deanb Posted December 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yeah, the ladies love it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Wow, this new android update on my tablet sucks ass and the new email app is worthless and doesn't sync. Anyone got any recommendations on a good email app to replace the default one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Is that lollipop? What's wrong with it? No recommendations for end email sorry I use the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 If the newest one is lollipop I guess it must be.  Here are the changes I noticed:  - New keyboard.  I don't care for it and I switched to Swiftkey. - Notifications on lock screen.  You can go directly to an app from the lock screen by double tapping the notification.  You now have to swipe straight up to unlock your device, so bear that in mind if you were in the habit of swiping left or right. - Email app was replaced by Gmail app.  It's a piece of shit and it doesn't even work for me. - New back, home, and menu icons.  I don't know why they changed this because now they're just a bunch of vague shapes. - In the past, at least on my tablet, swiping down from the upper left would pull down a list of app notifications while pulling down from the right would bring down tablet settings.  Now, pulling down from anywhere at the top will bring down the notifications and pulling down a second time will expand the menu to bring down the settings too.  There's also a big blue button for switching user profiles. - New settings menu  There's probably more but I only messed with it for a little bit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Lollipop is Android 5.0, it's the first major version in a few years, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and KitKat all being 4.x, so it'll be a fair few changes, espeically with the material design stuff which is trickling through to many apps as well.  As for email, I use Gmail for my gmail accounts and Outlook for my outlook accounts. I'm not sure what you use for your email to make any major suggestions. Lifehacker tends to do decent run downs of various apps. I know Dropbox have one that's meant to be alright: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mailboxapp  (Though I'm pretty sure the Lollipop Gmail is essentially the old multi-service Email app rolled in one though. They changed Email over to be more like Gmail and Gmail to have support for more services. Then crushed Email) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 ^Correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 I think using two fingers to swipe down should take you directly to the settings? That's how it is on my Motorola... something. It's not on lollipop though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 I think using two fingers to swipe down should take you directly to the settings? That's how it is on my Motorola... something. It's not on lollipop though. That's how it works on Lollipop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I plugged in my phone earlier because it was at 18% battery. Â The charging light came on and the notification said it was charging, but when I checked on it 5 hours later it was at 12%. Â The battery isn't that old so I'm wondering if there might be some other reason it isn't charging properly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 ^Wakelock? Not enough info just based on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I plugged in my phone earlier because it was at 18% battery.  The charging light came on and the notification said it was charging, but when I checked on it 5 hours later it was at 12%.  The battery isn't that old so I'm wondering if there might be some other reason it isn't charging properly?  Settings -> Battery  See what is the biggest power drain (after screen obvs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 For some reason my biggest power drain is always "Android System", and I cannot figure out why. Â It's not anywhere near as bad as Jack's situation, but maybe once every couple of weeks it gets drained bad enough that I can't even wait until I go to bed to start charging it again, and I'm typically using ~60% per day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I had an issue with Media Server a while back. A corrupt media file somewhere was causing some sort of background process to fail which kept the phone awake. Burned through the battery in about 10hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I'm pretty sure it's the battery now. I managed to charge it to 100% last night, then I took it with me this morning to drop my car off at the mechanic (AGAIN) and after just an hour it's down to 50%. This is supposed to be a high capacity battery too so that's just inexcusable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 have you tried turning off background data (or even data all together), bluetooth and wifi and restarting your phone, and not loading up any apps. that way you've not got unknown apps running nor high drain wireless. Â obviously that's not a longterm solution but it may help you discount some things or make you more confident it;s the battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I never use bluetooth or wifi, even at home.  I have a tablet so there's no need.  Hell, I don't even use the location services unless I need a GPS, which is almost never.  I also make a habit of routinely killing any background apps I haven't been using for a while, so I rarely have more going on in the background besides Tapatalk, Chrome, and Steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I use wifi at home because 1) if you're actually connected to a network it's less battery draining than mobile, and 2) I don't have to worry about a usage cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I never use bluetooth or wifi, even at home.  I have a tablet so there's no need.  Hell, I don't even use the location services unless I need a GPS, which is almost never.  I also make a habit of routinely killing any background apps I haven't been using for a while, so I rarely have more going on in the background besides Tapatalk, Chrome, and Steam.  Why are you killing background apps? If the system needs the RAM it will do it for you. You're just risking causing them to restart automatically which drains the battery more.  For the love of god post your battery stats already. Are you rooted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015  For the love of god post your battery stats already.  ^What he said^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) I don't know what you really mean by "battery stats" but I'm using this one.  And no, I'm not rooted. Edited February 11, 2015 by Mister Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I imagine they're asking for this: Â Â Here I'll note S Health shouldn't be that level of active at the moment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 Is anyone else having major problems with the Google app on android phones? For some reason Google works fine if I use it in mobile chrome, but if I try to use the search widget on my home page all it does is say that the search results can't be returned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 Works fine for me, what version are you on? Â I'm still on kitkat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 I'm on 4.4.2, whichever candy that one is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 That's kitkat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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