Category: NZTekonverse -> Android
-
Apps, apps, apps
I don’t write much about mobile so it’s time to fill in this gap by blogging about some of the apps I have on my various phones. The main phone I have is a Nexus 5X, and I have a second phone, a Galaxy J2, which has a tablet share SIM (off the Nexus’ account)…
-
HOWTO: Connect a Nexus 5X to a PC
Previously on this blog I have bemoaned the apparent lack of support for the Nexus 5X on PCs. It turns out however that the connectivity is not well documented (not as far as I am aware with Android 8). Earlier efforts failed because I thought a driver was needed, of which no such thing actually…
-
Why I hate the Google Nexus 5X
Well when I got this thing I thought it was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, a Google Nexus phone, with stock standard Android, a lot of available updates from Google, great spec and performance etc. Great hardware, well made quality product. Such a shame about the software though. Unfortunately over time…
-
Digikam / Android 8 not perfect / Ditching Outlook.com email
For some strange reason this message (which only appears once in my inbox) has some magical properties that enable it to push itself to the top of the list every so often. Android 8 seems to have issues with DefaultCarrierApp which puts up a notification that won’t go away telling me I have run out…
-
RemixOS android emulation
Well about a week ago I was writing about my experiences with Android x86. That particular OS runs reasonably well in a VM on Linux, but on my Windows computer I couldn’t achieve anything with it because apparently of the hardware virtualisation limit. So then I upgraded the computer to one that does full virtualisation…
-
Android desktop options
So after my last post I have had a play with Android x86 on the Linux PCs with very mixed results. Quite why Facebook finds it difficult to support the desktop / browser based version of Instagram with the ability to post images is hard to fathom considering how well they have made Facebook work…
-
Android emulation options
A little while back I wrote about trialling a couple of Android emulators. BlueStacks and LeapDroid were the Windows ones that I tried out, Leapdroid being better. I then decided a tablet was a better option for Android and also reinstalled Windows to discover Leapdroid had been pulled by its developers and can no longer…
-
Android updates not as good as Windows Phone
If you buy an Android phone, the key issue is getting software updates from the manufacturer. With Windows in particular, which is the nearest equivalent (one OS on many different hardware devices), MS has a very good system that provides updates to their core operating system for many years after it is first released. This…
-
More Samsung self serving crap and ripoffs
My first Android phone was a Motorola Moto-E dual sim (XT1022) that I picked up from The Warehouse relatively cheaply as it was end of line at that time. A great little phone especially as it was my first use of Android with the main issue being the lack of RAM (only 4 GB). Because…
-
Linux So Far [2]
Obviously a bugbear of any platform is that the software you want to run isn’t always available for the platform and these days it is not unusual to have several computers running multiple platforms if you are a power user. I have had to maintain at least one Windows computer since I switched to Linux,…