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Ideas concerning implementation of this are welcome!
My thoughts so far:
- The speakerphone button serves no purpose for me so I will be removing it and modding a manually activated flashlight there.
- Not sure how it will be powered yet!
That's an interesting MOD idea...
Powering it from the main battery would be ideal, as it'd be charged up whenever the phone is.
You could perhaps modify the battery to add 2 contacts that are positioned so that 2 sprung contacts added to the back cover would touch them when the cover is in place. These could then go through an LED + resistor + tiny switch. Not sure where the Resistor would fit, but there must be a bit of space somewhere.
DavidMc0 said:
That's an interesting MOD idea...
Powering it from the main battery would be ideal, as it'd be charged up whenever the phone is.
You could perhaps modify the battery to add 2 contacts that are positioned so that 2 sprung contacts added to the back cover would touch them when the cover is in place. These could then go through an LED + resistor + tiny switch. Not sure where the Resistor would fit, but there must be a bit of space somewhere.
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I'm pretty sure that the functionality exists on the mobo for a flashlight.
If someone is willing to debug and trace the tracks, I doubt it is that dissimilar to previous models that have flashlight on them. All we need is someone who is well versed with hardware to map out the mobo.
If we were able to locate the necessary tracks on the board (if they exist) then we would be able to utilise the software to control the LED.
I would be very interested in this functionality as I miss the flashlight a great deal, not that it was ever any use for photos, it made a great pocket torch though.
Has anyone managed to track down a service manual for the Rhodium yet?
Cheers,
Beasty
Hi DaveMC0,
My thoughts exactly.
I miss this functionallity greatly - although like Beast I never really used it as a flash - it was a perfectly functional torch for me!
I will not attempt this without sourcing a Rhodium Technical Manual first tho.. or a little more info on the "motherboard tracks".
I will post my efforts here
Anyone ever do anymore work on this? I've love to get a small led flashlight (torch for you Europeans) working. Right now I'm using the extended battery from Seidio along with their new back. It ends up putting a LOT of spare room in the back... I'm just not sure how to go about putting a light in there.
I've had my Galaxy Nexus for a month now, and I've put my Nexus One up for sale on an auction site. I love the Galaxy Nexus, but here's why I'll miss my Nexus One:
Car Home & Car Home Launcher - These should be stock on every Android. I've added them to my /system/apps folder. ;-)
FM Radio - The Broadcom chipset is capable of FM radio, but Samsung has disabled it. Why?
Trackball - I miss the trackball. It was especially useful when using a terminal emulator.
Charge indicator LED - The amber/green indicator for charging/full charge was a nice little nuance.
Came with power cable & USB cable (instead of USB cable and AC adapter for USB cable) - How cheap do you have to be to not give you one of each cable?
Came with headphones with mic and media controls. - Again, why did Samsung cheap out on this? How much would it have cost to throw in this cable?
Had a Desktop Dock with pogo pins and Bluetooth Audio - Not a big deal, but I'll miss it.
Had a Car Dock with pogo pins and Bluetooth Audio - I miss this more than anything else. I bought the POS Verizon mount for $40, and promptly returned it when I realized it didn't have a power cord/car charger, Bluetooth, and automatic pairing that Nexus One car dock had.
More application compatibility - ICS compatibility for apps seems to be kind of slow to roll out.
Permanent Menu button - I'm not an Apple user, stop taking away my buttons! I don't miss it much, but it is kind of annoying to have the new triple-dot icon at the top of some apps, and at the bottom of others.
Permanent Search button - Again, stop taking away my buttons.
MicroSD card slot - I have mixed feelings about this. I don't like the complete lack of expandable storage, but I DO like not having to hack my phone to move apps and data to /mnt/sdcard and /sd-ext. 32GB of built-in storage is nice.
It's a good thing I have a ZAGGsparq 2.0, as the Galaxy Nexus sucks down battery like crazy.
I don't have a belt clip/case for this huge phone!
AT&T's GSM 3G (HSPA) is MUCH faster than Verizon's CDMA (EVDO) 3G when I'm not in a 4G LTE area.
I've adjusted to most of these changes, but I'm writing this because I think Nexus One owners should be aware of what they're losing when they upgrade.
Now that that is out of the way, I LOVE the following things about my Galaxy Nexus:
The huge screen
The speed
It doesn't lock up/freeze/reboot. Battery pulls used to be about a daily exercise for me on the Nexus One. I have YET to have to do a battery pull on my Galaxy Nexus.
4G LTE is awesome.
ROMs will give you your buttons back.
Lightflow can be used to create a charging indicator.
I asked this in other thread but are you guys noticing the led is like many colors in one? More specifically three cause I know that's how it makes other colors but are you guys seeing those three obviously.
Like they don't blend in to make the right color. They do but its like crappy.
Idk how to describe it.
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Yep, I got my menu button back on my GSM Galaxy Nexus. I hate that they took away the menu button. It makes the phone so much harder to use one-handed.
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claud_face said:
I asked this in other thread but are you guys noticing the led is like many colors in one? More specifically three cause I know that's how it makes other colors but are you guys seeing those three obviously.
Like they don't blend in to make the right color. They do but its like crappy.
Idk how to describe it.
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The LED is prismatic but only when displaying white. Any other color it's perfect.
claud_face said:
I asked this in other thread but are you guys noticing the led is like many colors in one? More specifically three cause I know that's how it makes other colors but are you guys seeing those three obviously.
Like they don't blend in to make the right color. They do but its like crappy.
Idk how to describe it.
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I know what you're saying, and I agree but it only happens for some of the colors, such as purple and orange for me. Green, red, light blue, all work perfectly. It may just be something with light flow though
As mentioned permanent home and search buttons can be fixed with zip file if you're stock and it's baked into most of the major ROMs now (at least the option to customize it)
Also the otterbox defender series cases have available belt clips, so does seidio
The FM radio point did annoy me as well though
Green and red and blue are perfect because its just the one color shining. My sky blue is very close but on bottom there is a little green seen. Idk maybe my leds brightness are uneven idk.
I don't care that much but knowing other colors are perfect for others bothers me.
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I agree partially and fully on some of your reasons. Until the other day. Used my N1 extensively to flash some things and guess what? The N1 is too small now after using the sleek and sexy gnex. And the touchscreen is crap on the net. Pure crap. After you got used to it you could live but the atrix and gnex have spoiled me in that area.
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Wow! $50 for a clip/case
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Also the otterbox defender series cases have available belt clips, so does seidio
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Thanks for letting me know about these two great places for accessories.
I just priced the Otterbox Defender for the Galaxy Nexus, as well as the Seidio accessories. $49.95 is out of my league for a clip/case. The $69.99 for the 3800mAh Seidio extended battery is tempting, but I'll have to wait.
I've got $20.00 invested in a RocketFish clam shell style case, and I keep my phone in my trousers pocket (NOT with my keys). I also have another $15.00 invested in a ZAGG invisibleSHIELD to protect the screen.
claud_face said:
Green and red and blue are perfect because its just the one color shining. My sky blue is very close but on bottom there is a little green seen. Idk maybe my leds brightness are uneven idk.
I don't care that much but knowing other colors are perfect for others bothers me.
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Other multicolor LEDs will have similar results. You are just nitpicking it, because its larger than a lot of other leds in phones. Therefore it is more noticeable.
Which ROMs please?
joshnichols189 said:
ROMs will give you your buttons back.
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Got any suggestion as to which ROMs? I tried flashing the replacement SystemUI from Paul (at another forum) with Menu buttons on both sides and a search button, but it apparently is not compatible with the LTE/Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus, and I had to manually restore my SystemUI to get things working correctly again.
Lightflow
joshnichols189 said:
Lightflow can be used to create a charging indicator.
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Thanks for this. Lightflow is doing the job for me. It's slightly annoying that it will only activate the LED when the screen is off, but admittedly, that's when I need the LED to work the most. ;-)
chriv said:
Got any suggestion as to which ROMs? I tried flashing the replacement SystemUI from Paul (at another forum) with Menu buttons on both sides and a search button, but it apparently is not compatible with the LTE/Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus, and I had to manually restore my SystemUI to get things working correctly again.
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Almost all of the ROMs now a days have this feature. I personally perfer codenamedroid. AOKP is also another popular ROM.
What I miss about my Nexus 1:
- Size (double edged sword because i also like the large screen size of the GN when surfing/typing)
- Battery Life: Had much better battery life on N1 ATT GSM than on VZW GN/With Exentended battery
Stability:
- Never had any freezing w/N1 (was stock & rock stable). GN have had random reboots (about 1 every third day),
GN has odd screen unlock problem where the pattern dots don't appear unless after i wake up the phone, i hold the power button in until prompted to turn off phone). goes away for a while if i reboot phone (or it reboots itself lol)
GN has odd stack problem where after using a lot of apps, the back button starts unwinding all kinds of different apps even once it gets back to "Home" screen. When the stack gets too large, shortcut icons on home screens don't open the correct app. I'll have to hit back 20 times then everything starts working normally again.
GN has odd stack issue with Exchange email notifications: opening an email from the new mail notification seems to open the entire stack of new notifications. Even after the notification has been dismissed and a new one generated. (ie get 10 emails, dismiss new notification, get one more, use notification to open the newest mail, start hitting back button and it will cycle through all 11 emails, alternating with the inbox.)
What i love about the GN:
Screen size for typing/browsing: my hither to heavily used tablet has started gathering dust
VZW 4g speed
General snappiness of ICS (well really the new processor/memory as i still think ICS is a bit of a pig resource-wise)
jkhouw1 said:
What I miss about my Nexus 1:
- Size (double edged sword because i also like the large screen size of the GN when surfing/typing)
- Battery Life: Had much better battery life on N1 ATT GSM than on VZW GN/With Exentended battery
Stability:
- Never had any freezing w/N1 (was stock & rock stable). GN have had random reboots (about 1 every third day),
GN has odd screen unlock problem where the pattern dots don't appear unless after i wake up the phone, i hold the power button in until prompted to turn off phone). goes away for a while if i reboot phone (or it reboots itself lol)
GN has odd stack problem where after using a lot of apps, the back button starts unwinding all kinds of different apps even once it gets back to "Home" screen. When the stack gets too large, shortcut icons on home screens don't open the correct app. I'll have to hit back 20 times then everything starts working normally again.
GN has odd stack issue with Exchange email notifications: opening an email from the new mail notification seems to open the entire stack of new notifications. Even after the notification has been dismissed and a new one generated. (ie get 10 emails, dismiss new notification, get one more, use notification to open the newest mail, start hitting back button and it will cycle through all 11 emails, alternating with the inbox.)
What i love about the GN:
Screen size for typing/browsing: my hither to heavily used tablet has started gathering dust
VZW 4g speed
General snappiness of ICS (well really the new processor/memory as i still think ICS is a bit of a pig resource-wise)
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Nexus one had all kinds of issues as well including multi touch malfunction and a terrible battery life.
Hi,
Have just bought a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, and I'm sad to say that I'm not at all impressed. Here are my findings so fare:
- Losing conection, people say the try to call me but often they can't reach me.
- Power button stop responding, can't turn phone on.
- Phone scratch to easy. after two weeks it looks like it's 2 years old.
- If phone is not in stamina mode battery don't last very long.
I don't know if it's just me, but I am not happy so far.
brochs said:
Hi,
- Losing conection, people say the try to call me but often they can't reach me.
- Power button stop responding, can't turn phone on.
- Phone scratch to easy. after two weeks it looks like it's 2 years old.
- If phone is not in stamina mode battery don't last very long.
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1. I've never read about this issue.
2. You mean like this: LINK?
3. Yes, it scratches easily. A screen protector is recommended for the back and for the front too. Thread: LINK
4. A battery bug (wakelocks) is known for the Z1C. Is there a sonnyericsson thing in your battery stats? Try using 2G, it's a workaround for this issue.
Rototti said:
1. I've never read about this issue.
2. You mean like this: LINK?
3. Yes, it scratches easily. A screen protector is recommended for the back and for the front too. Thread: LINK
4. A battery bug (wakelocks) is known for the Z1C. Is there a sonnyericsson thing in your battery stats? Try using 2G, it's a workaround for this issue.
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1. Could be I'm in a area with weak signals, but with my previous phones this was never a problem.
2. Yes, exactly like this. This just confirms there is some kind of defect with this phone.
3. To bad Sony don't include this then. I guess they know about this problem.
4. com.sonyericsson.android. If I have to use 2G for my phone to not eat battery I would say this is a major problem. If the problem is known why dont they fix it?
brochs said:
1. Could be I'm in a area with weak signals, but with my previous phones this was never a problem.
2. Yes, exactly like this. This just confirms there is some kind of defect with this phone.
3. To bad Sony don't include this then. I guess they know about this problem.
4. com.sonyericsson.android. If I have to use 2G for my phone to not eat battery I would say this is a major problem. If the problem is known why dont they fix it?
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2. Maybe this is a software issue too, because it just delays and it's not the problem with the button itself.
4. This is a fairly new device, fixing it takes some time I guess. Perhaps posts in Xperia Care and emails to Sony make it faster.
brochs said:
Hi,
Have just bought a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, and I'm sad to say that I'm not at all impressed. Here are my findings so fare:
- Losing conection, people say the try to call me but often they can't reach me.
- Power button stop responding, can't turn phone on.
- Phone scratch to easy. after two weeks it looks like it's 2 years old.
- If phone is not in stamina mode battery don't last very long.
I don't know if it's just me, but I am not happy so far.
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It's strange how variable people's experience has been with this phone. I think I've been lucky, as I haven't had the same problems as many have:
1. Never had this.
2. Never had this. Always responds just as quickly each time, regardless of use.
3. The ASF is not great quality ... I have no front protector (one was included in the box by Sony but it's crappy) and a carbon decal on the back. After 2 weeks using a pouch it still looks as good as new to me, without a single scratch. I just wish it had a proper anti-static coating.
4. Battery life has been awesome even not in stamina mode. The 3G bug is annoying and should be fixed, but it hasn't exactly killed my battery life, just strained the phone more than it should.
I've also not seen any of the build quality issues like gaps or squeaks in the frame, and no issues at all with the JDI panel. Cross fingers ...
ghtop said:
It's strange how variable people's experience has been with this phone. I think I've been lucky, as I haven't had the same problems as many have:
1. Never had this.
2. Never had this. Always responds just as quickly each time, regardless of use.
3. The ASF is not great quality ... I have no front protector (one was included in the box by Sony but it's crappy) and a carbon decal on the back. After 2 weeks using a pouch it still looks as good as new to me, without a single scratch. I just wish it had a proper anti-static coating.
4. Battery life has been awesome even not in stamina mode. The 3G bug is annoying and should be fixed, but it hasn't exactly killed my battery life, just strained the phone more than it should.
I've also not seen any of the build quality issues like gaps or squeaks in the frame, and no issues at all with the JDI panel. Cross fingers ...
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Can you share your carbon skin picrures for your device?
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brochs said:
- Power button stop responding, can't turn phone on.
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Here's a relevant topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653618
Oppo N3 Review Thread
Hey all
This thread is to collect the available reviews for the Oppo N3 into one place. Feel free to post reviews found on the web or when the device becomes available create your own:good: If anybody feels one should be added to the OP, please PM me. I'll kick off with a few i found on the net:highfive:
Reviews/Previews
http://www.stuff.tv/oppo/oppo-n3/review
Stuff.tv Hands-on/Preview
http://www.cnet.com/uk/products/oppo-n3/
CNET - Hands-on
Video Reviews/Previews
Android Authority - First Look
Good And uPDATE
So Nice i See Specification .But Cost Some High
Review Quick and Dirty
Bought it today after comparing it with Mate 7 and here is my quick and dirty review:
Plus
+ very impressed by the motorised camera
use of o click: can control manually in small increments, on screen or through the o click;
+ sound quality and volume;
+ extremely fast camera focusing and shot to shot speed;
+ finger print scanner is good once i've figured out how to use it (and this coming from a person whose corporate finger print scanner cannot read mine...)
+ despite the weight of 192 g, it feels solid instead of heavy
+ without using the VOOC charger, charging speed is snail like; with the VOOC, it is really fast
+ O click pairs quickly and works very well (as compared to the previous version)
+ ps. heard from some reviewers that the camera head is loose but mine feels satisfactory. Some also mentioned about the rattling from the loose volume button, but mine seems fine too. Heng ah.
+ despite the many complaints about the faux leather over the camera/ear piece, after using it, I think i like this choice as it makes long conversation where I place my ear tightly next to the ear piece more comfortable. In short, it looks like a misfit, but it feels good when used.
+ Oh i love the gesture functions esppppppppppppppppp the double tap to wake, 3 fingers to screenshot
Minus
- crazy location of ear phone jack (though, fortunately, I use wireless earphones, so it is irrelevant.)
- coming from Note 4, somehow this screen looks small, although both are 5.5 inches
- mass storage option is gone (previously oppo had it right?)
- auto brightness is too aggressively dim indoors
In all, i think it is an excellent phone. However, at this price point, I don't think it'll move many pieces.
As compared to Mate 7, I think where Mate 7 trumps N3 is its screen to fascia ratio since Mate 7 doesn't have a rotating camera and uses on screen keyboard. However, i found mate 7 to be a tad unwieldy and the speaker to be too 'thin'/too shrill.
Largely agree with the above.
The good:
The phone is overpriced. I pre-ordered from OppoStyle and got a free VOOC battery pack, 32GB SD Card, and an iLike case for it, so the price of £430 actually felt ok, but without those freebies I'd feel a little bit ripped off, and that offer is gone now.
The camera is fabulous, only taken one selfie with it so far which was after a 4 day long course and 140 mile drive home, no makeup and really tired, but still somehow made me look good: http://lum.uk/temp/IMG20150122211859.jpg
The shutter speed on the camera is really fast too, so great for taking cat photos. http://www.imgur.com/p5dwFqR.jpeg
Dual-SIM on a flagship phone is wonderful. Work have me using a Blackberry Curve with a data bar on it and only Blackberry services allowed, so I've never been able to shove my work SIM into an Android and still get email before. Words cannot express how much I hate that Blackberry but I can't even dial on it without either using a pen to poke the keys, or end upbreaking a nail.
Color OS is actually surprisingly nice. This is the first Android I've owned where I haven't felt the need to immediately rip out the entire OS and replace it with Cyanogen or AOKP (My previous androids were an HTC Desire Z and a Motorola Droid 4). I've still had to replace the launcher with Nova Launcher though.
VOOC charging is really clever. I read a bit about how it works, the phone basically has 3 batteries and charges them at 1.5A each, so it's not going to kill the battery too fast. I really don't mind that a standard charge is slow. I charge it overnight at 2.1A from a USB mains socket by my bed, so that'll be 0.7A per battery which is going to make it really nice to the batteries longevity.
Battery life is superb. Even during a day of heavy use, my second day of owning the phone, including much tinkering, gaming and also using a lot of data in the doctor's waiting room, it was only down to 40% by midnight.
The "Skyline" notification light is actually quite good in these days of LEDs that are far too bright, however whenever I see the name I always think of a Nissan, not a fancy LED.
An SD card slot on a high end phone released in 2015!
The downsides:
The dual-SIM layout is slightly odd. It takes a micro SIM as its primary and a nano SIM as the secondary. 4G is only available on the micro SIM, not the nano!. This strikes me as an odd decision as nano SIMs are more likely to be 4G capable, and to be the primary SIM for the phone, with the larger SIM being from a crappy company phone. Fortunately for me my girlfriend is very good with a craft knife and the Blackberry SIM is now a perfectly good nano SIM. I guess some folk would rather use up their works data allowance for everything and then stick in a personal nano SIM for calls.
The position of the power button is annoying. I keep grabbing it and locking my phone when I want to just hold the phone. I wonder if there's a way to make that button unlock only, not lock, as I can lock it by either closing the case or double tapping the home button.
Opening task manager by doing a long press on menu, rather than home, takes a little bit of getting used to.
The Oppo widgets only work on their own launcher. I had to install Google Calendar to get a working calendar widget, which then left me with two calendar entries in the app drawer.
There is still a little bit of bloat to be removed. Google Chrome should not be baked into a ROM as it's 80mb and is almost invariably out of date when the phone ships, plus I use Firefox anyway, also the above mentioned oppo calendar.
There's a hidden app with the name still in Chinese that had me nervous at first as I had no idea what it did. Turns out it's EngineeringMode.apk and is triggered by *#*#4636#*#* and has a few things to tinker with, but use with caution.
No kernel source code available, no fastboot files available. This is especially annoying given that the OTAs failed for me.
Most information about the phone, and about ColorOS is only available in Chinese.
Non-removable battery.
SD card can't be used at the same time as a second SIM. I wonder if careful shaving of both cards could get around this, but unwilling to try it as getting a card stuck in that slider would basically ruin the phone.
The SIM slider can be completely removed and if you lose it you have a £430 tiny overpriced tablet!
All in all I'm quite happy with my purchase. I'm not sure it'll do that well as the phone doesn't know what it wants to be. The dual-SIM thing is great for business people, but the selfie camera is obviously targeted at young women, yet the size is likely too big and they're competing with Samsung who actually have physical shops in the UK. They're also doing zero marketing. For me it is (almost) the perfect phone*, but I'm weird and have multiple often contradictory requirements. I love it but not sure I'd recommend it to anyone else.
* for it to be perfect it would have to have a 5-row QWERTY slider. This is my first non-QWERTY phone and I'm struggling with typing having come from a Droid 4. Guess I need to look for an external keyboard.
so far battery life seems to be as good as my note 4.
very happy with the phone so far but knowing me, soon, i will revert to note 4 cos i like the pen.
the motorised camera is quite amazing.
my main gripe is i wish the finger print scanner were as big as the huawei one.
Comparing with Note 4
Note 4 over N3
- generally faster esp with file copying
- slimmer
- feels better in the hand
- a more sensible headphone jack
- better screen
- better auto brightness
- Spen!!!!
- GPS is better
- more RAM
N3 over Note 4
- faster camera
- more wow factor with the camera module
- much better mono speaker
- better finger print scanner
- colorOS is a more user friendly OS than touchwiz
- can be dual sim (not checked whether it is dual standby though)
- lower price point plus got freebies
- gestures are great!!
- fast charging is quite phenomenal
The placement of the monospeaker is particularly smart. It is at the bottom but more importantly, because of the skylight notification portion, the speaker is not the last part of the phone. This is important because for phones with bottom-mounted speakers, when i play games and hold the bottom, my palm covers the speaker. Additionally, when the phone is placed on the table, with the skylight bulge and the table flanking the speaker, there is a lot of resonance, making the speaker pretty loud!! At the same time, on speaker phone mode, i can cup my palm over the bottom to increase the volume. In all, this is the best implementation of bottom speaker.
what do you mean by "dual standby"? I have two SIMs in there, so I'll test it for you.
i suppose to find out whether both lines can be called through or whether only one can be used (despite there being two sims in the phone).
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what do you mean by "dual standby"? I have two SIMs in there, so I'll test it for you.
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both sims work at the same time
inertiaholic said:
i suppose to find out whether both lines can be called through or whether only one can be used (despite there being two sims in the phone).
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you can receive calls or texts on both sims at the same time....the sim settings are also great...you can set it to default reply so that if someone texts or calls you on sim1 the phone will default reply on sim1....also when you go to make a call or send a text there is an option for both sims you just press the one your using
Review by Music.Photo.Life.
I'm happy to share my review of the OPPO N3 here.
http://musicphotolife.blogspot.sg/2015/04/oppo-n3-swivel-camera-smartphone-review.html
Thanks for reading!
So i have been facing this really strange problem.
When i flash the stock firmware the screen just doesn't off. Neither on timeout or pressing the power button.
When i press the power button the phone just gets locked n lockscreen starts showing up but the screen doesn't turn off.
The other strange thing is that if i plug the phone via usb to my laptop or any other power source then pressing the power button does turn the screen off.
Any idea what's causing this n what's the solution.
Because of this screen issue i am being forced to use a custom rom currently its havoc os.
I would love to go back to stock though. It has working fingerprint lock n i find the one ui more comfortable
Edit:
Ok i found the problem.
the device keeps detecting usb. hence i keep getting usb connect/disconnect notification n the device lights up.
now does anyone have its solution
Same problem right here. I have to turn off my phone and turn it on completely each time I want to use it...
I was having the same issue, it only started after using Odin to flash the November update, it has since stopped, and I think it may have been due to some moisture getting into the phone.
Alecia1212 said:
So i have been facing this really strange problem.
When i flash the stock firmware the screen just doesn't off. Neither on timeout or pressing the power button.
When i press the power button the phone just gets locked n lockscreen starts showing up but the screen doesn't turn off.
The other strange thing is that if i plug the phone via usb to my laptop or any other power source then pressing the power button does turn the screen off.
Any idea what's causing this n what's the solution.
Because of this screen issue i am being forced to use a custom rom currently its havoc os.
I would love to go back to stock though. It has working fingerprint lock n i find the one ui more comfortable
Edit:
Ok i found the problem.
the device keeps detecting usb. hence i keep getting usb connect/disconnect notification n the device lights up.
now does anyone have its solution
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like alot of a70 users (counting me) you suffer from a bad usb charging board ,the only way to fix it is to change the charging board, they went cheap again and that's what happens...
BK said:
like alot of a70 users (counting me) you suffer from a bad usb charging board ,the only way to fix it is to change the charging board, they went cheap again and that's what happens...
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I sold mine n got a oppo reno 2.
Much better than a70. The camera's better, has a true edge to edge display, more ram n storage, a better processor.
Samsung's selling the same thing the a80 for 110k while i got this for 77k here in pakistan.
Samsung really needs to step up its game.
The only thing I miss is the one ui.
Do this :
Open the dialler and type *#0808# ( if it doesn't work do *#2873# ) and USBSettings should appear.
You will see some options like MTP , PTP , RNDIS+DM+MODEM etc.
Choose the last one , should be RMNET+DM+MODEM+ADPL.
Then apply and reboot.
Tell me if this solves the problem for you
Alecia1212 said:
I sold mine n got a oppo reno 2.
Much better than a70. The camera's better, has a true edge to edge display, more ram n storage, a better processor.
Samsung's selling the same thing the a80 for 110k while i got this for 77k here in pakistan.
Samsung really needs to step up its game.
The only thing I miss is the one ui.
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Doesn't look much different to me. The reno might not have a camera notch but it has a fatter chin. Any difference seems minimal plus the a70 has a bigger screen anyway? Just a preference thing IMO.
As for the A80, it has the best camera of all 3 it has one camera that swivels and does front and back duties and again it has a bigger screen. yes it's more expensive but then, again, I think it's down to preference? You can't just say the reno 2 is the same as the a80 but cheaper - it isn't, there are differences.
James.Miller said:
Doesn't look much different to me. The reno might not have a camera notch but it has a fatter chin. Any difference seems minimal plus the a70 has a bigger screen anyway? Just a preference thing IMO.
As for the A80, it has the best camera of all 3 it has one camera that swivels and does front and back duties and again it has a bigger screen. yes it's more expensive but then, again, I think it's down to preference? You can't just say the reno 2 is the same as the a80 but cheaper - it isn't, there are differences.
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I guess it does come to personal preferences.
Because I still prefer the reno 2 specs over a80.
Its got a slightly better processor. More storage for less bucks. Better ? glass. Bigger battery, newer type c usb. A headphone jack. N as i said all this for less. I don't take much pics n I ain't so knowledgeable about that but if the pics look good then i am happy. So yeah personal preference i guess.
But the only sad thing for me is that there's no one ui n zero xda community development for now.