I bought some NFC Tags to see if they would work on the Evo 4G LTE, and I was clueless! There was preformatted, ultra lights, and etc. I had no clue which ones would work. Turns out the first ones I tried, worked great on my EVO 4G LTE and Galaxy Nexus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVLRaqrsrDE&hd=1
Thanks for the video. I've been contemplating on getting some. Just trying to figure out what I would use them for.
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Thanks for the video. I've been contemplating on getting some. Just trying to figure out what I would use them for.
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You're welcome. They are just cool, that's all. I truly can see the whole "CM9" and "Profiles" coming in handy! I would stick one in my truck and tap it every time I got in it, to set my phone to loud. lol
I can think of a few things to do with NFC tags, just need to get around to ordering a few.
Anyone have any recommendations on what to get? I'm assuming the larger capacity tags are good, esp for writing complex tasks.
I think NFC tags are rather useless. I keep wanting to use them but can't think of a useful way of using them. If want to put my phone on silent, I'll just use the volume rocker thank you very much. Could someone even tell me what complex task can't be done with just a few strokes?
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shook187 said:
I think NFC tags are rather useless. I keep wanting to use them but can't think of a useful way of using them. If want to put my phone on silent, I'll just use the volume rocker thank you very much. Could someone even tell me what complex task can't be done with just a few strokes?
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It's more fun than anything. Like a "cool" factor. But that's your opinion and I respect that!
shook187 said:
I think NFC tags are rather useless. I keep wanting to use them but can't think of a useful way of using them. If want to put my phone on silent, I'll just use the volume rocker thank you very much. Could someone even tell me what complex task can't be done with just a few strokes?
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All the ones that can be done with a few, can be done with none. Why not make it even easier?
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All the ones that can be done with a few, can be done with none. Why not make it even easier?
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Could you even name a complicated task?
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I think NFC tags are rather useless. I keep wanting to use them but can't think of a useful way of using them. If want to put my phone on silent, I'll just use the volume rocker thank you very much. Could someone even tell me what complex task can't be done with just a few strokes?
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Could you even name a complicated task?
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I have 4 NFC tags.
1) For buddies that visit me frequently to launch Foursquare and check-in to my place quickly
2) A simple Normal to Silent profile toggle. Comes in handy when my daughter is napping. And is much quicker to use since I don't even have to unlock my phone to use it.
3) A switch that toggles a Do Not Disturb profile for bedtime. (I would not be able to toggle this easily without an NFC tag. I would have to set it to a specific time each day. Which is lame)
4) A switch at work that will put my phone into Vibrate mode and launch a ticketing website that I use for work. Then when tapped before leaving it puts my phone back into a Normal profile and sends a text to my wife telling her I'm on my way home. I keep this one by my light switch and turn my light on/off with phone in hand.
NFC tags aren't useful for everyone. But it's definitely helped me automate some of the more mundane and annoying tasks I do every day. And saves me a bunch of time doing them.
I think I need to get some of these...
I just got a pack of them and idk how i was able to live without them. One in the car that toggles betwin bluetooth on and wifi off abd it launches the music player. Other on my bed that turns all volumes down and my alarm sound up. They are nice to play with.
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1st: to make them more useful I used the mod to allow their use during screen off and lock. If I had to turn on the phone and unlock it NFC would be much less useful.
2nd: I don't have any complicated tags. The main one I use turns off wifi and toggles Bluetooth, and starts Multiplayer. So after I start driving I just have to touch the phone to the dash and my music wirelessly starts.
Its not complicated but it is much better than having to turn on the phone, unlock it, scroll to my widget and turn on Bluetooth. I never have to look down off the road.
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Why does it have to be a complicated task? Why not just tap your phone to an NFC tag to mute it? or Pop open Pandora when you sit at your desk at work?
Yes, tasks are simple, but they are also repetitive in a lot of cases. Why not have the phone do it for you?
shook187 said:
I think NFC tags are rather useless. I keep wanting to use them but can't think of a useful way of using them. If want to put my phone on silent, I'll just use the volume rocker thank you very much. Could someone even tell me what complex task can't be done with just a few strokes?
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Have a mixture of tasks per tag.
One example is my office desk's tag:
Ring: Off/Vibrate
Notifications: Medium
GPS: Off
WiFi: On
Media Vol: Off
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I can think of a few things to do with NFC tags, just need to get around to ordering a few.
Anyone have any recommendations on what to get? I'm assuming the larger capacity tags are good, esp for writing complex tasks.
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Tags For Droid. They're the best bang for the buck. You get the largest storage size I've seen at 1KB and a free keychain tag. And they cost the same as others of equal quantities with much less storage, that I've seen on Amazon.
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2) A simple Normal to Silent profile toggle. Comes in handy when my daughter is napping. And is much quicker to use since I don't even have to unlock my phone to use it.
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How do you scan without unlocking? Mine doesn't seem to allow that.
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How do you scan without unlocking? Mine doesn't seem to allow that.
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There is a mod in the development section that allows NFC while the phone is locked.
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How do you scan without unlocking? Mine doesn't seem to allow that.
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CLICK HERE. You're welcome.
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For whatever reason, at random times, the media volume of my phone will just flat out mute. Once mute, I am unable to get it up, even through the sound settings, it'll just go back to mute. My only fix so far is to restart the phone, but it gets really annoying.
Has this happened to anyone else and does anybody know why causes it? I did the whole increase volume thing with QPST and made the volume Lv4. I seemed as if everything worked correctly, but I noticed absolutely no change in volume =_=;
First suggestion, get another phone. I had the same problem...
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First suggestion, get another phone. I had the same problem...
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Seriously? You can't automatically discard a phone for a little bug...
It's more than likely from the spiderman game... You might have to uninstall the update in the game until they fix this bug..
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Seriously? You can't automatically discard a phone for a little bug...
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I had it happen.. it happened a lot with my g2x... And anytime I ran cm7 I had to reboot... I'm guessing just a faulty media driver or something else as it doesn't happen often.
Try a to download a different media player (music only obviously) from the market
Or just reboot your phone and increase the media volume in the "settings"
Im sure if its a major bug the developer's will find a fix
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Seriously? You can't automatically discard a phone for a little bug...
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Ugh yes I can, why not. I've been through 3 of them. I pay over 230 bucks a month if my NEW phone isn't working as it should Im going to get a new one! Especially if I'm still in my 30 days.....
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Ugh yes I can, why not. I've been through 3 of them. I pay over 230 bucks a month if my NEW phone isn't working as it should Im going to get a new one! Especially if I'm still in my 30 days.....
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LOL, glad to see you got another! How is the 2D-3D slider on this one? I'm convinced they are all loose..even the demo models. My second phone has a big speck of dust under the screen...sucks!
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LOL, glad to see you got another! How is the 2D-3D slider on this one? I'm convinced they are all loose..even the demo models. My second phone has a big speck of dust under the screen...sucks!
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They are all loose bud you are correct. This last one is great but I too have the dust under the screen but i guess I can live with that lol.
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They are all loose bud you are correct. This last one is great but I too have the dust under the screen but i guess I can live with that lol.
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Bro what happens when you cant? You paid a lot for the phone. Every first run products has its defects. They're not going to deny you. If you just return and go buy at at another place. I know its a hassle but will save you in the long run
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Bro what happens when you cant? You paid a lot for the phone. Every first run products has its defects. They're not going to deny you. If you just return and go buy at at another place. I know its a hassle but will save you in the long run
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Yup! Radio Shack hosed me...had to cancel, get my money back and go over to Best Buy. Pain in the ass...pissed at the Shack. No dust issues on this one and everything seems good, feels like a winner! Now I'm gonna try and just enjoy my phone!!
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They are all loose bud you are correct. This last one is great but I too have the dust under the screen but i guess I can live with that lol.
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My slider is perfect, it snaps and takes the right amount of effort to slide. I've had two of these phones because of a part number mixup, had the first one for an entire weekend and both are perfect, good slider, no dust, light leak or dead pixels.
CitySuperstar said:
It's more than likely from the spiderman game... You might have to uninstall the update in the game until they fix this bug..
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Fix: Go into Sound settings and change the Sound profile to Normal (preferably before launching the game, but works after-the-fact too, if you forget). Mine defaulted to Vibrate, and it seems that this game is programmed to disable sound (only after the splash screen and intro video, go figure) if it detects this or the Silent profile. Now I can hear the game, for a change.
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For whatever reason, at random times, the media volume of my phone will just flat out mute. Once mute, I am unable to get it up, even through the sound settings, it'll just go back to mute. My only fix so far is to restart the phone, but it gets really annoying.
Has this happened to anyone else and does anybody know why causes it? I did the whole increase volume thing with QPST and made the volume Lv4. I seemed as if everything worked correctly, but I noticed absolutely no change in volume =_=;
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Doesn't sound like a phone problem lol sorry I couldn't resist lol
Anyone have this app or use it? Does the GPS location thing always need to be turned on? Does it waste battery?
Search for an app called lookout on the android marketplace, your welcome
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I just installed Android Lost. It's free and it's great. It lets you do a lot of stuff, like make your phone sound a police siren in case you lost it somewhere in your house, lock the phone, give you the GPS coordinates, and take pictures and send it to your email, all from the web interface. It doesn't use any battery life either.
sounds good
Thanks. I may have to try one of these because the Total Protection app apparently cannot find my phones location worth a damn. Which location/security app uses the least battery?
LostRib said:
Thanks. I may have to try one of these because the Total Protection app apparently cannot find my phones location worth a damn. Which location/security app uses the least battery?
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Lookout
10Chars
I don't find the total equipment protection app to impact my battery at all, but I'll definitely give lookout a shot
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simpat1zq said:
I just installed Android Lost. It's free and it's great. It lets you do a lot of stuff, like make your phone sound a police siren in case you lost it somewhere in your house, lock the phone, give you the GPS coordinates, and take pictures and send it to your email, all from the web interface. It doesn't use any battery life either.
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Wow, this is one badass app. I would have to say it is by far one of the best apps I have seen.
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Thanks. I may have to try one of these because the Total Protection app apparently cannot find my phones location worth a damn. Which location/security app uses the least battery?
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My battery meter shows AndroidLost as using no battery, just as they claim.
Android lost is neat. Thanks for that.
I just wonder how secure the android lost site is
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Yeah, that's my only concern. Lookout is for sure reputable (been around longer, been recommended more, been on the news for Pete's sake lol) and the free version has all the features you really need, while the paid version adds remote lock and remote wipe capabilities
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you can do all of this with htcsense.com.....
everyday17 said:
you can do all of this with htcsense.com.....
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HTCSense.com is currently down for maintenance. We'll be back soon!
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I will have to check it out when it is back online... this sounds VERY intriguing.
i suggest prey but i have multiple apps installed in case they remove 1 i still have 2 more to track my phone with
http://preyproject.com/ works with all OSes use it on my laptops and dekstop as well
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you can do all of this with htcsense.com.....
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everytime i try to locate phone or make phone sound an alarm off htcsense it does not work whats the deal w/ this? anyone have success using it?
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I will have to check it out when it is back online... this sounds VERY intriguing.
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Ok, usually you can do all these things
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everytime i try to locate phone or make phone sound an alarm off htcsense it does not work whats the deal w/ this? anyone have success using it?
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I was having a problem with it, but i removed the account from my phone and deleted my account off htcsense.com, made my account again from my phone and it works now.
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I just wonder how secure the android lost site is
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I'm pretty sure the site should be OK since it authenticates with Google before you can use it.
Forgive me if this topic has already been covered. Simple question though. As root is apparently around the corner, what do you miss that you can't currently do on your 3vo?
For me one of the things is using multi mount sdcard. I use my phone for music in my car and just plugging the usb in is more convenient than having to hit usb storage. Slightly lazy? Yes. But what's technology for? Lol
So what about you guys?
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I would always flash my evo all the time. I think the one good thing about root is we can work out the bugs on our own instead of waiting for a release. (evo 4g battery life for example).
Other then that just wireless tethering was handy about once or twice a month. This phone is pretty solid to begin with so I'm not too concerned unless something crazy is released.
That's so true. I love this phone lol. I feel that there are only a few things people could need root for so I'm tying to find new uses that I've never used
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I would always flash my evo all the time. I think the one good thing about root is we can work out the bugs on our own instead of waiting for a release. (evo 4g battery life for example).
Other then that just wireless tethering was handy about once or twice a month. This phone is pretty solid to begin with so I'm not too concerned unless something crazy is released.
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i agree, as much as i enjoy having root and flashing roms, im actually quite happy with the phone as is for right now.
The biggest thing I miss is Titanium backup. I liked being able to backup and restore app data. The ad-free app was nice too. I like Sense 3.0 and it's so fast and smooth that it makes me not miss rom flashing...yet.
The only thing I miss is that you can use the volume rocker to skip music tracks while the screen is off. That's it!
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The only thing I miss is that you can use the volume rocker to skip music tracks while the screen is off. That's it!
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That's deff one big thing I miss for when I'm at work.
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That's deff one big thing I miss for when I'm at work.
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Yea that was my reason also. But not the biggest deal, just annoying.
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Ad Blocker!
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Diana Prince said:
Ad Blocker!
Oh yea! That's also a huge one I forgot about until you just mentioned it.
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Roam control app for those ****ty situations when ur phone wont click over to roaming u can force it too
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SetCPU, kernels & ROMs....
titanium by far.
Rom manager will be another miss when i start flashing roms, but for now i need to restore my apps from my og evo.
No more bloat. Really the biggest reason I root is to get rid of all the stuff i don't want on my phone. That and usually better battery life because of the more efficient kernals.
Remove bloat (although not as big now that you can uninstall several apps) and wireless tether.
AOSP and that's it. Lol.
I want CM7 on this phone so bad!
Only Rom I ever really used on regular Evo.
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Remove bloat (although not as big now that you can uninstall several apps) and wireless tether.
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Same here. Really missing wireless tether. Back to using PDAnet for now but it's a hassle to move between two laptops.
Also annoying that I can't remove useless apps like Amazon MP3.
Everything else I can live with.
First and formost for me is Wireless Tether
After that, titanium backup, and getting rid of a bit of bloatware. I'm digging sense, but, would like CM also.
I miss the development section..
And hate readinf/trolling "what if" and "old news" threads
That's what I miss about root
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No more bloat. Really the biggest reason I root is to get rid of all the stuff i don't want on my phone. That and usually better battery life because of the more efficient kernals.
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Yea this is probably the biggest thing on most people's list. I won't be complaining about it though unless it gets to the point where I'm running out of room and we still don't have root yet lol
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I'm trying to find a locking app similar to the lock on my iPad, when the phone is rebooted or sleep for more the 2 hours the iPad requires a code to unlock. But during normal use it's just normal unlocking. Anybody know of a Android app that would be similar?
Thought my note slipped out my pocket the.other afternoon while working on my truck and didn't realize I didn't have it till later that night, the last time I used it was outside my apartments with my truck and I automatically thought it fell and somebody found it and took it. Tried to call it but it just kept going straight to voicemail so that definitely made me think it was stolen since my.phone wasn't off before. But I.found it later under the seat in my truck haha. I want a.locking app so if it does get taken and the person turns it off and tried to turn it back on then it will ask for a code and lock them out
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I don't know if it supports 2 hours as an interval, but the stock rom does this. Home, menu, settings, security, I think. Somewhere in there is the option to set the time after which your PIN will be requested.
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I wish we have something like HTC sense provides. Locate phone and if stolen you can delete contents of the phone from the HTC sense website.
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hausman said:
I don't know if it supports 2 hours as an interval, but the stock rom does this. Home, menu, settings, security, I think. Somewhere in there is the option to set the time after which your PIN will be requested.
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The max only 30 mins.
Pretty sure kies offers that...there are also apps that do that
NR017 said:
I wish we have something like HTC sense provides. Locate phone and if stolen you can delete contents of the phone from the HTC sense website.
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sweetboy02125 said:
The max only 30 mins.
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Why is it so hard to have longer options?
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Why is it so hard to have longer options?
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Ask Samsung ..
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A while back I lost my streak and I'd call it and it ring and go to voice mail except once someone rejected the same call and I knew someone had it. Lookout has an app that's called plan b that you can install remotely and will activate your gps so you can find it. Long story short I retrieved my streak and the guy who took it and wouldn't return it ended up with a broken car window. I also believe there's an app out there that'll completely lock your phone down too. Check lookout's suite of software, they may have something for you
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I wish we have something like HTC sense provides. Locate phone and if stolen you can delete contents of the phone from the HTC sense website.
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Try out Cerberus it can remotely take pictures using the front or back camera and it emails the picture to you, bad guys face is there and also can use the back camera to figure out where they are. GPS locator remotely wipe SD and phone memory and also can set up other people's numbers (that you trust obviously) that you can send a wipe message to your phone from as well through text.
And its only $4 for a lifetime license.
That kinda blows....
Flip it over.....its designed for two ways of use.
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You could turn the phone the other way so u can charge and use the kickstand...
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Atooraya said:
That kinda blows....
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Yes you can flip it so the charger os the top
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It does seem sort of backwards though. Im not sure why they wouldnt put the kickstand the other way out of the box to begin with. But it works either way so its no biggie.
That's why its so rigid!!!!
david279 said:
Flip it over.....its designed for two ways of use.
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You could turn the phone the other way so u can charge and use the kickstand...
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Yes you can flip it so the charger os the top
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Thats awesome we all three posted at same time lmao
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Actually it has 3 ways to use the kick stand. both landscape views and portrait.
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Indeed. I tend to use it in portrait mode far more than either landscape view.
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It does seem sort of backwards though. Im not sure why they wouldnt put the kickstand the other way out of the box to begin with. But it works either way so its no biggie.
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I think they designed it that way so you could adjust the volume while playing videos and hoping the phone is charged enough.
They should've just put both on the same side.
Does anybody think that over time the kickstand won't have that same snap to hold it in reverse landscape? I'm giving it a 50-50.
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I think they designed it that way so you could adjust the volume while playing videos and hoping the phone is charged enough.
They should've just put both on the same side.
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Ahhh I never thought about adjusting the volume during playback!
I figured that one out by accident fumbling with the phone