Essential Official Android Thread

[Medulla Oblongata]

Don't know if this was posted or not.

Spoiler

What's new in Android 5.1

1. API Level is now 22. Android 5.0 has API Level of 21, so that means there must be some public API changes.

2. Battery use screen now includes signal strength indicator in green, yellow, and red.

3. New "screen pinning" guide when screen pinning is started.

4. Also, the option to lock when unpinning has been moved to be together with the screen pinning screen.

5. Animation on each tab of the Clock app.


6. Animation when turning on and off screen rotation.

7. Option to make the screen grayscale. From the Developer settings, go to the Simulate color space option, there is this new Monochromacy setting. This feels nostalgic.

8. The checkmark icon color on the "App installed" message is now correct. Previously it was white.

9. The ugly Wi-Fi Password form has now been fixed.

10. Inline (with circular animation) Wi-fi and Bluetooth settings from notification drawer.

11. AwesomePlayer is now deprecated.

12. Heads-up notification can be swiped up to dismiss it without deleting the notification entry from the notification drawer.

In 5.0, heads-up notifications can be swiped sideways or up, both resulting in deleting the notification.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I6gH7lqfiIViGiZ--fjKgkzalTv8VSlNzRRTkIu_kcg/mobilebasic?pli=1

 

[brickfare]

OnePlus One is still running absolutely flawlessly. I had doubts when I copped because of the low price, but this thing has exceeded my expectations. The Bliss Pop lollipop rom and Boeffla Kernel combo has this thing performing better than any phone I've ever used. Was messing with the iphone 6 the other day and shyt seemed slow and choppy in comparison. It'll take something crazy for me to ever buy another one with all the bloatware and overlay that most of the flagships ship with these days. Think it's gonna be all Nexus and Google Play Edition from here on out. The OS is just THAT much smoother without all the other bullshyt.

hmm, bliss pop and boeffla kernel, you say? everything stable and fast? does it perform better than stock or are there just additional features? i had a bad experience rooting and flashing custom roms with my gs3 (efs partition ended up corrupted after all that flashing) and i'm hesitant to run custom now

it's gonna be mid to late march before cm12s drops now and i'm anxious, shyt

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

hmm, bliss pop and boeffla kernel, you say? everything stable and fast? does it perform better than stock or are there just additional features? i had a bad experience rooting and flashing custom roms with my gs3 (efs partition ended up corrupted after all that flashing) and i'm hesitant to run custom now

it's gonna be mid to late march before cm12s drops now and i'm anxious, shyt

bro, WAY better than stock. Battery life is much better for me and the list of features is crazy.

Reduce the animations (I turn them off completely) and disable scrolling cache under the animation settings and the phone is crazy smooth. Completely stable, too. If anything, just make a Nandroid backup of your current setup, and if you don't like it after you flash the ROM, go back to what you had previously.

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

hmm, bliss pop and boeffla kernel, you say? everything stable and fast? does it perform better than stock or are there just additional features? i had a bad experience rooting and flashing custom roms with my gs3 (efs partition ended up corrupted after all that flashing) and i'm hesitant to run custom now

it's gonna be mid to late march before cm12s drops now and i'm anxious, shyt

Here are the XDA threads for both of them...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...m-bliss-stalk-team-bliss-bacon-10-28-t2921057

http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...ernel-boeffla-kernel-1-0-2-0-beta-09-t2899974

 

[BobbyBooshay]

OPO making their own OS

 

[R=G]

Might get this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00NXRUYOE/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A30J8WNR0X68TT

 

[Kitsch]

Motorola are making an announcement tomorrow.

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

I just found an app that allows you to instantly stream torrents (similar to Joker.org), but it looks like the app is already down

 

[BobbyBooshay]

Leaked M9

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/24/htc-one-m9-video-leak/

 

[Sad Bunny]

S6

I don't know of I want that Edge version.

I hate those wallets cases and I don't be finding that much to have to see the side of the screen

 

[BobbyBooshay]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/25/8106373/samsung-galaxy-s6-spoof-concepts

LOL

 

[Frida Giezman]

I just found an app that allows you to instantly stream torrents (similar to Joker.org), but it looks like the app is already down

Movies?

showbox works pretty well for that

 

[Frida Giezman]

so if i put all my music into my google play library i'll have it all on my phone without it being physically on my phone anytime i connect to wifi?

you dont have to be on wifi

you can stream the music on 4g (or even 3g) as well.

imo works just the same as streaming over wifi or having the music stored on your phone

only downside is you cant stream your music when you lose reception like in the subway or something

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

Movies?

showbox works pretty well for that

Yeah, I know, but it's still nice to have, lol. Oh well.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Galaxy what?

S5