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First off, this is my first post (correction, THREAD), so I'm very sorry if it's not in the right section..
this one's for all you talented developers, i know you guys are good, so maybe take a look and tell me the feasability of this...
Well, I had an idea for an app, that assists in those moments when a phone is lost/stolen that would utilize the gps, g sensor, and or bluetooth/wifi...
something like this,
say you loose your phone. Your buddy pulls out his smartphone, and opens the same app (you would already have installed the app on yours or this would be useless) and he could go online, or something, open his bluetooth,,, something, that would sync to your device, and activate the app in the background. Then your device would give away its location, and info regaurding if it is totaly stationary (like left it in the crack of a sofa) or non stationary (someone who just stole it is holding it, playing with it) and all this without the thief knowing, it all runs in the back ground. Utilizing the compass on your buddies phone, it will guide you in the right direction, and, i dunno, beep or flash like a radar indicating distance to stolen/lost phone...
now, sometimes the battery runs flat and then you lose your phone, or the thieves played with it enough and theres no juice left. One could maybe solve this solution by tricking the OS into thinking it has, lets say 5% less battery than it actually has, this shutting the phone off when only 5% (or however much an app like this would need) remains, so the app can run, without turning the screen on i could imagine you could get a good 20-30 minutes. i think it should be an app that runs totaly in the background, so in the case that its stolen, the thief doesnt run away or rip the battery out to shake you.
There could also be a 'panic' button, similair to a car alarm panic button, the would set an alarm off (maybe a really loud annoying siren/beeping) that can only be disabled with a pass code... and if your cam has a flash, that could be flashing too.....
another idea, if the whole wireless doesnt work that way (I love tech, but i can't say that i know exactly how everythign works) maybe a high pitched tone could be emitted, on a certain frequency just above what we can hear, and could be read by your buddies phone, indicating relative distance and location... and annoy all the dogs in the park.
ah, somehow i think this is 90% not possible, but it would be cool it if was.
Maybe something like this already exists, maybe not. I didn't really do my homework.
let me know what you think!
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apologies for my horrendous spelling...
it's just been going downhill these days.
do your homework. there's already apps on this board that are exactly doing this. Basically anything you wrote except messing around with your dogs. oh and bluetooth is only for small range connections as is wifi! usually such applications are controlled by hidden sms messages. scroll down few more pages and the first app should already jump into your face.
oh, really?
Like i said, I didnt do too much reasearch into the subject, i probably should have though...
well, thats great then! is there an app with all of these features? because if, then i can stop dreaming and start downloading!!!
thanks :=)
Is it just me or does it seem kind of suspicious all of these "expert" review sites came out of the blue and bashed the 360 's battery life and performance before giving it a proper test? Also suspicious how most of these sites are either pro apple or pro samsung ( don't get me wrong I love samsung too). If you check the reviews coming out now from sites that actually know how to review (Gizmodo, phandroid, droidlife, anandtech etc...) they all say the battery life is perfectly fine. Even here on our forums everyone is confused as to how these review sites got such "terrible" battery life... yet we all are consistently getting decent life with and without the ambient sensor on. Looks to me like jealous competitors paying off the media to bash the 360 before it can even get off the ground. Just my 2 cents...
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id hate to see that happen but yes most of the sites that had bad early reviews are sites with clear apple bias proved multiple times. Im hoping maybe they just had early software or hardware
Idk if I agree with you.. Those media sites probably only got a hold of the watch on the 4th and had to write a review within a day because the watch was released on the 5th... One day is never enough for a good judgment of battery life
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nah, probably all the tech sites got this on their hands already couple of weeks ago but since they have embargo to post anything before the 5th they couldn't say anything. I was actually suspecting this already some weeks ago since all the major tech-sites went silent on Moto360.
They have had their fare share to test the moto 360 and if they say the battery is awful I am willing to believe them. I mean the battery size is very small and for some reason Moto went for a very power hungry processor. I have no idea why they made such a big mistake but this is what we have now.
Actually I find most websites extremely Pro-Motorola, with "this is the first real smartwatch" and the like comments.
The original Galaxy Gear look like a "Smart Watch" to me.
Moto fans sound like apple sheep, look Motorola invented the first smart watch.
The latest battery life test I seen said the watch was turned on 7:30 am and went on until 11 pm and had 28% left.
Well my Gear Live has the same battery life but I do not have to flick my wrist or press and button to turn the display on.
If I used the Gear Live the same way it last 2 days easy.
In ambient mode they say 13 hours???
Really go out in the evening and your "cool" looking watch turns into dead weight.
You do not speak for everybody, why not buy a round phone?
Because you do things like read email and the round shape is a waste of screen space.
The same can be said with a watch, I read emails on my watch.... Why would I want it to be round.
I have since the age of digital watches always had a rectangular watch, and this means since the 90s
but face it Motorola is a Chinese company (soon) you do not have to be loyal to it, and the battery life of the Moto 360 is joke.
Because I don't want to look like a dork?
Plus, that's not how I'd like to use my smartwatch- I don't want it for reading emails, I just need to know that I got an email. If I want to read it, I'd just pull my phone out and read it. Much in the same way, I don't use my phone to write up long replies to emails, that's not what it's for, I use my laptop to do that, after I've read it on my phone.
Eliad Kimhy said:
Because I don't want to look like a dork?
Plus, that's not how I'd like to use my smartwatch- I don't want it for reading emails, I just need to know that I got an email. If I want to read it, I'd just pull my phone out and read it. Much in the same way, I don't use my phone to write up long replies to emails, that's not what it's for, I use my laptop to do that, after I've read it on my phone.
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this is exactly how I plan on using the watch. Sure, in a pinch I can read the emails on my phone, but it's not ideal. Same thing with my phone... Sure, I can respond to emails from my phone, but ideally I would reply from my computer.
tsy87 said:
this is exactly how I plan on using the watch. Sure, in a pinch I can read the emails on my phone, but it's not ideal. Same thing with my phone... Sure, I can respond to emails from my phone, but ideally I would reply from my computer.
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me too. more-so to know if the message i received needs immediate response or if it can wait. some people expect the watch to be more than just an extension of a notification center.
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Is it just me or does it seem kind of suspicious all of these "expert" review sites came out of the blue and bashed the 360 's battery life and performance before giving it a proper test? Also suspicious how most of these sites are either pro apple or pro samsung ( don't get me wrong I love samsung too). If you check the reviews coming out now from sites that actually know how to review (Gizmodo, phandroid, droidlife, anandtech etc...) they all say the battery life is perfectly fine. Even here on our forums everyone is confused as to how these review sites got such "terrible" battery life... yet we all are consistently getting decent life with and without the ambient sensor on. Looks to me like jealous competitors paying off the media to bash the 360 before it can even get off the ground. Just my 2 cents...
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no doubt in my mind.
i cant wait until google updates android wear.
I dunno.. I am not having battery issues but i find the watch extremely underwhelming so far and more annoying than helpful. I dont like that the person sitting next to me can easily read a text sent to me if my wrist is in view. I don't like how cumbersome the UI feels (yes i know its an early iteration and will get better) and i find that since im such a habitual phone checker anyway.. all the watch does it make me look at the same message twice because im going to open my phone to respond to the message anyway. I'm not gonna look like an idiot **** tracy dictating a text into my watch.
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I dunno.. I am not having battery issues but i find the watch extremely underwhelming so far and more annoying than helpful. I dont like that the person sitting next to me can easily read a text sent to me if my wrist is in view. I don't like how cumbersome the UI feels (yes i know its an early iteration and will get better) and i find that since im such a habitual phone checker anyway.. all the watch does it make me look at the same message twice because im going to open my phone to respond to the message anyway. I'm not gonna look like an idiot **** tracy dictating a text into my watch.
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It's obviously not for everyone. For me personally, I started wearing watches recently so instead of having to whip out my phone to check the time, I can just look down on my wrist. Having a smart watch will now allow me to determine if a message is worth responding to immediately or if it can wait without having to use my phone to check.
Isn't it possible that some of these reviews were written about a pre-release device? I know that the embargo was only lifted on Friday, but we have seen these things in the wild for the past 3-4 months on the wrists of various pop-tech people.
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Is it just me or does it seem kind of suspicious all of these "expert" review sites came out of the blue and bashed the 360 's battery life and performance before giving it a proper test? Also suspicious how most of these sites are either pro apple or pro samsung ( don't get me wrong I love samsung too). If you check the reviews coming out now from sites that actually know how to review (Gizmodo, phandroid, droidlife, anandtech etc...) they all say the battery life is perfectly fine. Even here on our forums everyone is confused as to how these review sites got such "terrible" battery life... yet we all are consistently getting decent life with and without the ambient sensor on. Looks to me like jealous competitors paying off the media to bash the 360 before it can even get off the ground. Just my 2 cents...
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No, "everybody" here is not confused. Many, many people are confirming what the reviews have said, or even saying that they can't get into double digits in terms of hours of battery life with light to moderate use.
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No, "everybody" here is not confused. Many, many people are confirming what the reviews have said, or even saying that they can't get into double digits in terms of hours of battery life with light to moderate use.
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Uhh, where are the many people? I'm on here and reddit's Moto 360 section. Almost everyone is claiming positive battery life, I've seen one post that was less than a day and that's because it was their first day using it so they were constantly messing with it. I'm at 18 hours and 28% left, I even used it for some navigation, a lot of email/FB/SMS checks, just messing with it, etc.
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I dunno.. I am not having battery issues but i find the watch extremely underwhelming so far and more annoying than helpful. I dont like that the person sitting next to me can easily read a text sent to me if my wrist is in view. I don't like how cumbersome the UI feels (yes i know its an early iteration and will get better) and i find that since im such a habitual phone checker anyway.. all the watch does it make me look at the same message twice because im going to open my phone to respond to the message anyway. I'm not gonna look like an idiot **** tracy dictating a text into my watch.
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Nobody can easily read your text message from your watch no matter how close they are sitting next to you. For starters normal human posture is going to make the watch appear upside-down to anyone next to you. On the off-chance you have your wrist angled in such a manner that the screen is oriented upright, they'd still have to be gawking at your wrist to read anything from it, something that I'm sure you would notice and would be very awkward for them to pull off. Finally, at least on the G watch, the text message is only displayed when you tap the message. All anyone would actually see is a notification from the senders name, not the message itself. There are plenty of events that dont require you to look at your phone to acknowledge. Reminders, timers, alerts, etc. Half the emails and SMS I get do not require a response so I just dismiss/delete them from the watch face.
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I knew these battery life reviews were trash before the watch was even released. I could just tell from the reviewers attitude that they either held some sort of bias against the device, or they were just typical review clowns who didnt really use it at all. Whether they got their hands on one a week in advance or a day in advance, I think it's obvious they only tested it for about 2 hours, saw battery life was down to 80% with screen on full brightness messing with it nonstop, and then decided they could just average out the usage for the remainder of the day so they could get on to the next review. I mean honestly, you think a reviewer who has to write 10 articles by the end of the week actually sat there and played with this watch nonstop the whole time? Hell no, they just rushed through it.
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Uhh, where are the many people? I'm on here and reddit's Moto 360 section. Almost everyone is claiming positive battery life, I've seen one post that was less than a day and that's because it was their first day using it so they were constantly messing with it. I'm at 18 hours and 28% left, I even used it for some navigation, a lot of email/FB/SMS checks, just messing with it, etc.
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Balderdash. In this very forum, probably 2/3 of posts are saying 12-14 hours tops, and probably a full 1/3 are saying they can't even manage that long. Very, very few are saying longer than 18-20 hours.
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Balderdash. In this very forum, probably 2/3 of posts are saying 12-14 hours tops, and probably a full 1/3 are saying they can't even manage that long. Very, very few are saying longer than 18-20 hours.
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Maybe I'm doing it wrong, lol. I'm not as active in this subforum as Reddit, so I'm going off what I see over there and the few that I've seen here. I'm at 4 hours and 87% right now, so I don't know unless these people are using always on screens.
UHey gang,
About a week ago I got ****-faced and woke up the next morning to find my beloved S Pen was lost. Every now and then, my phone is still delivering the S Pen detached message to me. It might just be in my head but I feel like 90% of the time that I get the message is in one particular spot in my apartment. Is it possible that the phone is trying to tell me that S Pen is nearby, or am I just crazy?
Thanks in advance!
P.s. I'm aware that there is an option to turn the message off.
UPDATE:
So here's the deal for anyone who's interested. First off, I have found no definitive information anywhere on the internet so far regarding whether or not the Note 4 will detect a lost S Pen, or more specifically, an S Pen that has been lost for a day or longer, and "notify" you of its potential presence by displaying the S Pen Detached message, sometimes even 3 or 4 separate times in about a minute or 2 (in my experience, at least).
I did not find my S Pen in the area of my apartment where the message seemed to be displaying itself most frequently. What I did find in that area of my apartment, on the table (which in and of itself, as well as the space under it and the chair I sit in, make up the majority of this "area" of my place) hiding under a few random pieces of paper, was the baggie of extra S Pen tips that came with the phone. When I got the phone, I didn't know at the time what the heck was in the baggie, assumed it was put in there by mistake, and carelessly tossed it aside, where it eventually became covered by some random papers and sat idly, from the day I got the phone. Which poses another question in the midst of this conundrum. Could the baggie of extra S pen tips alone have somehow been being detected by my phone, causing the S Pen Detached message to display itself, sporadically I might add, as I rose and walked away from said table? The reason I say sporadically is because it wasn't happening anytime near every time I got up from the table and walked away. Less than 30% of the time, I dare say.
Alas, two days ago my beloved S Pen was found stuck in the passenger seat of my Ford F-150, while I was searching for a business card to give to someone else. In case your interested, I did find a stray business card, but it was half covered in dirt, I decided to give it the person anyway (apologizing for having only a dirt encrusted card, of course), they haven't called.
Anyway, I know i didn't mention this earlier, only really for the sake of keeping my query concise, but if there was any place other than that spot in my apartment that I noticed the S Pen Detached message displaying itself more frequently than anywhere else, it was certainly whilst exiting my car. Again, this could all be in my head, but I think I'm onto something here.
Verdict: Inconclusive. Just do the best you can not to lose the damn S Pen. And if it is lost, do the best you can not to lose hope!
OMG find it. It's possible it's near by. Don't buy the one from ebay if you get a new one, there absolutely fake. There made by wacom and a dealer only item.
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Yea I'm pretty sure if that warning goes off it means the pen is nearby. Keep looking, the pen is made by Wacom like sandman said so you would have to contact Samsung to ship you a new pen from wacom if that's even possible.
Has anyone been on a phone call with their 5x, reclining or lying down for a minute, when the other person complained that your voice suddenly cut out, became muffled, and/or sounds "robotic"?
This is easily reproducible on two new 5x's I bought a month apart. In fact, it's so easy to reproduce that I'm surprised that I haven't (yet) found a thread here on XDA about it. I guess since so few people use their phones to actually talk anymore, and since it only happens when reclining, people probably just chalk it up to bad reception and forget about it.
But there's a thread on the Google support forums and one reddit comment from more than a year ago about it, suggesting to me that this has been happening since the 5x was released. That's not reassuring me about the chances of this being fixed, which is frustrating since the call quality switches from great to terrible entirely based on posture, so it ought to be fixable in software, right? The Google forum thread describes a workaround of disabling the "fluence" noise cancellation entirely, which is not ideal.
(I can't include links to the threads since this is my first post.)
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Has anyone been on a phone call with their 5x, reclining or lying down for a minute, when the other person complained that your voice suddenly cut out, became muffled, and/or sounds "robotic"?
This is easily reproducible on two new 5x's I bought a month apart. In fact, it's so easy to reproduce that I'm surprised that I haven't (yet) found a thread here on XDA about it. I guess since so few people use their phones to actually talk anymore, and since it only happens when reclining, people probably just chalk it up to bad reception and forget about it.
But there's a thread on the Google support forums and one reddit comment from more than a year ago about it, suggesting to me that this has been happening since the 5x was released. That's not reassuring me about the chances of this being fixed, which is frustrating since the call quality switches from great to terrible entirely based on posture, so it ought to be fixable in software, right? The Google forum thread describes a workaround of disabling the "fluence" noise cancellation entirely, which is not ideal.
(I can't include links to the threads since this is my first post.)
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I’m having similar issues, although I never tested whether it might have anything to do with how I’m holding my phone. For me, it’s mostly when I’m having phone calls in my room that people complain to me I that I'd sound like I’m underwater, or standing a million miles away from my phone. Never had anyone tell me those things when I'm talking on the phone outside.
First thought it would be a network issue, but recently had a few Skype calls where the same thing happened.
Just out of curiosity, does your phone’s compass lose its calibration quite often as well?
Google Maps asks me to calibrate the orientation of the phone pretty regularly. A friend of mine with a 5x said that his orientation is always off by a certain amount.
Still, I think the phone can probably be in nearly any orientation while held against someone's ear, so it shouldn't be trusting that to switch into this cancel-almost-everything noise cancellation mode. I'm not sure that there is any use case that is well-served by the way the microphones behave in this mode.
Please try making a voice call and recline for about a minute, and see if the problem repeats itself! You can send feedback about the device in the Settings -> About section.
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I'm not sure that there is any use case that is well-served by the way the microphones behave in this mode.
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Yeah, true. That's why I thought it would be a hardware issue and considered sending it in for repair.
I'll let you know about how my phone behaves when I lean back when I get the chance to do that during a voice call.
EDIT: Sorry, started Googleing around only now. I came across the reddit-thread you mentioned, plus a couple other articles that mention poor call quality with Nexus 6P and 5X devices. All of them suspect it's a software issue, but it looks like it's been around since at least late 2015.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/4askst/nexus_5x_microphone_not_working/
http://indianexpress.com/article/te...sers-complaining-of-poor-call-quality-report/
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/having-nexus-6p-microphone-issues-170254603.html
I just ran a test. My problem, as silly as it sounds, has apparently been that I don't usually let my phone touch my cheek when making voice calls. I hold the speaker against my ear, but then point the rest of my phone away from my face. When I press the phone against my cheek, everything works as it should. Figured it out by calling my Nexus via Skype.
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When I press the phone against my cheek, everything works as it should.
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I've seen other people report that, and my 5x's also drastically muffle my voice the instant they're not touching my face, but they both ALSO do that after leaning back for a few moments, regardless of how firmly the phone is pressed to my face. Does yours not do that?
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Does yours not do that?
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Tested it again and I'm sorry, but noise cancellation doesn't go rampant on mine when I lean back. It's all been as it should.
um.z said:
Tested it again and I'm sorry, but noise cancellation doesn't go rampant on mine when I lean back. It's all been as it should.
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Which Android version are you on? Also, did you try lying down, or just leaning back a little? I thought the problem must be widespread because it's been happening on two different phones I ordered a month apart.
I've been getting a lot of "unknown" callers for about a year now. On more than one occasion, it's been at the most inconvenient times. Like when I'm in the middle of a web search or something. I've often thought it was odd that it almost always happened when I was actually using the device.