All Things Android - Apps, Phones, Tablets - Discussion

If you are on a SIM carrier, you can save your contacts to your SIM card, or it syncs it with your Google account.

 

Yeah, I saved my contacts to my sim after the last time but I couldn't get Google to work for some reason.

 

On most phones you should check if in settings whether its set to sync to your Google account. Sometimes I've had sync issues with Google. I think on my old Blaze 4G on T-Mobile, Google was not set to sync my stuff automatically with my Google account, YMMV as my Nexus 4 did.

 

That was the first thing I checked. It says it synced and it's up to date before I installed the new rom, but I couldn't never get them to restore later. I'm not sure what the deal was

 

Hmm, strange. Did all the synced contact info appear in your Gmail Contacts?

 

Samsung Knox found to have a "serious vulnerability"
Samsung...meet karma (and shove your Knox bootloader where the sun don't shine!)

Make sure they're saved under My Contacts in Gmail and not a custom sub list. Also make sure your contacts app is set to display your Google contacts instead of your SIM contacts. Sometimes the app will hide the Google contacts if they're all duplicates of the SIM contacts.

 

4.4 solved some of my complaints regarding the lack of evolution on android.

At least the mail app is now barely decent, all the other Google apps are Terrible though, with the exception of maps

The review from ars technica is spot on, duality of things they should have killed already, trash that remained from other versions.

Well I had 4.4 since the 18th so a week basically

Does anyone knows a decent music player? I put some flac files and they are getting chopped

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Poweramp Music Player (Trial)
PlayerPro Music Player Trial
n7player Music Player
Fusion Music Player
Rocket Music Player
Winamp
LISNA

 

Another vote for Poweramp here. I have a bunch of flac songs and Poweramp doesn't butcher them.

 

thanks poweramp is the only one that doesn't butcher the files and it plays my alac files as well.

unfortunately its the one that gives me the lesser music quality (don't want to mix with the equaliser because something that I tune for the mozart k314 isn't going to work for queen hammer to fall)

interesting thing those files are nothing special, just encoded in flac or alac with 44khz and 1000+kbps

 

So set the equalizer to 0 on all. But Poweramp does do a pretty good job of mixing it for bass and treble for me. You can also save your own equalizer preset.

 

i set it as default to 0, and thus low quality reproduction, the music lacks flavour. now if you mix it up, it comes very colourful.

i was fiddling to make a preset for some types of music, but I'm betting that i won't use them at all, given that I'm a shuffle tendency guy

i just wish that it was completely free, then it would be damn perfect.

now anyone knows a good email app? 4.4 email is better, but it isn't good enough yet

 

Poweramp is one of the 3 apps I paid for. All my other apps are free. As far as the equalizer goes, I tend to find the Bass & Treble preset works great for most of my music, but I don't listen to classical or dumbstep. So it may not be the most suited for those. I don't know how the techno or the classical presets sound on those songs. Try them.

 

really debating on paying for it, i did fiddle with rock and classical presents for indie and rock music along with some classical, schubert and gershwin, specifically those 2 for the variations. and it works. but it kills my shuffling tendency.

im liking the app even more now, i will probably buy it after the trial expires.

 

One suggestion I made to MaxMP is to have an option to assign an equalizer profile for individual songs, albums, or artists. That way each song or album gets the correct mix.

 

that would be great, assign the tag of the genre to the music and the profile gets applied

 

I'm still struggling to understand what you need out of an email client for Android that the 4.4 version doesn't handle...

 

You can assign a tag of the genre to each individual song. There's just no option to force the equalizer profile to that particular genre.

(can't help you with the email client...I use Yahoo Mail for mine)

 

For one one that I can press a button to check mails, it sometimes takes way too long to receive something and sometimes those mails are time sensitive

The general ui is better now however you still can't work properly, for example I receive around 200 mails per day, the ui can't handle multiple mails at once for example I receive 3 spam mails I have to long press click every single one of them to mark as trash. And it took me a while to discover that the delete message that appeared if you click anywhere inside it it will un delete the message, so you have to swipe to dismiss that

I can't mark something to read latter

Integration with calendar is non existent

Basic bare bones functionality that we came to expect from mail clients along the years. They haven't changed much, actually they haven't changed at all

Google has something great in their hands why I they can't just mix one note with outlook and make a very awesome multi function app? Then I look at gallery and photos and discover why

yeah assigning a tag isn't problematic to load an equaliser preset for each tag is dandy, if its implemented. can't see why it can't, since it reads the the tags i the files, just a basic fetch with a conditional should do it

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No idea if it'll work better for your setup, but I use Touchdown. Android email is hopeless, and even Touchdown lags in certain cases when compared to the simple yet functional elegance of Windows Phone mail.

 

Is 4.4.2 stable? I've just flashed my nexus 7 (2012) to 4.4 Build KRT160. Trying to update to 4.4.2, how do I do this with the unified android toolkit?

 

this is perfect!

now they need to change the UI and the set up for new accounts

 

Is this a new definition of 'perfect' no-one told me about?

 

yep its the one i use for things that have frustrated me a lot, and will continue to do so.

mostly it comes from incomplete sloppy work, lack of imagination, no situational understanding and some other things.

So the application was

Android mail is one of the worst things I ever saw in my life. it serves only for checking mail, and barely so, given that the 4.4 email app has a tendency to forget that i just read the mail and will still mark as unread.

I get something that at least meets my expectation, which isn't even high think outlook express from windows xp functionality, so despite the obvious flaws i will find it perfect, because the base of comparison is very frustrating or non existing.

but I have come to a conclusion, its simple, android isn't made for people that are using it for work related purposes or anything resembling something more serious, because it will fail at simple basic tasks. its a toy made to have fun

 

I think you got the wrong phone.

Samsung's email implementation is better. Much better. It's one of the few things that TouchWiz was always good at.

 

Nope, still bad.

 

Says the Apple cat.

 

Actually, iOS email is not bad at all - I certainly don't feel the burning need to use a third party tool as soon as I pick up a handset, as I have to do in Android Can'tSeeTheWoodForTheTreesLand. What I wouldn't give for Outlook on Android...

 

I tried using the native email app (be it Touchwiz or AOSP) with my initial Galaxy S. Didn't like it cause it saves emails to itself instead of on the server (SBC/Yahoo). And since the inbox and sent items were on the phone and not the server, I had no way of downloading them into Outlook for archive. Hence why I switched to the Yahoo app.

I do agree that the iOS mail app does a tremendously good job with GMail. My aunt can go between her drafts from her iPad to her desktop without a hitch.

 

I prefer the Mail app on iOS, Gmail app blows.

 

I actually prefer the Gmail app over stock by far.. I wish I could add my yahoo and exchange account to it.

 

Yeah, I hated the stock Samsung email app. The UI was terrible, controls were clunky, and just getting emails to display properly was a coin flip.

The Gmail app, however, is fantastic. I've had no problems with it at all, and the only two changes I would want are A) native support for text formatting (bolding, italics, bullets, etc) when composing an email, and B) the option to copy the signature from the desktop version of Gmail. Mail management is great though, even with the ridiculously excessive filters and labels that I use.

 

I use outlook.com's email client on Android (my personal email is an outlook.com address) and it's simple yet refined. Very nice to use.

 

yeah that thought has crossed my mind several times...

I should've gone for the iPhone 5s, in the end I didn't want to pay 2k (U$870) for it, so I payed 1k (U$435) for the moto x.

whats really frustrating is that the moto x is basically stock android. it comes bundled with some software for added functionality, assist, the active screen, migration, and some tweaks to the voice recognition software.

basically that means, if I'm running as stock as it gets, there is no else to blame but 2 people, me and google.

me for being a "cheap" and google for...

 

Outlook - the real Exchange client. Not Hotmail Evo.

 

I'm with Tsuname on this one. Gmail for iOS is bad...but Gmail for Android totally blows.

 

In the gmail Android app, I find it way too easy to inadvertently archive emails (the side-swipe gesture is extremely sensitive), and I find it way too hard to select multiple emails for deletion (you have to hold each one for a long time to select it). I much prefer outlook.com where I can just tap the check-box by several emails to select several for deletion. And I don't want to archive all the junk/spam I get, even if Google apparently wants me to.

 

I hate all the changes circa like 6 months ago. The social and promotions tabs really are dumb, sometimes you forget you are in that tab and wonder where all your emails go. That and Youtube on iOS sucks.

 

You just press the square icon-y thing on the left to select messages, far easier than check-boxes.

Just disable it in the settings and use the standard inbox instead.

 

Huh, that's funny, I could have sworn doing that opened the email, but when I try again today it selects it properly.

 

I have never use 3G data on my tablet only wifi, is there any guides to keeping the cost down and stopping your tablet and apps from costing you a fortune this is for an payasyougo not monthly contract.

I am use an O2 sim, and they charge £13 for 2GB of data is this expensive?

Any insight will be appreciated.

John.

 

Inside Android data settings you can set a limit on data. 21 dollars for 2 GB of data isn't too awful, but in the US most tablets have LTE.

 

This 4.3 update is being so troublesome it makes me want to set myself on fire

 

TouchWiz's all-new look isn't remotely derivative!



As seen on the Galaxy Note Pro. I love the innovation! Particularly the idea of having boxes of information from each app displayed in a square or rectangle where, if you tap it, launches the complete app. That, combined with the flat chromeless sans-serif aesthetic and the blue-and-white-oriented color scheme, and you really have Samsung coming up with a look that's never been done before. Way to go Samsung for this truly unique and groundbreaking approach to tablet UI design!

Samsung Galaxy Note PRO 12.2, Galaxy Tab PRO 12.2, 10.1 and 8.4 leak online | MobileSyrup.com

 

since when samsung innovates? at least they are coping the good UI that everyone loves and wants

 

Is NVIDIA run by aliens? Crop circles used to promote new 192 core Tegra K1

...I knew it...

 

evleaks has what purports to be the interface of the next Galaxy phone, and like their new Galaxy Note Pro tablet, the look is very Metro-y and iOS-7-y and completely unlike the look of Touchwiz on my GS3.

Samsung reportedly testing new phone interface with light fonts and pastel gradients | The Verge

 

that looks ios7 all around to me, without the new icons

 

Question is, who's gonna sue first?