Recent content by y8s

My battery life went from junk to hero after installing daydream and the free daydream apps (and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head). Seriously I was at ~30% at bedtime one night and the next 70%.

Remember you asked how I had been spoiled? You just figured out part of it. Sorry to bear the bad news! While it's cheap, one-size-fits-all virtual reality headsets are not really great for most people. The ones I develop go through a lot of steps to get the optical alignment dialed in. In...

I have been spoiled by image quality and optics in head-mounted virtual reality displays that are designed for military, industry, and university training and simulation. We don't really compete in the consumer market and a sub 1000 dollar device is out of our reach. It's really not a fair...

I got my daydream view. I should have ebayed it before opening the package. This is the curse of running product development for a professional level VR company.

I have problems with podcasts, but music comes through beautifully. Are you streaming files from the phone or streaming from your own music or listening to streaming stations? If streaming, you can try adjusting the quality settings in google play music.

You can double tap on the notification bar and then disable the Nova double tap lock. Not what you want exactly but since Nova can't do what you need, it may be the only way to have your Nova and Assistant. Honestly though, I have Nova but have been pretty OK with the way the LG launcher can...

Screenshot: I can't *make* it do this. It just does it when it does it. It probably has something to do with the last app I had open. It's usually Chrome but not always or exclusively. I like it because I have my phone propped up on its side with the usb-c plugged in and it is my night stand...

Here's one I took yesterday... note the signal bars. At what point do I visit the verizon store and cry about it?

I've been noticing that 4G throughput in various contexts is pretty mediocre. With 1-2 bars, it might as well be no service. 3 bars is okay, 4 is good, and 5 bars... I don't remember seeing 5 bars. I'd say I pull downloads of about 22-25 Mbps and uploads from 1.5 to 3.5 with at least 3 bars...

yes, I have the VS996. I updated my post to clarify that.

I fought entering recovery just yesterday. It's very tempermental and I'm not sure what ultimately worked. I think I rebooted about 10-12 times. There isn't much there though. Below steps are for the VERIZON VS996 System recovery mode: turn off phone (wait for the vibration after the screen...

You're my hero. I might have to go down to the VZW store and make them open one up for me to test. I do love me some Qi.

Thanks for the measurements. Could I ask a very small favor? I have a thin case and a flygrip. Total thickness is about .33 inches. My previous phone (original Droid Turbo) with the flygrip charged fine on my Tylt VU. This phone wont charge with even a case on it. Not sure if the 3 coils...

One other thing to note is that we can only change one setting per color, not the gamma curve. Who knows what that looks like. Our changes may be trivial. I just set the white point. Maybe when business gets slow I'll go back and measure the white point of various gray levels and see what I find.

Probably is a wide variation in displays. I calibrate LCD and OLED microdisplays pretty often and we see all sorts of things from batch to batch.