The Android thread. Questions, comments, help, etc

anyone ever tried this baller-ass case lol?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silver-Deluxe-Metal-Aluminum-Frame-Bumper-Case-Cover-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-III-i9300-/380648397474?pt=US_Cell_Phone_PDA_Cases&hash=item58a0699aa2

I dont really use it enough and wont need to change batteries…but yeah good point

I own a Google Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi only, 32GB). Build number is JRO03S. I’ve been stuck on 4.1.1 since I got it this past X-Mas and have been unable to install any of the firmware updates over the air. I’m able to download the update fine, but when I install, the progress bar fills up about 20-25%, then stops. This is signified with the little Android mascot falling over dead on his back, chest cavity opened, with a red exclamation point triangle hovering over his chest. Help?

Couple of questions, is it modded or rooted? Have you tried downloading it again? Maybe it was a bad download.

I haven’t done anything to it. I got it fresh out of the box for Xmas, and have just been using it to play games, watch Netflix, surf the net. Nothing fancy. I’ve downloaded the 4.2.2 update numerous times, each time the download is successful. The installation part is where it continually fails on me about 25% of the way through. I’ve contacted Google tech support and they don’t know what’s wrong either.

did u do a factory reset and re try it?

Ohsnap there’s a rumor that the note 3 might get released early to combat the 5s.

Yep. I’ve done pretty much every normal troubleshoot I could think of/read online. Google Tech Support is even stumped as to why I’ve never been able to OTA update my Nexus.

I had that exact same problem when updating to 4.2.2 so I took the extreme way of fixing this by updating the stock bootloader to 4.18 and then flashing the 4.2.2 factory image into the Nexus 7.

I’m not tech saavy at all, but I’m dying to get my 4.1.1 to 4.2.2. Care to share via PM what steps I need to take to get me to 4.2.2?

Tell you what, there’s a lot of people smarter than we are about this stuff over at XDA - http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1673
It might be good to check out the forums there. I can give you some general steps, but if you need to really get into it that’s the best place to get it.

oh shit motorola x-phone confirmed for real http://www.androidauthority.com/moto-x-google-x-phone-confirmed-d11-contextually-aware-217944/

won’t get me to pass up the note 3 but should still be a beastly phone. motorola phones have the best battery life ie razr maxx.

…Soon…

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i336/drwholover13131313131313/tumblr_lx6ae4PQeR1qgm2uso2_500.gif

Unless things have changed, no. My LG Optimus 3D is lasting almost all waking day without a charge, even with wifi enabled. I’ve never had a Motorola phone last more than 3 hours under the same conditions.

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6197/screenshotphone.png

ok can someone answer for thme this…that tiny blue icon just above my siganl bar, wtf is that? no site has it listed as to what it means.

oh shit htc finally putting up a worthy competitor to the note
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/30/htc-t6-rumor/

rumored specs

  • 6 inch screen
  • snapdragon 800
  • 2 gb ram
    -16 gb memory (with sd card slot)
    -3300 mah battery

the snapdragon 800 and battery size are the most impressive specs imo. apparently there’s viper rom with multi window for the htc one so i might have to ditch samsung unless they put some stereo speakers on the front. can’t wait to see official announcements for both galaxy note 3 and htc t6.

hmm it looks like an icon of a house. on my phone that’s where the icon for hspa/lte would be…never seen that one before though.

Wow, sounds better than the Note 2. I’d buy it if I wasn’t on a contract right now.

I just wish that my HTC EVO 4G LTE had better custom ROM support.

It’s even worse now, because the HTC One is getting official AOSP, but I still get left in the dust.

it’s only a rumor at this point and if it were true it would be coming out a year after the note 2 which makes the comparison unfair. at this point it’d be this htc t6 versus the galaxy note 3. if the specs for the t6 are accurate it will be beastly. i don’t know if samsung will put their exynos octa in the note 3 but by that point snapdragon800 will be better than the current exynos octa. i don’t really use the pen that much but i would expect the note 3’s pen features to be much better than the t6’s since it will be sammy’s third stab at the pen and htc’s first.

note 3 will be announced at ifa in germany in september (6-11). i don’t konw if they can announce and launch it at the same time. apple seems to be the only company that can really do that but if any android company were to do it it would be sammy with the note 3.
http://www.qresolve.com/blog/2013/05/22/samsung-galaxy-note-iii-to-be-introduced-at-ifa-in-september-2013/

latest comparison i could find of snapdragon600 vs exynos octa
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Galaxy-S4-Exynos-5-Octa-vs-Galaxy-S4-Snapdragon-600-benchmark-comparison_id43554

Actually, this will be HTC’s second attempt with a stylus, assuming the T6 will ship with one.
http://www.amazon.com/HTC-Scribe-Digital-Flyer-Tablets/dp/B0052E4FJ6