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| Thread ID: 141938 | 2016-03-28 03:53:00 | Cellphone question | ianhnz (4263) | Press F1 |
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| 1418365 | 2016-03-28 23:59:00 | No apps needed, android is pretty stable generally. If it starts doing weird stuff or acting sluggish restart it and that's about it. I use an android tablet as a bedside alarm clock, it's brilliant at it. And because it's not a phone there are no txt messages or alerts appearing in the middle of the night. |
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| 1418366 | 2016-03-29 04:21:00 | Try the Xperia series. The Z5 has an oleophobic coating which will help your finger glide a little better, plus there's also a Glove Mode which will help even further. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1418367 | 2016-04-02 15:31:00 | Regarding apps, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you meant, but the latest version of Android (only, I think) has a 'do not disturb' mode, meaning it will turn off all notifications during the hours that are set. Means you can still have the phone turned on overnight without being disturbed by alerts and notifications, and then it just returns to normal at the time you set. If your version of Android doesn't support that, I also used to use a free app called 'Llama'. It's a little tricky to configure but you can effectively do a similar thing. I used to have it automatically turn the volume to silent at midnight (or I would manually turn it to silent when I went to bed earlier). And it would automatically turn my volume back to normal at a user-set time. If you're that way inclined you can also have it set to do many other tasks automatically. Eg I had mine set to auto turn-off wifi when I left home, and to auto turn it on when I was on mains power at home, but not at work. It learns your location by the cell masts tower ID, so it doesn't suck the battery using gps like some other task apps do. |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 1418368 | 2016-04-02 20:46:00 | Regarding apps, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you meant, but the latest version of Android (only, I think) has a 'do not disturb' mode, meaning it will turn off all notifications during the hours that are set. Means you can still have the phone turned on overnight without being disturbed by alerts and notifications, and then it just returns to normal at the time you set. If your version of Android doesn't support that, I also used to use a free app called 'Llama'. It's a little tricky to configure but you can effectively do a similar thing. I used to have it automatically turn the volume to silent at midnight (or I would manually turn it to silent when I went to bed earlier). And it would automatically turn my volume back to normal at a user-set time. If you're that way inclined you can also have it set to do many other tasks automatically. Eg I had mine set to auto turn-off wifi when I left home, and to auto turn it on when I was on mains power at home, but not at work. It learns your location by the cell masts tower ID, so it doesn't suck the battery using gps like some other task apps do. Mines using version 4.4.4 and I have checked add softawre and always says I'm using latest. In may she'll be a year old and not sure how long these phones will last. I will check out Llama. Thank you |
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