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ram?

nothing about 2gb ram? i think that with vista we need it!

The Micro-DIMM manufacturer (Qimonda) doesn't have 2GB model available yet. There are some threads about this topic. Go for search.
But I definitely agree with you regarding Vista minimum requirements for usability...

Definitely 2GB+ is needed. I've searched exhaustively and not found a suitable memory upgrade. Given the recent considerations against 8mm HDDs, the current lack of availabilty of bigger RAM (and if/when it does come out, it will likely be very expensive), and the general desire for longer battery and better performance, a 64GB SSD (even at $1000) is starting to look very attractive to me. I guess I need to get busy selling my superceded electronics on ebay to offset the $$$.

I have upgraded mine to 64gb SSD. (got it off my portege r500) and swapped them. Now it works great no lags, and 3 seconds 2007 word opening. I highly suggest the ssd solution. it really make it usable, like using it with XP...

How much page file did you set up? Any perceived improvement in battery life?

Very interesting...
Which SSD drive did you use (brand/model) ?
(Toshiba 8mm HDD being definitely too thick for Shift casing... and slow)

FYI. Don't know if you've heard about the new intel SSDs due out in Q3. They will have a 1.8" with 80GB and later 120GB. These, and other larger drives from other manufacturers, will likely devalue current 64GB SSDs by half. Personally, I think I'll wait. I don't have $500 to flush down the toilet right now...

JEM said:
I don't have $500 to flush down the toilet right now...
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Well... eh.... I do....
What brand and model? and where can I get it? and does it improve battery time?

SSD Reliability ?
I had always thought SSD were SO much more reliable that regular hard drives, but today saw this article:
One-in-four-SSD-based-laptops-fail
Any comments? User experience.
I;m debating whether to void mu Shift warranty by upgrading to SSD and or 2GB DDr sometime near end of this year or so.
But really think I should wait until the next generation Shift, then tinker with my "old" 9501.
Add to wish list for new model:
Auto detect porttait/landscape rotation
Make cell calls (of course)

Unfortunatly, basically all new SSD's that we'll see this yeah on the market will have an SATA interface - especially those with a really good perfomance (as the perfomance improvements comes from the Flash controllers... and nobody will spend big money on that PATA stuff anymore, as it's really an dying technologoy). So, while the currently available SDDs might become cheaper over the time, we won't see that much new (bigger, cheaper, faster) SDDs from now on. Especially not with that funny ZIF connector the SHIFT needs...

Internal SD Speed ?

Has anyone benchmarked their internal 16gig sd card on the Captivate? I just did mine and it said it was a unknown class..and gave 10 gig mbs write/15gig mbs read speeds..
Does this mean it is a class 10 or higher card?
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edited..I said gigs and meant megs

Right, I'm sure your card's reading/writing 10+GBPS.
You must mean "meg"

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Right, I'm sure your card's reading/writing 10+GBPS.
You must mean "meg"
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Opps..I did mean mbs..not gigs... my bad
Anyway..it does say unknown class in front..then the 10 -15 speed..

Huh. You know, that's a good question, and I, too, am interested in the answer.
I wonder if how the device mounts the card is in any way a sort of a contributing factor in the internal card's R/W and/or real-world use? Could this even be possible, in theory?—or is there some sort of a simple hardware bottleneck present in the card/chip itself, that thus constricts the efficiency of the phone's access to the card, and in some way puts it on par with a $5 USB-reader?
Is there such a thing as a more efficient, or a better-designed reader—that, if compared to a less efficient/badly-designed reader, would produce two significantly different benchmark-results for the same chip? What sorts of design-flaws could cause such an inferior result?
...Is the "internal SD" memory of the Captivate even comparable to a MicroSD chip at all?—or is it a totally different kind of flash-memory, and thus not subject to class-level designation (except for in comparison)? Perhaps that should've been our first question.
Don't get me wrong: I'm really, genuinely eager to learn how all this fascinating hardware works. Harddrives are pretty cool, too

Hard drives annoy me. I hate how 3 years ago I shelled out a couple hundred for a 300gb hard drive and now I can get a 1TB for 90 bucks!
But back on topic, should the class of the card really matter as long as there aren't seriously noticeable delays when moving data on/off the chip?

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Hard drives annoy me. I hate how 3 years ago I shelled out a couple hundred for a 300gb hard drive and now I can get a 1TB for 90 bucks!
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Haha, yeah... but I meant, "how they work". To be sure, the same price-fluctuation occurs with all sorts of fast-evolving products: video-cards, memory-chips, VG consoles, displays, and all kinds of pocket-gadgets (and so on).
Economics often frustrates me. You know, I just bought a 16GB chip for 28$ the other day, and found it on sale for $20 the next day (but mine had already shipped)—and I so much would have rather been ordering a good 32-gig chip... but most are currently on for >$100 (but will surely retail for considerably less come January). Madness!
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But back on topic, should the class of the card really matter as long as there aren't seriously noticeable delays when moving data on/off the chip?
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Practically speaking, no—you're right: knowing the supposed class-rating of the chip isn't going to improve data transfer-rates, or anything performance-based... but, I do think that such information is nevertheless useful: it will facilitate for me, and for perhaps others, a more comprehensive understanding of how this sort of hardware works. What we learn from these answers, may serve as background to future questions that we will one day formulate...
...and may even apply, perhaps, to things outside the realm of technology (it certainly has the potential to). To wax poetic for just a moment, I've always been pleasantly surprised to notice the uncanny applicability of seemingly-unrelated areas of study. Truly, what one learns in X, can almost always be extended to Y. For example, what one learns in math class, let's say, is easily extendable well-beyond the realm of algebra (which seems on the surface, to the average high school student, to be an incredibly arcane and impractical and/or irrelevant skill-set—which is hard to learn, and thus often isn't well)—however—in learning how to ninja one's way around an algebraic equation, one also learns how to think logically, and analytically, and does develop one's critical reasoning abilities, and one's memory, and one's capacity for rationality, and keeps one's mind sharp, and trains one's focus, and... so much more.
I'm not looking to marry math or anything; I just think that it's remarkable that most good programmers, strategizers, grammartarians, scientists and even philosophers are also natural mathematicians: they process thoughts in similar ways—point being, seemingly unrelated things, are often quite intertwined. Technology, to me, feels like such a relevant thing to understand fundamentally (given the age we live in, and all). The answers to these questions feel to me... applicable—and thus I seek them. That's what motivates me to.
If that was hard to get through, I apologize. Feel free to respond, or to get back on topic (and I am going to bed).

If that was hard to get through, I apologize. Feel free to respond, or to get back on topic (and I am going to bed).
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I understand what you mean..long winded and all
I have a much more simpler reasoning for my question..and that is to replicate the speed of my internal for my external sd card and to make it seamless. While this may not seem to important to some,for me it is. Having it the same will allow any transfers on or off it to be the same.Pause any hd movie loaded on a sd card and fast forward it..how long does it take to watch the movieagain ..do the same on the internal memory..and you will see just why I want it seamless and the same. A class 2 or class 4 card doesn't come close..even the vaulted class 6 isn't nearly as fast..and who knows when we will see good inexpensive class 8 or 10.The speed I got when benchmarking the internal storage lead me to believe it was a very fast flash drive and not a micro sd card as what I was told by the Samsung galaxy techs..and is most likely why I have not recieved any response back from them on where I can purchase one to match it. Getting to see this post earlier begins to confirm this to me..http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8354214&postcount=23...Also.. makes me beg the question to any Samsung represenative that may be following this..Why is it being allowed to be told incorrectly that the internal memory is a micro sd card..when it is not ?
I have a Transcend 8 gig class 6 coming tomorrow..and I'll benchmark that and time both storage to show you what I mean..
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What app do you use to benchmark it? I have a class 10 coming from a friend at the factory. We are thinking about selling them, but would have to charge $69 including Priority Mail.
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RDI said:
What app do you use to benchmark it? I have a class 10 coming from a friend at the factory. We are thinking about selling them, but would have to charge $69 including Priority Mail.
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sorry to bump an old thread but i couldn't find anything on speed testing on the phone and same goes for the market other than a paid app

Help Me With A New PC

Hi guys,
My old PC has finally bitten the dust after around 6 years and I am now looking to get a new one. However, I'm on quite a tight budget for what I want, it seems.
I am looking for a new desktop PC which is a capable gaming machine. My old computer was capable of playing BF3 (on medium-ish settings) smoothly and could play FFXIV which I am quite looking forward to. There's a whole new console generation on the horizon and I am mainly a console gamer, but would like my PC to be able to play a few upcoming games such as The Division or maybe Watchdogs.
I haven't built a PC in a very very long time, so would prefer to get a pre-built one. My budget is £600. I would prefer it to come with a monitor for that price, but I doubt that I'd be able to get one too. My current monitor is quite old, but will do for now.
I've been looking into both AMD and Intel processors and it seems the i5 is arguably the better of them for the price bracket (I think an i7 is a pipe dream). The problem I am having is that there's so many numbers floating around within the i5 family and I struggle with dyscalculia (number dyslexia, basically) so I am having a hard time trying to figure out the price-to-power sweet spot. Then there's graphics cards on top. Ideally, I'd like to go with NVidia this generation as I plan on buying an NVidia Shield one day, but AMD have been good to me over the years, so I wouldn't turn my nose up at them.
I am going to do more research and reading. But if you could point me in the right direction, I'd very much appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.

You'll have better luck here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28602532
OT DESKTOP THREAD.
and what I mean by better luck, is this thread will eventually get locked.

you could just upgrade it like it says in this post
http://m.dummies.com/how-to/content/pc-performance-upgrades-cpu-motherboard-and-memory.html
or check some alienware ones

I Love this phone but....

I know we all love this phone, it is awesome. Super Fast, Super intuitive stock android, Super pretty, but lets be honest What's the one issue that Makes you want to get rid of the phone and never look back.
I didn't know how important a microsd card was to me until I used this phone. I used to have my entire music collection on my GS4 and while I still have online access to everything, I really miss not having to use up all my data and really being able to listen to anything anytime anywhere. Also pinning music for offline use through Google music sucks when you have thousands upon thousands of tracks and might forget what you have and haven't saved for offline play.
What's your issue that made you rethink your purchase for a slit second.

I knew there was no sd card going in and embraced it. I think it's easier to keep track of what's on storage and I obviously bought a 32 GB.
No complaints with the phone here. Well except I would have bought a red one.
Oh, ibl
Complaining isn't going to help.
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What's your issue that made you rethink your purchase for a slit second.
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nothing

I haven't rethought at all. As is a small bugbear but it hasn't made me rethink
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For the average user, most phone companies now are not including an SD card on pretty much all of their phones (except samsung.) With cloud storage and high speed internet available at your finger tips, just stream it all. Google will let you store like 20,000 songs free and stream them. It may be a strain on your data plan, but if you're at home or the office, just use wifi.
The point of the fact is, if 16GB isn't enough, they make you buy the 32GB phone. If that still isn't enough for you, they recommend you use their services and apps to fill in the gap.

For me it's not having USB audio on stock.
Many people have no idea what this means, and even if they did it wouldn't matter to them, but to music quality snobs such as myself, it really irks me.
Especially because iphones have usb audio.
Cyanogen and probably some other roms support usb audio so it is possible to get with this phone
But I really feel this should be on stock android, and on every single phone.

Rarscaryfrosty said:
For the average user, most phone companies now are not including an SD card on pretty much all of their phones (except samsung.) With cloud storage and high speed internet available at your finger tips, just stream it all. Google will let you store like 20,000 songs free and stream them. It may be a strain on your data plan, but if you're at home or the office, just use wifi.
The point of the fact is, if 16GB isn't enough, they make you buy the 32GB phone. If that still isn't enough for you, they recommend you use their services and apps to fill in the gap.
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This. ^^^^^^^^^^^
To the OP, may I offer a suggestion:
Use a large portion of your internal storage to store the albums/tracks you listen to w/ the most frequency, and leave the online storage for the remainder. Obviously you can swap between the two whenever you'd like, but seems like it would make the most sense given the fact that you still decided to go w/ a N5.
May not serve your "any track, any time, anywhere" purpose fully, but will save you data and still allow you quick access to a good portion of your media.

I have to say, the limitation on storage does not bother me in the slightest. Sure it would be -nice- to be able to expand the storage, but in this day and age, data is getting cheaper and cheaper, and services that stream media are getting better and easier to use.
Why do we need more storage? how many apps are you truly going to install? how much music do you really need to take with you at all times?
personally, I have a network attached storage, which does owncloud. Through this, and the owncloud app, I stream all of my media to my phone wherever I am.
One could also use a service such as dropbox, or even just listen to online radio streams or even watch netflix for movies.
"The Cloud" is all the rage these days, and it's getting more and more cost effective to use such services. So really, why do we need an SD slot? why do we need additional storage?

I have a 128 GB USB drive attached to my key chain, and a USB otg cable in my wallet all the time... No need for an sd card here... Just wish there was an i r blaster
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EnIXmA said:
I have a 128 GB USB drive attached to my key chain, and a USB otg cable in my wallet all the time... No need for an sd card here... Just wish there was an i r blaster
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That'll do it right there.
I was preaching this a year ago when people were bagging in the HTC One and no SDcard slot. LOL
I have the 16 gig and no issue.... well it's because I have Sprint and have decent service in Houston so pulling anything from/to the cloud is a no worries situation for me!!

Get one of these.
http://www.meenova.com/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Dopd9we34

+1 for meenova, I use it almost everyday
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EnIXmA said:
I have a 128 GB USB drive attached to my key chain, and a USB otg cable in my wallet all the time... No need for an sd card here... Just wish there was an i r blaster
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Yup, who needs an elegant solution like MicroSD card when we can carry USB drives and OTG cables :good:

your thread name is misleading. love is unconditional, period. if you have conditions to get your love, that isnt love. you dont love your phone. i love my nexus 5, with every perfection and misperfection it has

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I have edited the title because I think I am giving people the wrong impression. The point I was making is that even though somthing is awesome, because we are all individuals and this is a mass market device there are bound to be things about the phone that erk us, maybe its only an issue to you. I didn't intend this to be an sd card complaint thread, Just a chance for everyone to vent their idiosyncrasies.

The nexus 5 is probably the best phone I've used/owned hands down. No regrets whatsoever

I definitely love this phone. I came from the Note 3 and do not miss that phone one bit although it wasn't a bad phone either. I have more than enough gigabytes (32gb) and if I felt that 32gb wasn't enough then I would of stuck with the Note 3 (which has expandable memory) or bought a phone that offered expandable memory.
I do not agree with streaming from the cloud as alternative unless you have a true unlimited 4g/LTE plan. Also I would hate to walk around with USB OTG as an option. OP next time get a phone with expandable memory or hope they make the N6 in a 64gb version.
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The battery is underpowered imo
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I hate the headphone jack at the top.
Whatchu talking bout willis!

I have a very large music collection. All of the tracks are in a mySQL database. I made a little bash script that randomly selects about 8gb at a time and copies the tracks to the phone. I am more than satisfied.

32 vs 64 gb

One week with my 32gb N6 and given the fact the phone offers actually 26 true gb, after installation of system and user apps I have barely over 21gb free to start filling with music/pictures/videos. Deducting another 2gb that I always want to leave free on any device this leaves me with less than 19GB for personal data. I have a 1-month free return option and I am now wondering whether I should take advantage of it to go for the 64gb version. I don't want to carry my entire library with me but it seems I hadn't calculated very well what 32 nominal gb correspond to in reality. How do other 32gb owners feel about the available storage?

it really depends on your needs. 32 is perfect for me. i don't keep music on my device since i have unlimited data so really its just roms, pics, n twrp backups that i keep.
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32gb is fine for me. My photos get backed up to Google+, so from time to time I delete some from the device, and almost all my music is streamed. This leaves me with at least 16gb free, even with lots of apps, podcast episodes, audiobooks, email attachments and the like.
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Pretty lame thread..
One is bigger than the other what else is there to know?

get the 64gb...if ur an app junky like myself...i had no choice since my price error was only for the 32gb...i had to buy it right away and deal with only 32gb

I own a Nexus 6 myself and now that I've let you know I own a Nexus 6 I would like to ask a question also. Ok, so here's it is:
I sometimes find myself wanting to make a phone call. Of course, there are a few ways this can be done. Now, I have two options that normally fill my needs and I find myself using the most. The first is my recent calls option......I pretty much just have to click and it calls the contact.....WOW. My second option is to actually "access" if you will, my contacts in the "phone app" and locate the contact I wish to call. Of course once I find that contact, I pretty much just have to touch or "click" the name to make the call.
So, my question here would be:
What are your opinions on making phone calls and the best way to accomplish contacting other humans with our Nexus 6 phones? I look forward to reading the deep thoughts and different ways people like to contact others using this glorious device. Thank you so very much, I will be waiting here bashing the f5 key on my keyboard until my hand starts to bleeding waiting for replies. My life is so empty
yeah.................................................you want more storage? Get more storage....why do you people continue to waste space with these stupid threads?

jagpoag said:
I own a Nexus 6 myself and now that I've let you know I own a Nexus 6 I would like to ask a question also. Ok, so here's it is:
I sometimes find myself wanting to make a phone call. Of course, there are a few ways this can be done. Now, I have two options that normally fill my needs and I find myself using the most. The first is my recent calls option......I pretty much just have to click and it calls the contact.....WOW. My second option is to actually "access" if you will, my contacts in the "phone app" and locate the contact I wish to call. Of course once I find that contact, I pretty much just have to touch or "click" the name to make the call.
So, my question here would be:
What are your opinions on making phone calls and the best way to accomplish contacting other humans with our Nexus 6 phones? I look forward to reading the deep thoughts and different ways people like to contact others using this glorious device. Thank you so very much, I will be waiting here bashing the f5 key on my keyboard until my hand starts to bleeding waiting for replies. My life is so empty
yeah.................................................you want more storage? Get more storage....why do you people continue to waste space with these stupid threads?
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So do you recommend 32 or 64 gb dear friend?

I have no issues with my 32GB. I rely on cloud services for media, which works especially well since streaming music doesn't count against my data with T-Mobile. I don't watch videos except when I'm chilliing at home generally, where I'll either use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, or just stream from my archive on my NAS. With about 14GB of apps and their data, I have about 15 GB to snap pics and video, or download a few movies/albums if I know I'll be without data.

The answer is easy.
If you find yourself saying, "I can't decide between the 64GB model or the 32GB model..." , it means you should just get the f'ing 64GB model and move on with life.
Pretty simple. I'd rather say, "I have more GBs than I need", as opposed to, "I need more GBs.".

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I have no issues with my 32GB. I rely on cloud services for media, which works especially well since streaming music doesn't count against my data with T-Mobile. I don't watch videos except when I'm chilliing at home generally, where I'll either use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, or just stream from my archive on my NAS. With about 14GB of apps and their data, I have about 15 GB to snap pics and video, or download a few movies/albums if I know I'll be without data.
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I am yet not sold on cloud services for streaming my music. I travel often and since I am not on my provider's network all the time (or any network at all in flight) it's not possible to stream. Then there's much more battery drain from 4G+streaming compared to listening to media locally so I still kind of prefer the old-fashioned "mp3-player" mode. I've always felt a bit limited with 16gb non-expandable memory devices so I thought a 32gb one would give me the extra space but apparently it's not exactly like that. More and more people do use cloud services for streaming their own music though so it may be something I have to re-consider in the end.
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The answer is easy.
If you find yourself saying, "I can't decide between the 64GB model or the 32GB model..." , it means you should just get the f'ing 64GB model and move on with life.
Pretty simple. I'd rather say, "I have more GBs than I need", as opposed to, "I need more GBs.".
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Not far from the truth...
Thing is I had settled with the 32gb model nicely but then actually found out there this 1-month free return thing so the dilemma 32 vs 64 came to mind.

It's like buying a VW Phaeton. Many would be happy just to have one. Would I regret not buying the model with a heated steering wheel and rear passenger HVAC controls if I just bought the standard version, even if I was offered the opportunity to upgrade for only the price difference of the two models? No, I still have a bad-ass car.
Perhaps that's just me, though.