Smartphones

Ended up buying a moto x. It was such a pain in the ass. My wife have me her upgrade so I transferred it to my phone but the motomaker site doesn't recognize that. So Verizon told me to buy it under her number then activate it on my line and do the opposite when she uses my upgrade.

Coming next Monday so I'm excited. Goodbye iPhone 4. Yep, regular old 4.

If you're on the AT&T 10gb plan retentions well match the Verizon price. If you're under contract ymmv.

Got the Note 4 and really liking it. Had a Galaxy S3 before, so it's essentially the same thing just slightly different button config, bigger screen, and better hardware. Battery life is fucking phenomenal too. Last time I charged it was before work on Friday, and here it is 4:30 AM on a Monday and it's still at 17%.

I think they have tweaked their battery drainage in software updates. My S5 gets phenomenal battery usage now. Some days I can come home to 60-70% battery after moderate use, where I had previously drained it down to low battery warnings in the past. Hopefully the new Lollipop OS will further the efficiency.

That's like my wife's kindle that she really wanted so badly and has never even turned on. It held a charge for like 3 months, it's amazing.

My S5 is currently at 67% battery. If I enable Ultra Power Saving mode right now, it says it estimates 8 days of standby time. *flex*

I have to turn off facebook push notifications because all my mother does all day apparently is post pictures of dogs that she doesn't own

It's "turned off" on my phone. I want to "turn it off" for good but then I wouldn't be able to post hilarious videos of sloths believing they could fly or videos of flying lawn mowers

In fact, completely remove the Facebook app from your phone. You can always access it just fine through your phone's browser. The facebook and facebook messenger apps are horrid, massive battery hogs and a laundry list of privacy concerns

joeboo_sl said:

In fact, completely remove the Facebook app from your phone. You can always access it just fine through your phone's browser. The facebook and facebook messenger apps are horrid, massive battery hogs and a laundry list of privacy concerns

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That's the plan now. Did you see where I said I'm using an iphone4 though? I can barely browse the web at all..... Two days until the new phone

BrutulTM_sl said:

Does she tag you in them? I don't get notifications every time someone posts a picture unless I'm in it.

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I think I added her as one of my special friends (or something) and it just pops up everything from her. I'm too lazy to login and shut it off so I just disabled it on my phone

Ok so I upgraded to my MotoX over an iPhone 4 just yesterday.

It feels like I was running a Pentium2 before and just upgrade to a 5th generation i7. I can't even believe I survived so long on such an old phone. Only one day in but really loving it.

The worst part is what they don't tell you. When you go from iPhone to Android, you need to disable iMessage - that part they tell you. What they don't tell you is you need to login to some apple site and de-register your phone number from iMessage. Then it takes so many hours to propagate through to your contacts and some of them still might try sending it as imessage.

I noticed on a few phones the imessages were failing and finally started going through as SMS. On another phone, it just kept sending them as imessages and not failing - however the Android phone won't ever receive them.

Obviously I can't go through my address book and guess who had iphones, so I just sit here hoping it sorts itself out. Anyone dealt with this?

Noodlemod_sl said:

Obviously I can't go through my address book and guess who had iphones, so I just sit here hoping it sorts itself out. Anyone dealt with this?

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You could say that

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