This is going to be a VERY LONG THREAD. I'm keeping it locked as to keep it for reference. It'll be updated as frequently as possible. I'm going to try and review every app that I have in my collection + any new ones I get. This will be totally unorganized, so the second and third post will be reserved for the encyclopedia which will categorize all the posts of each review under a certain category. I'll be posting screenshots, reviews, and a link to the site/thread + a buy/donate link for the developer if available. Please don't rush me since this is going to take a couple weeks (maybe a month or two) to complete because it'll be pretty damn long. I'll try to do one app a day, but it'll be hard to do.
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Hi Everyone. I'm going on a much needed vacation with my family next week. I have a new blog I just started (in Feb). It's called techloaf.com. It's technical stuff for the not so technical.
Anyway, I want to dedicate next week to windowsmobile and htc phones. Would any of you be interested in being a guest blogger? You would just send me an article of at least 200 words and I'll set it up to post automatically next week.
Here are the benefits to you:
1) YOU GET TO BE A STAR! lol
2) You could link back to your blog or website for traffic. My blog gets crawled by google almost everyday. What you write would go into google almost immediately, including the link to your site.
3) It would increase your publicity. My blog is new. Just a 100 or so visitors a week currently. But about half are coming from Technorati and Google. Your exposure would increase over time.
4) If you want, I'll guest blog for you to pay you back.
5) I'll put your names in my signature this week, ie "Check out Vijay555, guest blogging on Techloaf.com this week!" Hehe, sorry vijay.
Guidelines:
1) Be Yourself
2) Be Funny if you like
3) Keep it clean
4) Keep it simple
5) If possible, have titles like "5 Ways to do this or That" or "How to do something that simplifies your life" etc
Interested? Please PM and let me know. Also, let me know the titles of the articles you would like to write.
Thanks!
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As most of you don't know I am a ACF instructor (Army Cadet Force) here in the UK.
Army Cadets Website
From time to time I am required to go away on combat exercises & training weekends/weeks.
On most weekends I maybe able to get online to help users out as and when but sometimes I am out in the field and cannot get online.
So for this purpose I created this thread.
I will update accordingly when I am away so new users can see if im around or why im not replying to PM's or posts when they come in.
This has happened a few times where users require my help and get the upset when I don't reply.
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Re: *23/11/12* My away notification thread
Weekend cancelled due to bad weather lol
I am away this weekend. Leave Fri 5pmish, back Sunday after 4. I maybe able to get emails and pm's depending on coverage and battery life.
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I appreciate the thought of this thread, but is better just to mark the OP of your existing threads rather than open a new one.
It's official. Wait times for the next batch is 3 weeks.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/15/nexus-4-backordered/
Thank you for your recent purchase on Google Play. Due to overwhelming demand, your Nexus 4 is on backorder and is expected to ship within three weeks. We'll send you a notification when your order has shipped and will credit the shipping charges.
To check the status of your order at any time, visit the link below: https://wallet.google.com/manage/#transactions
If you would prefer to cancel your order, please reply to this email and our team will assist you. Or you can cancel your order using our online tool. Please follow the instructions found here:
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2423477
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you again for your order.
Thanks,
The Google Play Team
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So pretty much anyone who hasn't been able to put in a order (like myself) are not going to be able to order the device for a long time.
Thanks for nothing LG.
I guess I'm stuck phoneless for 3 weeks, or whenever the next batch will be availabe...
But I am also sort of glad that I wasn't able to get my order in so we could see if Google will add the Nexus 4 to AOSP as well as fix up some of the thermal issues.
Question for you... do you even read forums before making a new thread? The email you just quoted has been posted numerous times...
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c_86 said:
Question for you... do you even read forums before making a new thread? The email you just quoted has been posted numerous times...
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It deserves it's own thread.
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It deserves it's own thread.
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It really doesn't. Also the E-mail doesn't say what you seem to think it does. Within 3 weeks means any time from today up untill 3 weeks. I'm not overly optomistic about the time frame myself but the thread title is still misleading at best.
your thread created privileges should be taken away...
Good thing I didnt sell my GNex yet.
Why are ppl in the states so crazy to get it even at the price of over $600 at ebay nearly double...can't they wait for the next wave just few weeks ahead..most other country don't even have play store to purchase that may sound reasonable
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I am totally at a loss with Google on this? Total and epic failure from a company that prides itself on it's meticulous attention to detail and Engineers every little thing. How the hell am I supposed t believe that the company that can crunch massive data sets, route the quickest path to ones home, serve massive amounts of AD's and multimedia can blow it in running a simple Cart driven eCommerce business and fail to anticipate all these fairly obvious headaches coming to light. It really boggles the mind?
I got the Backorder letter too, but even that was very vague and provides no level of detail that can be useful. Already there is conflicting stories of folks getting the bo letter and a shipment letter, some who made two separate orders are left wondering which order is bo'd?
If I had to think out loud, I would surmise that in the effort of cutting costs down for this product they used there F-Team of managers for this product launch ... seriously!
*A notification system that failed to notify!
*No coherent product launch time (Midnight? 9EST? 9PST?) even when we fished around for details and the rumour mill had it at 9PST the damn store opened 30minutes earlier.
*No clear communication on stock levels
*No pre-order ... my god how stupid are the folks who ran this botched job!
*Not enough inventory on hand
*No cart limits like 1 per person or 2 per person ... I could add 100 to my cart and the thing would go through
*No cart queuing/ reserving/ holding mechanism ... ticketmaster holds a ticket for 5-10 minutes the instant it lands on your cart
*Cart/ Site kept crashing
*They didn't update the site to sold-out until late at night leading to the F5 phenomena, with people wasting time without knowing whether they can make an order or not ... fully knowing anyone after the initial 10 minutes after opening the Play store would be on backorder ... might as well keep selling now it makes no more difference at this point at least alleviate those who can't purchase now to join a queue and keep selling. What will happen now is they will launch in spurts resulting in the same level of chaos ... let people join the queue now if they will be backordered in anycase.
*For those of us who got the chance to order the assumption was that they would be able to make a shipment ... no reason why the system would fluctuate from in stock to of stock during the nightmare purchase with all the obstacles it had ... WHY THE HELL DID WE GET BO'd! If there system wasn't as one to one as it seemed with all it's rigidity in how much you can add to cart and it failing during purchase because it became out of stock ... then how the hell did you guys oversell?
No sincere apology, no corrective actions are being laid out ... and that token free shipping in no way salvages this horribly broken Play Store. Heads have to roll ... seriously! I've read stories of better managers/ CEO's, project leads being fired for so little ... the folks who have done an outstanding job of tarnishing the Google brand and have been doing so seeing that this type of nonsense is not new with those familiar with the Play Store ... I am totally new to the Android verse coming from WP7.5, BB7, and Maemo ... this first impression of how Google runs this store is not what I always imagined of Google which I love and use from Email to Google+ ... I even enjoyed GWave, I put up with the Buzz mess up ... but Play is such a horrible brand tarnishing experience and Google needs to improve there retail program or get out of it and let the pro's at Amazon handle it.
This is a joke, I can't believe it Google has been running a psy-ops campaign over at the Play Store to ruin there hard fought branding of Engineered Excellence. I hate the Apple verse and the perception that they created whatever is the next best thing when rather they made a incremental improvement on the natural progression of a product life cycle ... but give credit where it is due they are a behemoth when it comes to the retail experience and the level of customer service ... night and day difference in these experiences Google, please rectify it. It makes it silly to have a building full of the brightest people who can't attempt to sell something online when you dominate on the Internet... it is a running joke this Play Store. Heads must roll!
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It deserves it's own thread.
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Agreed with the others - this letter has been discussed ad nauseam in at least 2 other very large threads, so much so that one person that started another thread has already (as of earlier this afternoon) started a Google Docs spreadsheet where they are analyzing data entered by volunteers from this forum so that graphs and statistical analyses can be made correlating purchase time to shipping confirmation as well as how this data pertains to the email notification you wrote about.
Mods, please close this thread.
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ryan92084 said:
It really doesn't. Also the E-mail doesn't say what you seem to think it does. Within 3 weeks means any time from today up untill 3 weeks. I'm not overly optomistic about the time frame myself but the thread title is still misleading at best.
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Yes I had been reading about people's experiences with this backorder email for several hours already, since it was distributed around 3:00-4:00pm EST this afternoon, and then I see this thread title, and obviously I had to assume that someone had some NEW information, linking to a story at Engadget where perhaps they had confirmed that no additional units would be shipped for at least 3 weeks. But then I find, it was just a useless rehash of news and information the rest of us have been looking at and discussing for nearly 7 hours in other threads.
WTF.
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Agreed with the others - this letter has been discussed ad nauseam in at least 2 other very large threads, so much so that one person that started another thread has already (as of earlier this afternoon) started a Google Docs spreadsheet where they are analyzing data entered by volunteers from this forum so that graphs and statistical analyses can be made correlating purchase time to shipping confirmation as well as how this data pertains to the email notification you wrote about.
Mods, please close this thread.
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Yes I had been reading about people's experiences with this backorder email for several hours already, since it was distributed around 3:00-4:00pm EST this afternoon, and then I see this thread title, and obviously I had to assume that someone had some NEW information, linking to a story at Engadget where perhaps they had confirmed that no additional units would be shipped for at least 3 weeks. But then I find, it was just a useless rehash of news and information the rest of us have been looking at and discussing for nearly 7 hours in other threads.
WTF.
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Yes but even backorders take "up to 3 weeks" (don't be optimistic). So people who haven't been able to order will obviously have to wait longer than that.
#firstworldproblems
x1000.
Get over it
I hope this is ok, nothing in the rules seams to suggest this would be wrong... if it is against the rules, please delete with my apologies.
My company is holding a competition for best smile and I have sent in a picture of my Dog Bandit who sadly was put to sleep in September after a massive stroke left him disabled.
I have never won anything in my life and could do with a win right now having recently split up from my wife of 8 years when she walked out on me about 10 weeks ago... and it would be a great send off for my best friend.
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...88804569097.1073741833.322386357786011&type=1
I would appreciate it if you could take a minute to Like my picture, the competition ends on friday the 31st, I was in the lead but over night another picture has jumped from 101 votes to 159, dropping my picture to second place.
Thank You
link not available man
and my condolenses..
Here is the link to the "vote for my BS" thread....use search next time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2268238
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as for the vote for me thread, first page is full of people taking the mick out of the original poster so thought it unsuitable.
ukdtweak said:
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as for the vote for me thread, first page is full of people taking the mick out of the original poster so thought it unsuitable.
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Doesn't matter, it's still the proper thread for this to be in. Time to get mick-y!
I think it would be a great idea if there was a sticky referencing ART. I know it's in the FAQ, but honestly that doesn't even reference lollipop so it's not particularily findable. (It's also updated a long time ago, so someone looking at the dates would be excused for assuming it's not relevant anymore). To make things as smooth and easy as possible I suggest an ART sticky topic.
I have an ulterior motive though, I would like to be able to subscribe to a topic that is closed so I can receive an update the moment there is news.
Checking the forum every day for news just breeds frustration and stupid posts.
Or is someone aware of a twitter or something else that can be subscribed to for latest-news-if-there-is-in-fact-news ?
Considering anytime rovo speaks we see an androidpolice our xda story about it I really don't think you'll need to follow it closely.
At this point it's a better bet to realize XPosed isn't going to upgrade and I would be skeptical of anyone else who tries to come up with a hack job solution.
I honestly think it's best if it isn't mentioned or posted about any more by anyone but rovo89.
This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, but can you imagine being placed under this much pressure to produce an update for something that you originally made for free in your spare time?
The constant questioning and prodding about it, when he's already said he'll work on it after the retail L released and the source dropped is getting to an unacceptable stage now in my opinion.
I would be at the point of abandoning it by now and walking away (at least publicly).
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As we have seen, the posts are not going to stop. So the next best thing is to channel that energy a little and get those people informed ASAP quickly and easily. I don't believe the first post in the other now stickied thread is very informative so that doesn't make a lot of sense.
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I honestly think it's best if it isn't mentioned or posted about any more by anyone but rovo89.
This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, but can you imagine being placed under this much pressure to produce an update for something that you originally made for free in your spare time?
The constant questioning and prodding about it, when he's already said he'll work on it after the retail L released and the source dropped is getting to an unacceptable stage now in my opinion.
I would be at the point of abandoning it by now and walking away (at least publicly).
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I agree....which is why I think a small statement from Rovo would be a wonderful thing.....worst case scenario, he has walked away. At least then we will know either way and the rest of the community can try to pick up the project in his absence.
He's already said multiple times what the situation is and when he would work on it. For a start, in a detailed post here.
I see little point in him repeatedly stating the same thing just because there are impatient people that can't just wait until rovo is ready to post news, like he's asked.
As said earlier, as soon as rovo speaks about the future of Xposed, then it's all over Android news sites within minutes. Nobody will miss any news.
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He's already said multiple times what the situation is and when he would work on it. For a start, in a detailed post here.
I see little point in him repeatedly stating the same thing just because there are impatient people that can't just wait until rovo is ready to post news, like he's asked.
As said earlier, as soon as rovo speaks about the future of Xposed, then it's all over Android news sites within minutes. Nobody will miss any news.
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Say that to Valve. I don't think there is anything wrong with rovo89 re-assuring everyone what he's doing. I mean, it doesn't take many minutes to post on the forum. It surely even less seconds for a tweet or reply. As a person that gets completely connected to the software they use, knowing that that time is moving at the same pace as the developers perspective brings you at ease. I don't really see a harm in him updating less than once a month about it.
It sure as hell wouldn't make me feel as bad as Valve makes me feel sometimes. Of course, that's just "well-being" everyone has to deal with. When i'm doing big projects, I tend to tweet, or make a post just to keep people alert. There's some cases where the initial developer leaves and leaves the air dry, and they would literally take the spirit of the whole scene with them. When it comes to tomorrows tech, everyone misses the news. (Also, I know what you meant by nobody will miss the news as in everyone would get updates from Android headlines all over the place. I just wanted a nice segue lol).
Please see this post. I've added a link to it in the FAQ (post #3).
I believe the other part of the FAQ post does a good job of explaining the rest.
EDIT: I've also created and stuck a redirect thread which takes you to the relevant FAQ entry: "Does Xposed run on ART / Android 5.0 / Android L / Lollipop yet?".