t-mobile-and-google-w/
that's for the launch of Android Music Online
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Looks like t-mobile has also sent out invites for the same event. So there may be a possibility for us to see GN announced for t-mobile too.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/t-mo-invites-us-to-experience-the-world-of-t-mobile-and-google-w/
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That's actually a different event. At 9pm. The "These go to eleven" event is at 2pm.
martonikaj said:
That's actually a different event. At 9pm. The "These go to eleven" event is at 2pm.
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T-Mobile used the same image, but with a different billboard at the top of the building. Hmmm...
So as much as I love android there is one thing that I kinda of envy when it comes to blackberrys and Iphones and and that would be bbm/imessages. Now im well aware there are apps out there like gtalk or chaton which acts like imessages but I personally would like to see this built into the messaging app itself. I am no developer or anything but it seems that imessages works on the device when it is linked towards the email used for the app store so would it not be easy for google to implement this into their os? I mean on the start up of each android device it does ask you for your gmail password so I was just thinking that this just may be a really nice feature to come out with key lime pie or something. Does anyone else feel this way?
Is this any different from Google Talk? Instant Messaging tied to the Gmail account, rather than the phone number. It's just not as immensely popular.
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Is this any different from Google Talk? Instant Messaging tied to the Gmail account, rather than the phone number. It's just not as immensely popular.
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Well thats the thing. GTalk is perfect but for example all of my friends who own android products havent even heard of it. Im just thinking if google linked GTalk to a phone number then it could be good.
I agree. This would be amazing.
Yes that would be awesome
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So I guess a better question is what are the odds of this actually being implemented into the next update?
I have to admit that I do miss bbm from when I used blackberry's. But besides that mild feeling of exclusivity I don't really think its much different thn just texting
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I have to admit that I do miss bbm from when I used blackberry's. But besides that mild feeling of exclusivity I don't really think its much different thn just texting
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Ya i hear ya. I guess the only reason I feel something like Imessages would be helpful is because if we are in places with almost no service but there is wifi it would be pretty amazing. Then again i would be scared for samsung or google to implement this because the last thing we need is another apple lawsuit haha
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So I guess a better question is what are the odds of this actually being implemented into the next update?
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1 in 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
if google would make it part of the steup wizard and allow images/sounds to be transferred over gtalk, it would be amazing.
FYI
In case you didn't know (or haven't noticed yet)...these are the permissions currently required by "Google Play Services.apk"...and other shared Google services:
...enjoy Google Now - the best federal reporting service!!!
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FYI
In case you didn't know (or haven't noticed yet)...these are the permissions currently required by "Google Play Services.apk"...and other shared Google services:
...enjoy Google Now - the best federal reporting service!!!
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Honestly, who cares. The entire point of these permissions was to help compartmentalize Android and cut down on fragmentation. Don't like it? Switch to Blackberry or Apple. Hear they're doing well.
The first thing I do when flashing a rom is completely remove Google now. Not only does it completely drain your battery but it makes the phone slow/laggy.
Capt said:
The first thing I do when flashing a rom is completely remove Google now. Not only does it completely drain your battery but it makes the phone slow/laggy.
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Doesn't do any of that on my phone.
Hey, after you've removed every Google app don't forget to wear your tinfoil helmet!
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If you don't want anything to do with the government. Don't use a computer anymore, don't use a phone anymore, go live out in the woods with no electronics then you won't be targeted. Your only a small percentage of the millions of people in the US is worried about. Don't like them watching or spying on you? Simple as not having a carbon footprint anymore if you can live with that.
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Didn't you know that google is planning on making Skynet? Already on the way to the Terminator. They acquired Boston Dynamics, and track pretty much everything about everyone ever. Oops I used G+ to sign in Google don't watch me
So much fail
So much waste
So much end
Thread closed
I know this isn't Android anymore, but has anyone pulled/ported the stock Tizen browser from Tizen OS? I assume it would be easy enough to sideload this to the device via USB Debugging, right?
BJSerpas said:
I know this isn't Android anymore, but has anyone pulled/ported the stock Tizen browser from Tizen OS? I assume it would be easy enough to sideload this to the device via USB Debugging, right?
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Sounds easy and it might be but, we don't have a keyboard yet anyways. Hopefully when the fleksy keyboard comes out there will be more useful apps.
Raul69.atl said:
Sounds easy and it might be but, we don't have a keyboard yet anyways. Hopefully when the fleksy keyboard comes out there will be more useful apps.
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While we wait, can you share what you think would be a useful scenario where pulling up a webpage on a tiny watchscreen will be more convenient than just pulling out your phone and doing it that way? I'm really curious and maybe you have a great idea I haven't considered.
Some kind of situation when you want to check things without hands free? Checking live train times while carrying luggage or checking football scores while it's raining perhaps?
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Think a dev confirmed there is no external acess from the gear 2, only direct to phone, so this wouldn't work I would assume.
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root
That mean no root no rom no nothing for the gear 2????
From, not to.
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rEVOLVE said:
While we wait, can you share what you think would be a useful scenario where pulling up a webpage on a tiny watchscreen will be more convenient than just pulling out your phone and doing it that way? I'm really curious and maybe you have a great idea I haven't considered.
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Cheating on a test, of course. That's pretty much the only reason I'd want a watch browser.
bryanhayn said:
Cheating on a test, of course. That's pretty much the only reason I'd want a watch browser.
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Then maybe I should get started on the pdf reader I've been thinking about
dominoid said:
Some kind of situation when you want to check things without hands free? Checking live train times while carrying luggage or checking football scores while it's raining perhaps?
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Either of those scenarios you just mentioned are great, but voice commands w/ S Voice would be more useful (if it can even do this - I know Google Now can get me this info from my phone, but S Voice on the Gear currently just comes back and says "sorry, we couldn't find the answer to your question".
Also, if your hands are full, what makes you think that opening up and typing a web address on the watch's little screen will be "hands free"? You can't even interact with the watch without touching it with your other hand.
BJSerpas said:
Then maybe I should get started on the pdf reader I've been thinking about
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I have finals tomorrow, hurry this up!
I keed
chalkycroissant said:
I have finals tomorrow, hurry this up!
I keed
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Off topic-
Try a TI-89, works great!
BJSerpas said:
Off topic-
Try a TI-89, works great!
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I do have one, and it worked great in Highschool. Sadly, my college wont let use graphing calculators on tests
dominoid said:
Some kind of situation when you want to check things without hands free? Checking live train times while carrying luggage or checking football scores while it's raining perhaps?
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How would you navigate an app or browser without using you hands/fingers? Your football score scenario is already accomplished via ESPNs Score Center app. It can be configured to send notifications based on team preferences (i.e. notify of scoring plays during your fav team games).
And now that I think about it, if only the Google Maps app could be configured to send turn-by-turn notifications, we would sort of have GPS on our Gears.
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How would you navigate an app or browser without using you hands/fingers? Your football score scenario is already accomplished via ESPNs Score Center app. It can be configured to send notifications based on team preferences (i.e. notify of scoring plays during your fav team games).
And now that I think about it, if only the Google Maps app could be configured to send turn-by-turn notifications, we would sort of have GPS on our Gears.
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oh I forgot about the turn by turn functionality - Pebbles can do this, even though I never got a chance to use it since my phone is mounted on my dashboard. Would be useful when walking in a city, though - without keeping your phone out. The problem of course is the watchscreen turns off again and you have to touch the watch and navigate to the app again to see the next direction.
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oh I forgot about the turn by turn functionality - Pebbles can do this, even though I never got a chance to use it since my phone is mounted on my dashboard. Would be useful when walking in a city, though - without keeping your phone out. The problem of course is the watchscreen turns off again and you have to touch the watch and navigate to the app again to see the next direction.
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Yep, and shortly after I posted this I came up with an article about that Pebble feature... however, it seems it is limited to the iOS version of Google Maps because it is able to send normal push notifications for each turn.
Seems like Google has changed how accounts are stored on the phone in 7.0. Backing up "Accounts" in Titanium Backup, which backs up accounts.db, no longer works. Seems that accounts.db no longer exists.
Anyone know where Google accounts are stored on the phone in 7.0?
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Seems like Google has changed how accounts are stored on the phone in 7.0. Backing up "Accounts" in Titanium Backup, which backs up accounts.db, no longer works. Seems that accounts.db no longer exists.
Anyone know where Google accounts are stored on the phone in 7.0?
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It's being moved deeper to account for the upcoming new dual set up that allows for 2 of each partition. It will make restoring this kind of info almost completely impossible.
zelendel said:
It's being moved deeper to account for the upcoming new dual set up that allows for 2 of each partition. It will make restoring this kind of info almost completely impossible.
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so that means that now google is really moving towards enterprise stuff. Like making true multiuser support kinda thing ?
sachoosaini said:
so that means that now google is really moving towards enterprise stuff. Like making true multiuser support kinda thing ?
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Yeah. They have been working on it for a while and each update is moving more to it.
zelendel said:
Yeah. They have been working on it for a while and each update is moving more to it.
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Well brother. Last turf from apple is about to get off... After Steve Dies apple was half dead. They now don't have the futuristic approach to fight opensource google'a android. Like samsung contribution to KNOX and with the coming of blackberry to android things going to change for good. Google will almost wipe the last left stuff on earth with android.
sachoosaini said:
Well brother. Last turf from apple is about to get off... After Steve Dies apple was half dead. They now don't have the futuristic approach to fight opensource google'a android. Like samsung contribution to KNOX and with the coming of blackberry to android things going to change for good. Google will almost wipe the last left stuff on earth with android.
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That will never completely happen. Open source is seen as a security threat to many companies. BB is dieing off and will soon be a software only company. Apple will always have a place due to their security as well as most people prefer something that just works. I cant say I blame them as I have thought about it myself and you would be amazed at how many Android devs use an Iphone as their daily device.
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That will never completely happen. Open source is seen as a security threat to many companies. BB is dieing off and will soon be a software only company. Apple will always have a place due to their security as well as most people prefer something that just works. I cant say I blame them as I have thought about it myself and you would be amazed at how many Android devs use an Iphone as their daily device.
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well i would say apple is great device. but when it comes to customization i can't withstand apple. I myself purchased apple long ago. lol i have sold it after 1 day.
sachoosaini said:
well i would say apple is great device. but when it comes to customization i can't withstand apple. I myself purchased apple long ago. lol i have sold it after 1 day.
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Customizing is great but gets old fast. I mean really how much time does one want to spend messing with their device. Take my device as an example. The home screen has not changed in over 8 months.
What about root? Someone is working on that?
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marianoasis said:
What about root? Someone is working on that?
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There already is root for the devices that have 7.0
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Customizing is great but gets old fast. I mean really how much time does one want to spend messing with their device. Take my device as an example. The home screen has not changed in over 8 months.
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well mine change like after few days !But still android is way better than anything apple could offer.....
sachoosaini said:
well mine change like after few days !But still android is way better than anything apple could offer.....
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That depends on what you do with your device. I was just like you about 10 years ago. Always flashing and changing things up. Now I set my device and leave it. I just want it to work and have more important things to do then be messing with a phone. Like living life and see what is really going on in the world.
zelendel said:
That depends on what you do with your device. I was just like you about 10 years ago. Always flashing and changing things up. Now I set my device and leave it. I just want it to work and have more important things to do then be messing with a phone. Like living life and see what is really going on in the world.
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Ahh I hope I this is me in the future.
kirito9 said:
Ahh I hope I this is me in the future.
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All it takes is taking a look around and realizing that life is passing you by. Or you could look at it as the push of smartphones is to keep people preoccupied so they don't see what is happening around them. Kinda like the Patriot act that was voted In because people were scared only to later realize that they signed their privacy away lol.
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All it takes is taking a look around and realizing that life is passing you by. Or you could look at it as the push of smartphones is to keep people preoccupied so they don't see what is happening around them. Kinda like the Patriot act that was voted In because people were scared only to later realize that they signed their privacy away lol.
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Lol that's true, I need to take a break from android for a while and enjoy life. Android will always have something to do.
kirito9 said:
Lol that's true, I need to take a break from android for a while and enjoy life. Android will always have something to do.
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Yeah it took my friends taking me out for the weekend. Here if you leave town you have no signal at all. No phone and no data for hundreds of miles. So it was kinda easy. I really didnt miss it.
zelendel said:
Yeah it took my friends taking me out for the weekend. Here if you leave town you have no signal at all. No phone and no data for hundreds of miles. So it was kinda easy. I really didnt miss it.
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That's what I'm starting to do now, hangout with friends instead of being on the computer all day.
kirito9 said:
That's what I'm starting to do now, hangout with friends instead of being on the computer all day.
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Smart. It is a good thing.
zelendel said:
Smart. It is a good thing.
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well i aint that much connect with android or tech stuff. Its I like some tech stuff to be honest. Keeping your phone worth the usuage is good. I do spend quality time with my friends. On weekends i am like away from internet android .. Well you to manage properly how tech revolve around.
File location
I stumbled across this thread during my search, but while I found the answer somewhere else maybe it could help the next lost soul on it's search for revelation:
On Android 7, the accounts.db are now located on
/data/system_de/0/accounts_de.db And
/data/system_ce/0/accounts_ce.db
You'll need to copy both of the files to your new device, it worked for the most accounts. The only account I had to reconfigure was my email exchange