I've got a Nexus 5X, you've got questions. Let's do this!

[Akshat Srivastava2711]

No it's noticeable when you hold it in your hands but negligible when you put it down

 

[ElderHallow]

Where exactly is the pulse notification light? Is it located at the top beside the front-facing camera like the 6P?

No. It's at the bottom by the home button.

Nexus 5X is the business!

 

[Mage Studio]

How quick does the battery drain? I had nexus 5 and I was not pleased with it.

 

[Marty Larsson]

How quick does the battery drain? I had nexus 5 and I was not pleased with it.

The battery on my 5x runs pretty well.

I get up at 6.30am unplug with a full charge go to work, and use my 5x through out the day using WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, texting, checking emails and browsing news and sport.

When I get home around 6.30pm I would have around 30,40% battery from 100% which is pretty good regards to my usage.

Posted from my Nexus 5X

 

[anon(9807577)]

Is there any way to change the keyboard around?

When I'm typing an email or a text, the keyboard has an extra row of punctuation marks on top. But for whatever reason the apostrophe is not among them. I know I can hold down one of the five given punctuation marks to have the apostrophe appear, but it doesn't make sense to have the colon or semicolon appear over the oft-used apostrophe.

 

[mak101]

I got nexus 5x and I been using samsung s3, which would be best option to copy all apps and data from s3 to N5x?

 

[Antykain]

I got nexus 5x and I been using samsung s3, which would be best option to copy all apps and data from s3 to N5x?

Hey hey.. You can just backup/restore data from your Google account to your new phone. If you have your Google account setup to do so. All photos, files, music, data and settings, apps, etc can all be transferred to the Nexus 5x.

Follow this link below for full details and instructions:

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2819582?hl=en

If there is anything you do not want backed up and transferred over, you can do that too.

Good luck!

 

[mr_nobody]

I got nexus 5x and I been using samsung s3, which would be best option to copy all apps and data from s3 to N5x?

If both devices are rooted, titanium backup. If not, you could try helium but it may or may not work for you.

 

[dennphill]

I did yesterday. Verizon said OK and it's working. Can I get assistance/advice here? New Member. this forum seems appropriate. Coming from a flip phone - Samsung Convoy 3 - and Android is intimidating. Yesterday, Verizon store activated it and was to change my billing to go from the non-smart phone ($30, less $10 for non-smart phone) to $40 for the line (added to my account with varied other phones for family members) and they were supposed to change the plan for data from 2 GB (wife's iPhone) to 4 GB shared (wife's iPhone and the new Nexus 5X. then they tried to transfer my contacts. After three different methods, they were unsuccessful. I d/led the contacts from the convoy 3 to a .csv file, imported those into my GMail account (which I don't use, and don't plan to) and found the phone numbers for all the contacts were in the notes field (text) not in the phone numbers. Verizon techs tried several ways to just d/l contacts from the Convoy 3 (didn't work) and they tried to use Backup Assistant (also didn't work). then they told me to go home, log into GMail go to each contact and CNTRL-C and CNTRL-V the notes data phone numbers to the above fields where you put the actual phone numbers. (Probably 100 +/- contacts to do this to. Not happy.) THEN! I came home (about an your after they put in the SIM chip) and had messages from Verizon that my data account for the month was over the limit! My wife came in and said, what's going on, I just got (the same) message...? (Wife;s iPhone has generally used about 1 to 1-1/2 GB per month for the past year and a half.) And my PC had an email - two actually - from Verizon informing me I was over my limit. I called and found out that (1) the Verizon store guys DID NOT change the plan to 4 GBs as they said they did, and (2) snooping around in the phone (I am totally clueless), I see under data that, in less than an hour of use, Google Play Store data usage was about 200 MB, and that plus Google Keyboard, Docs, Slides, Google Services, and Sheets combines has been over 250 MB of data usage! HELP ME GET SMART. Glad to get a link, advice, or get pointed somewhere on how to set this friggin' new phone up smartly. I have (when I got home yesterday) set the phone to use the fingerprinty-thinggie, and also set it up for my wireless network...and, I think, got it so it will not d/l except if it has a WiFi connection. (Just got an Android download 6.0.1 this morning.). When I called Verizon about the data overage, they corrected the account for 4 GB, but my complaint on a 1/4 of a GB charged to me in an hour or so, in their store, and by their CSRs trying to set up the phone was just my tough luck. ("Suck an egg" is what I heard them say. Verizon - I'm a 15 year customer now with 2 smart phones, 3 non-smart phones and a home phone on my account, is losing my love quickly!) Enough. Too long. Thanks if anyone want to make suggestions/comments. I guess I like the phone - size and all (it's a 32GB model from BuyDig (eBay) for $330 is a good deal, I think) - and I just need to figure out how to best configure it. (Not advertising...hope that's legal to comment on deals.) Again, thanks for the attention and suggestions.
UPDATE a week or more down the line. Pretty poor phone for my needs. Really a brick. Wouldn't buy again, deal or no. I put a protective case around it and a glass cover on the screen and it's nearly 7-3/4 oz. or about half a pound! I think Google in general sucks, and their lock in to gmail and such is terrible. I got my local cable provider (Cox) email running, but get no email notifications. Where are missed calls? And where is text notices, and where is...well....I probably should have stayed with the old flip-phone. No need for music. Videos and games are certainly not in the 'utility' needs. Rooting? You've got to be kidding. (Probably should have waited for Apple's new small phone.)

 

[Random_Matt]

I assume i will need to root for a GBA rom, correct?

 

[210691]

Its Question Time

Hi.
Well I have got few questions here.

1. While shooting with the selfie camera in Nexus 5x, my image gets mirrored. As there is no option to enable or disable mirror imaging (like in Lenovo Vibe shot) , how do you straighten that ?

2. There is no Manual Mode for controlling camera settings. There are numerous apps to get that fixed, but what your referred app that resolve this best?

3. When I edit the photos with the default camera app, the original picture gets replaced with the new edited one. This happens with the gallery image, as well as in the google photos app also, where the actual picture which got uploaded in Google Photos, got replaced with the edited one (My God!!! if Nexus Testers overlooked this bugger) . I tried to find it with a file manager app if the original file was stored somewhere inside the phone, but there were no trace of it. How do you deal with this issue?

Stuck with these for now

 

[mr_nobody]

Re: Its Question Time

2. There is no Manual Mode for controlling camera settings. There are numerous apps to get that fixed, but what your referred app that resolve this best?

I've never gotten around to trying it out but the app called Manual Camera seems to be the most popular one for power shooters...

 

[210691]

Re: Its Question Time

@ mr_nobody

Hey buddy, thanks

 

[Normen62]

I'd like to buy 5X, but I have read something about touchscreen bug when charging with original fastcharge adapter. Is it really a problem or just one malfunctioning device?

 

[weezy2]

So does anyone use Textra and know how to get the notification LED to work with it?

 

[Doozer999]

So does anyone use Textra and know how to get the notification LED to work with it?

Hi weezy2, I'm using textra on my 5X, as I was with my N5. I just set the notification light to "on" in the main handset settings

Settings - sound and notifications - notifications - pulse light....

Is it not working for you?

 

[weezy2]

Hi weezy2, I'm using textra on my 5X, as I was with my N5. I just set the notification light to "on" in the main handset settings

Settings - sound and notifications - notifications - pulse light....

Is it not working for you?

Only with certain colors. I thought the LED was an RGB and could do any color.

 

[Doozer999]

From memory (...and I'm just a regular Joe Shmoe), that was a beautiful and worthy functionality of kitkat. It went when lollipop came along. Ever since I think you need an app to do it (such as 'light flow)?

But...that's coming from a non-geek...!!

I'll keep an eye on this in case I've missed something!!

 

[weezy2]

From memory (...and I'm just a regular Joe Shmoe), that was a beautiful and worthy functionality of kitkat. It went when lollipop came along. Ever since I think you need an app to do it (such as 'light flow)?

But...that's coming from a non-geek...!!

I'll keep an eye on this in case I've missed something!!

I downloaded light flow and it confused the hell out of me. I said screw it and uninstalled it lol

 

[Doozer999]

Yes, me too a little...I was perfectly happy with what KitKat gave me. Ah well, the price of progress.