Android phones, apps and tablets

Fancy stuff for sure but is the pixel not a bit old?

Sure, but it's still the fanciest android tablet out there. They seem to have ceded the market to Apple (which is shit) given the growing size of phones/shrinking size of laptops.

I suspect also that the Chromebook is where Google is focusing rather than tablets. The ability to run Android apps along with touchscreen and keyboard make them a better choice than tablets for a lot of people (given that if you're just using it for consumption then there is a blurring between phone and tablet).

Just buy a Surface and be done with it

Been using a laptpo more and more and liking it.
Laptop for complicated stuff and work.
Tablet for toilet browsing and porn.

Got the N5 back.

End result is I paid £65 for a new screen that lasted 2 days and now the phone's totally dead after being 'in repair' for 4 months.

I won't bother with any repairs I can't get for free or do myself from now on.

It's very easy to replace the screen on the N5. Did it twice in my kitchen with a butter knife.

I forget exactly what the part was I purchased, but it was cheap and replaced more than just the screen.

Hindsight is wonderful...

The phone is totally fucked now. The reason I took the phones to shops is because I don't have time to piss about ordering a part, finding out it needs another part, ordering aanother one blah blah, it was supposed to be fixed and returned and turned into a joke. So, if another phone dies I will not be paying for it to be repaired.

Even the Sony that was fixed and returned for free took 9 visits and something like 2 months for those useless pricks at Carphone Wastehouse to sort out.

sticky/10

Pixel 2 XL arrived today. Not had much chance to play with it, but it feels way more premium than the Nexus 6P it's replacing. Screen is really good, but it is "cool" colourwise as people keep moaning about. I'm 100% going to lose the headphone adapter, and they are back ordered till Dec now. That said, the OS runs butter smooth, and the camera seems great (but need daylight to really test it out).

bah dead pixel on the screen this morning. having to RMA it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2017/oct/20/thrive-app-arianna-huffington-showing-off-online-offline

I'm in Thrive mode

Got the dreaded bootloop on my wife's nexus 5x. Options from recovery are try again or factory reset. Haven't done the reset yet as I've been trying to boot to make sure everything is backed up. I don't hold much hope. Any ideas before I do a reset? Cheers

If your recovery gives you the option, try wiping dalvik cache and cache. I was stuck in a similar hell yesterday and ended up having to wipe and start again. Not even factory reset fixed the bootloop. On the plus side my Redmi 4 is now running Android 7.1, which is great!

Any ideas getting photos off an N5 that briefly powers up and then doesn't have a screen?

Tried adb to copy off but can't connect to device and can't see anything to know what it's doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ghdD-UnW3w

Small, capable, expandable tablet chiefly used for photo editing (nothing overly aggressive) and a metric fuck ton of music to replace a laptop for a while.

New breed of Chinese tablets any good?

I've got a similar problem... Resigned to fitting a replacement screen unless someone has a better idea...

Can the nexus 5 do hdmi over usb? If so you could rig something with a usb hub?

It probably can’t do that...

You could just put everything in a folder on drive and then give the new account full access to it. Shouldn't take long

Yep nexus 5 has MHL support.

Does that mean you can syphon data out of an HDMI connection?

I can't get adb talking to the phone so I'm not sure the USB connectivity is working.
Maybe it's not getting far enough through bootup for it to work. How will MHL help?

I think the idea was that if it is just a bust screen you could plug it into an HDMI monitor to see what is happening.l when you control it.

Unlikely...

Ah, I thought you were suggesting some kind of different data transfer method. I think this phone is in too bad a way for either. I wonder if there's some other way to directly access phone storage?

I figured there was some kind of phone shop wizard software that let you to open the guts of any phone you chose... No dice?