I am in a fringe area of Verizon. I usually have one bar and get dropped calls and a lot of breaking up on my Note 3. It is so bad, my friends don't bother calling anymore (Maybe I should change my deodorant). I have always had Motorola phones before and did not have this problem until I went to the Samsung phone. Maybe just new construction causing congestion?
Anyway, I use a phone conversation app that will require root on the Nexus 6 because it does on the Nexus 5.
My question is how difficult is it to root a Nexus phone? Is it simple and will only take a day or two or will some genus have to work on it for weeks and brick some phones before it gets easy to do? I could go without recording phone calls for a week or two but I don't want to wait for a month or two.
Thank you for listening to me.;
Nexus in general are super easy to root. The nexus 5 and 7 involve just a few steps using adb and you're done. I assume the 6 will be exactly the same, that's the point of nexus devices.
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I am in a fringe area of Verizon. I usually have one bar and get dropped calls and a lot of breaking up on my Note 3. It is so bad, my friends don't bother calling anymore (Maybe I should change my deodorant). I have always had Motorola phones before and did not have this problem until I went to the Samsung phone. Maybe just new construction causing congestion?
Anyway, I use a phone conversation app that will require root on the Nexus 6 because it does on the Nexus 5.
My question is how difficult is it to root a Nexus phone? Is it simple and will only take a day or two or will some genus have to work on it for weeks and brick some phones before it gets easy to do? I could go without recording phone calls for a week or two but I don't want to wait for a month or two.
Thank you for listening to me.;
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You won't even need anything with the Motorola nexus .... It will get the best signal strength of and Phablet....Motorola owns several patents involving cdma radios and only they can use them...which is why Motorola always gets better signal strength on vzw and sprint ...
dalegg said:
I am in a fringe area of Verizon. I usually have one bar and get dropped calls and a lot of breaking up on my Note 3. It is so bad, my friends don't bother calling anymore (Maybe I should change my deodorant). I have always had Motorola phones before and did not have this problem until I went to the Samsung phone. Maybe just new construction causing congestion?
Anyway, I use a phone conversation app that will require root on the Nexus 6 because it does on the Nexus 5.
My question is how difficult is it to root a Nexus phone? Is it simple and will only take a day or two or will some genus have to work on it for weeks and brick some phones before it gets easy to do? I could go without recording phone calls for a week or two but I don't want to wait for a month or two.
Thank you for listening to me.;
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Same here. You hit on something the Note 4 fans don't know yet or haven't experienced yet..... Signal... Samsung just sucks for signal. If you're in a strong area you won't notice it much. But walking inside buildings or in areas where signal is marginal.... The Motorola will perform better.
Use the last versions of Nexus Root Toolkit v1.9.1 developed by WugFresh and Supersu by Chain fire !
It's a Nexus so root should be very easy, however I have heard that with Lollipop you need to flash a kernel to gain root because of the new security measures. Chainfire posted something about this but either wait just plug it in via adb and run OEM unlock for your BL and then you can flash the kernel so it's still easy. The Nexus should have root either before its released or later that day.
Just like the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, super easy to root and most dev support.
This is all you have to follow to root a nexus 5 and its the same for the 4 and most likely will be for the 6th.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
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Just like the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, super easy to root and most dev support.
This is all you have to follow to root a nexus 5 and its the same for the 4 and most likely will be for the 6th.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
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Nexus 6 will be different.
Root scripts can no longer run at boot in Lollipop at stock, so it will require a custom kernel to be flashed. So at a minimum a little different. hopefully no more than that.
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Nexus 6 will be different.
Root scripts can no longer run at boot in Lollipop at stock, so it will require a custom kernel to be flashed. So at a minimum a little different. hopefully no more than that.
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try to join forum goggle dev. may be your quest will be answer over there
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Was a long-time Android user with several various phones, then switched to an iPhone 5 for a short while, came back to Android with the Note 3 for a while (which I loved), but then switched to the iPhone 5s. After using that for a while I'm thinking about coming back to Android for good. I'm contemplating getting a Note 3 since I knew it so well - even had rooting & ROM flashing down with it. Though about the Note 4 but can't root it. Then thought about the Galaxy s5 or Galaxy s5 Active, but not sure if I want to go back to something I've had experience with it try something new.
I know, I'm kind of all over the place here. I just like trying new tech toys, but iOS 8 sucks and I think I'm done with it.
Would like to hear some s5 users' thoughts/ suggestions. Thanks.
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Was a long-time Android user with several various phones, then switched to an iPhone 5 for a short while, came back to Android with the Note 3 for a while (which I loved), but then switched to the iPhone 5s. After using that for a while I'm thinking about coming back to Android for good. I'm contemplating getting a Note 3 since I knew it so well - even had rooting & ROM flashing down with it. Though about the Note 4 but can't root it. Then thought about the Galaxy s5 or Galaxy s5 Active, but not sure if I want to go back to something I've had experience with it try something new.
I know, I'm kind of all over the place here. I just like trying new tech toys, but iOS 8 sucks and I think I'm done with it.
Would like to hear some s5 users' thoughts/ suggestions. Thanks.
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I love my S5 it's a fantastic device with great battery life a fantastic camera and with root I've debloated the apps I don't use. This of course is just my opinion as I'm sure you'll get others that don't like the S5. Yes bootloader is locked so no AOSP Roms but for me I prefer the stability of T/W.
"And on that bombshell it's time to end the show!" Sent from my VisionX powered G900A Rockin XKRomeBlue
Wait and buy a Nexus 6 when it is released.
S5 is a good phone but not worth using an upgrade. My opinion.
Got mine free from Samsung so it's a good free phone. [emoji622]
we own all of the above
My wife and I owned every apple and every s phone between us, her with the iphones me with the s phones.
First off lets talk batteries.
Her Iphone 5S lasts about 8hrs off the charger per day in 1 place without WiFi.
MY S5 is hitting 18hrs on powersave mode streaming Iheart radio in a moving semi truck 514 miles deep off istate 14hrs to 16hrs a day without WiFi UNPLUGGED. All I did else is turn off AT&T apps.
Memory.
I just ordered a 64gig 90mbps sd card.
her new Iphone 6 plus is still only 16gigs.
Freedom of files.
Her Iphones universally BLOCK us from transferring ANY file via USB. You MUST upload your personal information to Itunes then download it all back allowing ALL of it to not only use data but be stored someplace.
S5 has a fire wire USB and transferred over 20 gigs in less than 5 mins (without anyone else seeing my nudy pics.)
ROOTING!
We don't even want to try rooting hers cause she sold her sole to the company store.
I am rooted without triping KNOX and have adaway, root explorer, super user, WiFi tether, Titanium Backup, my choice of any recovery I want to add.
buttons.
Iphones don't have a back key. It's extremely frustrating!
Bluetooth.
All of our S phones have superior compatibility and sound quality over Bluetooth.
OTA
Up until last month Apple never gave her a bad update. Now she has to backup all her files to big brother apple again on iTunes and then reset her phone to fix it to 8.1.
If I get a bad OTA I just flash over a different one from XDA that's better.
These are some of the things I noticed. Hope it helps.
I've had some great use out of my Nexus 4. As a phone, I've absolutely loved it and when I upgrade to Lollipop, I felt like it was reborn, but unfortunately the last few months have proved testing, coming across great new phones that all have MicroSD slots to expand them and unfortunately with just 16GB of internal memory, I'm finding it increasingly hard to use my phone to my enjoyment. Sure, I could dump all my photos onto the Cloud, or I could backup to my computer, or I could do something else... but the point is, I don't want to. I wanted my Nexus 4 to have an SD slot, and I knew I was taking a risk years ago when I bought it. Luckily, it hasn't manifested itself like I expected, although maybe that's because I was careful (no games, no music, routinely deleting old stuff to clean it up, backing up videos onto my FTP server when it got too full etc).
My Nexus 4 has been a terrific device, and since the Lollipop upgrade, has felt like a brand new phone, and if it wasn't for the lack of expandable memory, I wouldn't have considered getting rid of it, but unfortunately the time has come.
I've now switched to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G. It's a budget device (costing just £108 as I didn't pay tax) but is more powerful and has a bigger screen. It also has 4G and expandable memory. It's an interesting upgrade for a Nexus user. I feel like I've gone from a premium device to a budget device and that will take some getting used to, but I think the pros outweigh the cons.
Interestingly, Xiaomi has a huge following in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, whereas Nexus has a huge following across the rest of the world so I will be experiencing how custom ROM's appear for this phone in a totally different way.
Anyway, as the end draws near for Nexus 4, I'm sure a few of you will be jumping ship soon too, but one things for sure, it's still a great device if you can handle the lack of internal storage, so good on those who do
I have 300 songs, 20 apps, Nokia Here maps of my country (300mb), a few HD videos, 50-ish photos and i still have 5,6GB left.
I know some people use their phones for multimedia and easily fill up even 32gigs, but Nexus 4 isnt a multimedia phone, not with its 2100mah battery and its 4.7" screen
I'm thinking of giving my Nexus 4 to sister this summer and getting something new, but still haven't decided what to get thats not very expensive but good, and i don't want a Nexus 5 because it's too similar to Nexus 4 with similar problems
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I have 300 songs, 20 apps, Nokia Here maps of my country (300mb), a few HD videos, 50-ish photos and i still have 5,6GB left.
I know some people use their phones for multimedia and easily fill up even 32gigs, but Nexus 4 isnt a multimedia phone, not with its 2100mah battery and its 4.7" screen
I'm thinking of giving my Nexus 4 to sister this summer and getting something new, but still haven't decided what to get thats not very expensive but good, and i don't want a Nexus 5 because it's too similar to Nexus 4 with similar problems
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I don't use my phone for multimedia as such, but I do take a lot of photos. I had about 5.9 GB's of photos on it. which, btw, were a nightmare to get off seeing as MTP is seemingly completely incapable of transferring such a large number of files (ended up installing an FTP server on the phone and using FileZilla instead). Considering you only get about 12GB of usable data (much of which is taken up by apps) meant I had very little left. I do get lots of WhatsApp photos too and I guess I've been lazy about deleting them. Ultimately, I grew frustrated about the fact I was constantly running out of space and without deleting stuff, I really couldn't do much about it. I spent a lot of time going through and deleting stuff but I only ever freed up about 1GB or 2GB which meant I was never too far away from filling my phone.
I kept hearing the argument of 'go cloud', 'cloud storage', 'welcome to the cloud', 'use the Nexus with the cloud', but when it came to actually use the cloud it consistently failed on me. I took several videos at a concert last year amounting to a few GB's. I figured this is exactly what the cloud is for seeing as they weren't desperately needed on my phone as such. I tried to upload them (tried both 3G and WiFi), and the Google Drive app seemed completely incapable of handling large files. It was fine for images, or small videos, but uploading these larger videos, it lagged to the point the phone became totally unresponsive and despite waiting for hours, nothing happened and I eventually had to reboot the phone. I googled the issue and there wasn't much detail of it on the Internet. Perhaps I was a rare case but it meant I had to upload them to my FTP server which wasn't ideal either.
I was very close to getting rid of the N4 when it was running KitKat, as I felt it had lost all its bite. I've had phones in the past go stale with time and ultimately, I was happy to move on. With the Nexus 4, I upgraded to Lollipop and it felt like a brand new phone. It totally changed my mind, but then I started having the storage problems again and despite persevering I just got bored. Maybe I should have given out to the cloud, but as an option as is, I wasn't all that keen automatically sync'ing every photo the cloud. Plus, I never felt Google quite got the implementation of the cloud right. Ironically, my new phone, the Xiaomi, they've got it exactly how I always envisioned Google would do it, in that their Gallery app has a local tab and an 'Online' tab, so you can sync all your Gallery photos to the cloud and instantly pull them, rather than having to go on the Photos app or Drive app or whatever. On the whole, it's just a better implementation. Daft considering it's not required on a phone now kitted with a massive Samsung UHS SD card.
I've sold my Nexus 4 to my old man for £70. About £30 cheaper than what I could on eBay but I couldn't be arsed with the hassle. He'll use it and it'll be a great phone for him (his S2 is as good as dead it's that slow now).
Unfortunately, I wanted the Nexus 6 but Google let me down by overpricing it. If they'd dropped the price of the N5, I might have considered another go, but I'm not willing to pay full price for a phone that is a year old. No chance.
I guess I should have upgraded to the N5 when it first came out... but hey ho, we live and learn. I'm now a Xiaomi customer lol
I wouldn't get a Xiaomi as i'm worried about OS updates.
You say KitKat was awful for you and Lollipop rejuvenated your N4 but my case is different. KitKat was the best for me, apart from the pulldown notification bar which was laggy sometimes. 5.0 was the worst thing i've ever came across. I was less frustrated when i was on Bada OS on my old Samsung Wave III. I'm now on the unofficial 5.1 port which is even better than KitKat.
If i were to compare 5.0 and 5.1 on the N4, 5.0 would be an old Ford Focus and 5.1 would be an V8 Aston Martin. Unbelieveably slow experience on 5.0.
The Redmi Note 4G is in some ways a downgrade, IMO. Can't argue too much though, given the cost. Better camera, SD slot (but less native storage), bigger screen, bigger battery. But the SD400/Adreno 305 is inferior to to the S4 Pro/320 that the Nexus 4 has, despite the tick higher clock speed. But if it works for you, then great.
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I wouldn't get a Xiaomi as i'm worried about OS updates.
You say KitKat was awful for you and Lollipop rejuvenated your N4 but my case is different. KitKat was the best for me, apart from the pulldown notification bar which was laggy sometimes. 5.0 was the worst thing i've ever came across. I was less frustrated when i was on Bada OS on my old Samsung Wave III. I'm now on the unofficial 5.1 port which is even better than KitKat.
If i were to compare 5.0 and 5.1 on the N4, 5.0 would be an old Ford Focus and 5.1 would be an V8 Aston Martin. Unbelieveably slow experience on 5.0.
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Interestingly, I think you'd be surprised that Xiaomi seem to have a decent reputation for updates, but more importantly there's a massive userbase. I was astonished by how many custom roms are already appearing and there's already a pretty stable cm12 except minus the camera.
Lollipop was a huge upgrade for me on nexus 4. The phone was fast and felt supercharged. To be fair, perhaps I was lucky.
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The Redmi Note 4G is in some ways a downgrade, IMO. Can't argue too much though, given the cost. Better camera, SD slot (but less native storage), bigger screen, bigger battery. But the SD400/Adreno 305 is inferior to to the S4 Pro/320 that the Nexus 4 has, despite the tick higher clock speed. But if it works for you, then great.
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the GPU is a downgrade but I'm not a massive games player. The less native storage is solved by folder mount. The CPU is about the same, roughly. Perhaps a tiny downgrade although Antutu puts this above the N4. It also brings new connectivity in 4G and better WiFi I believe.
The cost is unbeatable.
How long have you been using Nexus 4? I decided to move on to Galaxy S6 and try 3rd party zl or mpj external battery case. It has been two years since bought the Nexus 4, but now Phone gets hot and battery rapidly discharges
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I wouldn't get a Xiaomi as i'm worried about OS updates.
You say KitKat was awful for you and Lollipop rejuvenated your N4 but my case is different. KitKat was the best for me, apart from the pulldown notification bar which was laggy sometimes. 5.0 was the worst thing i've ever came across. I was less frustrated when i was on Bada OS on my old Samsung Wave III. I'm now on the unofficial 5.1 port which is even better than KitKat.
If i were to compare 5.0 and 5.1 on the N4, 5.0 would be an old Ford Focus and 5.1 would be an V8 Aston Martin. Unbelieveably slow experience on 5.0.
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Could you please point me in the right direction as to where and how to get unofficial 5.1 port? Waiting for OTA is sooo frustrating
bjonre said:
How long have you been using Nexus 4? I decided to move on to Galaxy S6 and try 3rd party zl or mpj external battery case. It has been two years since bought the Nexus 4, but now Phone gets hot and battery rapidly discharges
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A new battery is only about $20 USD. Just saying...
bjonre said:
How long have you been using Nexus 4? I decided to move on to Galaxy S6 and try 3rd party zl or mpj external battery case. It has been two years since bought the Nexus 4, but now Phone gets hot and battery rapidly discharges
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Goodbye buy then.
i can't understand why "new thread"?
Well, a quick update. It didn't take long, but I'm currently flashing ROM's left right and centre lol, trying to pick which one I prefer the most. There goes my genuine attempts to avoid flashing any custom ROM's and giving it a chance to impress in its stock form.
CM12 is seriously good but missing camera functionality at the moment. Everything else is stable but the camera is a killer for me.
CM11 is fully stable so I think I'll end up settling for that.
MIUI6 is fantastic in it's ways but unfortunately, is a bit too overwhelming. Too much pretty stuff at the expense of genuine usability.
MIUI5 i've not tried yet.
Here's the thing though, I'm already embracing my ability to use an SD card. I could never perform a full Nandroid on my N4, realistically.... I've already got one for this phone... and I've got a load of ROM's dumped so I can test.
Performance wise, I'd say this phone is about the same or slightly less than the N4, but the fact it has an FM radio a SD slot, and a few other cool features makes up for it.... and the big screen, which does a cracking job of trying to look HD (it isn't quite HD).
One feature which CM12 is offering but I'm yet to try is an FM Tx. Now that would seriously be an incredible feature if it actually works. Probably doesn't though to be fair. However the MI3 and MI4 both have FM Tx's so who knows?
In truth though, I do miss the N4. It had a certain charm about it that this phone doesn't have. This phone is a budget phone, and it's very obvious. The Nexus 4 was a budget phone, but was built like a premium device. I really do feel like I've gone from a premium phone to a budget phone and it's certainly noticeable to a degree. That said, the touchscreen feels more responsive than the N4 and the colour reproduction is superior. The battery also blows the N4 out of the water and I have to say, it's amazing how long you can get out of this phone. I'm a serious power user, so the N4 really wasn't appropriate for me.... but this is ideal. The N4 however, is the first phone I've ever owned that I didn't hate by the end.
It's a shame the LG Optimus G had no SD slot either. I would have happily gone for that.
Regardless, happy at the moment and enjoying the liberation of plenty of space. I'm still watching the price of the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 though. That's a fantastic beast and would be my first choice if it wasn't so expensive.
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Could you please point me in the right direction as to where and how to get unofficial 5.1 port? Waiting for OTA is sooo frustrating
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There are some 5.1 ports here in the Nexus 4 forum
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There are some 5.1 ports here in the Nexus 4 forum
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I'm wondering if Google will put out a 5.1 release. Quite obvious that the Nexus 4 hardware is easily capable, so really, it will be down to whether Google are ready to kill off the old girl. At least you know with Nexus that there will always be custom ROM's available to support you down the line eh?
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I'm wondering if Google will put out a 5.1 release. Quite obvious that the Nexus 4 hardware is easily capable, so really, it will be down to whether Google are ready to kill off the old girl. At least you know with Nexus that there will always be custom ROM's available to support you down the line eh?
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Nexus 4 will get 5.1 I'll guarantee you that.
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Nexus 4 will get 5.1 I'll guarantee you that.
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Good stuff. I think in a time where phones are now becoming almost too powerful, the only thing that Google need to get sorted is that the updates keep coming and that manufacturers should be expected to provide them too.
Thanks for sharing
Best of luck to you and your new device
Ha, one benefit of this new phone. For some reason, Three don't know when I'm tethering lol
I'm enjoying all the Tethering'y goodness, without the limits lol.
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Ha, one benefit of this new phone. For some reason, Three don't know when I'm tethering lol
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This should be perfectly possible on the Nexus 4. I do it with T-Mobile here in the US.
I have just rooted my phone with kingroot and I'm wondering if there is any way to get Xposed to work, even if it is just temporary.
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I have just rooted my phone with kingroot and I'm wondering if there is any way to get Xposed to work, even if it is just temporary.
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No, unfortunately not. Wish there was something to say other than no.
Requires System R/W permissions which the Turbo doesn't have
Back when the turbo was first root wasn't there a way to achieve temporary write protect off? How could I do that? I don't care if it makes my phone unstable.
cadenmiller60 said:
Back when the turbo was first root wasn't there a way to achieve temporary write protect off? How could I do that? I don't care if it makes my phone unstable.
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If you're looking for an answer you won't get it. I wrote a script for it. But all it would do was write to cache. Nothing system side is ever actually touched. The apps just think it did but it was actually just in cache.
You'll have to wait for something else.
time to return this phone to verizon and get a galaxy instead.
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time to return this phone to verizon and get a galaxy instead.
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Or get the Turbo's big brother - nexus 6 - no hoops to jump thru for root/updates.
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Or get the Turbo's big brother - nexus 6 - no hoops to jump thru for root/updates.
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it was a very good suggestion. However after doing some research i quickly found that 1) no external storage and 2) can't get 64gb for verizon. 32gb is NOT acceptable when you can't even add storage!! Also if i got an unlocked 64gb, i read that it will be a PITA is even possible to hook it up on verizon.
So unfortunately it seems I am going back to the s5.
or there is mofo root and system images with xposed baked in...
The battery on the Turbo is so much better than having to look for a charger at 4pm for the S5
Call me crazy, but I just sold my Nexus 6 and got a droid turbo. When you've tried a few ROMS, what your aiming for ultimately is a quick might ROM with added features, and that's what the Turbo does have. Right out of the box. Nexus 6 had wonderful battery life + turbo charger, better than any phone I've ever owned, but the Turbo has the turbo charger and an even BETTER battery! I kinda miss the whole material thing, I can't switch to ART-mode for some reason prolly cuz I rooted it and stuff.. Who knows. I don't care because supposedly the lollipop update will be out and that's good enough for me
Oh and plus the N6 would be unusable whenever I docked it in my car because it uses magnets to hold my phone in place.
Too lazy to figure that one out, too busy playing with my new car.
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Or get the Turbo's big brother - nexus 6 - no hoops to jump thru for root/updates.
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The Nexus 6 has no removable SD card. The Turbo cannot be rooted since the bootloader is locked.
I ended up picking up returning the $600 turbo to verizon, for which I had paid cash (for which they ROBBED ME AT GUNPOINT OF $50 but that's another story, not an actual gun but they stole that from me as a "restocking fee", robbery), and instead picked up a Verizon Galaxy S5 on craigslist, downgraded it to 4.4.2 (an upgrade in my opinion), and rooted it.
I've been using this Galxy S5 for a long time now fully rooted and everything. Happy. I had to jump through a few hoops with the OS downgrade etc to get it rooted though. But now that it's done I am happy. I would love to get a bigger slimmer and better phone with removable SD card and removable battery, that can be rooted, but it seems my S5 is the best I can do. Maybe I will have to wait a few more years. I was looking at the moto x which seems viable, except for the fact there is no removable battery, so I will probably not get it. My S5 still has at least a few more years of life left.
That's fine though, my S5 has been working beautifully for me. What I really want is a new 7.0 tablet with a removable SD card with more memory and more ram and a more vivid screen that is 7.0 inches and not 8.0 or 8.0 inches because that is too big, but I am stuck with the tab 4 that only has 8gb of memory, since no tab exists that's better that is 7.0 inches.
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The Nexus 6 has no removable SD card. The Turbo cannot be rooted since the bootloader is locked.
I ended up picking up returning the $600 turbo to verizon, for which I had paid cash (for which they ROBBED ME AT GUNPOINT OF $50 but that's another story, not an actual gun but they stole that from me as a "restocking fee", robbery), and instead picked up a Verizon Galaxy S5 on craigslist, downgraded it to 4.4.2 (an upgrade in my opinion), and rooted it.
I've been using this Galxy S5 for a long time now fully rooted and everything. Happy. I had to jump through a few hoops with the OS downgrade etc to get it rooted though. But now that it's done I am happy. I would love to get a bigger slimmer and better phone with removable SD card and removable battery, that can be rooted, but it seems my S5 is the best I can do. Maybe I will have to wait a few more years. I was looking at the moto x which seems viable, except for the fact there is no removable battery, so I will probably not get it. My S5 still has at least a few more years of life left.
That's fine though, my S5 has been working beautifully for me. What I really want is a new 7.0 tablet with a removable SD card with more memory and more ram and a more vivid screen that is 7.0 inches and not 8.0 or 8.0 inches because that is too big, but I am stuck with the tab 4 that only has 8gb of memory, since no tab exists that's better that is 7.0 inches.
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Could have saved yourself 50$ restocking fee with a simple search. Costs $20 with sunshine to unlock turbo bootloader.
I know, old topic, but, i somehow managed to install xposed framework with kingo root. But I don't know precizely how did this happen.
Initially, i couldn't install xposed, then I installed CWM with it's recovery from Store via APK, then I was flashing something through this recovery, and in the end, it always ask to prevent from unroot, then I was tapping yes.
When making one or all of these operations, xposed framework installed fine.
Just wondering if anyone has an active watch 2 lte paired with their 4XL. If so, what functionality do you lose for the watch? I currently have a Note 10+ but after a couple of years of running Samsung devices I am itching to get back on a Pixel device (most likely 4XL). I miss rooting and ROMs lol.
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Just wondering if anyone has an active watch 2 lte paired with their 4XL. If so, what functionality do you lose for the watch? I currently have a Note 10+ but after a couple of years of running Samsung devices I am itching to get back on a Pixel device (most likely 4XL). I miss rooting and ROMs lol.
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I have the active watch 2, just not the lte model. I don't believe I've lost any functionality of the watch. I did have a rough time getting it to pair which required manually downloading the apks since I couldn't install from the play store but I'm pretty sure they fixed that.
Works fine for me. I haven't really noticed much difference between the S10 and pixel with it.
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Works fine here, don't seem to be missing any features.
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Just wondering if anyone has an active watch 2 lte paired with their 4XL. If so, what functionality do you lose for the watch? I currently have a Note 10+ but after a couple of years of running Samsung devices I am itching to get back on a Pixel device (most likely 4XL). I miss rooting and ROMs lol.
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I got the active 2 was meant to be getting the ultra with it, which I cancelled as they didn't send it
They did send the watch out immediately but the ultra was and still is delayed
I could not activate LTE as my current phone was Huawei so I had to use it over Bluetooth which defeated the object of getting the watch
It's also not android wear so you cannot install apps like WhatsApp and can only respond instead of send from certain apps.
Text and calls work, battery was brilliant but LTE just wouldn't happen until I got the Samsung or A Samsung to pair it with.
Not sure if the pixel will pair via LTE if it's never been seen previously or paired with a Samsung device or compatible device with your matched SIM card inside it.
I would ask in a service provider shop to be 100%
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