Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,159,588 members, 7,840,408 topics. Date: Sunday, 26 May 2024 at 01:16 AM

Bily's Posts

Nairaland Forum / Bily's Profile / Bily's Posts

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (of 25 pages)

Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 8:46am On Jan 26, 2018
suyamasta:
That is exactly what she is doing the driver locked the doors

If I were to guess, I would wager she's lying. So many holes in her story.

Is it possible you intend to lock someone in your car, you alight from the same car, leave the keys in the ignition and leave the driver door open? It's more likely the driver guy down to force her out of his car.

I watched the video she posted as proof, it was cconveniently edited to her favor. How come the was no audio except at the point where she said 'if you touch me'and then screamed.?

To me, the video corroborated the drivers story more than hers.

Even when she started recording the video, it was not a video of someone is a panic of being kidnapped. She knew what she was doing and wanted to document to her advantage.

Let her release the full video with audio without any edits inbetween
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 7:55am On Jan 26, 2018
GAZZUZZ:


you do not go physical with a woman, dragging a woman out of your vehicle is not right.

















You could have turned off the a.c and turned on the Heater, disabled the window controls and enabled child lock grin





You never sabi some wicked women. That's when she will claim attempted murder for ritual. She will never mention the heater was on, rather she'll say you parked in a remote location, locked her in the car for her to die of suffocation. She go even add to your wahala be breaking you windshield and she'll justify she had to do that to breathe cheesy

After God, fear women cheesy

4 Likes 1 Share

Car Talk / Re: Tesla Model S In Nigeria (photo) by bily(m): 7:34am On Jan 26, 2018
Follygunners:


You can't charge them using the regular home-made electrical output else, you damage the programming. You need special charging stations for these vehicles, bro. which are ONLY available here in the U.S and NOT in any other place in the world which is why they've not gone abroad yet. undecided

You can actually charge them with electricity from your house hold sockets, you only need the right cable meant for the purpose.

5 Likes

Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 7:14am On Jan 26, 2018
Schiphol:


1. No. You only need to input your pickup point/Location to request a ride.



2. "Assumption is a mother of all f***ups." The driver does not see riders destination before accepting request.



3a. Yes. He will if you as a rider put your pickup location and destination while requesting the ride.

3b. No. If you did not put destination when requesting the ride.



4. After starting the trip.



5. If the rider did not put destination, the driver will see a blank destination after starting the trip.



6. Again, don't assume. Read numbers 1 to 5 again.



You are right,Just saw an option to 'enter destination later' still wondering what's the benefit of that option to the rider or driver except rider is planning to negotiate offline trip which actually do not favor uber/taxify

@ in bold...Assumptions simply part of a thought process, no need for unnecessary drama

Thanks for the clarification
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 2:48am On Jan 26, 2018
julietromeo:

Let me start by saying thank you all for your support so far.
However, my name is Henry Nnaemeka and I’m neither a Rapist nor a Kidnapper. This is my Story.
I’m a taxify driver/ partner, on Thursday the 25th of January 2018 between the hours of 12midnight and 1am I was on my way home from work when I received a taxify rider request from a Ibarhim Eletu Way Which was coincidentally where I was at that time and also same estate I stay, I decided to take that last trip before I go home to rest.
On getting to the pick-up location To pick up the rider (Miss Shola Fapson) she got In my vehicle and[b] just as I started the trip I noticed there wasn’t a destination for the trip[/b] so I politely asked her for the destination to know where I’m going to and if it will be convenient for me at that time of the night but she refused to tell me and instead asked me to drive out that she will tell me later, I politely refused and asked severally for the destination but she wouldn’t tell me
It was at
Thank you all.
#ISTANDFORJUSTICE

Still trying to figure out how this E- hailing apps work, especially from a drivers end.

As a rider, I know I had to put in my destination before I am matched with a driver.

So let's assume at the point of matching, the driver does not see my destination and accepts the trip.

Shouldn't the driver see my destination when he actually starts the trip? Or at what point do drivers see riders destination?

How come the driver is claiming he started the trip and there was no destination? I don't think it's possible to even request a trip without setting your destination as a rider, or is it?
Travel / Re: Diary Of A Nigerian Student living In Moscow, Russia. by bily(m): 5:30pm On Jan 25, 2018
TochiPhotos:
So justwise hid my last post again, Well this is it. Let me focus on the project since I'm not allowed to mention it in my diary.

Like I said in my last post (hidden by justwise). Right now, my life and daily activities revolves around my current World Cup Project and it will be impossible for me to write my diary without mentioning it once in a while. It's such a shame this diary had to end this way.

I tried to reach out to him and on more than two occasions, I asked justwise what the best practice for talking about stuff like that is and Justwise refused to answer or set me straight.

It's so unfair that he will rather hide a lengthy post I made in my diary, just because a part of it talked about a shoot I did for my project and included my website link.

I no get strength to fight anybody. Nairaland is his turf and here, he is king. So to avoid issues I'm taking time off.

Such a shame it had to end like this.

Thank you Justwise.


You sef, you no try at all.
Why include your website link again? When you already know the stance of the mod on this?

I don't think anything is wrong mentioning your project once in a while like your said, but honestly some of your posts come across like you're stylishly still trying to advertise your worldcup stuff here.

The mods have their fault too in my opinion.

It's sad such an interesting diary had to end this way though.

5 Likes

Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 5:16pm On Jan 25, 2018
On numerous GPS issues, we have two major processor chip makers for Android phones ie Qualcomm and mediatek. Apart from Samsung that uses both Qualcomm and it's own exynos chips, Huawei also uses it's own chips

It is a known fact that snapdragon(Qualcomm) chips have better GPS performance than mediatek chips.

So for uber business, it's better to get phones with snapdragon(qualcomm) chips.

Almost all tecno and infinix phones use mediatek chips. I'm not sure if we have any of them using Qualcomm chips, so that may be where the problem lies.

1 Like

TV/Movies / Re: What Series Are You Watching Now? Part 2 by bily(m): 11:54am On Jan 24, 2018
Kaziar:
START UP
Just why is this show getting such a low publicity as good as it is.

I tell you, I wonder too.

First show in a long time I can re-watch without feeling I'm wasting my time.
Prison break was another show I could watch multiple times, season 1 and 2
Crime / Re: How We Extract Bank Details From Stolen Phones To Withdraw Money —suspects by bily(m): 3:24pm On Jan 21, 2018
mitchyy:


Pls stop explaining. Leave everyone to their doubt and ignorance. See how they are vouching for a bank they don't use or have tried their USSD before, rather than humbly verify

Lol, yes ma'am
Crime / Re: How We Extract Bank Details From Stolen Phones To Withdraw Money —suspects by bily(m): 10:54am On Jan 21, 2018
Icecomrade:


Looks like you ve lost touch of where this deliberation is coming from. For the purpose of rwmindee see the emboldened


THE Lagos State Police Command has smashed a syndicate that specialised in dispossessing victims’ phones for the purpose of getting their account details and making withdrawals without the account holder’s knowledge.


The last for digits of your BVN and your phone number is not the only security placed by Acess Bank for a customer to initiate and conclude a USSD transfer.

This is pure ignorance.

Go find out and revert.

The ops just wrote trash.


I don't need to find out something I already know and I have done many times. Although I found out by mistake when my token was no longer working and I decided to make use of their USSD.
You can try it yourself if you have an access Bank account.
This is a fact and others have also attested to it here. so you should be the one to find out and revert
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 10:37am On Jan 21, 2018
yak:
guys, what's the difference between China ROM n Global? is anyone better than the other?

China rom
Pros
Faster update
New features add before Global rom
Option to choose between Chinese and English language

Cons
Some Chinese bloatware
No google services /apps but can easily be installed

Global rom
Pros
Google services/app pre-installed
No Chinese bloatware
Usually a lighter rom
Option to choose between several languages

Cons
Gets new features later and may never get some features in the China rom

Both roms are fine.
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 10:04am On Jan 21, 2018
acekid109:
i think it's under additional settings, then region. Change to somewhere like china, try playing a music to test the quality. You can also restart after changing region. I had this while using miui9 too, saw the tutorial online and it fixed it

Sometimes, I wonder what those phone makers are thinking. My redmi note 3 call volume was also too low, sometimes In a noisy area, I had to press the phone hard to my ears.

Now that I'm using a custom kernel and turned the volume up, I'm really enjoying the phone.

Do they test these values in a sound proof room and just decide its okay?
Crime / Re: How We Extract Bank Details From Stolen Phones To Withdraw Money —suspects by bily(m): 8:45am On Jan 21, 2018
Icecomrade:



ou should know that there is a difference between initiate transfer and completing a transfer.

If the last 4 digits of your bvn and the phone number registered on your account is all you need to transfer.

Please close your account with that bank and open an account with another bank. They dont know what they are doing.

Trust me no bank will be this loose.


We are talking facts, you're telling me to trust you. Wether the banks know what their doing or not is not the bone of contention here.

The simple FACT is with some Banks money from your account can be transferred with such information as stated by the OP.

Istead of challenging the authenticity of the news, we all should be happy such information is being exposed so such banks can improve on their security.

Gtb allowed last 4 digits of ATM card for ussd transactions for years before allowing use of PIN creation, access Bank still allows use of some digits in your BVN

Let's even leave USSD aside, some Banks, all you need to change mobile banking password are already stored on your phone. A smart theif will have a field day. Do you have an idea how many documentations people store on their phone or mail to themselves?
Many people have a digital copy of their international passports on their phones which contains their date of birth, full name, etc, the thief has their SIM card, ATM card..what other information dues a cyber criminal need to exploit you? Even when you call a bank, those are the basic info they ask from you to confirm your identity.

Most of these banks just accept hook, line and sinker what their foreign technology/IT partrecommendations without putting the Nigerian context into consideration.

People should learn how to protect themselves by making use of tools available to them such as sim lock, fingerprint lock, app lock etc.

Almost every app on my phone is locked to my fingerprints, a friend recently collected my phone and was surprised my chrome browser was locked. I told him to use ucbrowser that my chrome is synced with my PC and I have saved password to some sensitive sites.
Crime / Re: How We Extract Bank Details From Stolen Phones To Withdraw Money —suspects by bily(m): 1:11pm On Jan 20, 2018
Icecomrade:

See how these criminals are fooling the Nigeria Police.

Nobody cannot make withdrawal by been with a persons account details or BVN.

This shows how poorly enlightened our police officers are.



Having access to your sim card charges everything. Some of banks ussd banking only require last 4 digit of your bvn or ATM card to initiate a transfer as long as its the registered sim with the bank

1 Like

Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 11:39am On Jan 20, 2018
alstarmayo:
If your driver starts a trip before getting to you, he doesn't get cancellation fee.


Good to know, cos I have always wondered what will happen to the fees usually charged for the trip. I usually rate the driver low and request for a refund just be be safe. Since it's usually not my phone or uber account, I could not really ascertain what eventually happens to the fees charged.

What of majority of people who do not know that the trip had been started?
I know this cos a lot of people usually come to meet me to help them book a ride with their phones. You will be surprised at the percentage of people who do so not know the basics of using the uber app.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by bily(m): 10:57am On Jan 20, 2018
What's up with this new trend of drivers starting trip immediately you request for a trip on uber? Seen it happening so many times for it be regarded as a coincidence.

Are they now abusing the N400 cancellation fee or Is it an app issue?

1 Like

Travel / Re: Diary Of A Nigerian Student living In Moscow, Russia. by bily(m): 9:08pm On Jan 19, 2018
Gerrard59:


Justwise actually told him to buy an ad space.

But I never knew na so moderator work be oh shocked

I must have missed that. My bad. Apologies to justwise.

Also I find it difficult to believe that all the threads in the travel ads sections are being paid for.

We are not talking of targeted ads here, but creating a thread in the travel ad section which I believe was primarily made for travel agents, airlines and related services, or perhaps the rules have changed somewhere along the line.

1 Like

Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 7:05pm On Jan 19, 2018
wozup:
Pls help, I've been trying to unlock my n4x bootloader since, the thing always stop at 50% and write couldn't verify your device..
I've waited more than 3 days after getting approval
Pls what could be the cause
I'm on China developer Rom 8.1.11.

Thanks.

Make sure your computer/laptop is connected to a good internet connection while unlocking
Travel / Re: Diary Of A Nigerian Student living In Moscow, Russia. by bily(m): 2:27pm On Jan 19, 2018
justwise:


Its funny when people say stuff like this without knowing how much i try each time i visit this thread trying to keep it clean.

The op contributed to the derailment and i can't keep wasting my time hiding posts.


See my attachment for an idea how many posts i have removed from here alone

But when the OP apologized and went ahead to explain that he created a thread in the travel ad section to advertise And the thread was deleted, you as a moderator did not enlighten him on why it was deleted or the appropriate section to post such ads.

I think it goes beyond warning people and deleting threads, if someone is genuinely seeking for the right way to go about things, I believe it's OK to also direct them. Or is moderation all about banning,closing,deleting?

45 Likes 2 Shares

Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 7:19am On Jan 18, 2018
Frankdamaxx:


Well, some budget phones have good cameras. I use the Mi A1 and I can assure you that the pictures are top notch. S7 and iPhone 7 plus level.

Xiaomi A1 is stock Android and comes with Google camera by default.

As a lot of us have said here, google camera is miles ahead of xiaomi camera app.

Also I don't know if xiaomi still does this.... Before their
Flagship and mi series phones usually had more options in the camera app than redmi series. It would be safe to say they focus more on their MI series having better camera output so they go to greater lengths to tweak the camera software.

I think it's for marketing purposes., the message they are passing is... If you want better camera experience, upgrade to MI series.

But once you change from the default camera app on a redmi series to a better third party app, you'll see a lot of difference.

Even camera 360 pictures will wow you on your redmi series compared to the built in app. Gcam is on another level.

3 Likes

Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 7:55pm On Jan 15, 2018
Perge:
OMG!! Take a look at picture that was taken with Note4 using Gcamera shocked

Xiaomi should get their algorithm right on Note 5 or no deal.

Exactly the type of results I get with gcam. I'm still surprised. I wonder which kind winch algorithm google used for that app.

Someone was actually arguing with me that a picture I took was with a DSLR camera and not my phone grin
TV/Movies / Re: What Series Are You Watching Now? Part 2 by bily(m): 3:27pm On Jan 15, 2018
fergieboy:
Who is watching startup ? Great series

What they do grin
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 5:22pm On Jan 14, 2018
scotweezy:
To people refusing to update to MiUi 9 na jonzing una dey.
The battery life of my Redmi Note 4 Snapdragon Global 3/32gb has never been this excellent.
Funny thing is that I had same phobia for a while coz I updated from MiUi 8.2.2.0 directly to MiUi 9.0.3.0 and the phone is presently on MiUi 9.0.5.0.
The battery reduction averages 10% per hour. It was way worse on MiUi 8 coz I remember I had to switch on battery saver to squeeze tangible endurance out of the battery.
And did I mention MiUi 9 is way smoother cheesy and additional features I can't possibly remember presently.

10% per hour is kinda poor for a redmi note 4 with snapdragon 625 in my opinion.

I use a redmi note 3 with a snapdragon 650 processor which is more battery hungry and I still get about 8.5% per hour With always on 4g mobile data

Well I guess it all depends on usage

Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 11:20am On Jan 14, 2018
Damoxy:

Oh
I use redmi 3 SD
Is it possible to update to android 7 without rooting

And how has been your battery performance so far?

It's possible without rooting, bUT you'll definitely need to unlock bootloader and install a custom recovery. I use redwolf recovery. But really, what's the point of installing a custom rom and deciding not to root?

In the world of custom roms, they're are so many tweaks for battery. I use a custom kernel with some battery specific kernel tweaks like underclocking and undervolting the CPU. So battery not an issue.

If you're not the experimental type, I would recommend you just stick to your stock rom.

Good resource for redmi note 3 is the website below:

https://rn3customroms.weebly.com/
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 10:59am On Jan 14, 2018
dustmalik:

We're all wired differently. The way you detest stock roms is the same way i detest miui. The main reason I like xiaomi is because it enjoys huge community support, especially Note 3 SD(Kenzo/Kate) and Note 4 SD. For me, it's stock or nothing else. I can't stand miui for a minute.

Of course, I know that. We just talking for the sake of being on the internet ni grin

Damoxy:

Wetin dz Gcam dey do
And which miui are you on?

Lol, it's just google camera app, that has been ported to work on other devices apart from the nexus and pixel brands from Google.

I'm on miui 9, miui pro nougat custom rom. Decided to use custom rom since xiaomi refused to update my device to Android 7
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 10:34am On Jan 14, 2018
Dani4tech:

I'm interested in the combo... Just need a link for the tuts

xda-developers is your best bet to get all the info for your specific device or you ask people here using your device.

I use a redmi note 3 special edition.

1 Like

Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 10:11am On Jan 14, 2018
omoadeleye:





Must i be rooted before using the Gcam?

Yes

Dani4tech:
Gcam and miui pro...

Yeah, that's what I use. Anything wrong with the combination?

1 Like

Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 9:13am On Jan 14, 2018
Dmedalion:
miuipro and repacked miuipro are both based on miui...so its miui with extra features and extra features...
Everything on miui is on them plus more features

I know about miui pro. That's what I'm using.

I specifically referred to Aosp/stock roms. That's the one I can't stand
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 8:02am On Jan 14, 2018
Donfamous:
the stuff isn't working

Are you rooted?
Have you enabled camera2 api?

The above has to be done first
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 8:00am On Jan 14, 2018
acekid109:
miuipro has more features than srandard miui. I installed a custom rom but not miui. Its cardinal aosp. Stock android sha

How do you guys cope without miui. I can't stand AOSP/stock Android experience
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 7:58am On Jan 14, 2018
omoadeleye:



As in you wan dey snap xray? Despite the awesomeness of xiaomi camera, you are still thinking of inner beauty.

I can attest to the awesomeness of GCam.

It's now very clear software makes all the difference.

It's most likely it's the software iPhones got going for it in the camera department.

My wife that has a DSLR professional camera was tripping for the photos I took using GCam portrait mode
Phones / Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by bily(m): 6:07pm On Jan 13, 2018
busoye19:


@Bily, I beg I need ur attention.

Sent you my email via Nairaland PM. Did you get it?

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (of 25 pages)

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 73
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.