Mondays In Flames

Not necessarily, flash the dalvik and bionic library optimizations and you will change your mind quickly.

Does being in ART affect that? Also how? I'm not so savvy on flashing things that are not roms. lol

-Luis

I can't complain cause I live in Miami, but I'm so ready for these cold front to go away.

I hate the cold, and I miss the hot summer days!

-Luis

I suppose you're right. By speed I meant more fluidity. I have no clue if it's just the coding they change in kernels or if it's clock speeds but phones always seem to run quicker with one on it.

I'll give battery guru a shot.

That would probably work on a phone that isn't already as bone stock as it gets. Anymore stripped down and you'll basically have nothing. I know that it really does have to do with software optimizations. I had an HTC ONE, and that thing flew and ran laps around every other phone out there. It wasn't the highest clocked phone, but HTC managed to trim out the fat from Sense and make it quick and snappy. The Nexus 5 is the same except, unlike the ONE, it doesn't have a custom skin on top of it to make it a resource hog.

I see you have a G2, now I've played with a G2, and possibly, if you root it and install a custom rom, it might be faster. But I doubt you'll have any performance gain from the Nexus 5, when the fastest roms out there are modeled after the Nexus. You can't beat the original, any performance bump you'll gain will be negligible when a phone is already so fast.

But I'd say if you really wanna try it definitely go ahead, nothing is more fun than rooting and hacking a phone ;P I know I loved doing it to phones that were slow and then seeing a drastic improvement in performance!

Sorry about the rant, but I hope this might help your decision...?

-Luis

It's fast. I'm just looking for a little more battery life out of it and I've always rooted my phones.

Greenify is what I'm missing right now. Not allowing apps to run in the background I would expect to get another couple hours out of my phone.

I would suggest battery guru. I had my father try it out and he said it's giving an hour or two extra, and he uses his phone a ton. It's his job to use the phone. So if he can squeeze out an extra hour or two, I'm sure it'll work for you.

Also making the phone faster also drains the battery quicker, so you might wanna find a rom that actually puts the phone in a lower clock speed once it's idle, and only speed up when it's needed, that'll probably help out.

But other than that, I agree that this phone has no need to be rooted, it does everything fine.

-Luis

Wow great price. I sometimes forget the benefit of not living a world of Apple devices. I've only bought the 5S full price, and I'll never do something like that again (specifically because I had a credit and sold my 5  which made it come to about 250 bucks). But still, never again lol.

Well it's not just Apple that prices their phone absurdly high. All the other companies do it to, just Google is deciding to subsidize the N5.

But also with Apple, I've come to the conclusion that you don't necessarily buy the best hardware, but rather part of the high price is their software since they control it. Kinda like buying Windows software, that price is factored into the devices. Just the way I'm starting to see it. So they are putting a high premium on that, whereas with the Nexus 5 all you pay for is the hardware, since Google has made android open source.

I'm not sure if that made any sense, but I hope it did.

-Luis

Nexus 5. Two reasons: $350 & Off Contract.

'Nuff Said

-Luis

Just got mine activated not too long ago and I agree with what everyone else has been saying. It does everything well and looks amazing doing it. I've gone through the whole Samsung lineup and had a g2 and they don't compare to this at all. The fluidity is just nuts. I'm honestly surprised more people haven't heard about/want a Nexus.

I'm actually using an S3 at the moment, and it's a world of difference. TBH the S3 feels laggy and bogged down. Mind you I just did a fresh wipe of the whole device, and even then it still struggles to send a text as fast as the nexus 5 does.

-Luis

This may sound stupid, but what exactly are people referring to when they talk about a phone's "look"? (Software ..

Materials ... trim?) I usually put mine in a case. Maybe that is why I never notice a difference.

 

Jim, Sent from my Photon 4G using Tapatalk 2

Exactly what you're saying. The aesthetic of the physical phone.

Like the HTC ONE was a very good looking phone.

I forgot to add, that on the other hand if this does work out for them, then they will have another venue in which to make revenue from. Not a bad thing.

-Luis

So, I know this site is intended for Sprint and what not, but I thought I would post this, because this just seems like a ridiculous idea.

TMO wants to become a bank....

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57617573-94/uncarrier-t-mobile-wants-to-be-your-un-bank-too/

-Luis

So how do you guys like Nexus 5?  Right now i have the s4 i like it but Samsung with there updates and bloatware are getting old.   In thinking about the nexus 6 that supposedly comes out late fall.

It's a phone that does everything marvelously. There's nothing you can really throw at it that it will not be able to handle. It's not gimmicky, or flashy, or have many features that you can write home about, in a sense this phone is the most utilitarian phone out there.

So if you want a phone that will perform like a beast, but don't care about looks, then this phone will impress you and I can guarantee that it's performance will make you fall in love with it.

-Luis

 like a fat girl drains a milkshake.

I would love a milkshake right now...

I don't have the G2 but I do know that how bright your screen is also factors in to how long a battery lasts.

-Luis

Also, one thing I've noticed with this phone, that's a huge difference from the HTC ONE. The camera barely uses any battery. I took the phone out this weekend to the Everglades and spent about a good 3-4 hours taking pictures (with HDR+) and video and it didn't drain it anywhere near as fast as the HTC ONE would have. 

Anyone have a similar experience?

-Luis

 Now the camera on the One is great but it takes away any possibly of cropping a photo if you really needed to do so.  With this, I don't know what to think, but I really hope it turns out for the best.

I will say that it is nice being able to zoom into a photo on the Nexus 5 and it not be super blurry or pixelated. I did enjoy the camera on the One though. But it's a little too behind in terms of megapixel count (which I know is not the case for picture quality). Hopefully they can do something by where they keep the large pixels, but maybe give us an 8 MP camera...? Hopefully? Right?

-Luis

This phone will definitely be one of those make it or break it deals with the US and Curved phones. If this phone sells well, I think we will see other companies introduce curved phones here.

-Luis

Is this battery guru on the Google Play Store is it or is it something that I have to find on xda? Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app

-Luis

So I've made a conclusion as to whether or not the Battery Guru app works. And I can say that it really does. The app really does a great job at minimizing battery use from each and every app. On the plus side, it also didn't stop from emails and notifications from coming in.

I don't have pictures, but normally in the mornings from 7:30 to 9:30 my phone would have been at about 90%, that's not bad for two hours, but with this app, today I've used my phone how I normally do and I've talked on the phone as well for about 30 minutes, and I'm sitting at 94% almost at 10 o'clock. 

By the time I get home, I was normally around 65%-75% but now I get home with 80% and this is with mixed use at work (texting, couple calls, and some light browsing). Late at night, after watching maybe an hour of youtube videos, I end up with about 20% battery left.

The only problem that I have encountered with this app is the WiFi Management. It won't necessarily turn on WiFi when I'm at work and/or at home, but it's only happened a couple of times in the last week or so that I've been using it. Thankfully with the Nexus 5, turning on WiFi is just a long-press away.

So that's that, if you wanna try it, I'd say go ahead, you could probably gain an hour or two. Hope this helped.

-Luis

Well, this update did not fix the issue where the phone is reporting active LTE signal to Signal Check Pro for several minutes after having left an LTE area.  I am betting this is why the phone seems to have trouble reconnecting to LTE.

I remember this happening when I had the HTC ONE. What I believe happens is that the phone still gets the LTE signal, but it's too weak, so the phone opts to use 3G instead. Kind of like how you can tell the phone to ignore weak WiFi signals. The phone will still register the signal, but under a certain threshold, it will choose not to use it.

It could just be the design of the radio, and how HTC optimized the software to handle it.

-Luis

It does, but I enjoy having my device's location mapped every 30 minutes.

Oh, okay. Yeah I'm not sure how often the android one refreshes.

-Luis

I only use the anti-theft features to track my phone in case I manage to leave it behind, and I just disable everything that isn't related to the anti-theft. I wish android device manager had more to offer, otherwise I'd just use that.

I'm pretty sure Android Device Manager allows you to Lock, Wipe, and Ring your phone in case you lost it.

Plus it's part of the OS and you don't need any extra apps for that.

-Luis

Jesus, I don't ever remembering having any of these problems when I had the HTC ONE.

Also, I feel like HD Voice was never turned on.

-Luis

So over the holiday break my boss gave me an amazon gift card and I spent it to get this:

http://www.amazon.com/UPGRADED-Wireless-Charger-Charging-Qi-Enabled/dp/B00C40OG22/ref=sr_1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1389977402&sr=1-1

So far, it's working very nice. It's a pretty big mat (compared to the one for nexus) and I like that you can place it in any direction and the phone will charge.

There's no magnet on it, but the pad is big enough that the phone does not fall off.

-Luis

I like the thought of a phone with a flexible plastic screen that will be much less likely to break.  I just wish it was a little smaller.

 

Robert

At a 6 inch screen, I might as well just curve the screen of the Nexus 7 and call it a day.

I find the Nexus 5 to be about the biggest I will ever want a phone, at times the screen just looks massive to me.

-Luis

This would be a more attractive offer if LTE tablets were not so often weeks, even months behind their Wi-Fi counterparts.  Many of us have long had the Wi-Fi version by the time the LTE version is released.

 

AJ

This.

Main reason why I don't have the LTE Nexus 7.

-Luis