Android phones, apps and tablets

I have a Nexus 10 here and the battery seems shited. Are they replaceable?

Let us know how you get on.
Bought a doogee turbo hd from that site for family and its going strong 18 months later. I drop my phone a lot so been tempted to get a tough one next.

Definitely. The phone is a bargin considering the stats. The X1 (more rugged less performance) can be run over With a car and still work (its true because YouTube says so). So hopefully this one will be pretty solid. I go GeoCaching With the kids, and watching a 5 year old hold an Iphone over a rocky stream. Takes some of the fun out of it.

Yep.. good site for beater phones but shipping was 3+ weeks (via boat?)

Specs.

Operating System
Android 4.4

Screen
Amoled

Display Size(Inch)
5.5

Screen Resolution
1280x720

Camera
13 MP

Front Camera
5 MP

Band
2G
GSM(850/900/1800/1900MHz)
3G
WCDMA(2100MHz), WCDMA(1900MHz), WCDMA(900MHz), WCDMA(850MHz)
4G
TDD(B38 2600MHz), FDD(B20 800MHz), FDD(B3 1800MHz), FDD(B1 2100MHz)

SIM Card Slot
Dual SIM

SIM Card Type
Micro SIM Card

Connectivity
3G, 4G, OTG, Bluetooth4.0, WIFI

Sensor
GPS, Compass, Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor, G-Sensor

Features
Waterproof IP68, dust proof, scratch proof, pressure proof, shock proof.

CPU Type
Quad Core Snapdragon 1.3 GHz

RAM
1GB

ROM
8GB

Support extend card
128GB

Stand-by time
Up To 500 hours

Talk time
Up To 9 hours

Capacity(mAh)
4500

Dimensions / WxDxH
166.3x85.0x14.7mm

Net Weight(kg)
226g

I ordered from 'light in the box'
Its already in the Netherlands somewhere. Plus they offer insurance against inport fees.

Smart.. hope you get it soon.
.. just saw dual sim too.

@PhilDAS the SwiftKey keyboard solved the stupid deleting issues with the z3 as suggested by snottyotter.

I know all!

Except why the URL for the rugged phone says IPS screen and the copied specs say AMOLED.

Theres loads of various spec differences. I've seen micro SD support quoted as 32gb, 64gb, and 128gb for example. The phone comes with the following screen protector fitted.

1 Attachment

The reason I hope it is in fact a Amoled. Is that I've heard the black is very good. So reading books in negaive format is easy on the eyes.

Blacks are actual black, loved AMOLED since my S1.

Nah, blacks are brown.

They're black enough for my eyes.

^ Racist.

So my Nexus 5 is dead. Was running the latest version of Android (received OTA), lost signal yesterday so decided just to turn it off and on again. It just hung on the boot animation and never loaded.

I wiped the cache, then the data, and then finally downloaded and flashed the OS and still no luck. Has anyone else experienced this?

Phone was running a bit slow, thought I'd try Cyanogenmod, run their installer, phone won't boot (just loads their boot image, I guess), installer won't recognize the phone to try again, can't get into recovery more. I got Odin seeing it again, so that's good. Tried installing CWM recovery, but that won't come up either after being installed.

Hopefully I can resinstall the stock rom.

grrrr....

Can you get viruses on Android devices, things that say can hack your email and change the password?

Depends how up-to-date your OS and apps are.

A lot like other computers, don't click on or download anything dodgy and you'll be reet.

Not really, a load of mainstream websites have found themselves hosting exploit kits due to XSS vulnerabilities in the last few years. Having up-to-date software is necessary even if you only visit "safe" sites.

picking up a galaxy s6 later today. my htc one m7 has been a giant bag of shit since a few months after I got it, camera sensor burned itself out so can't take low light shots without a pink tint across the whole image, have to reboot it constantly to make sure it's actually on the network and not just pretending to be and I finally get to try three's network instead of the missold bag of shite that is the non-existent EE 4G vaporware bollox.

not going to root this phone as I messed loads with the old one and then couldn't get the original rom to restore it for a manufacturers warranty return so got stuck with faulty hardware and a nice fat 24 month contract.

any tips on best way to push all the shit across from one phone to the other? contacts are all in my google account so guess it's mostly just texts, photos and then reinstall all the apps?

I believe Lollipop, when setting up/signing in to the new phone, will let you do this. I was asked if I wanted to, and to NFC tap the old phone to the new one if so.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync is the app you're looking for, that will do texts and call logs (which is ace) and syncs them to your gmail/calendar (which is also ace)

Photos I've never bothered to move back, as they all get auto shifted to Google Plus/Dropbox anyway.