@Izzy @BoLawson @Firelord thanks for the encouragement, I really appreciated it (honestly, I have never been recommended to go for the highest status anywhere before). But after consideration, I don't think I can fulfill the mod's responsibility (personal life, etc). I see some other potential candidates that are better and more suitable than me (psst, Dan Hulme), and hope they will nominate themselves. However, I'll be still moderating the site as a mortal with you all :)
@AndrewT. You make one of the finest edits on this site. That is the first thing I would tell anyone if I've to give a brief intro of you as a user here. The other thing is that after eldarerathis once asked me to stop with non-constructive (read: senseless) edits in my very early days, it was yours, all moderator's and Izzy's edits from which I quickly learned what to be done to improve my edits. Thankfully, I improved well in a very short span.
@AndrewT. As Matthew wrote: No bad feelings for saying No. After all, there will be a next round one day where you can change your mind :) On SR, it was a similar situation with me (I ran only at the second time). You'd be a good mod I'm sure – but you're also doing well as a "mere mortal", supporting the site. Thumbs up!
Besides, reading between the lines we have "two mod groups" here anyway: the official and the, hm, inofficial mods. The first group, being official, just got better tools for their work :)
@AndrewT. And agreed on @DanHulme :) (<- nudging :)
I came across this in the first-posts queue. I feel like it ought to be closed as there's no useful way to answer it, but none of the close reasons match.
How long does it take to get the new update for Samsung galaxy a3 (2016)?
I wanted to update my phone but i'm afraid that it will take long time to finish updating in the new version.
Thanks in advance.
I have like Sony Experia c1505. The OS tells me that the telephone has 740 MB total space on the telephone and there is also internal storage with capacity of 2.1 GB. Yet, specs say that the telephone has 512 RAM and 4 GB storage. Ok, let's take that 2.1 GB is the amount available to the user. But how can I have more telephone memory for appliations 740 MB > 512 RAM?
This is what I am asking you. What is the main memory, besides storage and RAM, that is reported by the Android? I see that it is used by applications.
>Phone memory Total space: 739MB, Applications 651 MB Available 81 MB Then comes 2.01GB internal storage, 183MB Applications, Images / Video 14MB, 2.8MB Downloads, Available 1.7MB.
I found this on Sony's website: "Memory comprises approximately 650 MB of firmware, 750 MB of “Phone memory” for downloaded applications and 2 GB of “Internal storage” for music, pictures, movies and some application data."
so I guess the first line is actually the userdata partition of the flash, and the second line is /mnt/storage
Why there is a [huge] difference in the total number of edits made by a user shown here and on a user's profile? For e.g.: the linked page shows 1706 edits done by Matthew while his profile page shows only 1135. Or take bmdixon as an example. Linked page shows 571 while the profile shows 547 edits he made...cont'd...
Does the linked page accounts edits to even [currently] deleted posts? That would explain the mismatch.
@Firelord I first thought about delayed updates, but those couldn't count for such big a difference. Your suggestion seems more convincing. I can't tell for sure, though.
Btw: If we don't get more candidates, election will be cut off by 1 week as we'll skip primary and go straight for election (read: "if there are 10 or fewer candidates", which we most likely can take for granted). But: if the number of candidates exactly matches the number of slots (or is even below), I'd not be surprised if we'd even skip that …
So, @MatthewRead: it might be reinforcements will be at the spot earlier than expected :)
What do you guys think about this answer? The linked app has 10-50 installs as of now. The first review seems to be posted in Aug 2012. The answer itself was posted in Jul 2012 and the app is a paid one.
@Izzy They're useless as categories. Anything can be on another server in any form, and likewise you can delete any kind of data in a multitude of ways
Well, I see some "obsolete combinations" at least (e.g. cloud with google-drive) where I don't have to think twice (google-drive being more specific, making cloud obsolete). I'll go for those now :)
I have a lot of shit on my Sony Xperia E smartphone. It has 740 MB of memory loaded with shit Google Apps like youtube (20MB), Google Maps (30 MB), News and Weather(8MB), Google+ (45MB), Handouts(30MB) Google play services (66MB), Speech Synthesis (20MB) and Facebook (82 MB). Despite I managed to install some Voice Recorder today and remove it, I do not see any option to remove the Google shit. Is it unremovable?
Let me think about "delete" when I'm through the clouds :)
@MatthewRead Hm, dropbox+cloud is another redundancy. OTOH, if you'd look for issues with "storing files in the cloud", what would be your first steps? I'd go for "tag:cloud <something>". So if we remove that tag, we might make some things harder to find.
@Izzy To me that still doesn't sound like a useful categorization for this site. On SR, I could see it. But here, I can't imagine a reason to talk about cloud backups in general terms. The only necessary commonality between two different cloud backup systems is that they store data remotely
May I suggest discussing that at Meta first, as we usually do, to get the backing of the community? After all, we/mods are rather "agents" than "rulers" ;)
We might be the most active users, but I'd count myself "one of them" even if/when elected mod :)
I have a folder I am trying to pull from my G3. Specifically system/etc/wifi/
When I pull that specific folder in adb it gives me an error
remote object 'system/etc/wifi' does not exist
But yet I can pull the entire etc and it copes all files and folders EXCEPT wifi.
The permission on the fol...
@izzy in your repo PhotoAffix Beta is greyed out probably because installation button is missing. Also, even after enabling only your repo don't see 60+ apps, though I didn't count exactly
@beeshyams Seeing less = not all apps are compatible with your device (F-Droid filters that). Any other apps "greyed out" (so I can check for a "common cause")?
cloud and delete are frequently meta-ish tags: They're just words pulled from the question, rather than the useful categories that we want tags to be.
My view is that various cloud services have virtually nothing in common, so having a tag to group them all serves no purpose. It's better to use...
Visiting a question page (any question) without logging in, I see a strange yellow stripe. It does not look like an intended design element.
Seen in Chrome 49 on Windows 7.
If the tour invitation is collapsed, it becomes a message on that yellow background, which makes sense. It appears th...
@izzy- two more which appear now, delayed sync? Telecine and Rx droid.. Where do I look for logs? In settings Ignore root option mentions "greying out", but it didn't make sense to me atleast
@izzy 1 yes, both of them, rather all of them with install button missing 2. Politely decline searching in tag wiki, it is 5 am, haven't slept yet and have long days ahead
"incompatible versions" setting. Hm, that's not ticked here.
Ah! Found it. Tap the greyed-out ones and you see they've got no file to install. Reasons for that are listed as "no compatible version available" – but then what's that checkbox for in settings?
Bingo. You're on Kitkat or below, @beeshyams? PhotoAffix is LP+
Yoy. And good find on RxDroid, a candidate for removal when I've finished testing. Max Android version supported: 3.2, but targetSDK is 4.4. Completely gaga.
@beeshyams thanks for reporting, learned something :) That those apps are still listed at all must be an F-Droid oddity, as they should have been filtered out right after the download.
How long does it take to get the new update for Samsung galaxy a3 (2016)?
I wanted to update my phone but i'm afraid that it will take long time to finish updating in the new version.
Thanks in advance.
I have a folder I am trying to pull from my G3. Specifically system/etc/wifi/
When I pull that specific folder in adb it gives me an error
remote object 'system/etc/wifi' does not exist
But yet I can pull the entire etc and it copes all files and folders EXCEPT wifi.
The permission on the fol...
Visiting a question page (any question) without logging in, I see a strange yellow stripe. It does not look like an intended design element.
Seen in Chrome 49 on Windows 7.
If the tour invitation is collapsed, it becomes a message on that yellow background, which makes sense. It appears th...
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