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http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsung-changes-mind-will-look-at-storage-on-galaxy-s4-50011229/
Maybe there is some hope of regaining some internal storage afterall?
Thoughts?
Will822 said:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsung-changes-mind-will-look-at-storage-on-galaxy-s4-50011229/
Maybe there is some hope of regaining some internal storage afterall?
Thoughts?
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yeah they may compress the whole system partition in next release, to give us an extra 5 GB usable, at the expense of speed and battery consumption
Will822 said:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsung-changes-mind-will-look-at-storage-on-galaxy-s4-50011229/
Maybe there is some hope of regaining some internal storage afterall?
Thoughts?
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I wonder if they got rid of the S-pen stuff how much it wouls save. I cant imagine more the a few MBs but thats stuff we can't use so it is 'free' to remove for them.
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Is there an app similar to a program used for Windows computers called space sniffer?
It basically scans your storage volumes and graphically shows what's taking up the space and lets you delete UN-necessary stuff (if you dare!).
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
Yes it is called disk usage and if you have root you can view system files as well. Strangely there is well over 400mb of free space in the /system folder. Anybody know why?
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Yes it is called disk usage and if you have root you can view system files as well. Strangely there is well over 400mb of free space in the /system folder. Anybody know why?
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/system is its own parttion it needs free space for updates to apps
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/system is its own parttion it needs free space for updates to apps
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Ahh, I see. Thanks
They can get ride of pretty much everything but S-health. In fact I'd love the S4 to have vanilla android and S-health.
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Will822 said:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsung-changes-mind-will-look-at-storage-on-galaxy-s4-50011229/
Maybe there is some hope of regaining some internal storage afterall?
Thoughts?
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thanks for a good read!
linkin275 said:
They can get ride of pretty much everything but S-health. In fact I'd love the S4 to have vanilla android and S-health.
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I know. I use it a lot
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linkin275 said:
They can get ride of pretty much everything but S-health. In fact I'd love the S4 to have vanilla android and S-health.
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I like the camera also. Just two apps from Samsung.
Does anyone know of any apps taking advantage of the pedometer hardware in the nexus 5 yet? I'm currently using noom walk but it's not massively accurate.
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There's an app called moves that does an EXCELLENT job of this. The interface is fantastic. Highly recommend it.
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DinoSoup said:
There's an app called moves that does an EXCELLENT job of this. The interface is fantastic. Highly recommend it.
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Does Moves use specifically the pedometer hardware?
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Does Moves use specifically the pedometer hardware?
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Yes, it was the first to actually support the Nexus 5's pedometer.
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I'm pretty sure Google Now does but it only gives you an update once a month.
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Cool app Moves
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I just saw this and I really hope they can bring this on the Nexus 5, too. I doubt it, though...
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Does anyone know of any apps taking advantage of the pedometer hardware in the nexus 5 yet? I'm currently using noom walk but it's not massively accurate.
Cheers!
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have you seen this?
its very simple compared to the "big guys" apps..
http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/1rcd17/need_beta_testers_for_lightweight_pedometer_app/
Here's one that users the hardware step counter on the N5, it has a nice ui and has achievements etc too
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.pedometer
Data collected by Moves can be exported to a variety of connected apps to track fitness over time, visualize travels, etc.
The AIRS ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airs) recording app recently added the pedometer as a dedicated sensor. It's not specifically focussing on step counting only but more generally on lifelogging. Its companion app Storica ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.storica) lets you view your daily step count, among all the other data you collected on your phone.
hope google develop its Now activity card better with pedometer data
I'm currently using moves app as a pedometer. It is nice looking and good app but consumes way too much battery. At the same time it feels stupid that both moves and google now are tracking my path. Hope moves developers gives options for phones with hardware step counters to turn off tracking path when there is no need for their own algorithms to detect steps but I'm not holding my breath because it is clearly big part of that app's user experience what they want to offer.
So my second thought is that now when android 4.4 and hopefully more devices with hardware step counters will come to market google should develop google nows activity card better. I don't see any point in that card currently only showing once a month. Hope they will develop it more in the way like moves is currently. Google now already tracks the path like moves and now with pedometer they should count steps and give chance to user select how often they want to see that activity card. I think they should give a option to show daily activity card with path, steps, distance and walking/cycling/running time like moves do. Maybe even burned calories.
First thing I did after signing in was switch to ART. If your going to do the same, I'd recommend you do it before downloading your apps. It has to optimize all apps on the device and I did it without downloading a single app. 324 apps. Took a while.
cRookeD Nexus 5
Crooke356 said:
First thing I did after signing in was switch to ART. If your going to do the same, I'd recommend you do it before downloading your apps. It has to optimize all apps on the device and I did it without downloading a single app. 324 apps. Took a while.
cRookeD Nexus 5
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Stupid question but how do you activate art ?
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greatnesstx said:
Stupid question but how do you activate art ?
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Not stupid at all bud. Unlock developer settings by going to "about phone" in settings, double tap "build number" 7 times until you see the toast msg that says "you are now a developer". Back out, go to the newly available " developer settings " and 3rd (4th if you count the first non selectable line) option which says "select runtime system" and change it to "ART". It will say Dalvik until you've changed it to ART. Choosing it will reboot your device and take a few minutes while sets up your apps for ART. It is possible that if could be incompatible with some apps but since it first released with 4.4, I haven't heard of this.
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I think this sped up the start up time of the camera, which is still kinda slow. I just hope I don't have issues with some apps as I've heard of others that had to completely reset their phone to stop some apps from crashing even after returning to Dalvik and reinstalling the app...
What is Art?
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What is Art?
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Basically, it is supposed to allow apps to start faster, run smoother and improve battery. Here's an in depth explanation
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-art-of-android/
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Crooke356 said:
Basically, it is supposed to allow apps to start faster, run smoother and improve battery. Here's an in depth explanation
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-art-of-android/
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i think it may be kitkal art who released as soon as possible..:good:
After going to art the phone showed the unlocked icon on boot and custom rom....
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Yea maybe kitkat he means.
No literally it looked like a flash counter notification stating modified... not sure of it unlocked the bootloader or not as I'll let someone else make that brick in error... it had a lock which showed unlocked though.
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No literally it looked like a flash counter notification stating modified... not sure of it unlocked the bootloader or not as I'll let someone else make that brick in error... it had a lock which showed unlocked though.
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Mine does the same.
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You can try what others did.
mine too?
Its gone when switch back
Mine does this as well. I can't believe Samsung marks the device if you run ART. A stock feature of Android.
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Mine does this as well. I can't believe Samsung marks the device if you run ART. A stock feature of Android.
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Yeah, that's kinda crappy. Good thing TW was toned down so much I don't see any reasons for flashing yet.
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brazcub said:
Yeah, that's kinda crappy. Good thing TW was toned down so much I don't see any reasons for flashing yet.
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Yeah, not too bad. It looks as if they started to redesign it but only got as far as settings and quick settings lol. With Nova and Flatro icons, it looks as though it's how it was supposed to be done. One of things that was always first on my list after rooting or flashing was changing the appearance of the status bar/quick settings. I like them now so with Nova, I really like the appearance. IMO.
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Yeah, not too bad. It looks as if they started to redesign it but only got as far as settings and quick settings lol. With Nova and Flatro icons, it looks as though it's how it was supposed to be done. One of things that was always first on my list after rooting or flashing was changing the appearance of the status bar/quick settings. I like them now so with Nova, I really like the appearance. IMO.
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I like TW now. Using Google Launcher and it's very close to stock.
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I don't wanna open a thread for this so I'll try it here, I can't remember the "official" name, but "quick glance"? Something like that. When device is asleep, you wave over it and it displays the time and notifications. The one " motion gesture " I use and I can't find it. Hope they didn't ax it.
Anyone know how to enable it? Can't find it in the gestures section... Nor can I find lock screen widgets.
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I know people are all excited to try anything different, but ART on this device just isn't a good experience (at least on a stock device). I really wouldn't recommend switching, as you are unlikely to be pleased.
Hey ladies and gents,
I made this thread to have a place to post personal findings with your note 5's. For example, tell us how do you like the screen, anything weird that you noticed about the screen, the way the phone behaves, and possibly any quirks that you found out with the phone. Even things that you like and don't like. Maybe the phones camera acts a certain way in weird conditions, etc. Let us know so that we can discuss and possibly find solutions for any future quirky attributes that pop out! ?
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I have noticed that when I want to send a pic to someone it automatically sends the pic without letting me type anything. Don't know if it is a bug or just the way the OS works.
I do not like the fact that I can't choose to use an app once or by defualt, it automatically selects the app for me
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I agree. The default activity chooser is missing the option to use an app just once or always. Very annoying
Really? That's very annoying because I usually like to choose different media players for different media applications. That can pose a problem.
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On a positive note (pun intended), the screen is gorgeous and wonderfully sensitive. My last two phones, lgg4 and nexus 6 were too dim in sunlight and the screens on the far right edge missed touches far too often. Well, on the LG touches were missed just about anywhere 1/3rd of the time.
I have noticed that when I take a screenshot with smart select and save it to gallery I cannot send it as an mms. It says unsupported media file. Anyone else had that problem/
helikido said:
Hey ladies and gents,
I made this thread to have a place to post personal findings with your note 5's. For example, tell us how do you like the screen, anything weird that you noticed about the screen, the way the phone behaves, and possibly any quirks that you found out with the phone. Even things that you like and don't like. Maybe the phones camera acts a certain way in weird conditions, etc. Let us know so that we can discuss and possibly find solutions for any future quirky attributes that pop out!
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Sent from a LG G3?
DJ ELITE said:
Sent from a LG G3?
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Yes sir a G3. Just waiting for a 64gb note to get back in stock.
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helikido said:
Yes sir a G3. Just waiting for a 64gb note to get back in stock.
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I'm waiting for @Chainfire. :good:
Just bought a 64gb note 5. I wait with large anticipation.
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Anybody with the Note 5 64gb how much of the 64gb do you get to use after the OS is installed? Right now I'm using around 50gb overall on my Note 3.
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Anybody with the Note 5 64th how much of the 64gb do you get to use after the OS is installed? Right now I'm using around 50gb overall on my Note 3.
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The size of the OS has no effect on the amount of in free user space, the OS is on a separate partition in the phone.
The separate partition is of a pre-determined size which has nothing to do with the free space on the internal sdcard.
That's why I do not see any advantage of uninstalling bloatware or other apps which we don't use or want.
Disabling bloatware and many other unwanted and unused apps is a much better and safer option.
Good luck,
Have a great day!
I hear what you are saying, but still doesn't answer his question. Regardless of partitions, you will still have 64gb to work with, so how much is available from a stock N5 64gb? I think I read that 11gb is used, but I can't confirm I don't have a note 5 yet. Coming soon. You should have over 50gb, probably 52-53. I'm sure someone can confirm.
@Misterjunky-That sounded a little rude, I didn't mean it so please don't take it the wrong way.
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I hear what you are saying, but still doesn't answer his question. Regardless of partitions, you will still have 64gb to work with, so how much is available from a stock N5 64gb? I think I read that 11gb is used, but I can't confirm I don't have a note 5 yet. Coming soon. You should have over 50gb, probably 52-53. I'm sure someone can confirm.
@Misterjunky-That sounded a little rude, I didn't mean it so please don't take it the wrong way.
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Ok, before adding any files to your internal sdcard you will have exactly 58,350,411,776,00 bytes usable free space.
Which means that you will have approx 58.3 GB usable free space to work with before adding any files.
Good luck,
Have a great day!
Damn, that's actually very good.
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Has anyone ever noticed that the clock icon actually tells the right time? If you go to the app drawer and flip the page back and forth you can actually see the seconds hand moving.
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Nice to see the Gear S2 gives the ability to at least reply to messages with the dismal s voice, pre defined or keyboard ?
But you cannot create a new message only reply to an existing received message on your watch.
A Big plus for me
Something happened
Mine started off being able to reply but now the options available to choose is show on phone, Block and clear..
Odd still works fine for me
Ate whatsapp pics supposed to show on gear? I dont think mine do
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beeutiful37 said:
Ate whatsapp pics supposed to show on gear? I dont think mine do
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I've had them show some times, other times no. Maybe depends on the file type?
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I've had them show some times, other times no. Maybe depends on the file type?
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I think it's dependent on file type, resolution and size, but haven't managed to prove this yet.
MarkP80nj said:
I've had them show some times, other times no. Maybe depends on the file type?
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Noticed that pictures will only show when there is only one message in that particular whatsapp thread. Once there is more than one message, images stop appearing on the Gear S2.