The Android thread. Questions, comments, help, etc

Apple is a bunch of greedy crybabies, ill never support them. Ill buy a cd player from a pawn shop and walk around with that before I even ATTEMPT to buy an ipod

I’ve bought and used PowerAMP for about 4 months. It’s loads better (IMO) than PlayerPro. I would imagine a constant gif as your background would suck a lot of battery life, but I’ll give it a shot.

@MP are you sure your phone’s IMEI wasn’t blacklisted by Verizon? Did you call and find out? Also, did you not back up your contacts with your Google account before you factory reset? =/

@Wil: I’m not sure what ear buds would be good for sound and a mic. In my experience, it’s always been ‘good sound w/o mic’ or ‘menial sound w/mic.’ I don’t want to spend something ~80 bucks for good buds with an in-line mic, but from what I use are Skull Candy Titan earbuds. Though they don’t have an in-line mic, I like the sound they produce for the price, which I got on clearance for 30.

I can’t say that I’ve used PlayerPro, as I understood PowerAmp was by far superior. I honestly love it’s equalizer and volume boosting options.

You’d be surprised, I’ve used this Q GIF for the whole day, and the battery has been fine. I imagine that it would be more taxing with a more animated GIF, but, I’m yet to test it fully. I know this though, WiFi and 3G are an absolute killer when it comes to battery life.

So after the whole apple suing Samsung thing I totally lost all respect for apple. I understand that they kinda pioneered to whole smart phone thing among other devices… but did they really have to go as far as this… I might be losing my phone after next month. And I understand that they cant pry it from me but I’m wondering what’s going to happen to all the gs3 owners that have insurance on their phones… is there going to be a reserve for them? Or are they going to be forced to get a new phone?

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There’s nothing wrong with what Apple did in this lawsuit. The current patent system in America is what allowed Apple and other various companies (including Samsung) to apply for and get patents that’s just as vague as that black rectangle patent. Some of the patents shouldn’t have been given to these companies to begin with.

Apple had the right to protect their patents regardless of how stupid it is. With the way it is right now, Samsung deserved what was coming to them.

We need patent reform.

Positive. I called them, and they checked my numbers and said the phone was clean.

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Then you needed to flash a Verizon radio, I believe.

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To google I go, that one went over my head.

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On one hand, I personally like and usually own phones with physical keyboard/pads so maybe this means Samsung and other companies will try to get Google to create more phones with those.

On the the other hand, jeez, this does not help the average Samsung phone/tablet user with their next purchases.

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-vs-samsung-verdict-it-doesnt-matter-7000003164/

Oh yeah, its my favorite easily.

Just a question on volume. How do you get maximum loudness?

I know you can jack up the overall EQ and disable limiting but haven’t tried it…you can also play around with the Replay Gain setting.

settings/audio/replay gain (RG)

Also try deselecting the Direct Volume Control.

settings/audio/advanced tweaks/direct volume control

can someone explain to me the whole “iphones use samsung parts”?

Wow, seriously?

China blocked Play Store, I can only access it through VPN.

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I converted to Android from an iphone and i was wondering why dont Headphone remotes(next track previous track) not work on my HTC EVO 3D?

Now Apple is going after Google, and Google is suing Apple.

Google could singlehandedly shut all that shit down by blocking access to Google products from Apple products. This would hurt Google, but it would cripple Apple.

Samsung planning to sue Apple if they decide to put LTE on the next iphone

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/08/133_118544.html

If this litigation pushes Samsung AWAY from Android, then we all lose.

Samsung’s legal team fucked up and could have done better. It also didn’t help that most of the jury didn’t even understand what was going on. Oh and Samsung should step up their game and give Jelly Bean to most of their Android phones ASAP.

Besides Samsung got it coming. Their business practices when trying to compete against Apple drove them into desperation mode.