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| Thread ID: 140450 | 2015-10-13 20:17:00 | Android 6 - Marshmallow - has arrived | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 1409842 | 2015-10-21 02:13:00 | Android is not immune to rolling out buggy updates it seems.Sounds familiar... a bit like our typical Windows hey! :D | Greg (193) | ||
| 1409843 | 2015-10-21 02:44:00 | Hasent showed up as available for my Sony Xperia yet. All the Xperia Z's barring the Z1 will be getting the upgrade shortly. I've just upgraded my Z3 to the official "Concept release", so far so good, it's *nice* and insanely slick, snappy and responsive! Well worth the update, and Now OnTap is amazing!! Some other new things in Marshmallow: - Memory Manager, though I worry people will be under the misconception that they need to have "free" memory for their phone to function. I despise memory killers / managers. - Volume Control / Silent, now called DND. Little different but makes more sense once you think about it. - Doze, I've noticed better battery life already! This _will_ make a difference for basically everyone, I'm positive! - App Permissions, mimics iOS (During the app running it'll ask for permission to use your Photos for example), unsure why this is really needed, but whatever - Copy / Paste changes, slight improvements but I noticed it almost immediately - SD Cards, can now be formatted / encrypted and locked to the device, haven't played around with this much but I was prompted to wipe my SD Card. Chose not to. Anyways if you get the chance, definitely opt for the upgrade! |
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| 1409844 | 2015-10-21 03:37:00 | - Memory Manager, though I worry people will be under the misconception that they need to have "free" memory for their phone to function. I despise memory killers / managers. - I agree in principal, a properly working android system is very good at managing memory without any help. However, try a 2012 nexus 7 running Lollipop, I'm convinced the performance issues are largely down to only 1G of RAM and memory management not doing it's job. If you use an app to clear memory it gets usable again for a while before going back to almost completely useless (push the home button 5 times because nothing is happening then it finally goes home). As a comparison my Note 3 with 3G of RAM is running 5.0 as opposed to the Nexus 7 running 5.1.2 which is the release supposedly "fixed" and is completely smooth and responsive. I'm fairly sure it's because 1GB is limiting the Nexus, whether or not it's due to a bug or just lollipop's requirements I don't know. Going to flash Kit kat back on it at some point - it was smooth as anything with that. |
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| 1409845 | 2015-10-21 04:07:00 | Seeing as they aimed from Android KitKat to be able to run on devices with 512MB of RAM, I'm not entirely convinced. There's flash memory issues on those N7s which were a bit of a pain back in the day but I've not had one in aaaaages myself. |
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