Android phones, apps and tablets

Giffgaff is O2.

Weren't they throttled or something? I remember lots of people complaining about their service a couple of years ago.

24 months is pretty standard these days, and upgrading sooner is frankly a massive waste of a perfectly good device; I would have happily kept my S6 for years longer had it not gone for a swim with the little brown fishes...

Even at £5/month, it's over £600 with the handset at its current price over the same period.
SIM-free deals also assume you have £500 to drop on something, which I don't.

It's not like I just throw my old phone in the bin! My missus, I think her brothers and my Mum have all had my old phones for a time. Eg. I went from Galaxy Nexus to N5, skipping the N4 which wasn't good enough and I moved away from Nexus when the N6 was too big and the Pixels too expensive (and not waterproof like the Sony).

It's also not like I didn't have reasons to update. You won't see my in a queue gagging for the newest release iTwat (see N4, N6 skipping) but if a new phone does something I want (waterproof) then I will get it and if a phone breaks (Sony, N5) I will buy a new one while the other is being repaired (case in point my XCover and another Z3 Compact)

Not having the money to spend on a SIM-free is fair enough, but I do and I don't like being tied to 12/24 month contracts when my phone rotation history indicates much more random handset swaps.

200909 - Samsung Galaxy (8)
201004 - HTC Desire (6+mum)
201009 - HTC Desire HD (12+bro)
201109 - HTC Sensation (11+backup)
201208 - Galaxy Nexus (14+gf)
201310 - Nexus 5 (32+gf)
201607 - Z3 Compact (12+gf)
201707 - XCover4 (?)

You can see in the early days of Android the turnover was higher. The N5 was basically perfect and I only got the Sony Z3 Compact because it was waterproof for TCR04 - liked it and kept it as my main phone and my missus got my N5.
The Z3 broke after TABR at the same time as the N5. The HTC Sensation was used as a backup. The N5 couldn't be fixed. The Z3 was repaired and my missus is using it now.
The XCover was bought when the Sony died for something more durable for TCR05.

Spot who's procrastinating today...

Not that I'm aware of. Maybe it was in the early days.

I've been using Giffgaff for 3 years, mrs and 2 kids also on it. Quite happy.

If a phone is playing up, but you don't want to go through the faff of a full factory reset would the following be a good idea:

• clear the app cache
  
• soft(?) reset - ie hold down power for 10 secs.
  
• clear the system cache
  
• check for updates
  
  

...and would there be a downside? other than logging back into stuff?

Cheers.

Are there any move to sd apps that work?

Playing up how?

Did you change/install anything new recently?

Is this to move something that can't be done via the OS?

Just general. Losing battery fast, screen randomly going a bit grey. Recently installed Settlers of Catan which sometimes crashes.

Run a cpu usage monitor on it see what's chewing power. Screen going grey is odd, is there some kind of overlay running, like a blue light filter or similar? Settlers of what now? Do the grey screen happen at certain times or in a particular app or doing something specific?

This is probably been covered, but anyone have a tip for getting data (photos) off a phone with a busted screen? It's set to charge-only mode by default and can't change it the normal way.

Can you run adb commands on it from a connected PC? Did you ever enabled USB Debugging?

No, I don't think so. Was my partner's phone. She would have just put the sim in and rocked on.

Yeah, it's disabled by default. Um, I don't know then, I'd have to google some. Is there any part of the screen that can function? If part of the screen works, you could tip it sideways and try landscape mode to unlock it/turn on USB connectivity.

What make/model is it? Swap with working screen?

https://androidforums.com/threads/broken-screen-no-backup-and-need-your-data-try-this.841614/

https://www.mobikin.com/android-recovery/recover-data-from-broken-android-phone.html

ah, thanks man - the tipping side ways thing is a good idea. The bottom works I think.

I googled, and some software popped up, but thought I'd ask hive mind/hippy first.

I am so smart. SMRT. Etc..

Bingo!

Did her photos backup into google? By default lots of stuff could be dumped into her google account it usually asks when you setup the phone and people just hit yes/backup without thinking then never go and get the backup that's sitting somewhere in the cloud.

Yes, motorola with the sd card as a internal memory.