Essential Official Android Thread

[ExodusNirvana]

With cyanogenmod you can have whatever theme you want. Its AOSP with a shyt ton of extras. They've had this option since 2010.

Another thing I've been on 4.3 for 2 weeks. Note 2 with a big ass screen. And oh yeah a sdcard slot.

Shhhh...don't tell him...it's RBK he won't get it anyways

 

[diggy]

5.9" screen though

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Why get a mega when you can get a note breh?

Everyone I know is iphone stans, I'm the only droid gang member.

I just wanna pull that big ass phone out and watch them make the faces

 

[satam55]

Hey @Rohiggidy & anyone else, which of these manufacturers will more consistently update their Android devices?

None of the Nexus or Google Play editions smartphones fit the specific specs that I'm looking for, so I'm finna return my "Samsung Galaxy Victory" this week & I just bought a "Motorola Photon Q" a few hours ago on eBay because I'm hoping since Google owns Motorola, that Motorola will more consistently update & support their phones longer than the other manufacturers.

 

[Mac071415]

You loss. Take that shyt back. Resell on CL. Motorola isn't going to update older devices. The galaxy series are good. I'm talking the notes and the S2/S3/S4 . I know for a fact that the S2 got 4.1.2 and the s3 is still being updated. dying listen to rbk. Son doesn't know shyt. He just copies and pastes articles. You need anything about android pm me. Dude just stans whatever phone he has ATM. Dude did the same shyt with the iPhone and now he's doing it with his nexus. I've been android since the g1. Way back in 08.

 

[The Hovering Heed]

I dont know what used sprint phone to buy .

at first i thought i was fine with the nexus, but after reading thru some pages here im like what nexus is the best one & or is nexus the best?

help , i have the htc one but i want to go to ting & they use sprint not at&t

 

[Mac071415]

I dont know what used sprint phone to buy .

at first i thought i was fine with the nexus, but after reading thru some pages here im like what nexus is the best one & or is nexus the best?

help , i have the htc one but i want to go to ting & they use sprint not at&t

What features you need in a phone? Screen size, sdcard, etc

 

[The Hovering Heed]

What features you need in a phone? Screen size, sdcard, etc

Im sorry my specification game is off point. I have the HTC one x and im happy with it .so anything better will be a plus. Screen size same or bigger as well.

 

[illadope]

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116098411511850876544/posts/UkgaXa1oa6M

I don't know if anyone else has seen this program yet, but as far as I can tell the way it works is that the client does directly connect to Apple, but the data is all processed on the developer's server in China. This not only means that Apple can't just block them by IP address, but also that they get to keep the "secret sauce" on their servers (and potentially just run Apple code: there are some parts of the process in Apple's client code that is highly obfuscated).

Every packet from Apple is forwarded to 222.77.191.206, which then sends back exactly what data to send to Apple (along with extra packets that I presume tell the client what's happening so it can update its UI). Likewise, if the client wants to send a message, it first talks to the third-party server, which returns what needs to be sent to Apple. The data is re-encrypted as part of this process, but its size is deterministically unaffected.

Clearly, this is suboptimal from a security perspective. Is this the kind of thing that Google gets involved in? (+Nick Kralevich: I'm legitimately curious about that.) The developer is even responding to reviews about login issues asking only for user's Apple IDs, which makes it sound like even the authentication must be under his direct control (where it can be logged and debugged given only the username). Arguably, though, the app does do what it claims to do ;P.

Thank me later

 

[satam55]

You loss. Take that shyt back. Resell on CL. Motorola isn't going to update older devices. The galaxy series are good. I'm talking the notes and the S2/S3/S4 . I know for a fact that the S2 got 4.1.2 and the s3 is still being updated. dying listen to rbk. Son doesn't know shyt. He just copies and pastes articles. You need anything about android pm me. Dude just stans whatever phone he has ATM. Dude did the same shyt with the iPhone and now he's doing it with his nexus. I've been android since the g1. Way back in 08.

Well, I expect the manufacturers to keep their high-end phones updated. The question is will they keep their mid-range phones updated?

 

[Rohiggidy]

Hey @Rohiggidy & anyone else, which of these manufacturers will more consistently update their Android devices?

None of the Nexus or Google Play editions smartphones fit the specific specs that I'm looking for, so I'm finna return my "Samsung Galaxy Victory" this week & I just bought a "Motorola Photon Q" a few hours ago on eBay because I'm hoping since Google owns Motorola, that Motorola will more consistently update & support their phones longer than the other manufacturers.

You are buying out dated phones but samsung is the best at updates. Motorola is a new company. Don't expect any updates for those old devices. Learn to root and ROM your device

 

[Rohiggidy]

Don't download the imessage app

 

[satam55]

You loss. Take that shyt back. Resell on CL. Motorola isn't going to update older devices. The galaxy series are good. I'm talking the notes and the S2/S3/S4 . I know for a fact that the S2 got 4.1.2 and the s3 is still being updated. dying listen to rbk. Son doesn't know shyt. He just copies and pastes articles. You need anything about android pm me. Dude just stans whatever phone he has ATM. Dude did the same shyt with the iPhone and now he's doing it with his nexus. I've been android since the g1. Way back in 08.

You are buying out dated phones but samsung is the best at updates. Motorola is a new company. Don't expect any updates for those old devices. Learn to root and ROM your device

Damn!!! I wished I had asked y'all in this thread before I purchased that "Motorola Phonton Q" phone. Y'all got me now looking at the "Samsung Galaxy S Relay". It's the only Samsung smartphone that fits the specific specs I'm looking for AND has official CyanogenMod support.

 

[NatiboyB]

Damn!!! I wished I had asked y'all in this thread before I purchased that "Motorola Phonton Q" phone. Y'all got me now looking at the "Samsung Galaxy S Relay". It's the only Samsung smartphone that fits the specific specs I'm looking for AND has official CyanogenMod support.

Breh are you in a 3rd world country or something those are struggle phones.

 

[satam55]

Breh are you in a 3rd world country or something those are struggle phones.

Nah young. I watch a lot of older Standard Def (& sub-SD) TV shows & movies on my smartphone. But I don't want my SD videos being blown up to an HD resolution. So I need a phone with a SD resolution (854x480 or 800x480), but i'll settle for a qHD resolution phone. At the same time, I need my phone to be powerful enough to play 1080p video smoothly, so I can hook it up my phone to my TV via HDMI or MHL. So this pretty much leaves me having to look at mid-range smartphones.