I read that Lollipop allows you to transfer the settings from one device to another. When I was seting up my Nexus 9 I was never given the option. I tried tapping it to my nexus 5. during the setup but the option never came up.
I can't see it as an app or in the settings. Does anyone know how to use it/where to find it on the Nexus 9?
Could it be that the functionality was only available in the Preview for Lollipop?
Another bit of functionality not available on my Nexus 9 is the ability to pin an application from the multitasking window. None of the tasks have the option.
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I thought it was available!
"This information applies only to devices running Android 5.0 and higher. Tap & Go is not available for Nexus 9 or Nexus 10 devices."
Source: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6073630?hl=en-GB
Pinning is available, you need to enable it in security settings.
I got the transfer settings option on developer preview 2, but not on my Nexus 9.
I love android. I am a Nexus 6 & 9 user and in the past I was a Galaxy Note user. No matter how great and better (to my opinion) android is in comparison with other mobile OS, there are some things that are missing and seem so crazy to be missing.
Of course me and you all (maybe the 5% of all android users ??) we can play with custom roms, mods and etc, but all the other users, especially the Nexus line users, find these things missing.
1) there is no stock file browser
2) there is no battery percentage on the home screen, without the need to swipe down
3) there is no Wi-Fi direct !!!! There is an option in Wi-Fi advanced options, but whenever I tried it with my Nexus 9 & 6, there was no success
4) there is no clear all in the multitasking menu, and before 5.X.X, with a reboot of the device the background process would clear, now they won't close until you close them. Imagine having to swipe 30-40 times to clear everything.
5) In the era of phablets, there is no split-screen!! 6 inch Nexus 6, and 9 inch Nexus 9 have no split screen to take advantage of these features.
Is Google ever planning to implement these features? Especially 1-4 seem to be EXTREMELY simple in an implementation level.
**As I already mentioned, I can find solutions for most of these problems (if not all), but I am wondering if Google is ever gonna bring these things by default to all Nexus users, so non experienced users will enjoy them as well**
The Nexus line was meant for developers from day one. Not the common users. Google isn't changing that policy.
It's why Samsung is the largest brand.Every single thing you mentioned comes as a default feature on their high-end devices. In fact, multiwindow was their invention. The NotePro 12.2" even supports 4 windows simultaneously.
And you've not seen Mutlitasking until you've tried Penwindow. (depending on which Note you had you may or may not already have.)
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ShadowLea said:
The Nexus line was meant for developers from day one. Not the common users. Google isn't changing that policy.
It's why Samsung is the largest brand.Every single thing you mentioned comes as a default feature on their high-end devices. In fact, multiwindow was their invention. The NotePro 12.2" even supports 4 windows simultaneously.
And you've not seen Mutlitasking until you've tried Penwindow. (depending on which Note you had you may or may not already have.)
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I tried out Note 1,2 & 3, and yes you are right. All those things are already in Samsung devices. Even more, they have something even stronger than WiFi direct, that uses mobile data if necessary to increase the speed (if needed). I agree that nexus is meant to be used by developers, but Google changed that character from the Nexus 7 2012 and Nexus 4, by advertising and promoting it through low prices in general public. I remember that I had a hard time to find Galaxy Nexus 32GB in my country and I went to Galaxy Note N7000, but after the 3d Nexus phone (Galaxy Nexus), nexus phones (and tablets) went balistic on line with many many people wanting to buy them.
Btw, I did not know that on pro 12.2 you can have 4 windows! wow! that is true multitasking indeed !
Thank you for your answer mate
petkyrk said:
I love android. I am a Nexus 6 & 9 user and in the past I was a Galaxy Note user. No matter how great and better (to my opinion) android is in comparison with other mobile OS, there are some things that are missing and seem so crazy to be missing.
Of course me and you all (maybe the 5% of all android users ??) we can play with custom roms, mods and etc, but all the other users, especially the Nexus line users, find these things missing.
1) there is no stock file browser
2) there is no battery percentage on the home screen, without the need to swipe down
3) there is no Wi-Fi direct !!!! There is an option in Wi-Fi advanced options, but whenever I tried it with my Nexus 9 & 6, there was no success
4) there is no clear all in the multitasking menu, and before 5.X.X, with a reboot of the device the background process would clear, now they won't close until you close them. Imagine having to swipe 30-40 times to clear everything.
5) In the era of phablets, there is no split-screen!! 6 inch Nexus 6, and 9 inch Nexus 9 have no split screen to take advantage of these features.
Is Google ever planning to implement these features? Especially 1-4 seem to be EXTREMELY simple in an implementation level.
**As I already mentioned, I can find solutions for most of these problems (if not all), but I am wondering if Google is ever gonna bring these things by default to all Nexus users, so non experienced users will enjoy them as well**
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Just to comment on multitasking/recent apps, there isn't a need to clear all as Android has significantly improved how this is handled. Only a small part of the tabs you see in lollipop recent are actually running. Android will automatically close apps to keep the appropriate amount of free RAM available. By "closing all", you are actually causing a longer start time when you reopen the app and causing apps that auto run to restart. Thus causing more battery drain and system resource consumption.
Helpful articles:
http://www.androidtipsandhacks.com/...ndroid-and-why-you-shouldnt-most-of-the-time/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ram-boosters-task-killers-bad-android/
Evolution_Freak said:
Just to comment on multitasking/recent apps, there isn't a need to clear all as Android has significantly improved how this is handled. Only a small part of the tabs you see in lollipop recent are actually running. Android will automatically close apps to keep the appropriate amount of free RAM available. By "closing all", you are actually causing a longer start time when you reopen the app and causing apps that auto run to restart. Thus causing more battery drain and system resource consumption.
Helpful articles:
http://www.androidtipsandhacks.com/...ndroid-and-why-you-shouldnt-most-of-the-time/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ram-boosters-task-killers-bad-android/
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Thanks for that, how stupid of me, all these years I was fanatic about closing all apps as soon as I was done with an app. But in the long run yes you are right, it does actually consume more resources this way.
Not sure if any of you are familiar with this app. Brief history, this app started on the PC, then migrated to mobile. Apple and Play store drop it because of piracy. And the company completely shut down in 2014. But the app still lives if can find the right version to work with your phone. So after some trial and error with newer android phones. The latest processor to work with the app is Snapdragon 801. So it is running on my xperia Z2 and Z3. Since the app has not been updated, I guess it is limited to 2014 phones.
The wife wants a iphone 6, and I know it will not work on the latest ios 9, since I have tried on my friends phone. I was wonder is anyone has a IOS 8 iphone 6, and is willing to try to install the app. On IOS 9 the app was killed, it will not open when install and after deleting the re-stall fails. So Apple has completely blocked this app. Maybe in IOS 8 there are still some loopholes.
No jailbreak needed. To download, search for kuaibo download, open in safari and see if it installs and opens. You will be given 2 options based on the device you go into the website, it will auto detect you have a apple device. Select the top link, and wait for install. The funny thing is this app still works on older versions of IOS.
If this work, I will need to hunt down a IOS 8 iphone 6. Sigh...
I can't seem to find the SIP settings in the Phone app, did LG cut this feature?
Using Activity Launcher i was able to find com.android.services.telephony.sip.SipSettings in com.android.phone but it looks like it does crash when adding a new profile.
Same here. Did you manage to find the settings? Advanced Options is greyed out...
Same here. Apparently LG removed it...
Motorola also had this removed from my previsous moto X play.
I have only used it on Nexus 5x.
same here?
Apparently the stock OS on the LG G5 of my father is missing this part of the GUI too. (fail) This G5 is from Fido in Canada but I do not know if that matters in this case.
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brolin.reg said:
Apparently the stock OS on the LG G5 of my father is missing this part of the GUI too. (fail) This G5 is from Fido in Canada but I do not know if that matters in this case.
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The G5 of my father is now mine. I upgraded the stock OS in place from Android OS 7 to 8 but still could not use the native SIP support of the Android OS. With Activity Launcher, I can open the com.android.services.telephony.sip.SipSettings screen but this screen is blank. I did not try whilst still running Android OS 7 because I wanted to upgrade the OS in place before spending lots of time customising things so that I do not lose that time in case the in place upgrade of the OS failed. I wanted to continue using my VoIP.ms SIP/IAX account so I tried using a softphone application as a workaround. SIPdroid seemed to work but finding the PSTN number to call seemed awkward and SIPdroid seems to lack a speakerphone function so I tried Zoiper because it was mentioned by a user review of SIPdroid in the Google Play Store that mentioned the lack of a speakerphone function in SIPdroid. Zoiper seems to work well so far: finding the PSTN number to call was easy and the speakerphone function seemed to work. I wish the LG G5 had an AMOLED display instead of an IPS AMLCD but now the G5 seems able to fully replace my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 running the now too antiquated Android OS 4.4 . I insist on having an easily removable battery so the Galaxy Note 4 is the last in the Galaxy Note series I can use. My father now uses a Galaxy Note 4, which is why he gave me his LG G5.
Didn't think I was going to replace my trusted Nexus 5X by a Mate 10 Pro but a number of incentives, at least in France, made me switch: -100€ for trading in an old (non working) phone, -29€ additional for bringing an IPhone 6Plus that I found when practicing freediving, a free Moleskine Smart Writing Set ($200 value) and finaly a free Google Home mini ($49 value). Looks like they really wanted me to go for the Mate 10 Pro!
Now before leaving the store I played around with the demo unit and got literally shocked when I couldn't find the Encryption status (Encrypted or not encrypted) under the security settings.
There are bunch of other options including the vault application but I'm looking for the Android system level encryption scheme, if any , that is used on that phone.
So my big question is.... what does the Mate 10 Pro use by defaut and what can be set? Full Disk Encryption (FDE) that results in a two-stage boot process or File Based Encryption?
As a result what can be seen under TWRP if not unlock code is provide, evertything, only the system but no /data, nothing until a unlock code is provided?
Thank you in advance for any feedback on that topic. I really don't want to return the phone for that.