Android phones, apps and tablets

Ha.

i'll take 3.

OTA upgrade to 4.1.1 on my OneX through Vodafone. Some subtle colour changes, slightly different keyboard, power saver doohickey. Quite nice.

I mean T-Mobile, not Vodafone

Still not 4.2.1?

Got given an S3 today, liking the feel of it. Probably going to put a vanilla ROM on it tonight and see how I get on.

Install the CF-root kernel using Odin (to unlock the boot loader and get Clockwork Mod Recovery), then CyanogenMod 10.1 nightlies using clockworkmod.

Had CM10 on my S3 for 2 months now. Got it to auto-check for each nightly build but I read the change log built into the update tool so see if its worth updating.

Cheers will give it a shot.

Used CM10 nightlies a while back on a previous phone but it wasn't particularly stable. I'm guessing that's changed now

Yeah, I used CM10 on my SGS1 for months before I got the S3 in September, only managed 6 weeks on Touchwiz'd 4.0!

Yeah, tried touchwiz and was not really a fan.

Wanted to get a Nexus, but wanted a removable battery and I got given this so can't complain.

I wish people gave me expensive smart phones.

I have a smashed HTC legend you can have. Although I suppose it isn't that smart any more.

Soon.

Interesting to note the nexus holds itself to the touchstone quite nicely before any modification. Wonder why some of the instructions involved adding extra magnets as well as the ones from the pre casing.

How do they work?

I have a smashed HTC legend you can have. Although I suppose it isn't that smart any more.

It's ok, Otter has a smashed S3.

Only slightly, my wife has a grey LTE one now too that I want to steal.

Lowball offer received for my Galaxy Note, still for sale now at £250 /spam

Desire HD available too for however much they're worth.

Hmm

So have had my Nexus 4 for a couple of weeks now. On the whole I love it and it is a great device. I'm not going to post the positives as they are covered well elsewhere but I do have a few gripes. These are actually with Android (Jellybean) rather than the device.

1) Lack of SD card expansion. This is my major one. Even though I got the 16 gig model it doesn't seem enough. On older devices I stuck in a 32 gig micro SD which allowed me to synch photos / music / movies etc without much regard for storage space. Leading on to:

2) Play Music. I imported everything to the cloud (which took an age and 1 x restart). Great. Except no smart playlists are imported from iTunes. I've used iTunes for an age and rely heavily on smart playlists usually utilising ratings then other meta-data. As Play Music doesn't recognise any of this it's pretty useless to me. I had hoped to store all in the cloud and then import / download to the Nexus 4 a few smart playlists so I can listen offline. The main times I want to listen to my music a) I'm not online b) I don't want to listen / shuffle everything - just the good (smart) stuff. I'm sure Google will fix this but to me it is a major inconvenience. Am back to creating a playlist limited in iTunes by size and then synching using Doubletwist.

3) Google Now. Doesn't quite do what I'd like it to. E.g. I had a calendar entry for a party last weekend where I expected it to grab the address and give me options / map to get there. It didn't. Maybe just need to give it some more time as it could be a killer app.

4) Navigation. Always seems to default to driving unless accessed directly. I'd like it to always default to walking.

Having said that what an amazing thing. It still astounds me how far we've come so quickly. If someone had said 5 years ago I could just talk to my phone and it would tell me where the nearest Poundstretcher is and bring up a map of how to get there and how long it would take I'd have told them to fuck off.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong with the above gripes gratefully accepted.

1. I can help with.
   
   

If the address in the calender event doesn't turn into a link, it won't do it. So it's worth always checking when you enter a location into an event to see if it turns into a link.

I just recently was delighted by the "leave by" notification.

I had a meeting at 12:30, it popped up a notification at 11:15 saying leave by 11:30 to get there for 12:30.

4) I can help with.

In Google Now, the three dot settings enable you to state preferences for each card type, and you can choose other modes of transport there.

Thanks both. I really feel I need to give Google Now a bit more time as I think I confused it by staying at my girlfriend's place when I first got the phone. I've changed the default location to my house so maybe it will get smarter?

Velocio - i tried the above but only got options for Driving or Public transport. Maybe that's because the card is for work - home (about 9 miles)? We'll see.

I do find it a bit spooky as well. My phone knows more about me than I do.

If you use Latitude, it starts telling you how many miles you cycled.

In my case, not enough due to being of the bike for a while because of sciatica

If you use Latitude, it starts telling you how many miles you cycled.

In my case, not enough due to being of the bike for a while because of sciatica

Get well soon. Back problems, been there, hope to never get it again!

Some feedback on my new Galaxy Note II -

Its a lot faster than the original Note, and that was a surprise. I expected a minor increase in speed, but its not minor, its a truly noticeable step up. Also, the footprint seems smaller, and that is in the case. Its longer, but just doesn't feel it, nor appear so, unless side by side in comparison.

One game I have isn't optimised for the Note II, so is very contrasty, but still noticeably faster. Once optimised I expect the contrast levels will return to normal. Am I pleased with it? Definitely. Will I regret not waiting for the other phones due out soon? No. Most new phones come with non-replaceable batteries, and I can't live with that at all.

The screen is also sharper, and more detailed in rendering images and text. I'm not going to recommend it, as one person on here said (when I bought the Note 1, and recommended it) Its Too Big. So I leave it to you good people if you wish to believe me, or the tech guy. No harm, no foul.