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Anyone else switching back to Apple once the iPhone 6 is released

m3coolpix said:
This says so much with so little. :D And...references way too many things in life all at the same time.

Been iPhone since it's original rollout. Jailbroke every version for tweaking the interface, getting to settings quicker, etc. iOS7 killed the interest in iOS for me, and the rumors of the iP6 being more $$$ just isn't worth it anymore.

Bought an LG G2 a couple weeks ago. It turned out to have inferior reception and very lackluster sound, so I traded for an HTC One M8. Truly a well built device, sound is on par (if not better than my iPhones/iPads), it's having respectable battery life, and Android KitKat 4.4.2 is very customizable out of the box. With the option of rooting and all the customizing there....I'm even contemplating a Windoze add on computer in our household as the tools for Windoze are better for rooting (so I've understood so far).

Still won't get rid of 2 other iPhones, and 3 iPads, and several Macs in our household, but my daily driver for a phone is going to be Android for the near future, as I usually keep a phone 2+ years.
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There aren't really "windows tools for rooting". All you need is the android SDK and a terminal, both of which are readily available. A lot of current devices even come with one-click software.

Just FYI.
 
SomeGuyDude said:
There aren't really "windows tools for rooting". All you need is the android SDK and a terminal, both of which are readily available. A lot of current devices even come with one-click software.

Just FYI.
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The only one click tool I've found on the XDA developers site for an HTC One M8 is windows based. In fact, I think the person who made it, pulled it yesterday, as some people were having issues.

If there is a one click tool/option that will work on an HTC One M8 on AT&T and is Mac based, please provide a link.

FWIW, I've not found any one click tools on any of the more popular Android forums for rooting, nor with any Google searches for the past week (most results point to threads on those sites with people asking for Mac tools or better instructions for rooting specific to the HTC One M8).

I realize the tools needed, but it's a matter of research (doing it right) for me on the first try...I don't want to be hastily 'fixing' something or getting out of a boot loop or whatever issue. Most of the 'better or more thorough' guides specific to the HTC One M8 are Windows based unfortunately. For now, it's kind of like the early jailbreaking for the iPhones before the developers were releasing the one click tools. All the Windows guys were asking for help, while the Mac users kept saying, make your own, or wait. :D
 
The more I see the mock ups of the iPhone 6 the less excited I'm getting. The hardware is just one piece of the puzzle and I'm curious to see what changes iOS 8 will have. There was a huge shift in the UI with iOS7 with some changes in how things are done. Will iOS8 be a refinement or add features?

Only time will tell and we have to wait until WWDC for the official details.
 
maflynn said:
The more I see the mock ups of the iPhone 6 the less excited I'm getting. The hardware is just one piece of the puzzle and I'm curious to see what changes iOS 8 will have. There was a huge shift in the UI with iOS7 with some changes in how things are done. Will iOS8 be a refinement or add features?

Only time will tell and we have to wait until WWDC for the official details.
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I'm the exact opposite. Every new piece of info we get makes me excited to be coming back.
 
m3coolpix said:
The only one click tool I've found on the XDA developers site for an HTC One M8 is windows based. In fact, I think the person who made it, pulled it yesterday, as some people were having issues.

If there is a one click tool/option that will work on an HTC One M8 on AT&T and is Mac based, please provide a link.

FWIW, I've not found any one click tools on any of the more popular Android forums for rooting, nor with any Google searches for the past week (most results point to threads on those sites with people asking for Mac tools or better instructions for rooting specific to the HTC One M8).

I realize the tools needed, but it's a matter of research (doing it right) for me on the first try...I don't want to be hastily 'fixing' something or getting out of a boot loop or whatever issue. Most of the 'better or more thorough' guides specific to the HTC One M8 are Windows based unfortunately. For now, it's kind of like the early jailbreaking for the iPhones before the developers were releasing the one click tools. All the Windows guys were asking for help, while the Mac users kept saying, make your own, or wait. :D
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Keep in mind, rooting is really friggin' easy. If you can copy and paste, you can root. There's nothing to "learn". I rooted my Nexus 5 in about two minutes on my MBPr. I admit that the Nexus is a little easier than others, but the point remains that it's not hard.

Picking up a Windows laptop for rooting your phone is like buying a new car for better cupholders.
 
My wife and I use Macs and iPads, and she has an iPhone (4s). My original plan was to use my Nexus 5 until September/October time frame, then sell the N5 and buy a full-price iPhone 6. (I will never do a contract again).

Life has a funny way of changing your plans ... I'm liking the N5 so much that I may keep it. The screen size is perfect but the device is still small enough to fit in my pocket - no wasted space outside the screen. Screen resolution, battery life, camera -- all very good. No carrier bloatware -- priceless. Using both Android and iOS have taught me to use cross-platform apps and backups, a good thing. Example: using a cross-platform password manager is a much better practice than using Keychain, which locks you in to Safari.

Unless the iPhone 6 has some spectacular new features, I'll probably stick with the N5. If the IP6 has a lot of wasted screen space (large top and bottom bezels) and is just an expanded IP 5s, I'll pass. If the rumored health monitoring features are worthwhile, I'll give it a serious look.
 
SomeGuyDude said:
Keep in mind, rooting is really friggin' easy. If you can copy and paste, you can root. There's nothing to "learn". I rooted my Nexus 5 in about two minutes on my MBPr. I admit that the Nexus is a little easier than others, but the point remains that it's not hard.

Picking up a Windows laptop for rooting your phone is like buying a new car for better cupholders.
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I get it, believe me. :) Anyways, I love new cars (says the guy driving a truck with 251k miles on it, ducking...as my wife gets the new cars).

But...I'm also wanting to go further than just rooting, into possibly the Viper ROM mod, or others. And...I'm actually one that wants zero down time (it's my business phone) when I go to do all this, and have zero errors/issues. I don't want to be that kid/guy crying for help...I'm just saying for those two options...windows has better guides for my situation.

I went through a 4-5 hour issue one time on the iPhone....don't want a repeat of that!

And...there actually is a business reason for the Windoze computer. I'm not even getting the latest/greatest...just something for supporting a legacy app I already have, and that also supports what I want to do on the M8.
 
Honestly if it's your business phone you might not want to be tinkering with it too much, haha. But I can see where you're coming from.
 
I rooted (stock rooted, no rom) my business/personal phone (only have one phone - well old iphone 4 too if that counts)
just the principle of not having admin rights grinds my gears
I have not done any tweaks I would consider 'hardcore'
I am interested in xposed, but not until ART is supported

Interested in Viper and I've been reading about it, but it sounds like it could get messy when it is time to take android OTA updates. The only item I've ever 'flashed' onto my phone is SuperSu, which I know can be removed cleanly and OTA updates are successful. Not sure if Viper (the sound mod) has a clean removal method. It would appear that it would effect OTA's.

Even the platform.xml text file change to get the SD card fully functioning on KitKat (and 4.3 for GS4GPE) breaks OTA updates (though it is simple enough to reverse, just edit the text file back to the way it was). It's sad that the change is even required, damn google and their hatred of sd cards
 
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BMox said:
I'm the exact opposite. Every new piece of info we get makes me excited to be coming back.
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Every new piece of info makes me think how awful the battery life is going to be with such a thin phone. I am loosing interest every day.
 
I was seriously considering it (I have an M7 right now), but...

1. I really hope it doesn't look anything like the current mock ups we've seen

2. I really like what HTC has done with Sense 6. Once it's released for my phone it might reinvigorate my interest in using my current phone longer.

However not being able to sync my Macbook Air and M7 is rather annoying...another reason I still want to go iOS
 
coldjeanzzz said:
I was seriously considering it (I have an M7 right now), but...

1. I really hope it doesn't look anything like the current mock ups we've seen

2. I really like what HTC has done with Sense 6. Once it's released for my phone it might reinvigorate my interest in using my current phone longer.

However not being able to sync my Macbook Air and M7 is rather annoying...another reason I still want to go iOS
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What exactly are you unable to sync? I've used various Android devices over the past couple year, including the M7 and was able to sync nearly everything (except maybe iPhoto library though I'm sure I could have with a little work) with my Mac.
 
tbayrgs said:
What exactly are you unable to sync? I've used various Android devices over the past couple year, including the M7 and was able to sync nearly everything (except maybe iPhoto library though I'm sure I could have with a little work) with my Mac.
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I'm mainly referring to apps. I can't sync tabs and passwords from Safari to any browser on my M7. The only option is using Chrome on my Mac which I absolute hate. I can't send addresses from Maps on my Mac to my phone, I can't access stuff from iCloud on my Android. Just things that would make my life more convenient if I had an iPhone instead.
 
A lot of what will determine if I get iPhone 6 will revolve around iOS 8.

Though, 3 weeks later is Google I/O and android 4.5/5.0 will be shown, but probably won't hit the S5 until early 2015.

I will be paying very close attention to both events.
 
I don't understand why people think the S4 has a great camera. Any one explain that to me.
 
coldjeanzzz said:
I'm mainly referring to apps. I can't sync tabs and passwords from Safari to any browser on my M7. The only option is using Chrome on my Mac which I absolute hate. I can't send addresses from Maps on my Mac to my phone, I can't access stuff from iCloud on my Android. Just things that would make my life more convenient if I had an iPhone instead.
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Gotcha, and agree about Safari/Chrome. While I can live with Chrome on my Mac, I really don't like it on Android and the ability to sync Safari across devices is a big reason I lean towards iOS, though more so on tablets as I don't web browse much at all in my phone.
 
The next iphone needs to be extremely amazing to drag me away from my Note 3. Also I have an iPhone 5 which I can use in case I miss the operating system. Which I probably won't.
 
FWIW....last night I finished rooting, installing SU, accomplishing S-Off, and then installing a custom ROM (the mostly stock Google Play Edition version of KitKat 4.4.2 which includes the ability to keep over the air updates from Google). All this on my AT&T branded HTC M8 that I bought last week. It's blazingly fast, and battery life was already good, so now it should be almost 2 days between charges with heavy daily business usage. Started working on customizing the interface and widgets (lock screen notifications!, configured some profiles based on time of day, etc.).

I'm not a thoroughly experienced Android or iOS user by any means...other than researching til I'm tired of reading, and then moving on carefully with rooting or jailbreaking (or not), as long as it's pretty certain I'm not going to have a big chance of bricking a device. Not one to install cracked apps, or anything that I consider 'risky'... everything I'm wanting whether jailbreaking or rooting is UI related to making it work faster for me.

Even out of the box, on my M8 with AT&T bloatware, it's an awesome device and UI experience. HTC sync for Mac enabled me to move contacts, camera roll, music, and many of the pertinent things like that. There's even an Android app that will continually sync contacts from iCloud to your Android device. I use email/dropbox/google drive to move files between my Macs, iPad, and HTC One M8. It's not that 'bad' at all.

I've sort of missed iMessage functionality, but almost all my contacts and text messaging are working. Every now and then I'll have to explain to someone on an iOS device to change my existing messages over to be sent as SMS. No biggie, and they keep their iMessage history with me.

The last piece....browser sync'ing. I use Firefox on my Mac's....which I had import the Safari bookmarks long ago. And, with Android, I now have Firefox sync'ing between my Mac and the HTC One.

So far, there's not much that's going to make me want an iPhone 6.
 
The 5S was my first iphone but the screen is too small. The OS/UI has gotten old quickly in my time using it.

The bigger screen will be welcomed but like others have stated, it is going to depend on what ios 8 brings to the table.

The finger unlock for the screen? Neat I guess but I am just using the passcode more to tell the truth.
 
I think i am gonna stick with my m8 htc it's done a great job and great battery life and good perfomance
 
I would consider the i6 just because the screen size is now reasonable.
But I think I would be frustrated with the lack of widgets, swype keyboard and no back button.
These are some of the best reasons to use android in my opinion.
 
Until they don't developed something like intents or broadcast receiver, until I can use something like Tasker, Lightflow or Dashclok or change my default associations or keryboards I don't think I will return to iOS devices
 
daveathall said:
The lack of Swype, SwipePad, 500 Firepaper, the back button and the ability to hide/uninstall unused apps will probably keep me with Android.
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That, and the fact that I can quick share with just about EVERY service instead of Just email, Facebook, and twitter is also a plus.
 
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