I wonder if my old(ish) Motorola RAZR is like that as it was the flagship phone at the time, It is still an excellent phone and it has my favorite feature - the slide out keyboard. The size and weight are worth it to me. It is able to take a SIM card too,

And it would make a good excuse to rescue the tower. He could make more selling it for scrap than he'd make selling it to me. I don't know where you live but it is just 100 USD.

That does help. It gives me some ideas and some potential motivation. The only reason I bought them was to build a cluster and I have absolutely no need for a cluster so I figured I would make one and then make another basement NAS or a media server. I already have a couple of servers down there but no media server. I don't actually have any use for a media server - that is already covered but the goal was to build a cluster, I don't really have a need or a good reason to build one. I figured it would be amusing and that maybe I would get another line put in and maybe make a web facing server. I understand that creating a LAMP stack clustered is really easy but making a clustered LAMP stack RIGHT is actually difficult. I never, I have had them for almost a year and have not done anything with them so I am really liking this plane tracking idea. With all the idiots with small planes in the area, the ones that don't do a flyover before landing their little Cessna or Pipers on water, snow, or a fairly flat field it might get some interesting results. We have those sorts of people crashing all the time. They land parallel to the waves. The hit ridges or small spaces of open water on the ice. Or, often enough they are landing effectively on someone's lawn and they very much misjudge the distance, So it might be interesting.

Looking it up is the lazy way. Is it a specific meter length required antenna? Did you have to make it? Or is it just some stereo wire taped to a T and then strung up or similar? I do have the absolute perfect tree to tape a fishing sinker to and toss it over and I am on the side of a mountain so I may do well but there's not much traffic out this way. My hand-held scanner does airplane frequencies but I seldom hear (I had actually typed here, I'm glad I preview before the preview.) anything and that has an upgraded antenna. The big scanner does the same and that has a mounted outdoor antenna. The ham does a much better job and I have a buddy who has a tower for sale, cheap, and it's 100' which is legal here. My issue with the tower is aesthetics. I have a pine that it would fit behind, mostly, but that is about 50' from the corner of the house. Do-able but there is a lot of math needed. I might see if there is a "local" ham club that will lend a hand or simply call around and hire someone so that it is right the first time. I can mix the concrete myself and fill four sonotubes and get the bolts in the right spot on my own so I will at least get my hands dirty, :D

Sorry for my doubting you. I've since been corrected and now have a better understanding. I Googled before I asked and, well, all the results in my quick scan looked like ads for carriers and the only Nexus devices I've seen are all carrier branded. Even in my quick Google the Google link looked like an ad for a carrier. My most sincere apologies are offered if you want them,

Thank you for the correction. The "Nexus branded devices..." could just as easily mean from a carrier. My Motorola is a Motorola not a US Cellular.

HOWEVER... I was still clearly mistaken and confused. I even Googled before commenting and the results seemed to indicate that they were all carrier devices, All I did was a quick scan so even the Google link looked like a Google ad for a carrier. It was/is my mistake and I thank you, again, for the correction.

As I've mentioned (with my foot in my mouth) the only Nexus devices I have seen where all carrier phones and when I did a quick Google prior to saying anything it looked like all of them were carrier devices. The Google ad looked like, well, a Google ad.

I do think I like the process. All the Nexus devices I had come across prior to this were from carriers - thank you for the correction.

I see where I was mistaken - thank you all for the corrections. I shall now go through the comments and see what more people add and what more I can learn. That/this is why I love /. so much and have stuck around all these years. Some of you might be tough or rough but by tomorrow all is forgiven or forgotten (unless you are a continued asshole and then you get what you deserve).

Thank you for the correction. As I read the remainder of the thread I was wondering about that aspect. I think something like that should be included in the summary so we know if it is vendor specific or if it is from Google directly. You can not turn off automatic OTA updates?

I don't trust or use eBay so I can not speak for them nor their pricing. I do use Amazon a lot. Okay, so I use Amazon way too much. Anyhow, when it comes to cables my first stop is here: https://www.cablesdirect.com/d... as they usually have good/great pricing on the cable(s) I require. They have great customer service where you can call them up and say, "So I have this funny looking cable with 18 pins and...." and they are great at helping you out. I am not affiliated but I am a fan and certainly recommend them - more so when they're non-standard cables. My spool didn't quite have enough left in it so I called them and they made me a 100' CAT6 for a very excellent price. I am not sure if the pricing was standard or if they cut me a deal because I have placed a lot of orders over the years and they know me by name from having just called in to get a cable name or whatnot. I've spent a good deal of money there over the years. The price has been right and the service has been unbeatable. There has yet to be a cable, and I have had some rarities, that they have not been able to find for me, Not all products are on the site, an example is I wanted a VIC20 power supply cable and it, obviously, was no longer on the site but they had a few in stock in the back room. They had three left, I bought all three. So, as I said, I am not affiliated but I am a very happy customer.

That sounds like complete bullshit to me. Got a source for that information? I've had many OTA updates and all of them included vendor supplied bloatware and new "features" for you. Now unless you are speaking of JUST the Nexus branded device (your comment is tough to determine your intent) then that may be true and I would not know as I don't own one. However I would still like to see a source or two. (I will even accept Wikipedia.)

That is what I was thinking. This isn't a Google issue, they most certainly did NOT perform the OTA update. They provide vendors (and probably manufacturers) with the update. They are then supposed to vet the update, ensure all is well, and then do an OTA update. The issue really has (and I'm not trying to make excuses here) nothing whatsoever with Google. Google did their part completely and should not be subject to the blame. The blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the vendor.

You might be able to outrun the cop but you can not outrun his radio.

Interesting. I have six Pi's that do exactly nothing. All of them have memory cards in place. My goal was to build a cluster for the enjoyment of it but it never got any further then that. Now I may have to take one, or go ahead with clustering first, and then give this a try. It is all automated, right? I won't have to run around with some exactly tuned directional antenna ever time I want to share? I am way too lazy to do that and would give that up in just a few days.