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hiraethified
A hard reset usually fixes that. I'll amost certainly get a Nexus one next time. I'm fed up with all the shite that Samsung burden their phones with.
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The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Ah, I never had a lag or crash on mine in the 2 and a bit years I had it, that would be annoying tho.
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hiraethified
I'm having trouble recalling the last time my S4 crashed to be honest. Android appears to be generally more stable anyway.
Mojofilter
Well-Known Member
Ah well, it's gone now...
I think they've gotten better recently - they were discussing it on the CNET podcast and the my new Galaxy Tab S 8.4 doesn't seem to suffer too badly - it's still there but doesn't seem to slow it down. Plus the eye detection thing actually seems to work this time around.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
Here's what's believed to be the mute switch, volume buttons and power button of the iP6
Calm yourselves!
MacRumours
*Rubs thighs*
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That's interesting, coz my iPhone has never crashed. Ever. The only time I've even rebooted it is when I've had to due to installing OS upgrades. Whereas my last Android handset was a buggy, crash-tastic heap of crap. I guess a lot of it might be down to particular (shit) apps, if you can avoid them you'll be OK on either platform...
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
OMG LOOK AT THE MUTE SWITCH IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEFORE!!!!!
editor
hiraethified
Let me write seven 'rumour' articles about that right now.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That mute switch will change everything.
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hiraethified
Crashes are so rare on my phone that it's not something I ever really think about, but individual experiences may be different. My iPhone 3 was a crock of fucking shit, for example.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Mine was so fucking slow at connecting to the internet that in the end I didn't bother. My fault for working in such a remote location as WC2 I guess. For shits Stella and I used to race to open pages, her iphone was always at least 4 times faster - same network too. Fuck Samsung, (phones that is, TV's and laptops are pretty good).
pesh
Well-Known Member
yep, i hate the S3 for most of the above reasons and plenty more, crashing, slow and getting slower, SD card corrupting / needing to be reseated, worse reception on the same network in the same locations to my old phone, the last update seems to have halved the life of my battery, fucking Kies, last week it decided to wipe all my playlists, the headphone output level is far lower than pretty much anything else i've ever owned. i'm sure there are more things i've forgotten.
joustmaster
offcumdun
I've seen loads of android phones crash and reboot. I don't recall seeing an iPhone do that.
The majoirty of my friends have iPhones, too
The majoirty of my friends have iPhones, too
Don't know about torrenting but I use Prompt as an SSH client now and then. Seems alright to me. Prefer typing on a proper keyboard but set up loads of three letter aliases for when I use Prompt. Granted not doing anything major, just looking at logs on my own stuff.
joustmaster
offcumdun
thats annoying.
I do use it on my phone occasionally.
Do they allow other video players? I've seen apple products struggle to play certain video in the past.
VLC there are probably others but VLC will play most things and is free.
joustmaster
offcumdun
good stuff.
elbows
Well-Known Member
As for iOS crashes, they are rare enough that people freak out at work when their iPhone freezes for the first time and they don't know how to switch it off/restart it (e.g. by holding sleep and home buttons), but just common enough that I've had to show people this on several occasions within recent memory.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It'll be thinner, lighter, faster and run iOS8. I can't see what else it could do other than that tbh
Indeed.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It's a false narrative the only people who go on about iPhone users not wanting bigger screens are android users.
joustmaster
offcumdun
can I copy files on to an iPhone? or do they have to be specific media types, via fucking iTunes?
joustmaster
offcumdun
the over growing android screen is one of the main reasons I am thinking about becoming an iPhone user.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Have a guess
elbows
Well-Known Member
Although iTunes was the original method for copying files to/from iOS devices, its not the only way and not the only issue.
The real issue is that iOS doesn't expose the filesystem, and apps have their own sandboxes for files. So when you copy files to the device, where you put them determines which single app is going to be able to open them. There may be some slight exceptions to this, but thats mostly how I understand it.
Cloud stuff is the main way to deal with this issue with as little pain as possible, whether it be iCloud, dropbox, some other service or your own NAS on your local network. But you need to make sure whatever app you want to use to open that sort of file is compatible with whatever cloud/storage option you are using.
The real issue is that iOS doesn't expose the filesystem, and apps have their own sandboxes for files. So when you copy files to the device, where you put them determines which single app is going to be able to open them. There may be some slight exceptions to this, but thats mostly how I understand it.
Cloud stuff is the main way to deal with this issue with as little pain as possible, whether it be iCloud, dropbox, some other service or your own NAS on your local network. But you need to make sure whatever app you want to use to open that sort of file is compatible with whatever cloud/storage option you are using.
joustmaster
offcumdun
Have a guess
So I can't save an attachment from an email, and use the files in it?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
If they are files that an app on your phone understands, you can open them in the app. (In fact the mail client natively reads a lot of stuff anyway, so you can read word docs for example without having to open anything else.) The file is imported into the app and saved via whatever method the app supports. Cloud drive apps often claim to understand everything so that you can save it to whatever drive it is.
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