Recent content by graysonk95

Coming from an LG G4 with OIS, the Moto G4 Plus primary camera is simply satisfactory. Blacks all get muddled together, sunlight white-washes photos, and low-light is very grainy and frequently blurry if you have shaky hands. You really need to play with the images on the Moto, whereas the LG in...

Interesting, I didn't take note of anything like that happening on my 509 H815. That particular day I had been awake, disconnected from a charger, for almost 20 hours when mine bootloped out of the blue. IIRC, I had about 30% battery at that point, which is actually better than expected for a...

Prior to learning of this issue, the LG G4 was my favorite smartphone, hands down, after years of Samsung ownership. I seem pretty lucky to have had my 508-numbered H815 last me a full 10 months of use, but it finally died on me in the middle of a nighttime road trip, leaving me stranded in a...

For a year I dealt with the Touchwiz ROM on my S4 but finally decided enough was enough and flashed CM11. With Touchwiz, Textra was my default messaging app and Quickpic was set to open all image files. When I wanted to insert an image in Textra, Quickpic would open. Now on CM11, when I insert...

I've searched AC and the net for an answer, but will I need to re-root after this update? I don't have SU Pro so no OTA survival option for me. CWM supposedly has the ability to retain root but I haven't ever done an OTA update with root before... I just want the update notification to go away...

Ah, thank you. I'll probably hold off since it's an insignificant update. I don't want to risk breaking anything until the next actual Android update. Posted via Android Central App

I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720) and this morning I awoke to find I have an OTA Android system update waiting to be installed. I searched the net for what this update might be (since I'm already on 4.4.2 which is the latest from Samsung) but can't seem to find anything. As always, I am very...

The app "Advanced Permission Manager" can modify the apk of any app and remove certain permissions you don't want it to have. For example, I don't want Facebook to be able to text and call numbers, so I have it disabled. Keep in mind removing permissions may disable features...

I don't know of any way to do this with the stock app, but with Textra you can silence a thread, meaning you will get no notification for any new messages. Posted via Android Central App

I'm on a Sprint unlimited plan and can tether via USB through FoxFi/PDANet for free. I've been doing it since 2011. Sprint blocked FoxFi in the Play Store in 2012, but the apk is still available online. My S2 could wifi tether for free w/ a root wifi tether app, but that capability is...

Has anyone else noticed the recent apps screen background is black if you have a live wallpaper? I always just assumed the recent apps background was just broken on the S4, but when I set my wallpaper as a static image, recent apps all of the sudden has a transparent background like it did on my...

Not the op, but personally, the only thing keeping me away from a Nexus phone is the hardware. Not the specs, but the microSD support and removable battery. More so the lack of removable storage. If the Galaxy S4 ran stock android (and didn't cost $600 for the GPE) I'd pick it over the Touchwiz...

I had a similar problem not too long ago that nobody knew the answer to. One day "6 Videos" started downloading, but they would never actually start pulling any data. Clicking the bar wouldn't open any apps, so I couldn't tell where it was coming from. Disabling the download manager and clearing...

I'm glad to read other people are having the same memory and lag issues I've noticed since day one. So many of you probably came from stock Android or no Android and chock the poor performance up to Touchwiz/bloatware bogging it down. I'm sorry to say, older Samsung phones blow the S4 away as...

The app that pops up is called "Voice Dialer" and for some reason sometimes it comes up, sometimes Google Now comes up. I just tested it and Voice Dialer came up the first time, followed by Google Now the next three times. Posted via Android Central App