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beje said:
Google Talk uses push, it's completely safe to leave it open. Aside from it, you have Pingchat and Whatsapp, they're very simmilar. The only difference is that Whatsapp costs like a couple bucks a year but is much more stable and cross-platform with iOS, Blackberry and Symbian.

If you're looking for a multi-service IM app, you can check Trillian (not in the market, downloadable from their page). It looks like it has a "push" mode activated when you check the battery-saving feature but AFAIK it doesn't work that great and tends to get stuck on poll mode very often, though the battery consumption is not that bad.
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Good to know that G-talk and Voice are push! Thanks for the info, I feel better knowing I'm not killing my battery using these essential apps.
 
xtop said:
i keep seeing people say how it supports gif's. but so does the stock browser. i'm confused. or is that a froyo only feature or something?
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Well, its not only this

OmniGamer said:
I have an HTC Hero(android 2.1 update)...stock browser does not support animated gifs
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Opera Mini doesn't as well, so yah, its a welcome update.
 
SimleuqiR said:
Not sure. I've read it kills battery on Android though. Once they fix that it could be cool as I have a lot of family members using BBM.
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Kik is weird. Like someone could send me a message 3 days ago and I won't know until I open the app back up
 
I have a regular Droid. When I switched to 2.2, landscape mode stopped working for about 95% of my apps and the screen doesn't lock when I answer calls so I'm constantly hanging up and muting calls with my cheek. Have other people ran into these problems or did I just do something wrong?

Typing out text messages and emails with the portrait keyboard or the physical one sucks so bad.
 
Wrekt said:
I have a regular Droid. When I switched to 2.2, landscape mode stopped working for about 95% of my apps and the screen doesn't lock when I answer calls so I'm constantly hanging up and muting calls with my cheek. Have other people ran into these problems or did I just do something wrong?

Typing out text messages and emails with the portrait keyboard or the physical one sucks so bad.
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I have noticed that the screen has been more of a nuisance on my Droid1 during calls ever since upgrading to 2.2. Also noticed that it seems a bit slower or less responsive to gestures (especially browsing) ever since installing the Flash upgrade.
 
Just wondering if anyone knows if the Desire has an upgrade app I've missed. Got two Desires the other day. I've been using mine and it came with 2.1 android installed. My missus turned hers on tonight and not long after it asked her to install 2.2.5 or something.

I see no mention of this on contract site. We were pissing about with hers, so did I maybe hit something that prompted this? Wouldn't mind updating myself!
 
SimleuqiR said:
Some Gingerbread crumbs for you :lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ivG0IvckM

PS not a joke.
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I've seen that already. Cool though isn't it? I'm looking forward to Google Music, Blindtype, Books (?) and no doubt a bunch of other stuff. Also an online marketplace and hopefully better search within the marketplace. Staggers me that Google, the masters of search still don't have options to search the marketplace by average rating, by downloads and by trending at a bare minimum.
 
Froyo is looking more and more like an incremental stopgap. Wonder if a lot of hardware makers will just skip it for Gingerbread. Well except Sony who will probably downgrade X10 users to Android 0.4 beta in the next release. Sigh... :lol
 
Wrekt said:
I have a regular Droid. When I switched to 2.2, landscape mode stopped working for about 95% of my apps and the screen doesn't lock when I answer calls so I'm constantly hanging up and muting calls with my cheek. Have other people ran into these problems or did I just do something wrong?
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I have a Droid Eris, so take that for what it's worth.

I've had the problem with the proximity sensor not turning the screen off during a call many times but it's happened on all versions of Android.
Wrekt said:
Typing out text messages and emails with the portrait keyboard or the physical one sucks so bad.
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So you prefer the software keyboard to the hardware one? And even still you prefer the landscape software keyboard? I can't stand it because it takes up like 60% of the screen so there's only enough space for 1-2 lines of text above the keyboard. I always assumed the hardware keyboard would be nice because you still get a full screen. Is it really that bad? Or do you just dislike it now because your phone doesn't work in landscape?
 
SimleuqiR said:
Some Gingerbread crumbs for you :lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ivG0IvckM

PS not a joke.
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Haha, that's sweet.

I'm excited for 2.3 and all, but I'm not one to root, so who knows how long I gotta wait (Droid X here).

anyone know how long it took Froyo to come to the Droid X?

edit: hmm, just looked it up. Froyo came to the X just about 4 months after the Froyo SDK was released. So we're looking at maybe March 2011 if the release schedule is similar. Damn.
 
Futureman said:
Haha, that's sweet.

I'm excited for 2.3 and all, but I'm not one to root, so who knows how long I gotta wait (Droid X here).

anyone know how long it took Froyo to come to the Droid X?

edit: hmm, just looked it up. Froyo came to the X just about 4 months after the Froyo SDK was released. So we're looking at maybe March 2011 if the release schedule is similar. Damn.
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I think Froyo to Gingerbread will be a lot faster. Don't think much code is being changed, just touching up the interface across the OS. I believe all the cool functions Google showed us at IO are already in place in Froyo, just not being utilized by Google (Music service, etc).
 
I'm really excited for Nexus One owners to get 2.3 in 2010 so the rest of us can get it mid-2011/never.
 
Do you guys think the Droid (the original Moto one) will get Gingerbread? I'm a little worried the hardware can't handle it, but I might be crazy. 2.3 might not be any more hardware demanding than 2.2.
 
Pyrokai said:
Do you guys think the Droid (the original Moto one) will get Gingerbread? I'm a little worried the hardware can't handle it, but I might be crazy. 2.3 might not be any more hardware demanding than 2.2.
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Officially, I doubt it. Verizon is going to want to use it as a selling point for the DX, D2, DPro (which will probably have it anyways) and Incredible (which is probably going to get phased out for the Incredible HD).

However, I'm willing to bet there will be a bunch of custom roms released for it.
 
Wrekt said:
I have a regular Droid. When I switched to 2.2, landscape mode stopped working for about 95% of my apps and the screen doesn't lock when I answer calls so I'm constantly hanging up and muting calls with my cheek. Have other people ran into these problems or did I just do something wrong?

Typing out text messages and emails with the portrait keyboard or the physical one sucks so bad.
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Just saw this. There's definitely something wrong there. I have the same phone and it switches to landscape quite well. As a matter of fact, the 2.2 update for me added the functionality to go into landscape holding the phone either way, rather than only to the left with buttons on the right :lol

I don't know what to tell you about getting it fixed, though. Good luck, man.




I noticed someone else said something about performance issues...well, I had those too. but I fixed them. You might not like what I'm going to say, but it's not as bad as it sounds:

Factory resetting the phone did WONDERS for me. And the best part is that it's not *really* factory resetting it. It redownloads all your apps automatically, and anything on your SD card is also saved (I'd still remove it before resetting it though just to be safe). The only thing you'll have to do again is customize your homescreens and readjust all your phone setting and apps' settings. But man, my phone got zippy again! I was so happy. I went a couple months of wanting to throw my phone into a river or against a wall.
 
Pyrokai said:
Factory resetting the phone did WONDERS for me. And the best part is that it's not *really* factory resetting it. It redownloads all your apps automatically, and anything on your SD card is also saved (I'd still remove it before resetting it though just to be safe). The only thing you'll have to do again is customize your homescreens and readjust all your phone setting and apps' settings. But man, my phone got zippy again! I was so happy. I went a couple months of wanting to throw my phone into a river or against a wall.
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Is this the same as the factory data reset under the privacy setting category?
 
xtop said:
FINALLY getting netflix. but not till next year, and only select phones :(

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/13/netflix-headed-to-select-android-devices-early-next-year/
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Are they going to charge for netflix on android? Is it free for Iphone? Im wondering why piracy will be an issue since you still need a netflix account or am I missing something?


Plus how the hell you all watch videos on your phones? I basically use my phone for mp3 player and web browser or battery drains and I want to make sure I always have some battery left for emergencies :(
 
I just fixed my issue. Somehow the auto-rotate option in the settings got turned off. I know I didn't do it so I'm not sure how it happened but at least it is fixed now.

CrayzeeCarl said:
So you prefer the software keyboard to the hardware one? And even still you prefer the landscape software keyboard? I can't stand it because it takes up like 60% of the screen so there's only enough space for 1-2 lines of text above the keyboard. I always assumed the hardware keyboard would be nice because you still get a full screen. Is it really that bad? Or do you just dislike it now because your phone doesn't work in landscape?
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I do prefer the software keyboard. I found it very easy to switch from a regular PC keyboard to the software one for whatever reason. The buttons on the physical keyboard are flat and just don't feel great. That and the arrow buttons on the right make it a farther reach for my right thumb than my left which messes up my accuracy for whatever dumb reason. I don't mind the landscape keyboard taking up half of the screen because I generally don't write messages that are so long they cannot fit in the 2 lines that you can see.

I thought my Droid was the best thing to ever happen to phones until my fiance got a Droid X. Now I'm far too jealous of her to appreciate my Droid to the fullest.
 
Found a cool game you should all check out, called Pocket Legends Beta and it is a full MMO in the WoW style. So far its fun and runs very well.
 
I NEED SCISSORS said:
Kies is such a piece of shit.
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Indeed it is, there are so many problems with it you can't start to describe the horrors people have to go with it. It leaves me lack of curse words when I have to start telling people about what is Kies and why do I need it to have for my Galaxy S. I've spent more hours trying to fix or getting it run for the first place than actually use the software. While Samsung succeeding to ruin the phone with bad updates and same time having best GPU power with laggier UI than Desire, I feel my faith in the future support on Samsung updates are diminshing to zero.

I surely hope they ditch that Kies piece of crap to oblivion and come up with something that works.

I had to get another computer to update to 2.2 due on my the Kies wouldn't firstly run and then when I got it to work, it wouldn't update. I'm rolling in happy thoughts now.
 
hylje said:
Indeed it is, there are so many problems with it you can't start to describe the horrors people have to go with it. It leaves me lack of curse words when I have to start telling people about what is Kies and why do I need it to have for my Galaxy S. I've spent more hours trying to fix or getting it run for the first place than actually use the software. While Samsung succeeding to ruin the phone with bad updates and same time having best GPU power with laggier UI than Desire, I feel my faith in the future support on Samsung updates are diminshing to zero.

I surely hope they ditch that Kies piece of crap to oblivion and come up with something that works.

I had to get another computer to update to 2.2 due on my the Kies wouldn't firstly run and then when I got it to work, it wouldn't update. I'm rolling in happy thoughts now.
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You're lucky, I think my problems are on the phone side. If it's possible to root and then just apply a 2.2 ROM, I think I will.
 
Corran Horn said:
Are they going to charge for netflix on android? Is it free for Iphone? Im wondering why piracy will be an issue since you still need a netflix account or am I missing something?


Plus how the hell you all watch videos on your phones? I basically use my phone for mp3 player and web browser or battery drains and I want to make sure I always have some battery left for emergencies :(
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The app will be free but it requires a netflix subscription to use, yeah. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t protect their videos with DRM though, otherwise it could/would be easily ripped for piracy.

Hulu.com’s videos, for example, are DRM protected through Flash Player even though the service is free/ad-supported.
 
Is it requiring Kies for the 2.2 update? I remember the gps update my wife got for the Captivate on AT&T was OTA, no need for Kies. And of course you can ignore it and just drag/drop when you hook up to a PC, so I never use it.
 
hylje said:
Indeed it is, there are so many problems with it you can't start to describe the horrors people have to go with it. It leaves me lack of curse words when I have to start telling people about what is Kies and why do I need it to have for my Galaxy S. I've spent more hours trying to fix or getting it run for the first place than actually use the software. While Samsung succeeding to ruin the phone with bad updates and same time having best GPU power with laggier UI than Desire, I feel my faith in the future support on Samsung updates are diminshing to zero.

I surely hope they ditch that Kies piece of crap to oblivion and come up with something that works.

I had to get another computer to update to 2.2 due on my the Kies wouldn't firstly run and then when I got it to work, it wouldn't update. I'm rolling in happy thoughts now.
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I guess you might be hesitant to root or use ODIN? I went to XDA devs and flashed new roms on mine. Didn't use Kies - now have zero lag, perfect GPS (running Cognition on a Captivate). I was a complete newb, and it wasn't very hard at all. The phone is unbrickable, and you can revert to stock for warranty.
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Found a cool game you should all check out, called Pocket Legends Beta and it is a full MMO in the WoW style. So far its fun and runs very well.
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Well THANK YOU, I didn't get any sleep because of it last night, damn you, DAMN YOU!
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Found a cool game you should all check out, called Pocket Legends Beta and it is a full MMO in the WoW style. So far its fun and runs very well.
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Pretty fun so far, i'm impressed. PM me for a username, since this thread is open :-(
 
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