Recent content by Jason Bringhurst

Yes, AMOLED burns in and yellows over time as blue subpixel organic material wears out. Reading articles for long periods of time with on-screen nav buttons usually causes the worst burn-in. Since Samsung doesn't use on-screen buttons, there's not much issue. However, you should periodically...

So, Samsung warns against flowing water and says to rinse it if it comes in contact with another liquid. You know, there's more than one way to rinse things. Fill a large bowl of water, set the phone in, then remove and dry. That's considered rinsed too.

Disabling full-disk encryption will get some performance back, but requires modding. I enabled encryption on my MXPE just to see if ARMv8 was any better. It is, for NAND sequential writes (went from 103MB/s to 98MB/s), but for sequential read, no (from 251MB/s to 144MB/s). Lagged quite a bit...

We can request it from Motorola, but now that all carriers here in the US are rolling out Wifi calling, maybe we can get a universal version of Wifi calling that all carriers agree to (yeah ... I know). It's part of IMS services, and wouldn't take much to implement, but it might be up to...

It just depends on what resources are being loaded from the SD card, I guess; tons of small files kill SD performance, while large ones get closer to sequential read/write speeds. You should definitely report the performance issues to app devs stating that you adopted your SD card as internal...

Re: Android 6.0 Marshmallow Hiccups You should expect that with an encrypted SD card. SD speeds still don't match eMMC 5.x and definitely won't touch UFS 2.0. My UHS-I U3 card is about as fast as my 2013 Moto X's eMMC in sequential read/write (both unencrypted), but performance falls apart...

It is a very, very lovable phone, isn't it? I just have to add that the screen is BRIGHT. I mean, it's one of the brightest displays I've ever seen. Turn off adaptive brightness and max the slider out and you'll see what I mean. I love that it's RGB stripe too, so it doesn't look like it's...

Re: T-Mobile Band 12 is Supported Well, band 12 is only 10MHz, while band 4 is usually 15-20MHz wide. T-Mobile, in your area, will need to work on aggregating band 4 and 12. The bandwidths are similar to Verizon's band 13 or AT&T's band 17. I'd get 1-5Mbps on Verizon band 13 in congested...

I can has one? They're so hot you need cute little mittens to touch them. Google Technical Support: How can I assist you today? Annoyed owner: Touchscreen no werk. GTS: Are you wearing mittens? Cute ones with baby kittens on them? Ao: Are you spying on me? Is this camera on? OMG ... GTS...