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So after using the nexus 5 for a full day I've only got one gripe. In places I would get full signal with my s3 and huawei ascend I get 3 bars. In certain places such as inside my house I used to get about 2 bars with those phones now with the nexus 5 i get nothing.. So far everything else has been good, no dead pixels or speaker issues. Posted via RS Mobile
wtf I used to have such good battery life (36+ hours) now after a month of using it, I can barely get a full day out of it (16+ hours).
I'm running stock rom and default settings. I'm guessing it's becuase of Google now is becoming more active so I turned it off.. Hopefully that resolves my issue
wtf I used to have such good battery life (36+ hours) now after a month of using it, I can barely get a full day out of it (16+ hours).
I'm running stock rom and default settings. I'm guessing it's becuase of Google now is becoming more active so I turned it off.. Hopefully that resolves my issue
Turn Off "Scanning Always Available" Under Advanced WiFi Settings if you haven't already. Apparently that's a culprit for a few people.
Battery life still amazing for me. Google Now is off and so is Wifi Scanning. Waiting for custom roms to start implementing 4.4.1 before I update.
On a side note I received my SGP Neo Hybrid. That's one well made case but seems a little more slippier and a bit taller compared to my Diztronic. Will use it for ahwhile and see how it goes.
I average about 16-18 hours of battery with about 3-4 hours of screen time, and usually WiFi on all day. All in all, a great upgrade from my last phone which was getting about 6 with the same screen time.
Yeah I barely ever plug my phone in anymore.. Only once it gets down to 20% or so, which is every other day. After being used to the iphone 5's fucking shit battery for a few months, this is really impressive
4.4.1 is supposed to fix the email exchange issues. I thought it fixed my sync loop problem but I encountered it once today which is a little disappointing. I turned off contacts sync after. Let's see if it helps...
I also switched to ART runtime since whatsapp is working now. So far it has been stable and all my apps seem to work. Haven't noticed any significant changes to battery life. Except for a bit of battery drain due to that stupid sync loop.
in symbian there was an option to check for system updates but i cant seem to find anything similar to that :/
I think people are updating with a custom image that is out... eventually Google will send update notifications to all phones. This is how you're "supposed" to do it.
They used to have an option for this but I guess they took it out
Soooo after I side loaded update. My batt life has lost like 8hrs...: |
What Google location settings are u guys using ? Play services seems to be batt hogging Posted via RS Mobile
Turn off Google Location Reporting (Both location reporting and location history) and turn off the background Wifi Always Scanning mode.
I leave my location mode on High Accuracy and I still don't get Google Play Services eating up much battery at all. Didn't even show on my battery graph today. Battery life on this phone has been amazing coming from previous Nexus devices.
Go to settings and then about phone near the bottom then system updates.
Does anyone know how to keep the transparent notifcation bar with nova launcher using stock rom.
I think you have to be running the beta builds in order to get the transparent notification bar. Just change your update settings to pull the beta instead of the official versions.
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ahhh okay thanks
guess i'll eventually want to look into flashing firmwares onto my droid too i'll start reading up on that
wow what a pita
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The process
Place the update .zip package from Google in the Android SDK/platform-tools folder on your computer, but do not unzip it.
On your Nexus, go to Settings > Development options and switch the toggle on. Then enable USB debugging under the "Debugging" menu group.
Power down your tablet
Start up the bootloader by holding down volume up, volume down and power on your tablet.
When the menu loads, plug your Nexus into your computer.
Use the volume up/down keys to navigate to "Recovery mode", then press the power button.
When the Android with the red exclamation point appears, hold down power first, followed quickly by volume up. You should now see the recovery menu.
Use the volume up/down keys to select "apply update from ADB," then press power to select it.
On your computer, open up a command prompt or terminal window.
Using the command line, navigate to the Android SDK/platform-tools folder
On Windows, type:
adb.exe sideload <the complete name of the OTA zip file you want to flash>
... or on Mac, type:
./adb-mac sideload <the complete name of the OTA zip file you want to flash>
... or on Linux, type:
./adb sideload <the complete name of the OTA zip file you want to flash>
The update should begin installing. When it's done, select "reboot system now."
Enjoy some delicious KitKat
like wtf did they make it such an annoying process -_- while im really enjoying android some things are just so stupid
Place the update .zip package from Google in the Android SDK/platform-tools folder on your computer, but do not unzip it.
On your Nexus, go to Settings > Development options and switch the toggle on. Then enable USB debugging under the "Debugging" menu group.
Power down your tablet
Start up the bootloader by holding down volume up, volume down and power on your tablet.
When the menu loads, plug your Nexus into your computer.
Use the volume up/down keys to navigate to "Recovery mode", then press the power button.
When the Android with the red exclamation point appears, hold down power first, followed quickly by volume up. You should now see the recovery menu.
Use the volume up/down keys to select "apply update from ADB," then press power to select it.
On your computer, open up a command prompt or terminal window.
Using the command line, navigate to the Android SDK/platform-tools folder
On Windows, type:
adb.exe sideload <the complete name of the OTA zip file you want to flash>
... or on Mac, type:
./adb-mac sideload <the complete name of the OTA zip file you want to flash>
... or on Linux, type:
./adb sideload <the complete name of the OTA zip file you want to flash>
The update should begin installing. When it's done, select "reboot system now."
Enjoy some delicious KitKat
like wtf did they make it such an annoying process -_- while im really enjoying android some things are just so stupid
edit: okay sweet i'm patched
edit2: camera seems laggy now :/
I'm sure if you wanted to install a Symbian OS update 1-2 weeks before it was released, the process would have been just as involved (if not moreso)
That's because you're side loading the update. When Google releases an update for nexus the process is exactly the same as symbian except no need to plugin as the update is ota. What you're doing is grabbing it early before they pushed it.
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That's because you're side loading the update. When Google releases an update for nexus the process is exactly the same as symbian except no need to plugin as the update is ota. What you're doing is grabbing it early before they pushed it.
yeah i get that that's what i was comparing it to, when using Navifirm to download firmware from Nokias developer/internal servers and then using Phoenix to flash firmware early
but as mentioned it just seemed a lot more complicated/annoying on paper for android when you're actually going through the James Bond-like finger play it's not much of a hassle
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ive always called android phones droids
