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Over all this look like the most promising turn by turn nav app. The best part is it is free on the market. What do you guys think about it?
This app is terrible IMO
I thought it was a nice app. Nothing amazing though.
If you want a nice turn by turn, I would recommend the Sprint Navigation app off of the Hero dump.
I don't use the turn by turn as much, but I think the concept of the social commuting is a novel idea. I do run the program when driving and report traffic delays and police. I usually clear the running apps before starting Waze and it runs fairly smooth. just my .02.
The biggest issue I ever had with Waze is that fact that you can almost watch the battery level go down when you run it. It's one of the few apps that drain juice so quickly that my phone won't charge using my car charger when it's running.
Cool idea when it wants to work, but I get better success with sprint nav
The client seems quite stable now. Anybody here with a few weeks of experience? (Preferably in an area with bad coverage).
How well does it do, without user interaction, in creating the road network? (as shown in http://world.waze.com/guided_tour/ => "Behind the Scene")
I tried it for a few days but could not resist fixing the errors on my own since I wanted to have my most important route functional to test how well it gives voice directions. I did not manage to do much driving on other routes yet. As far as I have seen, driving a road two or three times is not enough for the automatic routines, i.e. it still has many gaps. Will it actually work (fixing all gaps, creating intersections, etc.) if I drive it like 10 times or more? Or will I rather end up having 3 parallel roads (due to GPS inaccuracy) if I limit my contribution to activate "record new roads" when I drive incomplete routes?
I hope there are users with waze-experience here. I could of course ask in the waze forums but I think that here at XDA is the better place to get an accurate (=non fanboy) response.
to be honest, i just downloaded this app today. i hate and love it so much. It is extremely useful, but it seems like nobody in my city uses the app so the directions it gives me are horrible. It's VERY laggy and kills the battery so fast. But I can't resist it because I want to try to see if it actually starts to improve if I stick with it. Sucks that I bought a Garmin the other day too lol. I'm running a rooted 1.5 CLIQ (which is why I just got tired of waiting on google maps navigation)
I have had my phone for about 2 weeks now, and this has been an issue since about day 1. I will set my phone aside while doing other things. When I want to use it I pick it up and press the power button to activate the screen. It seems that about 20% of the time the phone is non-responsive. I can't even receive calls/texts/email while it is in this state. I end up pressing the power button for 10 seconds or pulling the battery to get it to reboot. Everything seems to work fine.
I have heard that this could be a result of a reception issue, and that an update would be released in September to solve this issue. Is this information correct? Has the update already been released? I believe I am running the most current version, 2.1 update 1
Is there a software fix? Do I have a defective unit that needs to be sent in for repair? Is there a setting I need to look at? Any assistance would be appreciated.
you are describing the typical scenario of too many background services and apps running taking up too much resources thus making the phone non reponsive
install Auto Run Killer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8123924&postcount=40
then tick all the apps to disable reboot your phone
then you can choose which apps you really want to let lose for it to run in the background
It's also entirely possible it's faulty though
I don't think it is a matter of apps running because there are no active apps running when I am not using my phone.
I guess I am looking for an answer that tells me that this is an known issue with this model and I wiould be better off with a different product, or if I will be safe to get it replaced/repaired.
Ideally I would love to hear it is only a matter of a software patch or something similar.
go get an iphone
there is no point helping some one that have their mind already set on their own ideas already
Well that was a pretty useless post. The only idea my mind is set on is to get my hands on a dependabel phone, preferably the one I have. You suggested too many apps running, fine, but unless they run automatically on reboot and/or the 'active applications' window that runs by default is inacurate, there aren't too many resources being used and nothing running.
you'll be surprised what runs under the hood
you can run this and find out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8156087&postcount=58
Android System Info
another good thing to disable is the Media Scan
AllGamer said:
go get an iphone
there is no point helping some one that have their mind already set on their own ideas already
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Don't be so quick to assume your suggestion was correct either, AllGamer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775017
Thus far nothing in that thread has suggested taxing the system too far. In fact, hardly installing anything at all from a fresh factory reset still has this problem and no one yet has really worked out why aside Samsung saying the hardware is damaged. I was on the phone to them today, same thing said.
i read that before and the signal theory doesn't hold truth
if that is the case, every time i go to the toilet, or to the stairs in my office building (way deep in the building) you have Zero reception at all, yet I've never experience the freeze on black screen issue.
same goes with walmart, it's true, most walmart warehouse like buildings have extremely poor cell phone reception inside.
assuming that signal is the cause issue is true, then installing this app will prevent that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8172580&postcount=59
Mobile Signal Widget
I'll highly recommend this app for anyone experiencing the issue and are under the impression the signal issue is the cause of the frozen black screen
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i read that before and the signal theory doesn't hold truth
if that is the case, every time i go to the toilet, or to the stairs in my office building (way deep in the building) you have Zero reception at all, yet I've never experience the freeze on black screen issue.
same goes with walmart, it's true, most walmart warehouse like buildings have extremely poor cell phone reception inside.
assuming that signal is the cause issue is true, then installing this app will prevent that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8172580&postcount=59
Mobile Signal Widget
I'll highly recommend this app for anyone experiencing the issue and are under the impression the signal issue is the cause of the frozen black screen
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I see no truth in the signal claim I've said why in the other thread. But this is the point, it is an issue a few of us are having from all over the place but as of yet there is absolutely no distinguishable pattern. As I say, a completely fresh phone with official firmware and no installs also has the problems. It's a very frustrating situation because no one can conclusively point to software or hardware yet. Samsung keep saying the same thing, send it in, send it in..
it's true the only way to diagnose those will require to be hands on, and run tests to pin point exactly what is causing that.
Eclair doesn't have the option to auto upgrade, so that's definitely not it
Lag is likely, but what, or which stock apps can cause so much lag?
signal even when the phone is having a hard time switching and scanning for a new signal it shouln't keep the phone unresponsive for such a long period of time unless it's lagging
my Old Treo did that, anytime it lost signal and regained signal there was a minor pause, or a looooooong pause if the phone was lagging
if this is the same case with the SGS we just need to figure out which App is running in the background that is dragging the entire system down.
it could be the internal SD which might have become defective, thus locking up the phone, similar to those people that can't get past the boot screen
i can't think of any other plausible causes at the moment.
Well, I can tell you: having experienced the problem a number of times, it is almost certainly not the lag scenario you have described - this is a proper lock-up. My guess (since it does appear to have some correlation to cell switching, or other signal-related issue) is a bug in the baseband drivers, or something similar, resulting in a panic. I might see if there's any way to get a dump out of this thing to prove it, but at the moment it's just a guess, so I'm not going to tell you that's the definitely the reason, or that you're stupid if you don't agree, even though I'm more qualified to do so, since I've actually experienced the problem.
AllGamer said:
go get an iphone
there is no point helping some one that have their mind already set on their own ideas already
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Android is designed to not need auto task killers. It is purely a myth that they are needed whatsoever. This is linux we're talking about here, not windows.... It's possible he has a single app installed causing the issue, but the ideal fix would be to figure it out one app at a time and get rid of the faulty app.
The phone works well and is generally "snappy" except when calling up the phone function after using the phone as a toy for a while. Under this condition it may take 5 seconds or more from pressing the phone icon for the phone dial to actually appear. These 5 seconds are way too long for a function for which the box was fundamentally designed.
I am still running Android 2.1 and perhaps this problem will go away after moving up to 2.2. But Telus does not have 2.2 in their short term plans, sometime early 2011 I'm told.
Does anyone else have a similar issue with the Milestone? I hate being alone in my technical issues.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
fiiish
I have the same problem on my XT720... Phone app is so slow.... Ive been looking around and found a few mods but non of them work with mine, i loose carrier and other major issues.
I think I figured it out
After playing around, i.e., wiping the phone and reinstalling, re-reinstalling, etc. I am 90% sure that the fly in the ointment is any of the launcher replacements I have tried using. These include Go Launcher, Launcher Pro+, and ADW Launcher. When I revert to the ugly stock eclair launcher the phone function comes up more or less smoothly, as it should.
Why this is the case I have no idea. If anyone has a really zippy launcher replacement they could suggest I'd be happy to try it out.
I am suspicious that the problem is being caused by "Beautiful Widgets". I may be wrong there are so many things to be suspicious of, but that is today's theory.
fiiish
I have searched some forums but so far none have been able to answer my problem. It seems that whenever I play music in the car with the screen locked that the my phone plays back with a bit of a studder. I found one post that suggested wiping the dalvik and cache might help, but I haven't had much luck. I've tried multiple Mixzing, Poweramp, Google Music, Fusion and the stock player without much luck. Any help would be appreciated!
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I have searched some forums but so far none have been able to answer my problem. It seems that whenever I play music in the car with the screen locked that the my phone plays back with a bit of a studder. I found one post that suggested wiping the dalvik and cache might help, but I haven't had much luck. I've tried multiple Mixzing, Poweramp, Google Music, Fusion and the stock player without much luck. Any help would be appreciated!
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ive had the same thing, its actualy a hardware problem of the car...
aka i use an aux cord, and the cord was brand new, and it was the jack and i thought it was the phone...nope
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so i would make sure
1. That the music playback is NOT choppy when played back on other devices using the same car and same cord or usb or what ever.
2. Make sure that play back is normal through headphones or speakers
If both of the above are true, only then can you assume its a software issue because that means that its the phones problem and not an auxilary cod jack problem or something like that.
IF number 1 is false, and it still is choppy no matter the device, THEN go through the jack that you are plugging your phone in and make sure its clean and isnt bent or something.
Basically make sure its not hardware first.
russian392 said:
ive had the same thing, its actualy a hardware problem of the car...
aka i use an aux cord, and the cord was brand new, and it was the jack and i thought it was the phone...nope
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so i would make sure
1. That the music playback is NOT choppy when played back on other devices using the same car and same cord or usb or what ever.
2. Make sure that play back is normal through headphones or speakers
If both of the above are true, only then can you assume its a software issue because that means that its the phones problem and not an auxilary cod jack problem or something like that.
IF number 1 is false, and it still is choppy no matter the device, THEN go through the jack that you are plugging your phone in and make sure its clean and isnt bent or something.
Basically make sure its not hardware first.
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Thanks for the reply! After a lot of troubleshooting, I discovered that a task killer app was installed on my phone. I think I must have installed it when I first got an android phone not knowing the repercussions and its just stuck with me. Nevertheless deleting the task killer app fixed the problem.
To non HTC Myst owners
What I learned was if you can verify that it is not a hardware issue make super sure you do not have a task killer installed because those will make for a bad day when it comes to playing music. Specifically when playing music when the screen is locked.
lastrastuff said:
Thanks for the reply! After a lot of troubleshooting, I discovered that a task killer app was installed on my phone. I think I must have installed it when I first got an android phone not knowing the repercussions and its just stuck with me. Nevertheless deleting the task killer app fixed the problem.
To non HTC Myst owners
What I learned was if you can verify that it is not a hardware issue make super sure you do not have a task killer installed because those will make for a bad day when it comes to playing music. Specifically when playing music when the screen is locked.
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Wow seriously?!
Well I use clean master so it causes no problems
Sent from my HTC first using xda app-developers app
russian392 said:
Wow seriously?!
Well I use clean master so it causes no problems
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I don't know if it holds true for every phone, ROM, and kernel, but it might be the first place people troubleshoot after it can no longer be a hardware issue. I also suppose not every task killer is as villainous as others. From what I read on forums most people came to the conclusion that task killers actually do more harm than good because Android uses RAM and tasks very similarly to Linux. Linux loads programs onto RAM in order to enhance performance as opposed to leaving large parts of RAM unused. Killing these tasks can hurt phone performance, which is why my music, and particularly high quality music, was choppy.
Hey guys:
I was a happy Nexus 6 user from 2015 until last year.
Battery was just draining to fast.
Before the first year of usage (bought it brand new), I took it t get the battery swapped using the warranty at the same store were I bought it.
When working and I am opening apps or games, it starts making funny noises from inside of it and not from the speakers.
It's like some sort of very low tone "bzzzzzgrrrrrr" sound.
My question here is....
Since Nexus 6 are well known for battery issues I ask:
- Does anyone ever experienced this?
- If may to get the battery changed, can I send it to Google itself? I have tried to contact google services without success.
I am a casual gamer and casual multimedia consumer, so I don't need a flagship phone.
Any recommendations are always welcomed guys.
Phone is 100% stock, I've never rooted it or mood it in anyway.
Thank you in advance.
Brissos said:
- Does anyone ever experienced this?
- If may to get the battery changed, can I send it to Google itself? I have tried to contact google services without success.
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I haven't and you can't. Google doesn't have a repair service to the best of my recollection.
I haven't heard about this problem before.
My guess is that it isn't the battery. Weak batteries tend to cause sudden shutdowns, and you didn't mention that.
Rather, I suspect that a component in the power delivery circuit has started vibrating. Coils and ceramic capacitors are known to do that. If the sound doesn't annoy you, it is harmless.
If I'm right, you have three options to fix it, none of them good:
1) replace motherboard
2) replace the vibrating component
3) somehow mechanically prevent the component from vibrating.