I have seen some have scratching on the sides of the N4. I haven't had that happen to mine. But I could see it being a problem. But I think all phones can have scratching. My 6+ is a scratch waiting to happen.
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Frame looks great... Mind you I am not sporting it nekked. However the headphone jack and charging port area are not all scratched up (the painted part). There is some minor scratching along the silver beveled portion though since that area of my phone gets exposed to a lot of contact.
Thank you for your response, ordered a Note 4 from Amazon, let's see if it will stay and replace my LG G2...
Does 7.78 GB of system memory sound right? It seems kind of high on a 32GB device. My N4 is running VERY slow and starting to grate on me.
This is exactly why i didn't go for the S6...i just couldn't go to the smaller screen
I'll give it a shot. just seems insane that 25% of space is taken by the OS. For all the crap Microsoft got even it doesn't take that much.
I have a note 4 and the lag is bothering me. What do you pros think of the m9? I don't really care about phablets.
I wanted to try sense and maybe ditch TouchWiz, I know the note 4 has a much better camera and screen but the size and lag bother me.
I wanted to try sense and maybe ditch TouchWiz, I know the note 4 has a much better camera and screen but the size and lag bother me.
The M9 is very nice, very fast and the new camera update is meant to improve the issues with camera considerably.
It’s certainly dependable and you know it will be pretty smooth. Maybe the smoothest but it depends what you use the most and your main usage. I need the note due to the stuff I put on it with my S note and i’m widget mad.
I have been tempted by another phone though but not sure which i would get..maybe the iphone plus would have to be a big phone. Nothing less than 5.5 inches.
my new favourite feature?
One i didn't use enough of till at work...I had my phone off charge 100% and it's now 17:35 and it's down to 15% due to hammering it all day pretty much so on goes ultra power saving mode and this will be me covered till at least 9pm i reckon.
and i still get my texts, facebook, whatsapp, twitter
love this feature now.
One i didn't use enough of till at work...I had my phone off charge 100% and it's now 17:35 and it's down to 15% due to hammering it all day pretty much so on goes ultra power saving mode and this will be me covered till at least 9pm i reckon.
and i still get my texts, facebook, whatsapp, twitter
love this feature now.
Anyone experienced in using multiple phones? I have an iPhone 6 Plus now and I am happy with it and also very tied to the apple ecosystem, but there is something about the note that just makes me want to own and play with one. How do you balance having multiple phones? do you swap sims or have a separate line for your play phones?
It's actually very easy to be device agnostic once the building blocks are in place.
First thing is to create a google account if you don't already have one. If you have only a .mac/.me/.icloud email address currently - you will discover than when moving to android whilst it's entirely possible to sync email - calendar and contacts do not.
However googles calendar / contact will work on all your devices - so moving your contacts & calendar over to googles server is the first solution to the issue of owning multiple devices.
So after you have setup a gmail/google account first thing is to transfer your mac contacts to it. (Assuming your a Mac user as your on macrumors) So open contact on your Mac and select all contacts and click on file/export - export vCard.
Save file to desktop. Next open your browser (safari / chrome) and go to https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=0#contacts and this will open the old contacts list, from here choose import contacts on the left menu, from window tick choose file and navigate to your backup vCard file. Ok. Import.
Now all your contacts are on googles server it means in future use your Google account as default saving place for contacts and they will sync between all devices (android/iOS/Mac)
Calendar is a similar situation. - if you need a guide let us know and we will steer you in right direction.
Once you have those done there remains one more thing you can sync and that's 'music'. You can copy your music collection from your Mac to Googles music service so that you have access to it via the cloud on all devices. You utilise an app called Google Music Manager on your Mac and it will try and read your iTunes library and match it with googles music service where possible and if it can't find the song/album upload it to it. This can be time consuming depending on how big your library is.
Once complete you can use google play music on android / iOS to stream and download your music from the cloud.
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If you do not want this cloud music service - you can use an app on Android & your Mac called iSyncr that will enable you to copy playlists from iTunes over to your android device.
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Do not use KIES (samsungs software for your computer) as its pure rubbish (especially Mac version) unless you have to.
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So that's music / contacts & calendar now all synced between devices the next is Apps.
Most major apps in playstore such as onedrive / Dropbox / Netflix are going to be same and free. Just download and login with your normal details.
There will be certain apps and games that were paid content on iOS and unfortunately you will likely have to re-purchase them on Androud if you 'must' have them there too. Best thing is to think of it as a spring clean and only get the apps you do use rather than 'everything including that 1 app you used for 30 seconds that one time'...
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Once you have apps, music, contacts, calendar, email all working between devices switching between them is easy on a practical level. HOWEVER it comes with caveat again.
SIM card. For me Vodafone offer a solution to me simpler than having to eject sim or have a second line (they don't do that here anyway) by allowing me to put a blank sim in each of my devices and from the currently active one, I can simply dial automated service and activate whichever sim I wish to use. End call and 30 seconds later the other sim is active. This means no sim ejecting for me.
If this isn't possible, some folks do get a second line - to avoid sim swapping. The main issue with sim swapping was of course different size sims.
Whilst many new phones are adopting Nano sim making it easy to flip out SIM card between iOS & android (or other) the Note 4 still uses Micro Sim meaning you would have to use a sim adapter. These are not perfect solution and can lead to the pins on the sim reader getting caught / damaged.
So it becomes a little awkward if you don't have the facility like I have where I can have multiple blank sims and activate which one I want. You need to decide if Sim adapter or second line is practical / worth it. You could of course choose an android device with a Nano sim like the S6 or wait for the Note 5 as I assume it will adopt Nano too.
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Hope that answers the main issues / hurdles & starting blocks between being device agnostic.
Hey guys remember this issue I was having?
Well it returned and it appears the reason why it was happening was due to the Hotmail app...wish I had known this sooner
I have deleted it and it works fine now
Well it returned and it appears the reason why it was happening was due to the Hotmail app...wish I had known this sooner
I have deleted it and it works fine now
Weird that it was hotmail app? Is that a third party app (as opposed to Microsoft outlook app?)
No the official one
I only knew it was that because when I went on the nova settings it said at the top the default setting could get reset so anytime I set a default launcher it goes back each time...I've noticed since deleting that app my phone is miles quicker from app to home screen
There is a new update for Nova out today and Tesla Unread too. Notice Tesla's readme says includes support for Outlook - might be worth updating and see if it fixes this incompatibility your currently having