Android Help Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 18 2018) - Your weekly complaint thread! |
- Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 18 2018) - Your weekly complaint thread!
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- LG Aristo 2 seems to be the latest smartphone from LG
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- Google Assistant no longer asks to confirm again to save your reminder when you ask it to!
- Having fun with Google Assistant and Alarm labels
- S8/S9 size
- Fix for Google Play Services battery drain
| Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 18 2018) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 18 Feb 2018 03:11 AM PST Note 1. Join our Discord, IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:
Rules 1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer. 2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars. 3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on. [link] [comments]  | ||
| The Pixel 2 charges much more slowly below certain temperatures, but it doesn't tell you that Posted: 18 Feb 2018 08:34 AM PST
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| [DEV] Lean Launcher 0.3.0 has been released, with initial Pixel support Posted: 18 Feb 2018 07:45 AM PST Download link: Download Lean Launcher 0.3.0 here!IMPORTANT NOTE: signing keys have been changed for this release, this means that unfortunately, any previous versions have to be uninstalled before installing version 0.3.0. This had to be done in preparation for the Play Store release. The reason debug builds have this new signing key is both for convenience and security. Pixel users: install the play variant, but please note, "At A Glance" will NOT WORK, and currently there is no way to make it work. Non-Pixel users: install the aosp variant, both "Google Now" and "At A Glance" should work correctly. Changelog
Full feature list Everything, that is available in Rootless Pixel Launcher, with some added options, such as:
Link for the previous thread: Lean Launcher 0.2.0 [link] [comments]  | ||
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| [TechInsights] Huawei Mate 10 Teardown Posted: 18 Feb 2018 06:56 AM PST
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| Huawei Honor 9 Lite :comes with dual camera rear camera and dual front camera Posted: 18 Feb 2018 07:56 PM PST
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| Posted: 18 Feb 2018 05:54 PM PST I think I'll always have an iPhone as my main device, but I've been really badly wanting to try out some Android phones, specifically the Pixel 2 XL, Note 8, and OnePlus 5T. I'm just getting tired of Apple limitations (Siri, being locked into the ecosystem) and feel the need to try out something different. However, I can't even justify upgrading my phone every year, so I don't know how I'd be able to justify having two phones at once or buying a phone just to try out for a few months and then lose hundreds of dollars on it after selling it. Those of you that change phones often, what are your strategies for doing it while saving the most money? [link] [comments]  | ||
| LG Aristo 2 seems to be the latest smartphone from LG Posted: 18 Feb 2018 08:50 PM PST
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| Google Assistant no longer asks to confirm again to save your reminder when you ask it to! Posted: 17 Feb 2018 10:56 AM PST Before, it would always ask "do you want to save this?" And you had to say yes again to save, now it doesn't do that anymore! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Having fun with Google Assistant and Alarm labels Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:43 AM PST So I just found out if I make an alarm with a label that has a swear word, google assistant will bleep it out when reading it back to me. I have been having so much fun with this since. It doesn't work for long labels, so keep things short. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 18 Feb 2018 07:38 PM PST Upgrading to S9 this year from s6, but unsure whether to go for the regular or the plus. The fact that the reg s9 is thinner than my s6 kinda scares me because this is already plenty thin, but the .7 in extra in height is perfect, whereas s9 seems good thickness but 6.2 in height is something im unsure of. For those who have s8 or really any galaxy phone, what model have you got and what do you think of the size? Id especially like to hear from those with average hand size using a plus in how it is in daily and more casual use like using it laying on your side in bed [link] [comments]  | ||
| Fix for Google Play Services battery drain Posted: 18 Feb 2018 02:26 PM PST I have been searching all over the internet, went into so much trouble to look into how to resolve the issue with google play services and what kind of solutions you can use to fix the issue, I have watched plenty of videos, looked at so many forums, tried lots of suggestions on forums, factory reset my device, flashed my device with stock firmware, got Samsung themselves to flash my device and the problem still persists, so I did so many things and all of them didn't work. I finally found a solution that works for me trust me when I say this I have been looking for the past month for ways to fix this and I have fixed it.
You don't need any paid apps or anything of the sort to do this, you don't need Root for this or any customer software.
1) You are going to need to disable Google Play Services on your device, through settings>Apps > Google Play Services.
If you are on Android 7.0+ like me your device will come up and tell you that you have to be a device administrator or something along the lines. If it does click onto Device Administrators on the bottom left then untick "Find My Phone" and then you will be able to disable it Google Play Services (Don't know why but this disables the admin for google play services).
*Warning when you disable Google Play Services you may encounter errors, you may encounter glitches and you will get notifications warning you saying that apps won't work without play services don't worry as you are just reinstalling it later *
2) Once Google Play Services is disabled, go to the top right there will be the 3 dots click that and then click Uninstall Updates and it will factory reset play services.
Dont worry you wont lose any personal data or anything you will just need to sign back into your account again later once you install the apk and everything will be back to normal.
3) Once you factory reset Google Play services you are going to want to download the latest version of Google Play store if you aren't on the latest version. The reason why I say this is because my device, families devices and friends devices their Google Play store was saying that they were on the latest update when in fact they were 3 updates behind.
You can check what version of Google Play Services you are currently on by: Opening Google Play Store > Clicking the 3 Lines on the top left > Scroll to the bottom where it says "Settings" > Click on the settings and then scroll to the bottom of settings and then you will be able to see your version.
To check for the latest version of Google Play Store go to here: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/
If you aren't on the latest version of Google Play Services then you will need to download the latest one on this site (Don't worry this site doesn't have any viruses or anything like ) I take no responsibility in you downloading the incorrect files etc.
Once you have the APK downloaded in order to install an APK off the internet you will need to go to Security and Settings and then click on > Allow Unknown Applications (This needs to be on to install apps that are outside of the google play store)
If you are on the latest version then don't bother with that step.
4) Once you have installed your version of Google Play Store you will need to go to Google Play Store > Settings > Auto Update > Never Automatically Update (Reason for this is because you don't want google play services to auto update to the latest version).
5) Now onto Downloading Google Play Services, we are basically going to downgrade our version of Google Play services, the reason for this is because the later versions of Google Play Services (The one you are currently on which is why you are here on this subreddit is because the battery issues) have MASSIVE battery drain which makes the device, lag, overheat and battery drain. The main reason why the older version will stop this is because it doesn't have the bug the latest version does or it doesn't have the updated code they included but whatever Google did it made the battery life for any phone SHIT.
I have downloaded the November 2017 Google Play Services update as this version doesn't have any of the problems that the 2018 versions do.
The version number for the 2018 version I was on was 11.9.76 The older version for November 2017 which I am now using is 11.7.46
You can download any version of the Play Services here: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/
For reasons below, I cant specifically tell you what versions to download: I don't know what Version of Android you are running, I don't know what CPU architecture you are running or the DPI of your device. In order for you to know this information you can download an app called "CPU-Z" this will tell you about what version of android and Info about your CPU.
6) Once you install/ download Google Play Services you will get notification saying to update Google Play Services but ignore that and remove the notification as you don't want to get it up to date until Google fix the issue. As you changed the settings in Google Play Store Play Services wont get updated. :D
Good Luck !!! I hope this fixed your Google Play Services battery drain if you have any questions or feedback feel free to ask me, i'll try my best to answer but I may not being able to answer it etc [link] [comments]  |
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