Hardware

For sale:

Nexus 9

• Details
• White edition
• 16Gb
• No 3/4G
• bought via Amazon UK, comes with UK charger, in May 2015
• Comes with latest Android (6)
• Pretty much as new. Barely used to be honest.
• Selling because I don't see the point of owning a tablet (I've tried, a Nexus 7, and now this, but nah)
• Available: yesterday :)
• Price: offer

Nexus 6

• Details
• New device from end of September (just over a month old; I've owned a N6 for a longer time, but due to a battery problem, Google swapped it for a brand new device)
• Midnight Blue edition
• 64Gb
• 4G and stuff (side note: reception & signal is a million times better than a Nexus 5)
• You do of course receive the Moto TurboPower charger with it
• Bought via Google Play store (comes with warranty, support, etc), original phone bought July 2015, so plenty of warranty left
• No scratches or anything
• Comes with Android 6
• Selling because I want a Nexus 6P
• Available: when I receive my Nexus 6P (2? more weeks?)
• Price: offer

Both include original packaging/boxes.

Mail me at: yeri+nexus @ tiete.be

I had two Nexus 5 with cracked LCDs.

I got these from China, including the Bezel (~$5 more expensive, and doesn’t make you have to fizzle around with a heat gun to detach the old LCD – but you’ll have to work from the backside, and remove all hardware components).

As for the LCD itself, it works well so far (touch, colours), but the finishing is of lesser quality (molding isn't the same, the black paint is a bit too light near the audio & camera holes), less to none anti static tape, LCD components don't seem to be the same, or the protection is fairly different. So quite sure this isn't an official LG LCD.

All in all changing the LCD was fairly easy and straight forward. Be careful removing the back pane (plastic), the small little feet break off easily. And as usual, be careful when removing the battery, it’s glued with two-faced tape, and you don’t want to damage it.

After 10 days of Nexus 6… And it already falling out of my pocket when I got out of the car (it survived, but it’s scratched on the sides)…

All I can say is: I WANT MY NEXUS 5 BAAAAAAAAACK.

So when N5 2015 is released, I’ll have a Nexus 6 for sale!

Why did I switch?

• GPS fucked
• Battery fucked (recharging 2-3x per day)

Comments about the Nexus 6 plus sides:

• big display & resolution is fun,
• it is smooth & fast,
• it does last the day,
• The OLED display light up is really fun (e-ink style), but I wonder how many battery it actually drains and it's usually too short to actually check what notification came in

Downsides:

• I can't type with one hand
• I almost dropped my phone a bazillion times attempting to type with one hand ... My right thumb doesn't reach letter A/Q buttons
• The back is curved, it's thus impossible to put the phone down on a table, and for example pulling down the notification list with only one hand (the phone starts spinning and moving)
• The latex-ish build of the Nexus 5 was really really really cool. The N6 is regular hard plastic.

Holding my N5 now feels kinda cute-sy and small.

TL;DR: recalibrate your compass.

I’ve come across an issue for the past 10 days that Waze kept losing its GPS fix. This meant:

• constantly switching between 0 and 120 (or whatever) km/h
• constantly zooming in & out on maps (dynamic zoom level depending on speed)
• being in a field/not on the road for most of the time, or stuck to a location of many minutes ago
• often & randomly losing GPS fix (ie middle of the highway without any buildings blocking the line of sight)
• I could do a 45 minute trip with Waze never getting a GPS fix
• not knowing road issues (accidents, traffic jams ahead, speed traps, etc)

Things I tried:

• nothing changed (no new car window, didn't move my phone location in the car, etc)
• not moving (ie parked car) didn't really improve the GPS fix
• even left my phone with Waze on in the car for 30 minutes parked (got a fix, but later that evening when driving home it started to lose its GPS fix again)
• clear Waze cache
• uninstall Waze completely
• GPS Essentials showed a fix with 3 or more GPS satellites when Waze couldn't get a fix
• I was about to find a way to reset my GPS and/or clear its cache (???)

PS: I have had this issue in the past (I believe with the same phone, a Nexus 5), but it went away after several days.

What I did notice, however, is that in Google Maps the arrow (clicking the pin point button twice or something) was pretty much showing the opposite direction of how the car was moving (thus driving backwards at ~120km/h). This made me think, as I know the GPSes in smartphones are quite cheap and aren’t always on (to save battery – my phone is always being charged in the car though) and the phone uses the accelerometer and other sensors to “guess” current path (or rather, path changes, ie taking a turn or slowing down/accelerating).

(Source)

Proximus Innovation team handed me a D-Link DCS-2132L (ver. B1) to play with. I have some experience with, what is considered, a professional (~€120 + tax) PoE surveillance camera: the Unifi Video Camera (basic version).

Amazon retails this D-Link for around €120 (including tax). So it’s worth noting it’s almost the same price as a metal, semi outdoor, cloud based camera.

The first things I noticed unpacking:

• Plastic. And it feels very plastic.
• Indoor only.
• The base is a bit light if you just want to set it on a table without screwing it or using glue. The utp and power cable can make it trip easily.
• No PoE (power-over-ethernet).
• Infrared (you can clearly hear the filter 'clicking' when booting up the camera)

This thing comes with ethernet, and, surprisingly, with WiFi. That’ll make it easier to use in small shops. There’s also an option to add a micro SD card as local storage.