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  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemdro.id•The green line of death keeps killing displays and no one is telling us whyEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I left a lot of options open for improving the article from my original comment, but if you want some more details:

    1. Describe the issue and what forms it comes in to clarify the issue.
    2. Do a thorough analysis of posts and comments on Reddit (and maybe some other forums, just a thought) to try to get some numbers to indicate how often it happens and what the different causes are.
    3. Maybe create a survey to try to ascertain some numbers. Reach out to a statistician for some help on how to do that.
    4. This is a “Senior Editor” at Android Central and they don’t have a single connection to an expert in phone technology. They exhausted all the possible experts out there and didn’t get any responses? Honestly, this means they either don’t know how to write a letter to get an answer from experts, don’t have any compelling data to interest an expert enough to expend their time, or didn’t actually try very hard, or all of the above.

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯ indeed.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemdro.id•The green line of death keeps killing displays and no one is telling us whyEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This article is not very helpful. It doesn’t clarify what is meant by the term “green line of death”. Does it brick the phone? Does it make the phone unusable? Is it just annoying? Does it include red lines? Blue lines, black lines, rainbows?

    It presents anectdotal evidence of it having happened a lot, but doesn’t give any real numbers. There’s no analysis of the information they do have to say if it’s more often a hardware issue, a software bug, or caused by damage. There’s no indication if there was an attempt to ascertain how often it happens within the warranty period, or if occurrences increase with phone age.

    Interviewing a couple friends and a “quick reddit search” is not investigative journalism. The writer didn’t hear back from manufacturers or industry experts, and gave up. So they interviewed a couple more “nerd” friends. Ouch.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    5 months ago

    I had no backup, as I always considered my MicroSD as an external storage medium for such data.

    I know you’re not looking for advice that would have been great before things went wrong, but… When they say to have a backup up on external storage, they don’t mean make the backup and then delete the original. Then the “backup” is just the original.

    Also, I don’t think that microSD life expectancy is that great. I wouldn’t it trust it as a sole keeper of backups.

    Good luck.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.world•Why do Pixels and Samsungs have such restricted mobile data features?English
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    7 months ago

    The Pixel watch supported carrier list also makes no sense, because for some reason the new carriers for the watch 2 don’t support the first version?

    They often don’t update the list for older devices. The supported list is whatever it was when the device came out.

    I actually don’t know what you mean by “Google’s allowlist” but the underlying carrier might matter more than whatever small “carrier” you want to go with. E.g. Telus, Bell, Rogers(/Shaw), Videotron basically run all of the cell networks and then lease them out to the small carriers (which they actually either own, or will eventually).

    So if those big guys are on the list, you’re probably fine (but I don’t actually know how it works). You can google “{name of carrier} mobile network” to find out whose network(s) they’re on.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•My son uses Arch... How do I know? He tells me... Constantly...
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    9 months ago

    Whenever anyone brings this up, I imagine a vegan sitting at a table with their new friends, refusing to eat any chicken wings, but also not saying why… And then everyone harassing them with a million questions like, “do you not like hot sauce? We can get barbecue”, “are you on a diet?”, “are you allergic?”, etc, etc. Finally, after half an hour of this, they lose it and just as there’s a lull in the music, they scream out, “look, I’m a vegan! I don’t fucking eat meat! Fuck off!”

    The whole bar goes quiet, staring, then one of the people at the table reaches for a wing, looks at the vegan, and says, “dude, chill, we get it, you don’t eat meat, blah blah blah. You don’t have to talk about it every 5 minutes! Here’s some bread and butter.”