What do you use now?

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just switched to note 3 from iphone

tried using all the keyboard apps but I don't get the usefulness of the swipe typing thing. every time I do it I have to reenter words

any tips?

When I have used swyping to type, I am usually given a horizontal bar above the keyboard (but below the message space) that indicates the word the phone thinks I want as well as other possibilities. I have just gotten good at watching this bar as I type, since the word you want is usually among the available options.

SwiftKey learns from you the more you use it. Yes, even those obscure spellings and phrases that make you unique... ;-)

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standard google dialer (4.4.2 edition), standard google contacts, standard whatsapp, standard skype, standard hangouts

Yeah, if you're having trouble with the Swype input method, I'd probably switch to SwiftKey if you don't feel like practicing your swyping dexterity a bunch. Once SwiftKey gets to know you and can predict your language, you seldom have to type more than a few letters of any given word or phrase.

any recommendations for a good file manager? don't need cloud access, just need to be able to create folders on SD card and move files form phone storage to SD card for a friend with a straighttalk Samsung unit.

I use ES File Explorer. It's one of the more recommended file managers I believe.

Having a weird issue with my Nexus 5. It connects to my home WIFI but doesn't connect to the internet. All other devices work fine, and the phone works fine on other WIFI networks. I reset the router and the wifi settings, also went through the advanced wifi settings but still have the same issue.

Anyone suffer anything similar?

I'm not the most knowledgeable person about this, but since no one else gave a serious answer I'll take a crack at it.

If you have DRM-free tracks, then it's really straightforward. You just connect your phone to your computer, browse to the music folders on your phone and computer, and drag all of the artists/albums/etc you want over to the phone. I personally store my music on my SD card so it doesn't take up phone memory and I can switch between phones easily. There are a lot of music-playing apps. The Google default is called Google Play Music, but there's also an Amazon app if you buy music from them, and any number of other options including the Samsung app that comes with your phone.

I know a few years ago, DoubleTwist was an app that tried to let iTunes users get all of their songs onto Android phones in a simple way, but not sure if that's still true. Might be worth looking into.

You can also upload all of your music to Google Play Music so you can stream it without taking up storage space on your phone, and can stream it from any computer through the web client. I think you get some amount of storage for free, and can store all songs purchased from Google for free. You can also use the app to select songs/artists/albums for offline access, meaning it'll download just those selections to your phone so you can access them without data/wifi.

But if you have iTunes' DRM on some of your songs, I'm not sure how that works. I think Apple lets you pay a one-time fee of ~$0.30 per song to unlock them, but not sure. There may be 3rd party music players that let you get around that, maybe someone else can chime in?

I don't use SwiftKey for the prediction as much as I use it for the auto-correct. I'm at the point now where I don't even look at the keyboard - I just type away - and SwiftKey fixes the vast majority of my typos. It's pretty awesome.

Has it connected before?

I've had two issues:

1) Forgot to up the number of allowed connections in the router.
2) Advertisement Blocking software glitched, had to uninstall/re-install.

Finally got tired of my cheapo talk/text phone and upgraded to a samsung galaxy s4 yesterday. Got the phone for free from best buy and i'm paying verizon 90/mo for unlimited talk/text +2GB data which is kind of blah but they got with me the free phone thing

Probably would have been a good idea to browse this thread the day before rather than the day after signing another 24mo contract but the cost isn't really an issue. I do have 14 days to cancel the service before the ETFs kick in if I change my mind and find a better carrier.

I've spent the better part of today figuring out how smartphones works which has been like learning a new language. I feel like I've just jumped down the rabbit hole. Some of the things this device can do are incredible and I'm probably just scratching the surface. Still making my way through this thread which has been a lot more helpful than googling 'how to use a smartphone,' would it be a good idea to go through the 2013 thread as well or is a lot of the info there out-dated already?

Try turning airplane mode on and off again. Usually clears it for me.

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Yeah no problems before. Only thing I can think of that changed was that I rebooted my router when there was an outage but even then it worked fine. It just stopped working a day or two latter out of the blue.

The only app that works via wifi is my XBMC remote.


Yeah nothing basic works. Only thing left is a full reset I think.

I've not had a problem sending/receiving data when my N5 is connected to wifi. Never heard about the problem either.

I mentioned the same thing earlier in this thread. After adding my work email account, no data comes through on wifi on my work network. I always have to shut wifi off at work.

may be easier as a first time smartphone user to just keep with Verizon, but getting a Nexus 5 ($350) and Straight Talk on AT&T's network ($45/month) would be another option.

Thanks for the thoughts on SwiftKey, getting used to it still but I see the usefulness. Other question: am I just stuck with all these extra apps? There seem to be a lot of things I can't delete.

I use the corporate email app and just started having emails on outlook auto filter to specific folders. But somehow now I'm not getting notifications for my work emails that now are auto filtered, only for emails still in my main inbox. This is pretty terrible and seems like a bad glitch. I can't find a fix on the corporate email app. Any ideas? I'd image this is a huge problem for tons of people. Shocked this glitch exists.

Ive never come across an email app that notifies for folders other than the inbox. Youre not really using the inbox correctly if you are filtering a lot of important stuff away from it to their own folder.

What you should be doing is auto-applying tags/labels to things that could be important and then archiving them after they are read, skipping the inbox on stuff that isnt needed to be read immediately but you want to keep an archived copy for reference.

On iPhone you can choose which folder gives a notification. I don't use my android for work tho so I've never tried to see if it has something similar.

Fresh iPhone transplant: big annoyance with the messaging app - when I go to symbols and hit comma then space, it doesn't auto-go back to letters.

How do I make that happen? Have a Samsung galaxy s4

Also, I find the auto correct fairly over zealous. Is there a good way to take it? iMessage gives you the option to hit an x on the suggested word, but I get frustrated trying to get out of the suggested words.

I don't recall what the default keyboard is on a SGS4, but you don't press and hold a letter for common symbols like a comma? Otherwise, my solution for everyone ITT is to try SwiftKey.

Yea, SwiftKey is a must have and it only gets better over time

Anyone used Minuum keyboard for a while? How did you find it? I'm giving the free trial a go, its kinda odd, seems the best way to use it or to just dive in and not even try and be accurate, just pretending its like a normal full size qwerty keyboard.

At least the correction engine is world class. I'm not exactly convinced it is better than something like swiftkey, but it's early days.