[Nexus 5X General] paul_one:
... I am guessing you mean build MDB08I ?

And you shouldn't be searching for a reason NOT to flash your phone. You should be asking yourself why you ARE flashing your phone.

The new build has no changelog, and no-one knows what it does from what I've seen. It's suspected that it enables Band 12 on VoLTE - but nothing definitive.

Why do something without knowing at least WHY you're doing it?

It seems like most Linux implementations are putting in ZRAM. It should be (in theory) faster than using swap on your flash disk, and save the flash wear, at the expense of a few extra CPU cycles of compression/decompression (still faster than kicking off a disk IO request).

Android would be killing processes to free memory first anyway, so you'd really notice that.

6.0? Android? Nexus? Some protocol?

Android has supported SD cards since before Android 3, so I don't see why you're bringing a version into it?

Google have specifically said Nexus devices won't have SD cards, and I agree - having them is messy, and unless they put a different filesystem on them instead of the excrement of FAT/exFAT/whatever (unionFS style.. where filesystems are merged, so the files aren't all over the place and in different directories) then it's a good choice.

Also - you mean this google cardboard: https://www.google.co.uk/get/cardboard/

... The one where the eyeholes are like ~35% of the entire screen?... The screen which is only 1080p?

You can stream 1080p just fine to the phone, not to mention the fact that you're watching anything that long on a phone close to your eyes?

I do have to admit that I consider Google cardboard as stupid as those red/green glasses of old, and thus the need for stupidly large video files at resolutions larger than 1080p on the phone are not needed.

I'd also like to know what uses you have for an SD card other than storing data.... Doorstop? Butter spreader? :P LOL

*EDIT* : I agree that we should have 32/64G versions instead of 16/32G, especially with the camera resolution. Also, I didn't mean to get too heavy into this.. I just realised you only mentioned the SD card slot once very quickly. Sorry for blowing this a bit out of proportion here.

I didn't say I didn't like the feature being blocked - I actually was annoyed that Google decided to put it into the OS (and it cost me quite a few British Pounds in December last year when a Nexus 5 update caught me offguard).

I find it silly that the IP traffic is tagged (and flagging etc) when it is still just "data".

But you're not paying Google for tethering - you're paying your service provider. It's plain and simple, and to (probably) allow their devices and OS to be certified for specific networks, Google have had to get this feature implemented in the OS.

Do I disagree with the feature - sure.. Would I complain to Google - no, as it's not their problem. It is a problem we need to complain to the service providers about and even law makers, to stop the service providers charging us for the same service (that's why I didn't go with Spotify.. They had 2 plans and didn't allow phones on the cheaper plan - even though it's providing the same service).

It's like complaining to the police that you should be allowed to go 30mph in a certain area, in a 20mph zone.. Sure they stopped you, but you agreed to certain rules and should be obeying them (even if they are basically wrong).