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[WolfR1]

Thanks for all the info. Overall it's still sounding like I'll be sticking with the GS4. I still want to hear your impressions over a few days since you have first hand experience with both of them. Admittedly I've been playing a lot more games on my phone lately and I'm wondering if the quad cores will have any real effect. The Maxx has dual core primary CPU but quad core GPU where the GS4 is quad core primary and single core GPU (as far as I can tell).
Yes I'm nitpicking...but if I'm going to be stuck with the phone for two years I'm going to nitpik dammat!

 

[jkaod]

OK jnt, enlighten me (sorry, I couldn't help that) on the lack of notification light. I leave my phone on my desk most of the day while I'm away from it and I need to see if I have missed a call or text as I come back into my office. How does that work on the Maxx without a light??

Thanks for all the info so far by the way. It's great!

 

[jntdroid]

OK jnt, enlighten me (sorry, I couldn't help that) on the lack of notification light. I leave my phone on my desk most of the day while I'm away from it and I need to see if I have missed a call or text as I come back into my office. How does that work on the Maxx without a light??

Thanks for all the info so far by the way. It's great!

I love a good pun!

If you have ANY notification at all, that notification will "pulse" on and off every 6-7 seconds. When it appears, it's in a circle in the middle of the screen with an icon for the app doing the notifying. When you touch that circle, a little animation happens and a circle below appears with the unlock symbol (i.e. swipe down to unlock) and a circle above appears with the latest notification icon in it (i.e. swipe to that to open that app). You can also swipe left or right to clear it off completely. Here are some screens from the phone that help show it even better:



Also, while it's sitting on your desk, if you move it or lift it at all it will come on for you to see (if it happens to be between pulses when you move it).

 

[recDNA]

It brightens up my day to immediately see a flashing led telling me about EVERY notification I have as soon as I pull my phone

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[jkaod]

Thanks! That sheds a lot more light on the situation. Sorry, that was really bad. Sounds like it does what I need it to. I just remember the old thunderbolt. The notification light would stay on for about 5 minutes and then turn off completely so if you missed the initial notification, you never knew it until you woke up the phone.

 

[TheOldFart]

Is it correct that active notifications will not work if a lock screen is set? I guess you could have a lock code set and still see the active notifications and then the phone will require the code after you swipe the screen, but can it work that way. I would also assume that the OK Google Now thing cannot work with a lock code.

 

[recDNA]

You were in the dark about your Tbolt. I rooted mine and with light flow used green for gmail, yellow for texts, orange for email through light flow app. You had to root for it to work once the gb update came through.

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[jntdroid]

The ok google now thing requires the pin to work. The Moto X has a workaround with that clip thing, whatever it's called, but the Droid lineup does not. Kind of a bummer... Active Notifications work normal - like you said, it simply adds a step between the swipe and the app you're entering.

edit: the camera "flick" works from a secured state as well and simply doesn't let you look at anything in the gallery taken before the phone was locked

 

[bkdodger]

@jntdroid good stuff going on here with you and this phone...I like you testing stuff...

 

[jntdroid]

@jntdroid good stuff going on here with you and this phone...I like you testing stuff...

This will be it for awhile... I've already tried a One when we were with Tmobile and know the Note 3 will be too big for my preferences. So unless there's something else big on the horizon that I'm forgetting, the Maxx was the last that I wanted to check out this year.

 

[lloydstrans]

I love a good pun!

If you have ANY notification at all, that notification will "pulse" on and off every 6-7 seconds. When it appears, it's in a circle in the middle of the screen with an icon for the app doing the notifying. When you touch that circle, a little animation happens and a circle below appears with the unlock symbol (i.e. swipe down to unlock) and a circle above appears with the latest notification icon in it (i.e. swipe to that to open that app). You can also swipe left or right to clear it off completely. Here are some screens from the phone that help show it even better:

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Also, while it's sitting on your desk, if you move it or lift it at all it will come on for you to see (if it happens to be between pulses when you move it).

Thanks for that insight, learning it didn't have a light bothered me. Dirty greasy hands touching a phone draws angst in me. Nice to know it does "blink" the screen. Back on my list of must haves.

If it's not HD it might as well be a newspaper.

 

[TheOldFart]

There is something that confuses me about available memory on the Verizon site. In the specs it says that 8.2GB of the memory on the Maxx is used for device operation. For the Ultra and Mini it says that 5.9GB is used for device operation. I wonder if this is a mistake or if the Maxx has more features and/or bloatware. I'm thinking this is just a mistake, but I'll have to check at the Verizon store tomorrow.

 

[jntdroid]

There is something that confuses me about available memory on the Verizon site. In the specs it says that 8.2GB of the memory on the Maxx is used for device operation. For the Ultra and Mini it says that 5.9GB is used for device operation. I wonder if this is a mistake or if the Maxx has more features and/or bloatware. I'm thinking this is just a mistake, but I'll have to check at the Verizon store tomorrow.

I don't know if this helps or not:



If "Android OS" represents what you're talking about, then 5.9GB seems more on target since the phone has been in use for a bit now.

 

[TheOldFart]

Here are the quotes from the Verizon site on the phone specs pages:

"The Droid Maxx is configured with a total of 32GB of internal flash memory. Of this, 23.8 GB is available for user content (general storage, application downloads and data). The remaining 8.2 GB is used for device operation."
"The Droid Ultra is configured with a total of 16GB of internal flash memory. Of this, 10.1 GB is available for user content (general storage, application downloads and data). The remaining 5.9 GB is used for device operation."
"The Droid Mini is configured with a total of 16GB of internal flash memory. Of this, 10.1 GB is available for user content (general storage, application downloads and data). The remaining 5.9 GB is used for device operation."

I guess I'll have to wait until check the available memory on the actual phones.

 

[WolfR1]

Here are the quotes from the Verizon site on the phone specs pages:

"The Droid Maxx is configured with a total of 32GB of internal flash memory. Of this, 23.8 GB is available for user content (general storage, application downloads and data). The remaining 8.2 GB is used for device operation."
"The Droid Ultra is configured with a total of 16GB of internal flash memory. Of this, 10.1 GB is available for user content (general storage, application downloads and data). The remaining 5.9 GB is used for device operation."
"The Droid Mini is configured with a total of 16GB of internal flash memory. Of this, 10.1 GB is available for user content (general storage, application downloads and data). The remaining 5.9 GB is used for device operation."

I guess I'll have to wait until check the available memory on the actual phones.

That could be the difference in file system overhead. Double the size potentially means double the file system overhead. The difference between the two is 2.3GB which could translate to 1.15GB of file system overhead. Seems like a lot to me tho that's the only reason I could see a difference between the 32 and 16GB flash setups.