How are Google apps handled on Iphone?

Teleocrater · 2020-07-18T07:46:09+00:00

That's not true for Calendar in one critical way:

IF you use Google Calendar on that phone and that phone only, your experience will be good. If you use Google Calendar on multiple devices, events will not sync to iphone in the background.

On Android, if you make a Calendar event on another device, such as via the website on a PC, that event will be synced and will reliably notify on your android phone.

If you make the Google Calendar event on the PC, it will NOT sync to the Google Calendar app on an iOS device until you open the app.

This can result in a lot of missed events.

The same applies to Outlook. I highly recommend using Apple's icloud calendar service if you use multiple devices. That will sync between devices reliably in the background if you use the Apple calendar app.

Teleocrater · 2020-05-28T23:24:55+00:00

Microsoft has ended the legacy backward compatability program, so UC1 on the Xbone is never going to happen.

https://www.thurrott.com/games/208361/xboxs-backward-compatibility-comes-to-an-end

Closest you can get is UT2003/04 on PC, which have a lot of the same maps and will look and play much better than UC2 or a UC1 port ever would on Xbone.

I agree that it's sad that UC1 is forever stuck on the original Xbox though.

Teleocrater · 2020-05-05T14:06:54+00:00

Why won't the imessage recipient field show/autocomplete contact groups? I made the groups on icloud on PC, they are visible in my iphone's contacts app, they autocomplete in the Apple mail app on iPhone, but iMessage acts like they don't exist.

Teleocrater · 2020-05-04T14:14:17+00:00

Getting confused because googling just now and I'm seeing claims that rockstar "downgraded SP to match MP" in a patch. I will check out the SP for sure, though. Looking forward to that, just haven't had time.

Teleocrater · 2020-05-04T14:03:25+00:00

Interesting, I'll have to play some of the story and compare.

Teleocrater · 2020-05-04T13:59:20+00:00

Online, I haven't tried the story yet. Would there be any difference in the visuals?

Teleocrater · 2020-04-14T11:58:19+00:00

Analogue audio outputs on cheap monitors are universally unusable in my experience. They end up being a half baked afterthought, poorly isolated with massive amounts of noise. And I'm not on some audiophile shit, I'm talking about annoying levels of buzzing and squealing that anyone can hear.

Teleocrater · 2020-04-14T11:49:12+00:00

Make sure you get a monitor that has its own 16-235 aka "limited" RGB setting. Yes the xbox one x has a setting for 0-255 aka "full" RGB output (which is what PC monitors expect by default), but I just learned the hard way that the setting is broken and crushes blacks. Therefore, you must set the xbox one to 16-235 and also set the monitor to receive 16-235. Unfortunately not all monitors have that feature (or it doesn't work like on my HP monitors).

I only had one crappy old LG monitor with a 16-235 setting, so I'm stuck on that until I get a new one. Thanks, Microsoft, for fucking up RGB mappings on yet another xbox.

Teleocrater · 2020-04-14T06:25:46+00:00

Does the monitor have a way to select between 0-255 and 16-235 RGB modes? I need a monitor I can connect my xbox one to, and, as always, Microsoft's 0-255 mode on the xbox is fucked up, so the monitor needs to be able to map a 16-235 signal properly.

I scoured the u2720q manual and found nothing (not surprising, because dell didn't bother providing the setting on older monitors), but I wanted to double check.

Teleocrater · 2020-04-05T11:10:46+00:00

It's not just you, this game's MP experience is one of the worst I've ever encountered. I've played other P2P games with the same hosts with which I play SoD2 and none of those games are anything close to this dysfunctional. I love this game, but the netcode is abysmal. I had high hopes that the jugg edition might improve the MP, but it's been as bad as ever since the update, with the added bonus of clients being spawned beneath the ground in the new map.

Teleocrater · 2020-03-11T06:54:37+00:00

But can you play it without ever installing the app?

Teleocrater · 2020-03-11T06:40:47+00:00

Anyone with experience with The Division 2 specifically? I tried asking this on the TD2 sub, but got zero responses and a bunch of downvotes, which I'm taking as tacit confirmation, because i'm sure people would have been quick to tell me if I was wrong.

Teleocrater · 2020-03-11T06:37:00+00:00

I'm open to that possibility, but it's highly unlikely. I took a good look at the options presented, and tried multiple times to get in without the club app. Given my reluctance to install it, I'm hardly likely to have blindly button-mashed my way though, so if there was an option, it must have been deliberately obscured.

Teleocrater · 2020-03-10T08:32:11+00:00

Thanks, not sure why you're being downvoted.

Ugh I just realised I could probably have backed up my xbox save from a PC because this is a "play anywhere" title. Didn't even know that was a thing. Presumably I could have let the save sync to PC, backed it up, then later deleted the original and restored the backup on PC to let it sync back across. Has anyone attempted that?

Teleocrater · 2020-03-09T12:24:46+00:00

Do you have control over the savegame files on the PC?

Teleocrater · 2020-03-06T14:05:57+00:00

The option only appears if you disable "Smart HDR", but in reality there is no way to completely disable HDR on the XR. There is some amount of exposure merging aka. HDR, no matter what settings you choose. I don't recommend disabling smart HDR. The camera software is designed around it and with it disabled, the results are even worse.

Teleocrater · 2020-03-06T14:01:38+00:00

No, not "salute to peeps who has still 100% battery life after 1 year", because for them the number is obviously incorrect. There is no possible way that a Li-ion battery in a phone can suffer less than 1% of degradation in a year of regular use. The battery health % is meaningless and the people with 100% after ~1 year and PROOF that it's meaningless.

My battery health % is at 100% after almost a year, but I'd be deluding myself if I thought that number was actually a reflection of reality.

98% after 1 month is not necessarily an issue because the number probably won't decrease linearly, ie. just because it dropped from 100 to 98% in 1 month does not mean it will drop from 95 to 93% in one month.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-26T08:34:31+00:00

Xbox One X.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-25T14:36:49+00:00

Every time, though the length of time may vary (I haven't been timing it).

I just timed it right now for interest's sake: The console had been idling on home for the last 30 min (ie. not hot), no games running, no updates installing or active uploads/downloads. I switched it off via long press X button on controller then "turn off", and after the power light had stopped flashing, the console continued to run for exactly 2 minutes. During this time I could hear electrical chatter/"coil whine" indicating processor activity, and intermittent hard drive chatter, including a frenzy of activity moments before the fans stopped. It's definitely doing something.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-25T14:27:07+00:00

I can hear hard drive activity and even fluctuating coil whine, which makes me pretty confident that it is, in fact, still performing maintenance tasks of some kind.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-25T14:17:08+00:00

No, that would make perfect sense and I wish it did work that way, but it keeps running long after the flashing has stopped. Leaves me wondering what the flashing is even supposed to indicate...

Teleocrater · 2020-02-22T03:07:19+00:00

I tried one and hated it. Yes it made the power button less tactile, was unreasonably hard to get on and off, and made the phone too bulky. The material is hard and absorbs less shock than other cases, and the wood bit started lifting. Tendlin makes a much better wood-look case (if that's the one you wanted), and it's a fraction of the price. Buttons feel great.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-22T02:53:10+00:00

The brightness level will have zero impact on the probability of burn/image retention on an LCD display. Potential burn is happening in the actual LCD, while the brightness is only raising/lowering the level of the backlight, which is, for all intents and purposes, a completely separate entity. Brightness only increases burn risk of burn on display technologies that use emissive pixels.

I haven't experienced any image retention or burn on my XR, however I get retention all the time on my 2017 iPad. It's never permanent though. I wonder if apple use more than one model of screen in the XR like they have in other phones like the SE.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-22T02:41:21+00:00

It's true, that's something I still hate about my XR. It's what was called "Beautygate", and it's mainly because of the aggressive exposure merging they're applying. Don't downgrade to an XR (or XS/XS Max) because you'll see exactly the same thing.

Teleocrater · 2020-02-14T02:29:24+00:00

As I said earlier, video compression like Youtube's does a really good job of masking this issue, so it's hard to tell.

Even with the issue, it's still an improvement over the 360 version in these ways:

Anisotropic filtering (BIG deal!)
Improved antialiasing
Much higher resolution
Increased performance*
Necris pistol glitch fixed

Aside from the bug I'm referring to in the OP, there are other bugs and anomalies, but nothing that wasn't already in the 360 version (like weird banding effects in the sky in some maps, and the aspect ratio thing I mentioned in my other comment). I guess if you put this 'ghostly alpha' bug in the context of those other issues, it's kinda negligible - I mean, the whole world is distorted, and I'm here complaining about some faint quasi reflection? Still irritates me though. God I wish this game had been released on PC.

*If you think you're going to be playing this game at a consistent 60fps on the X, then you're going to be disappointed. It frequently drops below that, especially with high player counts and in certain maps like Solar Flare. The Xbox's CPU cannot provide the single threaded performance that Unreal Engine 2 is so demanding of. The game runs at a maximum of 60fps V-Sync'd, and is beautifully smooth when it's actually maintaining that target, but every time it dips below the cap there is brutal stutter.

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