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tbayrgs

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Check out the Rolling watch face (I may have linked it here before). Once I found it, I haven't used anything else, neither has a co-worker with a Moto 360. Rolling Watch Face - Android Apps on Google Play

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.

I never bought in to the FB messenger idea, was never excited about them having access to my texts, as few as I have. I'm on Fi, so I use Hangouts and I can send texts from any computer or device logged in to my Google account linked to Fi.

Honestly, I've decided I'm done worrying about who has my data because when it comes down to it, they all have some. Google, Facebook, Apple, whomever...they can have it, I have nothing exceptional to share. And if it makes my user experience better because of it, when then so be it.

The reason I mention FB Messenger is simply because it has the the greatest usage by my contacts after iMessage. I just want something seamless that I can use for everyone. FB Messenger also has a pretty robust set of features.
 

tbayrgs

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Alright, I have a beef with Google Calendar on Android, something that irritated me immensely a couple years ago and something I figured would have been resolved by now. My apologies if it doesn't exactly fit into this thread but I don't think it warrants an entire thread of its own and as it pertains to a native Google app on Android, figured this thread was in the ballpark. Could someone clarify that the following is still an issue and that I'm not imagining things:

In the Google Calendar app (and I'm using a gmail account) it appears that you still cannot change the calendar to which an appointment is assigned once it's created. To be more specific, my wife and I share a series of calendars on my account to manage all of our families appointments. She created an appointment on a specific calendar (Home) but it actually belongs in another calendar (Work), yet when I go to edit the appointment, the Calendar field is unavailable/locked down. The only way I can change this is to delete the appointment and recreate it. Am I missing something? What makes this issue even more infuriating is that I can do exactly this on the iOS Calendar app. W...T....F Google!! How can they lock down this field on their own app, especially when it's being used to manage Calendars on THEIR OWN SERVICE!!

I'm seriously hoping I'm just being an idiot and missing something. It appears another calendar app that I use on iOS is also available on Android and has this functionality (Sunrise) so I could use it instead but it boggles my mind that Google's own app, being used to manage calendars on its own service can't to this---yet it can be done on its biggest competitor's software/device. :eek::confused:

Sorry for the rant but the Calendar app can do many more complex actions but can't handle something this simple..not sure how Google lets this happen.
 
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spinedoc77

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Anyone know how to stop an app from updating in the play store? On older versions you would just pull up the app in the play store and on the upper right would hit a menu that allowed you to uncheck auto updates. But on N I see nothing of the sort. I know there is an universal setting to turn off auto updates, but I only want to turn them off for a particular app.
 

Surf Donkey

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^^^ Why another app? Why not put this in Now on Tap? I mean Tap to Translate is in the name! Google's segmentation of their own products is so head exploding bad.

Only use I have ever found for Now is to make a screenshot and share it. If they ignore it for handy features throughout the launcher it will be another die on the vine product.
 
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tbayrgs

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^^^ Why another app? Why not put this in Now on Tap? I mean Tap to Translate is in the name! Google's segmentation of their own products is so head exploding bad.

Only use I have ever found for Now is to make a screenshot and share it. If they ignore it for handy features throughout the launcher it will be another die on the vine product.

I think Now on Tap is already dead, and probably why this wasn't implemented for it. I've used Now on Tap exactly once on my Nexus 6P--to test it out the very first time, and not a single time since. It's also limited to what's visible on the display meaning, if you wanted to translate a long page, you'd have to do it multiple times and it wouldn't be a seamless full page.

Implementing it within their apps means it can be implemented for iOS as well.
 
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Surf Donkey

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I think Now on Tap is already dead, and probably why this wasn't implemented for it. I've used Now on Tap exactly once on my Nexus 6P--to test it out the very first time, and not a single time since. It's also limited to what's visible on the display meaning, if you wanted to translate a long page, you'd have to do it multiple times and it wouldn't be a seamless full page.

Implementing it within their apps means it can be implemented for iOS as well.

Facebook seems to understand when I have a post in a different language and let me translate it. Chrome can do the same for a page. Seems like you could ping now on tap, it would find another language on the page, and display it in the Now popup just like they are showing. But whatever, yes it was DOA.

And I do think Google Translate already has this functionality for anything on MM. So I do believe you are correct, this is for other devices like iOS.
 

Fernandez21

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I think Now on Tap is already dead, and probably why this wasn't implemented for it. I've used Now on Tap exactly once on my Nexus 6P--to test it out the very first time, and not a single time since. It's also limited to what's visible on the display meaning, if you wanted to translate a long page, you'd have to do it multiple times and it wouldn't be a seamless full page.

Implementing it within their apps means it can be implemented for iOS as well.
I don't get why they couldn't include that in the text selection menu. You select text and up come cut,copy,paste and translate, one step. I think that would work better.
 

Fanaticalism

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I think Now on Tap is already dead, and probably why this wasn't implemented for it. I've used Now on Tap exactly once on my Nexus 6P--to test it out the very first time, and not a single time since. It's also limited to what's visible on the display meaning, if you wanted to translate a long page, you'd have to do it multiple times and it wouldn't be a seamless full page.

Implementing it within their apps means it can be implemented for iOS as well.
I use it for screenshots all the time which wasn't it's original purpose.
 

epicrayban

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According to this article, Google's answer to 3D Touch had been pushed back.

Wonder what happened. And I wonder if it's related to HTC in anyway. They have to build the touch screen technology after all, right?

Personally, I'm not mad.

I'm really hoping the HTC Nexus nails everything else though. They're more important, I think.
 

jamezr

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Wonder what happened. And I wonder if it's related to HTC in anyway. They have to build the touch screen technology after all, right?

Personally, I'm not mad.

I'm really hoping the HTC Nexus nails everything else though. They're more important, I think.
It's just me how to me. I don't use 3DT on my 6s+. But I know some love the feature.
 

tbayrgs

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Do you need to install a specific email app?

Those were the settings for a third party email app, yes. My point was that apparently, developers can code their app to allow you to customize the 3DT options available to you. I didn't think this was possible and was the first time I'd seen it.

Now if Apple would just do the same with their native apps...
 

LIVEFRMNYC

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Those were the settings for a third party email app, yes. My point was that apparently, developers can code their app to allow you to customize the 3DT options available to you. I didn't think this was possible and was the first time I'd seen it.

Now if Apple would just do the same with their native apps...

Oh okay, got it. I thought an email app you installed enabled a hidden system setting.

Yea, I don't see why that or something similar won't be included on iOS 10.
 

sk1wbw

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Can anyone tell me if Bluetooth sync to your Fitbit works on DP3? Also, what about online banking apps? I had to revert back to Marshmallow because these things didn't work on the prior release.
 

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Can anyone tell me if Bluetooth sync to your Fitbit works on DP3? Also, what about online banking apps? I had to revert back to Marshmallow because these things didn't work on the prior release.

Fitbit seems to be syncing fine for me via BT. My online credit union app works fine. I am sure that varies by bank app.

HBO Now crashes when playing a video. MLB at bat doesn't seem to work either. That is all I have found.
 

tbayrgs

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Didn't think this was worth an entire new thread so mentioning it here:


Very cool...I use all of my phones in a dashboard or windshield mount right now, looking forward to this implementation.
 
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epicrayban

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Didn't think this was worth an entire new thread so mentioning it here:


Very cool...I use all of my phones in a dashboard or windshield mount right now, looking forward to this implementation.


Nice video. At the ~30 second mark -- this is why software keys are the way of the future!
 
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