For those who doesn't know "My Tracks" allows you to create tracks with the GPS, showing various info - average speed, average moving speed, height differences, etc.
In the last several weeks I found it useful to track my snowboarding sessions - where I am riding, how fast, etc. The problem is that there is some really strange problem - in 8 out of 10 cases after I start recording a new track it turns out I have a top speed of 460km/h. I ride really fast, yeah, but that fast?
I was wondering what could be the case? For obvious reasons I can't observe the program while riding - one fall and the phone is gone
When I am on the lift I can observe it and everything is normal. I had the suspicion that falls could cause this, but today I had several quiet bad falls, during one recording and yet i t was accurate.
Has anyone observed such behavior?
Try CardioTrainer, I like it better then MyTracks
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I think the Nexus 4 is an awesome device, but I have a few issues with it that I haven't seen mentioned.
Screen artefacts: On a grey background if I turn the brightness up to maximum I have two strips running vertically down the screen. They are barely visible unless at full brightness, even then you can hardly see them. The best place to see them is in the notification area, I can see them best in a dark room.
Audio (this one is by far the most annoying): If I plug in head phones and listen to music there is a very slight hiss sound, when the music is quiet or at a silent interval. What's strange is if I pause the music the hiss sound is there for like 5 seconds then disappears. It happens with every track, including YouTube and it happens on different pairs of headphones. The hiss sound only appears if I play music, and as I said it's still there when I stop the track for a few seconds.
Image retention: If I'm on Chrome browsing the web, after about 5 minutes, if I swipe the tab away revealing the grey page with the Chrome logo, and then turn the brightness up fully the URL bar and the URL itself are often visible and even readable. It goes away after like 2 minutes but I'm worried it will eventually remain.
Could anyone try out those steps and see if they also have any similar issues? I don't think I would mind if everyone else had them, but I would be disappointed if mine was a lemon.
Thanks for the help!
EDIT: Sorry I should have made the poll multiple choice lol, I voted for the headphone hiss since it was the most annoying.
Concerning "screen artefacts": I got these, but I'm afraid they're worse, because I can barely see them at the minimum brightness when in a dark room (my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052338).
Audio: don't worry about that because I've heard that on many devices (like mp3's or my previous LG Swift); the hiss just stops after few seconds from stopping playback. Maybe it's worse than I imagine that...
To respond to the Chrome issue (ghosting): I haven't seen anything like this so far... maybe my eyes are just not as sensitive as yours
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Concerning "screen artefacts": I got these, but I'm afraid they're worse, because I can barely see them at the minimum brightness when in a dark room (my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052338).
Audio: don't worry about that because I've heard that on many devices (like mp3's or my previous LG Swift); the hiss just stops after few seconds form stopping playback. Maybe it's worse than I imagine that...
To respond to the Chrome issue (ghosting): I haven't seen anything like this so far... maybe my eyes are just not as sensitive as yours
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Thanks very much for your reply!
I looked at the picture you posted, and yeah that's exactly like mine I double checked and if I look really carefully I actually can see them at minima brightness, though it's definitely more visible at higher brightness.
Do you have the hiss on your device?
Have the lines, so faint I couldn't careless about them. No hiss or ghosting on mine. I think this is a case of if you want a problem with the device you will find one. Everyone has such high standards lol.
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Have the lines, so faint I couldn't careless about them. No hiss or ghosting on mine. I think this is a case of if you want a problem with the device you will find one. Everyone has such high standards lol.
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I know, I don't really mind about the lines that much (it's not that bad compared to the artefacts on an AMOLED), the image retention is a little worrying though, but the headphone hiss is just plain annoying.
I see a few people have the hiss, how bad is it? Did your other devices have it?
I have the hiss and lines.
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I have the hiss and lines.
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Are you going to RMA it? Or does it not bother you that much? This is the first device I've owned that has the hiss. The sound quality is better than my S2, but that fuzzy hiss sound is annoying.
I just submitted my pre-order for a Note 4. I loved the Note 2 (I love the size), but I really wanted a Sprint tri-band phone about a year ago, so I sold my Note 2 online and got the Nexus 5. Here is my post mortem after about a year of owning the Nexus 5.
What I really like about the Nexus 5:
• The phone is really zippy. With some of my other phones, I felt like after about 8 months the phone would start to get really laggy. Not the Nexus 5. To this day, it is really fast. Very smooth.
• I of course love the fast Android OS updates.
• I still think the phone has a great physical design. I love the very small bezels on the side of the screen.
• I love the multi-colored LED, when used with Light Flow. I haven’t read anything about the Note 4’s LEDs. I hope it has one. If it doesn't, that might be a dealbreaker. I use those LEDs to help me keep track at a glance of SMSs, work emails, home emails, calendar reminders, and missed phone calls.
• I love the HDR camera. I got some great shots, and got many compliments. I love that the HDR is subtle – the pictures do not look fake.
• I love that it is easy to root. I am never concerned about a locked bootloader or anything like that.
• I like the fast boot up time.
• I love the “OK Google” voice hotword on any screen. I use autovoice and have several custom commands. Can other phones do that? I hope so.
• The screen is awesome. I love the accurate colors. I’m not a fan of the saturated colors on the Samsung. The Note 4 seems to look better than prior Samsung OLED screens.
What I do not like about the Nexus 5:
• I can’t stand that the volume settings are buried in the settings menu. When I want to turn down the media volume BEFORE playing the media, I have to go into the deep volume settings to get to it. I like Samsung’s solution. When I use the volume rocker, I can press the settings button to the side of the volume meter and individually adjust the various volume settings, without having to dive deep into menus. There might be an app that fixes this. I didn't look very hard.
• I hate not having a physical home button. There have been many times when a full-screen app freezes, and I can’t access the home button for 10 seconds or so. Very annoying.
• The GPS is laggy. Sometimes when I launch Waze, it takes like 3 minutes to get a GPS lock. That seems to have gotten better after a recent update. However, I still have problems in Runkeeper. It sometimes takes about a minute to get a lock.
• The low light video recorder autofocus is terrible. This might be the most annoying problem. Most of my recordings are of my kids at home, indoors. The Nexus 5 video recorder autofocus cannot keep up. It got better after an update a few months ago, especially because now I can focus on the subject by tapping the screen before I hit record, but it is still bad. I have so many blurry recordings. I’m really hoping the Note 4 is better. I didn’t seem to notice this problem on my Note 2.
• I am not impressed with battery life. When I am not at my desk at work, and I’m at home or out, my phone goes to about 20% after only 5 or 6 hours of medium to heavy use. I bought an external battery charger and I carry that around in my laptop bag now. Obviously, my Note 4 will be much better with the much bigger battery.
• I hate not having an SD card. I record a lot of video, and like to load a lot of music on my phone. I have to be careful about what I load, and I have to regularly offload my videos to free up space. I don’t understand why Google does not want us to have an SD card.
• I miss a removable battery. With the Note 2, I had one battery always charged at home, and another always charged at the office.
• The HDR photos look great, but require the subject to be still, because it takes so long to get a shot.
• I wish the headphone volume was a little louder. When I am listening while mowing the lawn, I often cannot hear my audio books and podcasts.
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What I do not like about the Nexus 5:
• I can’t stand that the volume settings are buried in the settings menu. When I want to turn down the media volume BEFORE playing the media, I have to go into the deep volume settings to get to it. I like Samsung’s solution. When I use the volume rocker, I can press the settings button to the side of the volume meter and individually adjust the various volume settings, without having to dive deep into menus. There might be an app that fixes this. I didn't look very hard.
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There's an app that is really good for that: Noyze https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.barrasso.android.volume
Its free, but it also had IAP withe more themes, but I like it as it is. It's also very frequently updated.
Hi, I have a very bad GPS accuracy. It is worse when I am in the car or bus, then accuracy is twice worse. My track looks like a zigzak even when I am going just straight. My other and older phone do it much better. Is there any antenna issue or this gps is just sh*t?
Also the compass is decalibrated all the time. On google maps it shows just wide spectrum instead of narrow field like my old phone, so almost 180 degree spread. Also not very accurate. For car nav it is ok accuracy, not jumps much, but when walking or recording a trace it is a big problem and for example for running app it will add distance and when sum it up it will be significant. Is my unit just bad or what? Can it be improved? It is hardware or software related thing?
When I am on other phone, the accuracy once dialed in it will stay like this, here it is fluctuating from good to worse and even sometimes very bad (like 100m).
You're not alone. I'm experiencing poor gps accuracy as well, but it's hard to tell whether it's software or hardware related.
I barely get less than 10m of accuracy when I test the gps using the "gps test" app, with clear view of the sky, with 15~ satellites in use.
Same here
Actually GPS and Compass are pretty accurate compared to my Nexus 6. check out screenshot, it was taken at my living room in a 2 story house, weather condition is cloudy and slight rain.
And what happens outside? Does it manage to retain high accuracy (up to 5 meters/16 feet)?
I'm getting quick fixes, high accuracy (15'), but apps like locus and ingress are very drifty. It's weird.
Hi all,
Now the warmer days are coming I am once again walking to work and notice some unusual bluetooth behaviour.
If I walk with P9 in my front jeans pocket there is a very bad connection and breaking up of the signal sometimes it it is 10 second breaks in the music.
If I hold the phone in my hand when I walk which is a greater distance away from the headphones the signal is improved and solid.
If I put the phone in my laptop bag at approximate same distance the connection is also improved and rock solid.
So please can anyone help me to understand this weirdness, I never experienced such an issue before.
If I experiment at home of in the gym or office leaving my phone somewhere stationary the connection is awesome for quite a long distance so I am bamboozled.
[file:///data/user/0/com]*—*16.06.2020 15:20*Schneier on Security
New research*is able to recover sound waves in a room by observing minute changes in the room's light bulbs. This technique works from a distance, even from a building across the street through a window.
Details:
In an experiment using three different telescopes with different lens diameters from a distance of 25 meters (a little over 82 feet) the researchers were successfully able to capture sound being played in a remote room, including The Beatles'*Let It Be, which was distinguishable enough for Shazam to recognize it, and a speech from President Trump that Google's speech recognition API could successfully transcribe. With more powerful telescopes and a more sensitive analog-to-digital converter, the researchers believe the eavesdropping distances could be even greater.
It's not expensive: less than $1,000 worth of equipment is required. And unlike other techniques like bouncing a laser off the window and measuring the vibrations, it's completely passive.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/06/eavesdropping_o_9.html
Yeah I read this article. It's very interesting technique but has needs a very specific condition.