Denamian
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Was it just uninstallable bloatware or something else going on? My parents are going to be looking for new phones soon and the zenfone was one of the phones I was considering.
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jooka
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lots of uninstallable bloat, other than that it was a nice phone. With me being used to the Nexus line I didn't want to deal with it and since its on a corp plan I can't use custom ROMs to get rid of it.
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Crone
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Just text that to my friend. Let's see if it works.
Edit: Aww didn't work. Must of done it wrong. Doh.
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This has become the major driver for me now. I went from a N4 (loved it) to an HTC One M8 (hated it) to a N6 (love it). Manufacturer and carrier bloatware is getting beyond a joke. To be fair, there were other hardware issues with the M8 (notification area of the screen dies, happened to me twice) which meant I had to get rid of it but going back to a Nexus line felt like freedom. Hyperbole maybe but that is literally how it felt.
Denamian
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It's like buying a computer and letting your ISP determine what OS you run and what programs can't be uninstalled. That's why I always root my phones and install a custom rom, even nexus devices. Even if I'm not doing much that requires root, I'm going to do what I want with my damn device.
I'm switching over to Google Photo from Drop Box. I had been using drop box as short term storage for pics and video before moving them to my NAS for storage. Now that google up'd the game with unlimited storage I figured to put them all in the cloud and have a secondary back up. Since we take all pictures and video with our phones once i complete the first massive upload everything else should go there automatically.
I don't use Google+, have no circles or friends there so it should be a relatively safe and private place to store photos. I've also removed the ability for them to mine my photos for chromecast and all that junk.
I don't use Google+, have no circles or friends there so it should be a relatively safe and private place to store photos. I've also removed the ability for them to mine my photos for chromecast and all that junk.
Crone
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Wasn't the issue with Google Photo, and it sounds like you touched on it, but don't care, is that they are all on Google+? It's basically like uploading pics to Facebook everytime?
I've limited my pictures to only myself and I have no one in circles etc since I don't use Google + so not really an issue from what I can see.
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Google Photos is just a subsection of Google Drive. Backups are private and photos are only shown if the user expressly permits it.
Crone
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Then that's convenient. Sounds like finally a competitor to DropBox, with just as much convenience (auto-upload).
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Question for iPhone people.
I found an iPhone 4S out in one of my pastures. I made a half-assed attempt to find the owner but did not succeed. The thing charges and powers up but the screen is too smashed to unlock it. I just looked up how to replace the screen and the $40 kit to do it on iFixIt and I am thinking about doing it just because it sounds fun and it would be a way to replace the dying ipod that plugs into my alarm clock. My question is though, it's currently in airplane mode. If I take it out will the previous owner be able to locate it and wipe/reclaim it somehow? I am willing to give it back to them, but not after I spend $40 repairing it. Is there some way I can reset it/remove the sim card and make it "mine" or will there always be the chance that they will find it somehow and brick/wipe it? I'm not interested in activating it as a phone, but I would like to just use it around the house on wifi as a glorified ipod touch.
I found an iPhone 4S out in one of my pastures. I made a half-assed attempt to find the owner but did not succeed. The thing charges and powers up but the screen is too smashed to unlock it. I just looked up how to replace the screen and the $40 kit to do it on iFixIt and I am thinking about doing it just because it sounds fun and it would be a way to replace the dying ipod that plugs into my alarm clock. My question is though, it's currently in airplane mode. If I take it out will the previous owner be able to locate it and wipe/reclaim it somehow? I am willing to give it back to them, but not after I spend $40 repairing it. Is there some way I can reset it/remove the sim card and make it "mine" or will there always be the chance that they will find it somehow and brick/wipe it? I'm not interested in activating it as a phone, but I would like to just use it around the house on wifi as a glorified ipod touch.
Siliconemelons
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The blacklist or not does not matter if your not trying to activate it as a phone- you can use it as a ipod on wifi no problem- the rest depends on what they have done with it... but the standard "wipe" requires you to log into the current apple id account of the phone- I am sure there are ways around this, but I do not know of them.... that being said- assuming it has no lock screen- and you can get into it, and you DONT have the apple ID info to reset / wipe the phone- even on wifi they can do a find my iPhone... if they turned that feature on- I think 4s was before the default-on setting...but the user could have still turned it on.
