cerebus
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Not like USB -> Open as folder -> movies -> drag/drop, no. It's more complex than that. But you can use something like PhoneTrans which isn't all that difficult.
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Not like USB -> Open as folder -> movies -> drag/drop, no. It's more complex than that. But you can use something like PhoneTrans which isn't all that difficult.
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
iTunes really isn't that bad. I like it.
Such as?
Rather use a flash drive or portable HDD, then you can manage your library correctly when back home.
Both, although there is less need these days as the ZA App Store is much better.
Such as?
Rather use a flash drive or portable HDD, then you can manage your library correctly when back home.
Both, although there is less need these days as the ZA App Store is much better.
SeRpEnT
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Anger, fear, aggression... the dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.
cerebus
Honorary Master
Well I guess so... kind of... but even doing things like changing softkeys requires rooting. You can do a skin-level change without rooting but very quickly run up against barriers.
No you don't see where I'm going with the comment. With my G2 for instance, it comes with the G2 software which has knock on but not knock code. To get next year's software with knock code (not to mention the much nicer looking launcher overall), I have to root and flash to Cloudy. I don't know why I can't just get the latest and greatest software delivered as an OTA update as there's really nothing hardware-wise preventing it. That's what I call jumping through hoops to get something that iOS users take for granted.
iPhone is not in its perfect form by any stretch. However, neither is Android and no amount of tweaking that's within my powers can get it there. In fact the more tweaking I do, the less stable and the more bogged down it becomes.
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Like let's say you had a day outing at the zoo or something g and when you get home the friend wants you to copy over the photos you took that day.
On Android I can just browse to my camera folder and copy the photos over. Or music for that matter.
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
You can use Photo Stream if the computer has iTunes.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/apple/3444903/transfer-photos-from-computer-iphone-ipad/
http://forums.everythingicafe.com/t...r-pictures-from-my-laptop-to-my-iphone.17685/
Rather get a keyring flash drive or something and do it at home.
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Fudzy
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I use a lot of cloud storage for file management between my PC & iPad, for movies I use GoodPlayer which has a built in copy/download function.
cerebus
Honorary Master
You can do it with photos. It's the only part of the phone you can access as a folder when you plug it in.
Music no. Whatever is on your PC is on your phone though so best is to use a USB as PP suggested.
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
Indeed, iDevice photos are accessible as a drive in My Computer. Easy copying from iDevice to PC.
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That is still much more than any iDevice.
Blame the carriers and blame yourself for buying an LG -->
Mine is still stable and (more importantly) daily driver capable.
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sand_man
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Unlikely, jailbreak is a cat and mouse game between Apple and hackers! Apple usually patches JB with their software updates so hackers usually wait for a stable version of iOS before cracking. 8.0 is unlikely to see a crack as it is too new and still not polished enough. Apple will release updates to 8.0 regularly, thus any cracks would be patched, and exploits used patched making it harder for hackers. We might only see a public jailbreak released for 8.1 or above.
Highly unlikely the s will have 2gb of ram but who knows where we will be in a years time. Tech moves forward so quickly, it's impossible to keep up but you know that already.
Is that why you worried about the lack of ram?
Is your friend using an iDevice? Copying is not something Apple does well outside of the Apple ecosystem. If your friends is using an iDevice Airdrop works well as does photostream.
3rd party app required. There dozens and they free. Anytrans for example.
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faniebraai
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'Very quickly' is a bit of a personal experience comment I guess. I personalize my device a lot, and have never had the need to customize it like that, but that's me. But, I've only had Samsung android devices in the past, so the key configuration is what I'm used to. Anyways, that comment was just to clarify terminology, as personalization and customization really is two different things. Android (unrooted) has a lot of personalization options, and some customization options. iPhone (unjailbroken) you can change the wallpaper (personalization) and now the keyboard (customization), but that's really it. This is what this comparison is/was. We're getting a bit off topic here, but that's ok.
I think you are confusing the issue here. There is a big difference between an iOS device getting the latest operating system, and LG taking their sweet time to port their flavour to your older device.
Apple builds there OS for a couple of phones (current and a couple of older ones) and are in control of them, so can do the proper regression testing before the rollout starts.
Google builds there OS for phones, no specific one. Then the OEM's get a hold of it, apply their flavours, probably only test it on the latest device and control when and how they roll it out. Then only start with looking at an older device, regression test and roll out from there.
LG (and anyone else for that matter) first makes sure that their current flagship gets it in the fastest possible time, and only worry about their older devices afterwards. If they were to test it on all their devices first, and then roll out, you'll wait longer. If I'm a current flagship owner, I would want them to get it to me a.s.a.p.
No one said that Android is perfect. Think we were getting off track again here lol
faniebraai
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That's not customization, that's personalization. There's a difference.
can you copy other things to that drive?
sand_man
Honorary Master
Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Someone posted something really cool in the info graphic thread:
https://www.7dayshop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-Evolution-of-iOS-1-to-8_1140px.png
Looks so weird not having clock/calendar/weather widgets on the home screen.
https://www.7dayshop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-Evolution-of-iOS-1-to-8_1140px.png
Looks so weird not having clock/calendar/weather widgets on the home screen.
cerebus
Honorary Master
We aren't getting off the track at all. It's completely relevant. As a user, I want to get the latest software for my phone. (you can see I work in Scrum) I don't give a toss why I'm not getting it. The result is the same; I have to jump through hoops to equalize my software with what the manufacturer is providing the following year. The S4 still doesn't have the S5 launcher; why not?
You asked if iPhone is perfect without customising. I said no, but Android isn't perfect even with customising. How is that off track?
SeRpEnT
Executive Member
Scrum?
faniebraai
RIP
OK, so you understand the process of the OS being released to it being on your phone, right? And the differences between an Android OS upgrade and an iOS OS upgrade, right? Are you still surprised that it takes longer. I understand you want it us quickly as possible, but what would be a reasonable turn around time?
You seem to really dislike android, wonder why you have G2 and not a 5/5S at the moment.
faniebraai
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Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development.