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Bryn

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faniedry said:
I'm actually of the opposite opinion. After Swiftkey's last big update, they fixed the things that have bothered me. No more lagginess at all.

What's bothering you? My second choice is Swype.
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Swiftkey has been improved! It was useless last I used it, but I'm back on now. Hopefully it goes well. Swype was annoying me with the startup lag and the huge amount of memory it took up.
 
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Piesang said:
SwiftKey was one of the first apps I installed on my Z3 Compact.
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Swiftkey has been awesome for most of its existence. I've used it for years, but it became a bit crap a few months ago. Coupled with massive improvements to Swype, I decided to change. I've enjoyed Swype and still might return to it, but I'll give Swiftkey a fair chance. I really hated how difficult it was to enter web and email addresses with Swiftkey, and how you couldn't choose what was added to your dictionary.
 
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It's prediction is out of whack. And I can't use the exclamation point and question mark as per usual. Have to go to the numeric pad. The latest updates have been ***. Not enjoyable.
 
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Shake&Bake said:
It's prediction is out of whack. And I can't use the exclamation point and question mark as per usual. Have to go to the numeric pad. The latest updates have been ***. Not enjoyable.
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Mine still working great, don't recall them moving the ! and ? though
 
faniebraai

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Shake&Bake said:
It's prediction is out of whack. And I can't use the exclamation point and question mark as per usual. Have to go to the numeric pad. The latest updates have been ***. Not enjoyable.
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huh? swiftkey? just slide left or right on the full stop and bob's your uncle.
 
Nimz

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Just bought a powerbank is there any app that can show me the rate it's charging my phone at? I want to see if the 2A port really works
 
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CranialBlaze

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Nimz said:
Just bought a powerbank is there any app that can show me the rate it's charging my phone at? I want to see if the 2A port really works
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Most phones only charge @ a max of 1AM, tablets go higher yes.
Also as long as its detecting as mains and not used, which it should not unless it picks up a data link for some reason it will charge at the max that your phone allows, otherwise it will charge at 0.5AM
 
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This is with the powerbank plugged into the 2A port
 

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Nimz said:
Just bought a powerbank is there any app that can show me the rate it's charging my phone at? I want to see if the 2A port really works
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Best way for me was to charge at 10% and wait until it reaches 95% . Try it using the 2 different ports and check the time difference. Doesn't make difference for my smaller phones....but my nexus 4 and 7 is a world of difference
 
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This is what I'm getting with the original wall charger 2.0A

Phone is a S5
 

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Nimz said:
This is what I'm getting with the original wall charger 2.0A

Phone is a S5
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I will admit, never cared much about that, but that definitely looks slower.

When a data link is detected the USB hard sets to a 500mha draw, which is the technically limit of a PC's usb, however with an open channel pair is is possible on newer computers to get the full 1A that the channel has access too.

Now what the iPhone does when it comes to charging is a mystery to me, but without signal on the data channel it should not have limits on the charging throughput.
 
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So my PC is connected to my TV which is near the foot of my bed. Sometimes I want to watch something on my TV from my bed but I also don't want to disturb sleeping people in the rest of the house. This leaves me in a situation where I have to whip out my noisy, interference laden 10m aux extension which obviously is not the greatest for audio visual enjoyment. So I though to myself, "I have a cellphone and a WiFi connection, surely I can stream the audio to my phone and just plug my Sennheisers directly into that?" Well, there's an App for that.

The app is ingeniously entitled WiFi Audio I am reliably informed (by the app's comment section) that it works a treat with imperceptible lag. Sadly, not on my HTC One m7. I present this app to you in the hope that it both fills a need you never knew you had and actually works on your phone.
 
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