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*** Nexus 5 THE Official Thread ***
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I've just joined the Nexus 5 gang after coming from a Windows phone. I need some help with making my wifi access secure when I'm away from home. Bearing mind I've never used a phone for surfing out of my house before so can anyone tell me in laymans terms what I need to do? Do I have to set up a VPN or can I just use hotspots? A mate has said he uses something called "The Cloud" when he's out and about. I can't see myself using it for banking etc but you never know so I'd like to be as secure as I can.
Cheers.
Cheers.
So you have a phone without data on the contract so only want to use Wifi? Encryption for bank apps etc will be done at the app to server level so don't worry about it.
Using a public wifi is no more secure than using the mobile network.
Using a public wifi is no more secure than using the mobile network.
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I'm with GiffGaff and my data is 250 MB per month. I wont be using it that much but it might come in handy when I'm out and about.
Personally, I would pay the extra £2.50 for the 1GB of data. 250MB can be eaten pretty quickly. At 250MB I would say try not to use the phone when your out an about. At 1GB use it at will as long as your not downloading big apps etc.
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zom: i think you're confusing using wifi and using data/3g. given you know what appears to be little on the subject i can't see you having a use for encrypting your data so i wouldn't worry about it. if you have a legit reason for work etc, then it'd be best to ask what others do, but from the sounds of it you don't and are just trying to be extra safe?
one thing to mention is 205mb isn't much data, it may be you don't use it much so won't go over, i know many that don't so i'ts pointless to pay extra for data you don't use, but you should set your phone to limit your data usage should it reach near 250mb. if you swipe down the phone from the notification bar, click the top right button which should show a load of quick settings buttons. select the mobile one which will take you to your data usage screen. turn on mobile data if off, and then select the "set mobile data limit" option. now set the limit to 250mb and have a warning of say 220mb, so that now the phone wont ever go over the limit and will warn you if getting close and will save you getting a large phone bill by accident.
one thing to mention is 205mb isn't much data, it may be you don't use it much so won't go over, i know many that don't so i'ts pointless to pay extra for data you don't use, but you should set your phone to limit your data usage should it reach near 250mb. if you swipe down the phone from the notification bar, click the top right button which should show a load of quick settings buttons. select the mobile one which will take you to your data usage screen. turn on mobile data if off, and then select the "set mobile data limit" option. now set the limit to 250mb and have a warning of say 220mb, so that now the phone wont ever go over the limit and will warn you if getting close and will save you getting a large phone bill by accident.
That's a bit annoying then. Don't really want to have numbers that I only use now and again clogging up the page.
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Press and hold a number to remove from the speed dial list.... works a treat.
Also, it automatically moves the numbers you use most to the top of the list.
phone wifi signal is just not as good as a tablet or a laptop, fairly common across the board in my experience.
Indeed, love beating myself up that my iPad and wife's iPhone get full signal everywhere but my Nexus doesn't
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Same here, my Nexus always has less reception.
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Indeed, love beating myself up that my iPad and wife's iPhone get full signal everywhere but my Nexus doesn't
I've noticed my Nexus 5 always has less bars on Wifi when compared to my Nexus 4 but it somehow has much better speeds/ping. Same is with my mates iPhone 5s. I'm starting to think there some issue with how it reports bars, I've seen at times where it has 0 bars and I still have max speed from my wifi.
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I find the missus iPad reports a lot more signal than it actually has, confirmed when you view the signal strengths on wifi analyzer. Like her phone always reports 1 bar of phone signal, can you ring it or make a call, can you hell.
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How are the speeds, I have a very similar router and at times my Nexus 5 has 0 bars but still max's out my line.
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so what are people going to replace there nexus with next year ?
So long as Android L works perfectly on the N5 (which it will, obviously given the dev release), I'd be happy to stick with that. I can see it still being a high-level phone at this point next year.
The next HTC (M9?) will likely tempt me, but I'd want to see what happens with Android Silver (if it happens) first. Close to Google Experience is important for me now.
If the Nexus 5 2014 (I've seen nothing to suggest it won't happen, despite many feeling it was abandoned when Android Silver was rumoured) has front-facing speakers then I'm sold already. It would have to have a pretty ****ed up failing elsewhere (like having no internal battery) to avoid it.
Otherwise something from Oppo or OnePlus might tempt me for the price if the Nexus 2014 didn't happen, but neither offer enough for me over a Nexus yet (though again, front-facing speakers would do it).