Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

This thread idea is not new, but a great thing to have around!

Need to blow off some steam? Have at it!

I'll start.

I'm sick and tired of the way my employer, "The State" handles promotions, pay, and extras, etc (for example, the window cube that opens up).

Nevermind how hard you work, or...

Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

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Block Private Numbers

Galaxy S5 OC7 version.

I wish to block "Private Calls" not necessarily "unknown" i.e if someone displays their number and I do not know it I wish the call to come through. However if they do not display their number then I want it barred.

Under the dialer menu I have found block "Unknown...

Block Private Numbers

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Home Button does not work on my new Samsung S6

I just received my new Samsung S6 phone in the mail yesterday. My home button does not work. I have to use the back botton to get back to the home screens. Any suggestions or should I just take it back to a Verizon store? Thanks!

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A Bit Upset over 5.02

Got the 5.02 update a few days ago and not really amused at the changes the update made to my phone. Haven't noticed anything better and quite a few inconveniences. Since I started out with DOS 3.1, I know how M$ can screw things up but what was LG thinking by approving this? Anyhow....any...

A Bit Upset over 5.02

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What is your favorite game on Android? Developers, please see the link to Announcements above.

As the title states... what is your favorite game thus far?

Mine is a game called "Trap".

I play it & play it, and haven't gotten tired of it yet.

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does this look normal?

Ugh, this battery drain is killing me. Been home all day on Wi-Fi with full 4g bars. Anyone finding this usage abnormal?

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Google Voice Search won't use Google Maps for navigation

I'm using the Google Voice Search app for Android, and when I say "navigate to..." the app offers to complete the action using Chrome or the default Android Internet app, but it doesn't not give me the option to use Google Maps which I have installed. How can I make Google Voice Search use...

Google Voice Search won't use Google Maps for navigation

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Text To Speech

I have scoured the internet and searched here, but I can't find out how to stop the announcement options of my texts. When I receive a text, it reads aloud "TEXT FROM XXXX, LISTEN NOW?", and then it gives me an option to select yes or no.

Here is what I have tried so far:
1. Deleting...

Text To Speech

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sony z3 5.0.2 ver. 726 root

I need help rooting my z3 d6603 5.0.2 ver. 726. Is there a way to root it without unlocking bootloader? any advise for a newb?

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Starship Kernels 04/22/2015 (Stock|AOSP|CM)

Starship Kernel had been made in conjunction with the soon to be posted Starship Rom. The Rom had started as an AOSP and slowly turned caf based. The full Rom will now be released when CM12.1 has become fully stable. With that said allot of time has been put into creating the Kernel so like the...

Starship Kernels 04/22/2015 (Stock|AOSP|CM)

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[GAME][FREE] Circle Surfer - Simple, dinamic & fun!

Circle Surfer free is a wonderful simple game and addictive arcade game not like the other games its game of pure arcade beauty !

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[GAME][FREE] Circle Surfer - Simple, dinamic & fun!

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Project Fi for the Nexus 6 -- You in?

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Stream Aduio between phones - Tasker

What i want Tasker to do:

Let there be two phones.

1. Turn on bluetooth and scan for devices, Connect to device user selects.
2. Display Scene with two buttons- "Listen" and "Talk"
3. Tapping listen streams audio FROM microphone of Phone 2.
4. Tapping Talk stream audio from microphone of...

Stream Aduio between phones - Tasker

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Tasker/Zooper/Pop-up Widget - Can I make my main widget hide when a pop-up widget is activated?

I'm trying to hide my main home screen widget whenever I open a pop-up widget. I build all my widgets with zooper, and attach them to shortcuts in my dock with pop-up widget.
The only widget that's always showing is my clock that sits on the home screen, but I want it to hide any time I open one...

Tasker/Zooper/Pop-up Widget - Can I make my main widget hide when a pop-up widget is activated?

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CM12 Nightly flash errors

Took me a bit to figure this out so thought I would share.

update as not behaving. removing bootloader check in updater script. 5.1.0 bootloader not yet supported by CM

In the immortal words of Sean Price
P!!!!!!!!!!!

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Project Fi

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Is that of interest to any folks over the pond?

Aside from getting cash back for MB's you don't use, it doesn't look that good and seems a bit pricey tbh.

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broadcast notifications from remote pc

i would like to have an app for small network of friends i want to send notification for appointments and other infor mation via my remote pc or android phone >>>> any idea ?

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Possibly a system ui mod?

I'm just wondering if someone with a little more experience could help me out here, I tried to decompile the system ui from the test D-Fuze rom he posted and It's not decompiling for some reason. Here's the mod I would like to try out....

Possibly a system ui mod?

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Podcast App

I like to listen to podcast, I currently check the various places I get podcasts from and download manually. I would like an app to automatically download podcasts, only when I am connected to WiFi, set up with a storage max, and delete the oldest when that max is reached. I am sure this is...

Podcast App

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How to connect my android app to tablayout activity

hi friends,
i want to connect my android app to server and i done it well now i want to go to another activity by clicking login button after successful login, which this new activity should bring me some tabs and each tab should fetch the data related to user login profile, to keep the last...

How to connect my android app to tablayout activity

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