*** Nexus 5 THE Official Thread ***

Psycho Sonny said:
This will pretty much never happen so long as there is competition.

Even then people may use the same phone for like 5 years, etc.

The only thing I have noticed that is better with 4.4 is transparent bars.I usually make them smaller anyway using mods so tbh not exactly life changing.

Some of the apps I use don't work with 4.4 so it has bad sides to it being the first to receive updates.

People just seem to go mental for updates like they are the messiah. The nexus 7 thread had some stupid posts about 4.4 too.and they wanted it now instead of waiting a few days.

If the updates were bigger and added a lot more then getting them sooner would be great but android has got to a point where updates are mostly minor and hard to notice.
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Yeah, but it is getting to the point where android is good enough, it just gets small incremental upgrades that add a bit here and there which is good. What I like from 4.4 is that android is more polished, things look better in generally and work better. Also if everything was on 4.4 now or a much bigger % then I doubt we would still have broken apps, and we would see more and more apps use the new transparent navigation and status bar to display more info.
 
Jabbs said:
If you root your phone I believe it doesn't work, it doesn't for me brother on his Nexus 3 would be interested to see if anyone has it working on a rooted pone.
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No it does not work on rooted handsets. I am not rooted also.

Just had a look on the Play store for the Barclays Mobile Banking App and it states this...

Description
Barclays Mobile Banking app
PLEASE NOTE:
(1) This app does not currently support the Nexus 5 handset
(2) This app does not work on rooted handsets
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It definitely works on my Nexus 5 and works brilliantly :D
If they got that wrong maybe it will work on a rooted Nexus 5 :confused::p

Edit... Looks like if you unlock the boot loader on your Nexus 5 the app detects your phone as been rooted and therefore will not work.
 
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Django x2 said:
No mobile phones use space GPS sats, they use land based so being in doors waiting for a sat lock is little bit retarded, tbh
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Are you saying phones don't use satellite GPS ? because im 100% sure they do, they can use assisted GPS where they also use the cell towers to help get a basic fix first but the accurate ~10m is from sats.
 
Attu90 said:
Are you saying phones don't use satellite GPS ? because im 100% sure they do, they can use assisted GPS where they also use the cell towers to help get a basic fix first but the accurate ~10m is from sats.
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Phones use whatever they can. If you've enabled GPS (think in KitKat its now something less obviously using GPS as you ask for high accuracy location info or something like that) then if an app is asking for location then its going to try to see satellite signals .. but that basically requires you to be out of doors. If it can't see satellites then it falls back on other methods - if it can see wifi access points then it will get a location of that via Googles databases (when you get a GPS position your phone can send info on all the AP's it can see to google to populate the database - Google streetview cars do the same) or if not will get location off the cell tower. When I'm in my house I get a almost totally accurate position which I assume is from my Wifi AP.
 
You can get an actual GPS lock in doors. It's in the video I posted, or install 'GPS Status and Toolbox', it gives info on number of GPS satellites you have locked. Some devices will lock 10 or more from within my bedroom.
 
Yep I know they use satellites ,Django x2 said in an earlier post that they don't ?, just querying what/why he was saying that ?
 
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