silversolver

How can you say that? "The specifications of my old phone" includes a fast processor AND fabulous hardware keyboard? Which unicorn is that? The obsession with processor specifications is like some people's obsession with car horsepower.....how much can you really use in the real world? The Pro1 has plenty of "specs" for any use case other than functioning as a server.

I guess I was right that my very late order is still waiting. 😞 Oh well. Droid 4 still working. I think it would keep working for another 10 years if Veri$on wasn't determined to kill it.....

But the Cosmo isn't really a phone.....it is, but it's also not. It's a candy bar phone with a small touch screen when it's in the closed position, and it's a UMPC with a great keyboard when it's open on a table, but to type in bed or on the couch......

You meant "not useful at all," I think. :P I despise the presence of a fingerprint reader. I will disable mine at a hardware level if I can figure out how.

@Doktor Oswaldo There is a reason I avoid programs which collect any data wherever possible. Those few that I do use which do also allow it to be disabled. FOSS solves so much of this garbage; because the community is directly involved in the development of the product, there is no need to spy on end users, anonymously or otherwise, for quality feedback. This is the model F(x)tec has taken with Pro1. @EskeRahn And we're back on topic. ROFL!

OK, but still an app that uploads a users files without their consent is committing fraud, right? Companies that do that should be punished. It is certainly true that having the recordings on the device makes data theft possible, but that is true of anything on one's phone. That someone might steal and misuse data doesn't justify banning the private posession and collection of data on events in which you were involved, IMO.

@Doktor Oswaldo Your scenario is not exactly what we were discussing, though. In your scenario, neither party has reason to believe anything is being recorded, but it is. Interestingly, a number of my friends are suspicious of Farcebook's Messenger doing this. Your scenario is data gained without the consent of either party through dishonest means, i.e., fraud. Certainly laws should and do exist to address fraud, including situations like this. That is different than my friend recording their calls and storing them locally for their own review.

@david 5G is (mostly) not related to phones. Got it! I suspected this all along. Now if only everyone else would get the hint. ;)

@Sean McCreary I believe tying the keyboard and screen backlight together is exactly what LOS did in the build I'm using on my D4. I consider it a perfectly acceptable solution.

I'm pretty sure that AVIdemux is a graphical frontend for FFmpeg. "Normal people" need a GUI these days. Then there's me....I'm perfectly capable of using the command line, but too lazy. ;)

Personally I care nothing for 5G. I see absolutely no reason why we need to have 5 bazillion gigabits per nanosecond streaming OTA. 3G is plenty for me, and 4G is far overkill. In what use case scenario is 25mbps per device not enough? It's like processor power......we reached the limits of what is useful to most people a long time ago.

I am used to LineageOS (using it to post this) and as such am unused to some of the limitations in stock. As for concatenating videos, AVIdemux is free, easy, and seamless. Open the first file, drop the others in afterward in order, then save them all in one file. I have done it many times. It is a useful tool for a lot of things, and I'm pretty sure it is also available for Linux. Just set everything to copy and the output has no quality loss and no issues.

Try to find someone who has one somewhere nearby you so you can try it first, perhaps? There's a lot of people in this forum all over the world, and more if you count the lurkers ;)

I think the assumption is slightly wrong. @Erik said "70% of all preorders," which in my reading, all preorders includes those already fulfilled, so I'd say this will probably put fulfillment at 90-95% of all preorders. Unfortunately, it means that I won't likely get mine for another month or so, as I didn't pay until nearly the end of November. Oh well. Droid 4 still working. Posting with it, as usual. :) I'm glad Verizonk chickened out on pulling the plug at the end of the year though, because then I'd have had to switch to the potty.....er, PRIV. ;)

Most video recording programs are clever enough to work around the 4GB limitation, since it is very old yet still very common. As mentioned previously, if you don't need interoperability with Micro$oft's operating systems, EXT3/4 would be a good choice. Incidentally, software exists to make Micro$oft's OSes read EXT filesystems. I used it a long time ago and it worked fine. I can't remember to save my life why it mattered, but it did at the time.....I almost think I just wanted to know if it could be done. It could. ;)

If I talked to my friend about my hurting leg and they recorded it, I fail to see what a friend would do with such a recording that would affect my insurance. On the other hand, Google is known to be evil, so I don't give them any information at all, precisely because I don't trust them to be ethical with it, albeit that's somewhat off topic here. Farcebook is very much the same way, so about the only thing they know about me is that I like driving through the woods in weird old cars.....hardly a monetizable fact. :) Certainly large corporations can and do find ways to monetize information abo

Honestly, the only party I find it upsetting that they might be recording me is the government. If I'm talking to someone and don't want them to have a recording of me saying something, I shouldn't say it, should I? It's like when facebook went to timeline view and people complained that their private messages were made public.....only they weren't. People just couldn't fathom that they actually said those things in public, but they did. If I'm talking to someone and they choose to record it, so be it. I do my best to only say things that are repeatable, and not tell profound secrets on the ph

I'm well aware that many governments feel the need to babysit everyone, and I don't feel that is lucky. Freeing people from the need to take personal responsibility for their actions by removing choices doesn't make society better over time because it makes people less competent to self-manage over time, and then even more choices have to be removed, and then people become even less competent to self-manage, and then.....you get the idea. Certainly in the case of the phones the default settings, and the way it operates out of the box should comply with every conceivable mandate. However,

I must be very bad at explaining this LOL! I wasn't using "real" RAM to denote physical RAM; of course, it has what it has in that regard. (Has anyone ever soldered in more on a Droid 4? 🙂I was using it to denote RAM available for use without any trickery involved. A word about swapping might help here. Swapping is an old concept where the kernel takes a page of RAM, dumps it somewhere else called a swapspace, and then frees the RAM page. If/when that data is needed later, it will copy it back, often after swapping off another page to make room. It is cumbersome to the kernel and slows th

What I was going to say. :) You got there first.

I only just saw this. Internal storage is essentially the internal SD. ZRAM uses RAM, not internal storage. Performance in my use case is comparable. The SD medium is definitely slower, but there's no CPU load and more real RAM available. The exact performance comparative between ZRAM and SD swap will depend on the use case and SD speed. My SD is fast and use case tends to have high CPU loads, so I get generally comparable performance, with the benefit being better stability.

I don't think so....?

None of that was a factor in my decision-making process. I am aware of limited write cycles on SD, which is why I chose it; if I'm going to wear out a storage device, I'd rather it be the one that is easy to replace. :) I am aware that some people swap on internal storage, but I would never even consider that because of write durability. I do move the swap file around from time to time on the card to try not to burn out all the cells. Ultimately it's not a big deal to me either way. SD is relatively cheap.

Uh, yes? Just because he's a Lineage developer doesn't mean he's read virtually everything in this forum like I, who am not a LOS developer, and apparently have no life, have. It seemed like useful and "relevant knowledge" (uh-oh, that's adware LOL) that he might not have noticed. Why did you think I didn't know whom I was addressing?

If your carrier is Verizon, it requires some fiddling. Check the network compatibility thread for the short answer, and the verizon thread for the TL;DR version. :) If it's not Verizon, I'd love to know what it is. There is a report of Australian carriers doing something unusual that causes the original stock firmware to not work but the OTA updates resolve that. LOS at last check did not work for this person.