*** Nexus 5 THE Official Thread ***

Egon said:
Found this yesterday afternoon. Gutted as I go away on holiday on Friday :(

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It's nothing short of a design flaw to have made the phone with a protruding camera. You can rest the phone down with out the camera touching the surface and eventually getting scratched or worse as you found out.

Makes it ESSENTIAL to buy a case for the phone.
 
I had a case on the phone so that it doesn't protrude, it's the Ringke Fusion that I know quite a few on here use.

I have no idea how I did it, it was in my pocket all day, but I was out shopping for my holidays and trying on shorts etc. It seems to have an indentation in the middle suggesting it was hit bang on where that hole is.
 
cases can apply pressure around it, so its a chicken and egg thing. as above try and pick the glass out and you might wing it.

on another note i left mine on a train yesterday, bit drunk, someone handed it in and after a bit of traveling i got it back intact ... first thing i did was backup all my latest vdieo footage of the kids, when i knew i had lost it that was all i cared about.
 
deltalinx said:
You lucky swine! there are some good people out there, my faith in humanity it still intact.
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yeah i was lucky as lots of drunk people coming back from a beer festival, i had new shorts and it must have just came out my pocket, all backed up now, it would have been the pics and video that i would have been gutted to lose. got slack at backing up!

anyone use google + / drive for backup, if so can it be configured to do it on wifi only as i have low data allowance until November
 
_Jimlad_ said:
yeah i was lucky as lots of drunk people coming back from a beer festival, i had new shorts and it must have just came out my pocket, all backed up now, it would have been the pics and video that i would have been gutted to lose. got slack at backing up!

anyone use google + / drive for backup, if so can it be configured to do it on wifi only as i have low data allowance until November
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Yeah you can set up Google photos to only do it over Wifi, you can even go a step further so it only backsup while it is charging. I have been using it since my Nexus 4 went nuts and I lost around 1k photos of times with my GF/friends going on holiday and what not.

As a backup solution its awesome, you get 15GB free for full res photos and unlimited for 2MP shops I believe.
 
opethdisciple said:
It's nothing short of a design flaw to have made the phone with a protruding camera. You can rest the phone down with out the camera touching the surface and eventually getting scratched or worse as you found out.

Makes it ESSENTIAL to buy a case for the phone.
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actually imo it's the opposite, it saves having to have a case. imagine if a key was to be pushed and scratch across the back of the phone. when it reaches the camera it wont dip into the hole that a sunk camera/case would create around the camera and get stuck ,and then create force one place.
 
deltalinx said:
Can't you remove all the glass and just be careful with it? the camera should still work.
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_Jimlad_ said:
cases can apply pressure around it, so its a chicken and egg thing. as above try and pick the glass out and you might wing it.

on another note i left mine on a train yesterday, bit drunk, someone handed it in and after a bit of traveling i got it back intact ... first thing i did was backup all my latest vdieo footage of the kids, when i knew i had lost it that was all i cared about.
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I already have to some degree. Initially the pictures looked terrible, but since picking a hole around the lens it seems ok. I have ordered a repair kit off eBay and an original part to fit for £20. Going to test my DIY skills.
 
Fallen god said:
Yeah you can set up Google photos to only do it over Wifi, you can even go a step further so it only backsup while it is charging. I have been using it since my Nexus 4 went nuts and I lost around 1k photos of times with my GF/friends going on holiday and what not.

As a backup solution its awesome, you get 15GB free for full res photos and unlimited for 2MP shops I believe.
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Nice one. Will revisit that then.
 
Do you guys not store a copy of your pics on your computer in addition to a cloud backup? Every time I take pictures, when I get home, I copy them to my pictures folder on my computer. Is that not common practice for most people or do you just leave the photos on your phone?

I also have cloud backup for my computer, but I always find it strange when people say they lost their phones and didn't back up their photos because shouldn't you already have a copy of them copied to your computer, which I would consider separate from a cloud back up solution and just common practice. After all, isn't it better to view pics and vids on a computer monitor over a small phone screen?
 
I use Dropbox. So the moment I take a picture it goes to dropbox and then Dropbox puts it on my pooter. Very handy.
 
Cloud backup and viewing on the phone is fine by me. Quality doesn't warrant putting them on the PC or Lightroom.
 
Rover16 said:
Do you guys not store a copy of your pics on your computer in addition to a cloud backup? Every time I take pictures, when I get home, I copy them to my pictures folder on my computer. Is that not common practice for most people or do you just leave the photos on your phone?

I also have cloud backup for my computer, but I always find it strange when people say they lost their phones and didn't back up their photos because shouldn't you already have a copy of them copied to your computer, which I would consider separate from a cloud back up solution and just common practice. After all, isn't it better to view pics and vids on a computer monitor over a small phone screen?
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I copy my pictures over about once a year. I'v never lost a phone or the pictures before. Google backing up everything now is very handy though.
 
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