Google Nexus 5

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Chris Type R

8,018 posts

248 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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furtive said:
Updated last night. Not liking the fact that I have to swipe up before unlocking. An unnecessary extra step to unlock the phone
Yes, what's that about.

Calendar looks much improved.

igiveup

2,875 posts

281 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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arun1uk said:
anyone noticed that when you have a locked screen, you can swipe down from the top and put the phone into flight mode...my concern with this is that if you lose your phone, anyone can put it into flight mode, therefore you wont be able to remote lock or erase it!

Are there any settings that disable this?
Actually saying that, you could do that in all previous versions of Android too, just by holding the power button down a sec.

Big Fat Fatty

3,303 posts

155 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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The thing I miss most from KitKat, and this will sound petty, is the animation when you pressed the power button to lock the screen. They've changed it to just fade out in a really boring way, it used to look like some gadget from a sci fi film, or a really old TV depending on how old you are smile

silentbrown

8,792 posts

115 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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Just got this on my 2012 Nexus 7. Slow doesn't begin to describe it... Back to factory image, methinks...

wiffmaster

2,602 posts

197 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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I love it so far - it all looks so much slicker with Material Design and it seems to run a bit faster too.

'Smart Lock' is a great idea and saves so much time not having to enter your PIN under certain scenarios. Priority Notifications (now that they're working with Light Flow) are ace. Only thing I'm still not sure on is 'Adaptive Brightness' as I'm not sure where to set the slider when it's enabled? I've set it about 1/3 of max for the moment and it seems to work well? I think the idea is that you set it at a 'comfortable' level and then it will automatically brighten/dull according to ambient light - but I'm not sure how you've set it on the slider will effect what 'range' it will use?

Engineer1

10,486 posts

208 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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Who signed off tabs being on the bottom right button rather than within chrome?

wiffmaster

2,602 posts

197 months

Thursday 20th November 2014
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Engineer1 said:
Who signed off tabs being on the bottom right button rather than within chrome?
I agree, rubbish idea, but easily sorted:

Go into Chrome, then press the three dots in the top right and scroll down to 'Settings'. Then turn off 'Merge tabs and apps'. Back to normal!

arun1uk

1,045 posts

197 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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igiveup said:
Actually saying that, you could do that in all previous versions of Android too, just by holding the power button down a sec.
Fair point, hadn't thought of that!! Just seems a bit strange, especially showing wifi/bluetooth, but you're right, a smart person would just put it into flight mode meaning remote wipe is not possible.

Not sure how I feel about it!

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Removing the SIM would effectively stop remote wipe anyway, wouldn't it?

furtive

4,498 posts

278 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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Big Fat Fatty said:
The thing I miss most from KitKat, and this will sound petty, is the animation when you pressed the power button to lock the screen. They've changed it to just fade out in a really boring way, it used to look like some gadget from a sci fi film, or a really old TV depending on how old you are smile
Ha yes, I miss that too.

voyds9

8,488 posts

282 months

Friday 21st November 2014
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silentbrown said:
Just got this on my 2012 Nexus 7. Slow doesn't begin to describe it... Back to factory image, methinks...
Same problem here. Seems to be about 0.5s delay between pressing and action starting.

Waking from sleep is glacial.

daydotz

1,741 posts

160 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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would a 5 still be a good buy today ?

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Yep. If mine died I'd buy another.

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Same here, I'd buy another too. Still excellent value, and it flies with Lollipop.

Obviously everybody has their own personal taste and likes/dislikes. My N5 is absolutely rocking on 5.0;
I just spent an hour over on the Google product support forums and from what I can read all the negative comments seem to be from people who don't look around the new UI to see how it works, or those who have apps from developers who didn't prepare their apps for 5.0 - despite the developer version being available for circa 5 months now.

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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voyds9 said:
silentbrown said:
Just got this on my 2012 Nexus 7. Slow doesn't begin to describe it... Back to factory image, methinks...
Same problem here. Seems to be about 0.5s delay between pressing and action starting.

Waking from sleep is glacial.
I had that problem with my 2012 Nexus 7 on Kitkat, or in fact any ROM I tried laughfrown the reason I sold it...

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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How much are second hand N5s these days though? Seem to be going for nearly £200 on ebay?

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Have you not answered your own question?

Altrezia

8,517 posts

210 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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I love my N5. I've got a Nexus 6 on order, but will be keeping the '5 as a backup phone. Rock solid and reliable. smile

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

217 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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LordGrover said:
Have you not answered your own question?
I guess... tongue out Just seems like second hand 16GB N4s are around the £100 mark while 16GB N5s are nearly double that... is the N5 really twice the phone? tongue out

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Yep. hehe
I liked the nexus 4 but the 5 is so much better. I'll confess I've not used any other android phones for a couple of years, but it knocks iPhone 5 into a cocked hat for usability and performance.