Hello, I bought my first used phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro) and was wondering what are the best practices taken before using it. I've read the reviews of the merchant selling the phone, looked into ratings and asked some questions about the condition of the phone, so I'm sure of my purchase on that end. What about after receiving the phone? I know I would run a factory reset, aside from that, is there anything else to do?

Enough shit about reddit. Get back to work folk. Tell me a phone with no bloatware at all, or no app pre-installed at all.

X is hiring Android engineer at xAI to build for X and Grok

Just posting a quick and easy reference https://brainfucksec.github.io/android-foss-apps-list#android-based-operating-systems

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52720355 I am using neo backup often I run into storage issues so I am wondering if there is a possibility of backing data with git, root, Termux, Tasker .

Theres a few issue raised today on github. For linux and android. I friend also can't send from Molly. One of the commanders suggests it might be due to AWS issue. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Not sure if thats the case but FYI incase anyone Looks here.

Specifically Typewise which is the only keyboard I know of with hex-shaped keys suited to my fat fingers. Unfortunately it's proprietary. Installed it from Aurora, can't seem to downgrade. Any ideas? Have a look at attached screenshot. The bottom of the keyboard disappears off the screen. Update was supposed to fix this but made it worse. 😠 EDIT: In case anyone has the same problem, I found that rolling back to version 3020308 on Aurora solved the issue.

(Maybe edit the community name in the mod settings)

Ive been trying to find some new interesting apps on the playstore but the problem is that I cant find anything that wasnt paid to show up first on the lists. I know already about F-droid.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33628691 > ArcaneChat 2.6.0 is on its way to [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.arcanechat) and [f-droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/chat.delta.lite/) and should be available in the upcoming days, can't wait? for other download options check https://arcanechat.me/ > > **🔮 What's new?** > > ★ More security: chats are now encrypted forever, unencrypted email is received in separated recognizable chats marked with an email envelope icon > > ★ Cleaner UI: Since chats are always encrypted, padlocks and green checkmark icons are gone. Only "Saved Messages" and "Device Messages" chats keep a green checkmark > > ★ Now channels owners can set an avatar for their channel and subscribers can leave channels > > ★ Added Text-To-Speech (TTS) support for in-chat apps > > ★ You can change the order of your profiles in the profile switcher > > ★ New enhanced screen for chats and contacts profiles > > ★ And much more small fixes and improvements! > > 💜 Help keep ArcaneChat independent and make it even more awesome in the future: https://arcanechat.me/#contribute

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“OnePlus has announced a new system that limits who can unlock the bootloader on their phones. Stating reasons such as “data security” and an enhanced “system stability” […]. OnePlus has introduced a new procedure where anyone wanting to unlock the bootloader on their devices must first fill out an online request form for “Deep Testing””. Even if it is for one region, it is still enshitification preventing phones to have custom ROM 🤦‍♂️

Is there an Android ROM that has the ability to provide the app with fake camera stream, location, microphone stream, gallery, storage files etc...? It would be incredibly useful to allow apps to work while giving no info / no access to private informations / permissions.

Need Android Launcher Recommendation Is there a Android Launcher that supports - organize app icons in bulk - automatically add newly installed app icon to homescreen - an option to add all already installed app that aren't on home screen to home screen - easy to organize app icon on home screen into folders - easy to organize app icon on app drawer into folders (may not be necessary) appreciate any helP

Hello, I just switched to Android 13, and I am wondering what is this toggle doing on top of the 3 options? A bit confused. Edit: on Asus zenfone 10, in case it varies from vendor to vendor

The storage and processing power of modern smartphones are touted to rival those of a typical laptop. Yet, my trash-picked testing system from over a decade ago with a bottom-of-the-barrel SATA SSD can still boot to the Linux desktop faster than all but one of my Android devices. Understandably, this isn't a huge priority since very few people are cold booting their phones every morning. But is it just plain unoptimized? How hard would it be to optimize? Do security features and checks bog it down? Is it that there's many tiny files to load when booting? What gives?

relevant toot by TechAltar https://mas.to/@Techaltar/110831341309914823

(Sure would be nice if I could post this on GrapheneOS's unofficial sublem, but anyway . . . ) Using Graphene, I made a local Seedvault backup on my phone that I would like to upload to the cloud, specifically with/to Filen, but I can't seem to do this, and I'm not aware of any of my other files having this issue. Is this a permissions issue with Seedvault, or is there something else going on?

Huh, I have mixed feeling about Google doing this Yay that Apple isn't the only game in town for this functionality But then it's this functionality in particular with all the horrible stalking that it facilitates

I don't use Google account on most of my devices. I have an older phone on LineageOS 22.1 that I use mainly to test apps. It has GApps installed but I never sign in. I have faced a couple apps that on startup are launching the PlayStore app and ask me to sign in, I guess for "security". Is there a way to bypass that ? I don't want to link my Google profile and would love to use this app offline like I should. Is this something that could be done with LuckyPatcher ? Is there easier methods ?

Faster charging, support for Wi-Fi 7, upgraded uwb and the pixel being sold in more countries.

I have [#Openkey-chain](https://libranet.de/search?tag=Openkey-chain) installed on my [#Android](https://libranet.de/search?tag=Android) phone and use it with [#fairmail](https://libranet.de/search?tag=fairmail) for sending [#PGP](https://libranet.de/search?tag=PGP) [#encrypted](https://libranet.de/search?tag=encrypted) [#email](https://libranet.de/search?tag=email). For the life of me I can figure out how to import it into my [#webmail](https://libranet.de/search?tag=webmail) client, [#horde](https://libranet.de/search?tag=horde), for using it there. I have an option to import [#key](https://libranet.de/search?tag=key), but I don't know how to actually get the key into a place that I can import it. Any [#help](https://libranet.de/search?tag=help)? [@android](https://lemmy.world/c/android) [@android](https://lemmy.ml/c/android) [I feel like I should know this](https://kill-the-newsletter.com/alternates/709btv18i461q4yt.html)

For a while now I have had this problem that everytime I used a voice command for Google Assistant that a few minutes after the command got executed I get the sound of Google Assistant activating and waiting for input for like 2 seconds or so (also with the green microphone activated icon in the corner). Does anyone else experience the same problem or has an idea how I can get rid of this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1926125 > Too many perfectly usable phones are put into a questionable security situation by lack of vendor support for keeping key software up to date. > > But what's the actual risk of using an Android phone on a stock ROM without updates? What's the attack surface? > > It seems like most things that'd contact potentially malicious software are web and messaging software, but that's all done by apps which continue to receive updates (at least until the android version is entirely unsupported) eg. Webview, Firefox, Signal, etc. > > So are the main avenues for attack then sketchy apps and wifi points? If one is careful to use a minimal set of widely scrutinised apps and avoid connecting to wifi/bluetooth/etc. devices of questionable provenance is it really taking that much of a risk to continue using a device past EOL? > > Or do browsers rely on system libraries that have plausible attack vectors? Perhaps images, video, font etc. rendering could be compromised? At this point though, that stack must be quite hardened and mature, it'd be major news for libjpg/ffmpeg to have a code-execution vulnerability? Plus it seems unlikely that they wouldn't just include this in webview/Firefox as there must surely be millions of devices in this situation so why not take the easy step of distributing a bit more in the APK? > > I'm not at all an Android developer though, perhaps this is very naive and I'm missing something major?

I've been unable to use it for weeks now, anybody knows if there's something wrong? Or is it just on my end?

Murena offer a degoogled /e/os version of the fairphone 5. I’m wondering if there are any catches… eg - have google privacy issues been replaced with murena ones? - would we still expect the 8-10 years of updates? - would there be any driver issues eg worse camera/face unlock/fingerprint experience? Also if anyone has had one (murena or stock) since launch, how is it working out?

Hi everyone, I have a problem where the alarm on my Google Pixel phone is dismissed after about 10 minutes of ringing, causing me to miss my alarm. Is there a way to make the alarms ring indefinitely, or at least for 1 hour before it's automatically dismissed?