• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Well since my first dive into android mirror, I have the app already installed, but what the h? It saids it is connected, but am I missing anything? Is there a next setp I am forgeting for the air droid?
 
Come back to this site and finding my ranking has drop to 90 :mad:o_O:maddroid::thumbsdowndroid:, what can I say I have nothing else to complain about:thinking:
 
Milo Willamson said:
Well since my first dive into android mirror, I have the app already installed, but what the h? It saids it is connected, but am I missing anything? Is there a next setp I am forgeting for the air droid?
Click to expand...

Dont worry, use bad spellers got to stick together. lol :)

PS: What make it worse is my phone remembers my misspelled words and reinforces my ad spelling as if it wasn't bad enough.
 
Milo Willamson said:
Oh try to have dylexia and, half deaf with the high pitch "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" constantily in your ear hahahaa :D

hahaaa :) Nice to see you MrJavi.
Click to expand...

We have more in common than I realized Milo Willamson. I also have a hearing loss. In my case, I wear hearing aid in both ears. My loss is progressive and Im boradering severe/profound. Luckily, with the use of hearing adds I can still hear fairly well (for the most part). Its started about 30yrs ago so Im used to it.
 
Last edited:
MrJavi said:
We have more in common than I realized Milo Willamson. I am have a hearing loss. In my case, I wear hearing aid in both ears. My loss is progressive and Im boradering severe/profound. Luckily, with the use of hearing adds I can still hear fairly well (for the most part). Its started about 30yrs ago so Im used to it.
Click to expand...
Got mine last December, mine are mostly water damage due because I used to non stop swim when I was really younger, with the hearing aids i can hear farily well, but my left ear has a tendency to close and open at will. :)
 
5G is here, which means the carriers will be migrating to the new flavor of the month as quickly as possible.

Well, problem is, there isn't a single phone made anymore that even has a removable battery, let alone is designed to allow an extended battery upgrade.

Still bitter about how bad the MXPE was. $400 down the drain, plus a year of shredding cables and ruining battery packs, and pants, to keep the stupid thing charged? And then to have to turn around and sell it for a pittance as a broken phone because Lenovo went out of its way to litigate and scare off parts suppliers?

For the first time since I've had a wireless phone, I'm finding myself seriously considering going back to a land-line, if I even can.

Apple has already confirmed they gimp phones that aren't of the current model/make automatically.
LG betrayed the die-hard who needed long term viability as of the G6 and V30.
And Samsung crossed the line with how it handled the Note 7, proving they would rather kill a person than make a good phone again.

While I'm reasonably happy with my V20, I still don't understand why I've not been able to root it yet. There's also the not so pleasant situation that nobody can seem to figure out why or how to get around Pokemon Go's arbitrary blocking of rooted phones on android while my brother who has an iPhone has been GPS spoofing for longer and more frequently than I even began to think of that as a possibility.

I've had a wireless phone since my 18th birthday. Two things have remained constant:
  1. No phone, at stock, ever got anywhere near its advertised battery life figures with me. At most, it's been one third of it. Most commonly 1/5 to 1/4th. For reference, the MXPE got 12% of its advertised life with me.
  2. No phone with a sealed battery ever even survived one year with me
So, per my experienced, sealed battery phones are trash; always have been, always will be. So what the hell am I supposed to do?
 
codezer0 said:
For the first time since I've had a wireless phone, I'm finding myself seriously considering going back to a land-line, if I even can.
Click to expand...
Yes, you can. I still have a landline, as do virtually all my relatives and neighbors. I rely on it; its number is the only one I give out, the only one I make or receive calls on. Unlike a cell phone, there are -never- connection problems--dropped calls, dead spots, static, dead batteries, hard to understand what the other person is saying, etc.

Whenever a discussion about phones comes up on NextDoor, I see that pretty much all of my neighbors have landlines. Here in Arcadia (in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles), cell service is spotty at best. So landlines rule!

Besides, businesses rely on landlines, and I don't see that changing any time soon. So if you want one, I'm reasonably sure you can get one.
 
MoodyBlues said:
Yes, you can. I still have a landline, as do virtually all my relatives and neighbors. I rely on it; its number is the only one I give out, the only one I make or receive calls on. Unlike a cell phone, there are -never- connection problems--dropped calls, dead spots, static, dead batteries, hard to understand what the other person is saying, etc.

Whenever a discussion about phones comes up on NextDoor, I see that pretty much all of my neighbors have landlines. Here in Arcadia (in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles), cell service is spotty at best. So landlines rule!

Besides, businesses rely on landlines, and I don't see that changing any time soon. So if you want one, I'm reasonably sure you can get one.
Click to expand...
Annoyingly in my present set of apartments, there's like no structure to install a landline. That and I've held on to my current number for well over 12 years now. If I lose it, my chances of even getting something in the same area code are practically nil. Therein lies the rub.
 
codezer0 said:
Annoyingly in my present set of apartments, there's like no structure to install a landline. That and I've held on to my current number for well over 12 years now. If I lose it, my chances of even getting something in the same area code are practically nil. Therein lies the rub.
Click to expand...
We had a landline up until a few years or so ago, I cannot moan over the price range of my cell phone either, decent enough to make calls and do photos mostly. I kind of wonder if you are just isolated area of where, the mobile data cannot reach to a cell phone tower?
 
Okay here is the real beanstalk:
I have been writing online forever, I can really get rich quick with it, still take it to anywhere via internet.
Have an real librarian scan for spelling errors, grammar, have a publisher work with me, slim down
oh the millions of pages I have wrote on, possibly around like a good 700 or so pages, and devided it down
five books over a huge course of time.
I still kind of want this, but on the same planet of hell. I bowl, I do artwork, I also do a side occupation, band et all.
Could someone please remind me again, what it means to be free?
 
I gave up my land line of some near fifty year's use. It became so spammed by random callers that putting the number to death was the only alternative. The number was on every no call list known to man and yet it was blown up with BS calls. I hated to part with the number with it's reliability and wide spread followers but the spammers forced my hand. I pity the person who inherited the number.
 
codezer0 said:
Annoyingly in my present set of apartments, there's like no structure to install a landline. That and I've held on to my current number for well over 12 years now. If I lose it, my chances of even getting something in the same area code are practically nil. Therein lies the rub.
Click to expand...

Are you absolutely sure about that? You are in the United States, and not Afghanistan or Syria or something?

How old is the apartment block? Does it have cable TV(CATV)? Do you have home internet? Sure there's isn't a block or cabinet somewhere in the hallway, basement, or on outside wall, maybe marked as
"DP" (Distribution Point), or a telephone pole nearby?
 
Last edited:
mikedt said:
Are you absolutely sure about that? You are in the United States, and not Afghanistan or Syria or something?

How old is the apartment block? Does it have cable TV(CATV)? Do you have home internet? Sure there's isn't a block or cabinet somewhere in the hallway, basement, or on outside wall, maybe marked as
"DP" (Distribution Point), or a telephone pole nearby?
Click to expand...
There's nowhere to plug in a landline. All there is is some box on the complex where Cox delivers its cable internet and TV service.

As it is, would suck for me to lose this number, considering that I've had the number since before I left Florida, and any chance of me getting even the same area code again is basically nil.
 
codezer0 said:
There's nowhere to plug in a landline. All there is is some box on the complex where Cox delivers its cable internet and TV service.
Click to expand...

Does nobody else in your apartment complex have a landline?

Apparently Cox can provide residential landline home phone service.
https://www.cox.com/residential/phone.html

I suspect in their DP box there is provision for telephone service, as well for cable TV and cable internet. And I've never seen a cable provider who doesn't. Coming into the Cox DP from the street, will either be a coax cable along with twisted pairs for telephony, or if it's fibre, they'll have a concentrator in their DP to provide the local loop for telephony.

FWIW before I moved to China, I was a lineman for 6 years, installing and repairing phone lines in the UK. And I not once saw a building in a town or city, where telephone service couldn't be provided.

codezer0 said:
As it is, would suck for me to lose this number, considering that I've had the number since before I left Florida, and any chance of me getting even the same area code again is basically nil.
Click to expand...

Don't you have number portability in the US, where you can transfer your phone number from one provider to another?
 
Last edited:
It's a lot like the old CableCARD law when the standard was made. The law implies that cable companies were required to use and provide it. While technically true, as basically every cable box ever used the cards in them, they really dragged their heels about providing it to users who wanted to be able to just plug in a coax to their TV and use that.

In the same note, I'm presently stuck in AZ, but still have an old FL area code. Why not use a local area code number? Simple... I had no reason to switch, I had my do-not-calls already setup, and honestly... I resent this state. If ever the opportunity presented itself to viably leave, I would do so without blinking twice. Either way, at least learning about this is helping the situation, since it means I hopefully will have options when it's time to take decisive action.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom