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  1. John Kotches

    Sony Smartwatch 3

    I look forward to reading your impressions in another week. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
  2. John Kotches

    Message app that will let you delete people from a group

    Maybe try HandCent SMS. I don't know if it can do this or not, but I strongly preferred it over the stock Samsung apps. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
  3. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    Neither is a bad choice. If the larger and higher resolution screen isn't appealing save yourself a few $$.
  4. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    I'm just past the two week mark and loving the N6. Still getting used to its idiosyncrasies but that's true of any phone. I can tell now when the time comes for this beast to go I'll be looking for another Nexus or Pure Android device. Lollipop's biggest issue is taming the notifications...
  5. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    Performance issue seems to be resolved. Looks like there was an issue with the channel in use. Results are much better now on AC Internal 226+ down / 102+ up External 110+ down / 5- down. Attached is the homework :)
  6. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    Okay, one thing that isn't up to par is the 802.11ac performance. It's terrible. I am not sure at this point whether it is the WAP or the phone as this is my first 802.11ac device. I'll do some more extensive testing tomorrow night to track down the problem. Speedtest gets: 91+/5mbit on...
  7. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    There's a hack to make this work. You put a nano-SIM into another phone that's in the Verizon whitelist, then you provision that SIM to the number you want. Then you take the SIM and put it into the Nexus 6. I didn't want to do that dance. You can also manually (or with a SIM cutter) cut down...
  8. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    Because the IMEI wasn't in their whitelist database. I've been looking to leave Verizon, and this was the push I needed for the first line.
  9. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    Verizon steadfastly refused to activate and I won't jump through the hoops with activating the SIM on another phone and giving an inaccurate IEMI. So Verizon lost me to T-Mobile today.
  10. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    My phone arrived yesterday in all its large glory. I have a clear Spigen case for now. So far I have: Unlocked the boot loader Installed a Custom Recovery Installed a boot image that allows for unencrypted user space Watched Google restore my programs Transferred my tunes. I'm sitting right...
  11. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    Shipping date is supposed to be 1/5/15... I am impatiently waiting on delivery. Google won't give me the GPS credit, I honestly didn't expect them to, but it was worth at least the effort :)
  12. John Kotches

    Benchmarking the OnePlus One Against Other Phones

    One of the advantages that OnePlus and Oppo have is that neither of these have to have margin for the wireless carrier in the price. This helps keep the to consumer cost lower. There's also limited cost in marketing so that helps reduce the price. One thing that worries me is that the...
  13. John Kotches

    Asus Transformer Infinity Resurrection

    I used this ROM with a 64GB class 10 micro SD card. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672751
  14. John Kotches

    Asus Transformer Infinity Resurrection

    The internal memory is crap, but as long as they keep replacing it, sweet!
  15. John Kotches

    Asus Transformer Infinity Resurrection

    I ran ART runtime on the tablet and it doesn't work as well as Dalvik. Slow, laggy and crashing. For those that don't know, ART is the new runtime for Java which is the default in Lollipop. It is considered to be experimental in KitKat. ART works very well on my note 2, so I'm guessing the...
  16. John Kotches

    Asus Transformer Infinity Resurrection

    For those of you who aren't familiar with this, this is Asus' 10" tablet with the keyboard that can be attached directly to the tablet. This habit started off really snappy, but I have noticed over the past few months that it became ever slower to the point of being unusable. A little research...
  17. John Kotches

    Tapatalk users

    Are the extensions that much work to manage?
  18. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    msmith: Yeah the turbo is a good phone too, but it doesn't support TMobile LTE bands or I'd think about it. Oh yeah, and then there's all the Verizon bloatware ;-)
  19. John Kotches

    Nexus 6: The wait begins

    I finally got an order in for the exact phone I wanted, in Cloud White with 64GB. That was one botched up mess to order the phone and now its about 4 weeks to arrival if the schedule holds. I guess I'll spend my time trying to get Google to honor the CyberMonday deal since they wouldn't allow...
  20. John Kotches

    Moto 360

    Pebble has a beta that supports android wear notifications out and those are getting pretty reasonable IMO.
  21. John Kotches

    Tapatalk users

    I have no idea, but I'm getting "more comfortable" with it. It's improved by half a star, from 0 to 0. 5 stars to me. I'm not sure what they were thinking with this redesign, but I don't know that they had tons of user input.
  22. John Kotches

    Tapatalk users

    As an FYI the newest version has a radically different design and it will take some getting used to. Just a warning...
  23. John Kotches

    droid turbo

    Yeah its a good phone, but didn't Moto take a step backwards with the gen 2 G? If memory serves gen 1 had LTE and Gen 2 does not.
  24. John Kotches

    Just Had System Upgrade to Android 5.0

    msmith: Still liking your Turbo I take it?
  25. John Kotches

    Loking For a New Android Phone (on AT&T)

    That's a respectable choice. How are you liking it (assuming you ended up buying it)? I'm getting very disappointed with the Epic Fail / Disaster of a launch that is the Nexus 6.