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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] mgerbasio:
I had the first ipad, an ipad 2 and an ipad4. In the end, I always come back to Android and the ipads go to the wife/kids.

I won't even consider an ipad until Apple adds a proper file management system. I have multiple file types for projects and don't want to try and keep track of what app I need to open to get to my data.

Actually, not having USB OTG would be a problem for me since I use usb-rs232 adapters that wouldn't work with idevices. I rarely use this but when I need it, it is certainly easier than carrying a laptop. I guess I'm be more inclined to get a Surface 2 Pro and a 7" android device. without a file manager, apple is useless to me.

If it wasn't Nexus, probably a Samsung Note for the S-Pen. I'd like to try it and see if it is any good.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] nrage23:
If you are looking for a 10" tablet, I have now had many android tablets. I currently have the Note 10.1 2014 and the Nexus 7. The Shield is not really a tablet but I have it as well. The Note 10.1 2014 is far and way the most useful tablet I have owned. It has great battery life and a spectacular screen. It is smaller and lighter than the Nexus 10. I am not a fan of the home button it has but that would be my only complaint. I like the Nexus 7 a bunch also it is great for throwing in a pocket on the go. I am totally against iAnything.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] anarox:
The main issue I have with android apps are the pdf readers, I have tried every pdf app but non of the scroll smoothly, not even basic text books.

ios app developers have to keep their apps top notch to compete within the appstore, on google play there are threemmajor pdf apps ( paid)

Ezpdf, repligo reader, mantano reader

All of them have major problems witth either speed of rendering, highlighting difficulties , clumbsy menus and much more.

And note another weird thing, non of them have implemented immersion mode, in fact the only reader app that has enabled it is moon reader.

I get that 4.4 is on a very low share of their market but still these are paid apps, they should have taken the time to implement it.

Nexus 7 with its quadcore hits a wall when it comes to these apps
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] BreakShadow:
Same here. Loved my iPod 5G in the few months I had it. Very decent camera built in as will.

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)

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Only thing I miss after selling my iOS device is the exclusive apps/games like Bastion, Limbo etc. That's all.

Sent from my Nexus 7 (2013)
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jaysidhuk:
You should try iPhone, Once you did, you would never say this again :P
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] TheWerewolf:
Different strokes...

I've owned an iPhone and an iPad and I was a Mac developer for 17 years.

I'll never go back to Apple products again as long as I live. My experiences with the new iDevices has been execrable. But what's much worse is the attitude that Apple fans have "Try an iPhone and you'll never go back." Right. Because we're all exactly the same, want the same things - value the same things.

No wonder people call them iSheep. They want everyone to be exactly the same.

Well, screw that.

To paraphrase Edgar Friendly from Demolition Man

"You see, according to Steve Jobs' plan. *I'm* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I'm the kind if guy who would sit in the Best Buy and think "Gee, should I have the big screen or the 3D screen phone with the side order of 7" tablet?" I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to, okay pal? I've *seen* the future, you know what it is? It's a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking "I'm sophisticated because I have a fricking iPhone". You wanna live the Apple way, you gotta live Jobs' way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe flash your own ROMs."
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gidal:
Cool story. I read it till the end. We should create ex-IOS support group. :)

Here's my story (long one) :

I still have my launch day iPad2. Mainly since it's in pieces atm.

I've been repairing it several times since spring this year. It was poorly assembled to begin with, the glass was lifting and it'd cut my thumb every now and then.

It finally stopped charging. So I bought a replacement charge connector to fix it.

End up damaging the wifi antenna while opening it.

Bought replacement part. First one didn't work.

2 parts later, I got it fixed.

At this time, the glass was cracked beyond help. Bought a replacement part to fix it.

At this point, I ended up ripping the 4 pin speaker connector.

I'm just gonna solder the wires directly to the main board to fix it.

Then I'm going to flip it on CL.

Around the same time my iPad2 was problematic, my iPhone4 home button gave up.

Didn't feel like going through the same ordeals as the iPad, I sold the iPhone 4 with broken home button on CL for $175.

When I finally finished repairing my iPad2, I'm pretty sure I could get at least $300 for it, since others are asking $350-400.

At the same time when 2 of my iDevices gave up, I had to buy cheap replacements: LG Optimus L9 $150 and B&N Nook HD $150.

I had tried Android prior to this point, but hated them (poorly made, slow, weird interface).

When my L9 and Nook HD work great, fast, so flexible, and everything that's not iOS, I was BLOWN AWAY!

I ended up learning a lot more about Android, rooting, found Samba client app, my life is finally complete again.

I've since bought: Nexus 4, Note 2 and 2x Nexus 7 2013.

At this point, it'd take a lot of Google eff-ups (like the updated G maps), to make me want switch back to iOS.

Oh, and I also sold my iPod Nano 8GB on CL for $75, because the button was starting to wiggle on me. And the buyer bought it knowing about the problem. Bought a Clip+ & 64GB uSDXC and still left with some change.

BTW, Apple wanted $200-400 to repair the iPad2 for the stopped charging issue.

Last, I figured out why my Android experience a long time ago (2.2) was horrible: combination of immature OS and cheap Chinese made crap (don't know why, my friends had garbage like H20 and HTC at that time), was what got me.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] lg777:
I am painfully trying to restore my library in iTunes for my 4s which is more of my music device. I have the nexus 7 2013 and nexus 5 and both devices costs less than an idevice. My beef with ios is iTunes period.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] swisstourist:
I got 2 nexus 7. 2013 32 gig and 2012 16g for the cost of a iPad mini 32. Pretty much., difference of 20 bucks only and the 2012 still work well and I can replace battery myself and fix it... So in the long term, I m sure I will still get my tablet for the next 5 years. Normally I give my gadgets all around me To relatives and buy new. Still one less apple customer...

IPad mini 32g 500$

Nexus 7 2012 250$ 2013 270$=520$
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] kisrita:
I bought an iPad 3 because everyone was praising iOS so much I thought there must be something to it. I liked the screen and I liked how smooth it scrolls. That's it. I never figured out the app advantage people talked about. Coming from Android I was really missing apps like es file explorer, calibre, and a few others that were important to me but nothing similar existed in the iOS world at that time. I tried liking it but after 3 or 4 months i gave up and gave it away to a friend who does like it more than her Nexus 7. She likes it more because of a game that doesn't exist on android, and because she likes the bigger screen. She doesn't notice any differences in the operating systems, and has no opinion about it. I think she is the type of person iOS is geared towards. She hates technology and calls herself a Luddite.

I think its great we have a choice, and I appreciate the competition between the two systems which should make both of them get better and better. Each has advantages and disadvantages, and neither is the best choice for every person.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] hasenbein1966:
Here I have to give a tip I gave already on several occasions:

Try Amazon Kindle app!

What most people do not know is that it in fact is the most smooth, fast, convenient PDF reader! Try it! Even large PDFs are handled flawlessly (and thumbnails speedily generated so you can navigate fast), just like in iOS!

Oy drawback is that it only has those files in its library which are located in /sdcard/kindle. So either you have to move the pdfs all there, or you can manage them via a file explorer (like ES file explorer) and choose Kindle when opening a file.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] itasoulas:
Half the world owns an iphone or ipad. Even my grandmother has (just saying, mine is dead!!!). Only the thought to own something everybody has makes me sick. I also hate the "sterile" software environment on apple devices. I own 2 nexus devices and I love the fact that I can personalise them to my standards. Plus a million other things...
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] anarox:
Hmm it was fast but not only does it not support immersion mode, it does not hide the status bar!?!? So you loose screen size but up and down.

The fastest renderer I have found is pdfmax, faster than any other, more stable but it has no built in colordict support. I use it daily
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Karlo666:
My first tablet was iPad 3 (first Retina) but im selling it right now.

First few days i was in joy whit iPad.

I found many good things like iBooks,iCloud,ect..

After a month i felt locked down.Wanted to do more but NO Apple doesnt want you to do that.

After buying some inapp things like Pro version of Wordz(Riječalica) i figured out that i cant download Google Maps,Google Earth and many more of Google things because it was US only stuff but not on Android.

So i localized my account to US whitout CCard and using iTunes gift cards.

I tryed to download those apps that i bought then i was shocked.

I cant open and cant find those apps that i was using while in Croatian store and i need again to pay for them.

I cant restore my inapp things.

One day i gone whit my friend(iOS only guy) to coffe,i brought my iPad for reading some magazine so he said"Oh man holy **** how do you got Google Earth,Maps,ect.."

I said US account.He was like like little baby looking at those apps.

I told him "Look just find some address on Google Maps and change your account to US and using iTunes gift cards to buy stuff"

He said that he doesnt want to do that because Apple will ban him(LOL REALLY??).

Today i was going to some Croatia mall called City Center One in Split.

There was people in VIPnet store mostly looking iPhones 5S and 5C.

Then i took out my Find 5 and took test unit of 5S,opened messages on both using google keyboard on my Find 5 and trying to use same thing on 5S (i know i know no such feature for iOS).People where staring at my phone whole time i tought they would ask what phone it is but they didnt.

Its not that i hate iOS it doesnt work me.

I always try to help people whatever they are using iOS or Android.

I really REALLY HATE biased people.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] CheCorchete:
Nice thread guys.

I was thinking to change my Nexus 7 2012 for an iPad mini with Retina display, but then I start to read about the bad quality display that it's have. Then, I was thinking about an iPad Air, but then I realize that I have to deal with iOS, and with this thread you make clear that I can't come back to iOS from Android.

Maybe in the future iOS can be optimized for tablets, but until now it still the very same ways that the original iPhone OS.

Thanks for your experiencie :good:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Kookas:
Most of what Android fans boast about I find myself not really caring about - customisation, OTG, that sort of thing. I figure if the OS is already great, then I won't want to customise it to try to make it better.

Android's home screens, for example. On iOS, I can expect my home screen to look at least decent on first boot. With Android, if you don't do any of your own customisation at all, it will look a bit shoddy.

iOS is a solid platform. I love the design consistency, and how well put together it is. But honestly, using it actually feels slower than Android despite it being technically smoother. Probably because the animations are so slow, and multitasking is a pain to get to compared to Android.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] manfio:
idevices= i dont like to be stuck with something I can not change

open source is something or awesome

feel free to change whatever i want, when i tell "me", its the developers

im a flash addicted lol

i dont have much time with the same rom, like to be free to change when i want, and android is that

but that is how I see the android

sorry my bad english,
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] godutch:
But different people like different things, if you like the default iOS setup great but if you don't.... I always feel apple products are designed around the apple vision , apple is central whereas with Google and android I feel I am at the center, and so is everyone else. People all have different tastes and requirements and it's impossible to cater to everyone's needs at the same time
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ezas:
Just a couple of quick comments. A full featured launcher like Apex (just happens to be my favorite) will give people who prefer to stay stock a lot of ways to personalize your UI. Want to use Docks, use up to three of them. Prefer folders on the desktop, no problem. Widgets don't quite look right, resize them. Want more or fewer icons in the drawer, change the grid, and/or the size of the icons.

I'd miss that kind of thing on iOS, even if I didn't run custom roms on android.

I would never be happy with the limits of the Apple universe. But I recommend it all the time to people who wouldn't change a thing, don't want to change a thing. They just want their apps, and iTunes collections.

Now the important bit (for people who may not heard of it yet:

On the N7 no need to worry about not having a sdcard slot. While maybe not as 'clean' as having it in the device, this make a good alternative and brings some advantages over a self contained slot.

http://www.meenova.com/st/p/m3r.html

I believe on the N7 you have to buy an app, But still worth it if you feel the pain of a set amount of storage space. $12 how can you go wrong.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] cowisland:
The advantage of iOS, in my opinion, is that it is hard to break. It does not let apps run in the background, limits you in terms of settings, etc. As a result, when you start clicking randomly and running random apps, chances are you are still fine once you hit that home button. On Android I can totally imagine screwing things up, say, by running crappy or malicious apps that stay in the background and drain battery doing who knows what. Android can be great (if you pay some attention to what you do) or really bad. Apple stuff is always mediocre, but the advantage is that it is less likely to crap out on you in a major way. So, with power on Android comes responsibility. On Apple you can be irresponsible.

My four year old loves the iPad (second generation). That iPad took some serious abuse, as you can imagine, and survived. Apple clearly deserves credit for making that possible.

I personally had iPhone 3g and got so frustrated with it eventually that HTC thunderbolt, aka the worst phone of the year, felt great by comparison. In a nutshell I like Android because it feels like I own the device. With the iPhone it felt like apple owned it, and I had to ask permission if wanted to do anything. A lot of the time the answer from Apple was a no...
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] NBarlow74:
I have a jail broken iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7 v2 (that I just bought). IOS feels right to me on my phone. It works well as my daily shooter, and the ability to send or reply to text using BiteSMS from the lock screen saves me all kinds of time. The ease of use of Facetime and the amount of family it allows me to see with little effort on either side is the big thing that keeps this device planted firmly in my hand.

My Nexus is filling a hole that IOS has just been digging deeper and deeper yr after yr. The Nexus give me out the box customization, as well as a file system I can touch.Throw in the ability to download torrents on my device and we have a winner! That to me, is something any device that calls its self a media consumption device should be capable of doing without the help of a third party.So I guess I'm riding for both teams at the end of the day.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] shree_tejas:
These rants :D
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] wolfen69:
Thanks for the info. I might just get one.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] term1000:
Hey.

I got a notification to update my device this morning so I connected it to WiFi and let it download.

It was very slow for some reason and at about half of the download I had to go, I left the WiFi range and it stopped the download with a message something like that "cant connect to the server please try again", so i tried again and it said that I have the latest update already installed.

Then i tried with KIES, it found a firmware update but failed to actually start the update after the download.

so now i have 4.2.2 and OTA says that the latest update already installed.

I have tried to clear cache, delete all in google service framwork, revert updates for all google stuff, nothing so far

Last thing i want now is to flash it, can I do something to fix this?

The device is Galaxy S4 GT-I9500, stock rom not rooted

Thanks for your time
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lurittelija:
Same here my friend, I hope someone can give any advice on this.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3vo:
Hey guys!

My problem is that I instaled CyanogenMod but I didn't like it...so I used CyanogenMod recovery to wipe everything and when I tried to flash new rom with ODIN it just doesn't detect my phone.:eek:

Phone is stuck at firs Samsung Galaxy S4 logo...but I can access recovery.

What to do?? Any kind of suggestion is welcome!

EDIT: I flashed some custom ROM through recovery and sdcard so I can use phone. Laptop now detects my S4 when ON...but when I put it in download mode I still don't detect it! How to solve that?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
By installing the drivers, disable kies and maybe a different cable/usb port.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3vo:
Thanks a lot man...using different USB port did the trick. Never happened to me before :o
[Java for Android App Development] Masrepus:
Hi, im not really great at android development/ development in general, so this is a newbie question sorry...

My idea is to make a widget that displays my current prepaid money balance by sending the appropriate USSD code to my carrier and then ripping the money part out of the response. My widget is now working and finished, and i only need to implement this USSD part. After some research i found out that there isnt any official method for this, but a hidden interface called IExtendedNetworkService inside the telephony package and that there someone has implemented it: https://github.com/alaasalman/ussdinterceptor

So far so good. I downloaded the source code for that but i dont find out how to get the response string out of that service! I looked at the code and googled for it but i still have no idea :/ so i thought if maybe here at xda there is anybody that can help me and could explain it to me as easy as possible...

Thanks very very much in advance, i hope someone helps me :)

Edit:: I just found the blog post on that explains the service. Now so far i hav understood that i just have to activate the listener and then the reply comes as a broadcast:

Now my only lasting question is, what does that broadcast tell me exactly? How do i get the USSd reply out of there?

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Phone : Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570

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•AOSP ICS Touchwiz V5 by A_U

•Android 4.0.4

•Baseband XWKS2

•Kernel: 2.6.37.6 Badass v1.9 by alin.p

•Recovery CWM v4.0.0.5

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[Java for Android App Development] Masrepus:
Okay, i think i figured out how to solve that, so no need for this thread anymore

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Phone : Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570

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•AOSP ICS Touchwiz V5 by A_U

•Android 4.0.4

•Baseband XWKS2

•Kernel: 2.6.37.6 Badass v1.9 by alin.p

•Recovery CWM v4.0.0.5

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[Java for Android App Development] karuna.joshi:
Same code doesn't seem to be working

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HI

I am new to Android...I have tried the same code...

but it does not work..

Could you please help me
[Java for Android App Development] stunnahonsa:
I am also trying to get the USSD response into a string or something, can you share your solution? It seems there is no offical support for this from google.

thx
[Java for Android App Development] Masrepus:
[MENTION=3040524]stunnahonsa[/MENTION]

I had a private conversation with karuna.joshi about this and he told me it turned out that this solution doesn't work with newer android versions anymore. I haven't continued my project du to other problems in the meanwhile so i can't tell you for sure whether it works or not.

But i could imagine that if you register a broadcast receiver for that mentioned broadcast above, then in the onReceive method you get the data uri by calling intent.getData(). So now i researched that you will get the appended query item (in this case the ussd response) by calling uri.getEncodedQuery()

Would be cool if you try this and tell me if it worked
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] abifar:
HI there

I am wonder If anyone could answer me .PLS

I want to you use one Instant Messenger ,IM+ or Agilemessenger by my Wizard but I donot know :

1-which one is better to use for YAHOO ?

2-how much DATA via GPRS they transfere for Login and for PM ?

for measure I'v used SPB gprs Monitor and PhoneAlarm 1.26 .

I used IM+4.04 trial for Login it use 32K and seems for PM 1 till 2K

and Agile used more than for 60k just for Login .:cry: :cry:

BUT:

-- it is VERY strang because with my NOKIA 6600 with Agile messenger it uses just 3K for login and for 1 hour chat just uses 40 -60K from GPRS data usage .

-- GPRS data counters are differnt between PSB GPRS and Phone Alaram :evil: not too much but it something to count . (I am sure settings are right )

any Idea Or better softewares ??

with lots of Thanks

BaBi
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] ady:
how much does it cost per mb?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] aaischa:
I prefer mChat that is the best :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krazie1:
Is there a app that lets you change the network from LTE to 3g?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] equake:
bump +1
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jeagle88:
Like wise is there an App that lets you pick what radio's to use? Coming from my old Thunderbolt running CM there was the ability to pick Global, Global + LTE, LTE, CDMA/LTE, CDMA, etc. Sometimes i need to force my phone into LTE mode only when I'm on the very edge of coverage to get it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fiatandroid:
ill bump as well...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bowen873:
I've tried a bunch but none of them can access the radio settings - they all error out. Hopefully someone has found one that works...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AxelPT:
How could I do? I mean... How can I do to save all data and launcher configuration?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SMillerNL:
Just do a cyanogen update as soon as CM11 nightlies are released and you'll be golden

Sent from my N4, wanna know what I am doing? Check http://team-fun.eu