1. No Root 2. No Bootlocker unlock 3. No Custom ROM 4. Needs Google Play Service 5. Needs to be installed via Google PLay Store 6. Needs my phone number 7. Needs that SIM in that phone 8. Needs that SIM in that slot 9. Needs location 10. Works only via Mobile Data 11. Developer options disabled 12. Needs someother app to be uninstalled 13. Disable VPN (Firewall apps use that) So for bank stuff to need a seperate phone, other for whatsapp (and other spyware) and then your main thing. And when you go out people ask questions. I don't understand my apps are developed with their security dependent of the OS, why can't they make secure apps

> > > From Theft Detection Lock to casting on Rivian to Wear OS 5 updates, here’s what’s coming to Android 15 and its device ecosystem. > >

Asymmetric bezels low key bug me. Are there technical reasons why they're hard?

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 .

Pixel 7a may've used a worse packaging material for the SOC resulting in higher heat and worse performance compared to pixel 7 and pixel 6

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/907800 >Here is the English translation > > > In June, ASUS announced to employees through an internal letter that it would carry out an organizational reorganization, and although ASUS repeatedly stressed that it was not going to lay off employees, in July it cut the staff of the PC department, affecting the employees in Taiwan and Suzhou, China. However, ASUS's layoffs have not slowed down, and now an informed source revealed to the "Science and Technology News" that "this afternoon, some units in the commercial sector were called downstairs one after another, and the units including engineers and procurement were directly cut in half." > > > > According to the initial ASUS internal letter, the commercial computer team planned and went to the mobile phone product department; People familiar with the matter pointed out that some talents have just been merged into mobile phone units, but they have been laid off; Originally, ASUS stated that after the organizational reorganization, the human resources association had internal matchmaking vacancies, but in fact, human resources did not want to match for these employees, and had to find internal vacancies by themselves. > > > As for why some employees were merged into mobile phone units, but then laid off? The person familiar with the matter pointed out that the Asus mobile phone has two series, ROG and Zenfone, but now the latest Zenfone 10 will be the last generation of this series, and the Zenfone team will be merged into other departments in the future, or directly into the ROG team. > > > It is understood that this wave of commercial sector employees who were laid off by ASUS will be until next month. > > Here is more context > [ASUS layoffs, commercial team/smartphone division merger, esports consolidation and personal computer team](https://finance.technews.tw/2023/06/14/asus-9/) > > Best case is that they mean the Zenfone line is dead and the rog still lives. But even then that still hurts.

I’m thinking of migrating to grapheneos from ios, what are some things that I should be aware of? Keep in mind, I haven’t used android in about 3 or 4 years and have basically been using an iPhone since the 3GS. Any heads up or tips would be helpful. I’m just really tired of apples new business model and current executives, and am trying to move to all free software. Thanks in advanced.

Looks like Fastmail doesn't have any Android widgets, unfortunately.

Watch6 - Graphite and Cream €319.99 €369.99 (LTE) Watch6 Classic - Graphite and Silver €349.99 €399.99 (LTE)

I deleted a Gallery app from my Samsung tablet and found out I cannot change the DeX wallpaper anymore (the Settings app says "The required app not found"). Other gallery apps don't help, and the official one is available neither in Google Play nor in Galaxy Store. Is there any other way to change the wallpaper without the Samsung Gallery app? And please don't tell me about doing a factory reset. Thanks an advance.

I'm running Calyx OS (which for my device is on Android 13 at the moment). I would like to have better control over which Bluetooth-connections my phones attempts to connect to when enabled and which it does not. Right now, it seems to try to connect to whatever it was connected to last, even though it is no where near me. I have to wait for the connection to fail before I can start another connection. This eats up about 10-15 seconds every time I want to connect to a Bluetooth-speaker if it wasn't that last device I connected to. Is there any way of getting better control over this? Best case for me would be to define some devices it should always try to connect to and other devices that should require manual connection.

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

How to move Search bar to top in KISS Launcher. [@android](https://lemmy.ml/c/android) In kiss launcher Search bar is at bottom and I want it to be at top of screen. It is not a option by default but I remember a fork implemented it. Can anyone tell me that fork if they remember?

There are lots of apps that can export messages to HTML and other formats, but after doing some searching I didn’t find any for markdown. I know SMS are mostly text but markdown is a plain text file format which support text formats like bullets, headings, and media (usually by referencing image, video, or audio files in the same folder or in a sub-folder). That would be nice for reading and searching through in apps like Obsidian.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21145878 > Basically one day all of a sudden I lost all mobile network, can't receive SMS, calls, etc, can't use mobile data, nothing. > > I own a > Xiaomi Redmi 12 > OS version 1.0.7.0.UMXMIXM > Android version 14 UP1A.231005.007 > > I've tried going into the setting mobile network and disabling automatic connection and trying to connect manually but it doesn't let me connect

Hi, I recently experiment by installing vscode and nix on an Android tablet. What do you think about it ? Have you used an android tablet to create a simple development environment?

I am looking for an alternative to Airtags and really want to invest into the Android ecosystem. I am not really fond on the pre-ordering thing of it until I get some real reviews. Any thoughts on the subject? It would be really useful to put one on my bike. TIA 😊

Summary of what's new in Android 14 Beta 4 (build number UPB4.230623.005): - Expanded availability to Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet - New Easter egg. To activate the Easter egg, open Settings > About Phone > Android version and repeatedly tap on “Android version” until you see the Android 14 logo floating in space. Hold down on the logo and you’ll see the “stars” speed by. - New SystemUI icon - New status bar icon for "mute"/"silent" mode - "Speech" settings moved from Settings > System > Keyboard to Settings > System > Languages - "Auto-confirm unlock" toggle has been added to Settings > Device unlock > Screen lock. This feature unlocks your phone automatically when you enter your PIN correctly. Your PIN must be 6 digits or more to enable this. - Under Settings > About phone > Model, you can now see your phone’s “manufactured year”. This is derived from your device's serial number. - The “ring volume” and “notification volume” sliders are now completely separated in Android 14, with no way to merge them again. In older betas, the separation was controlled by a DeviceConfig flag, but that flag’s no longer in use. - Lock screen clocks are now enabled on the Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 5, Pixel 5a 5G, and Pixel Fold, but not the Pixel Tablet. - New default profile picture options - The Settings app references a new “speed boost” toggle in SIM settings. I’m not sure what it’ll do yet, as it launches an activity in Adaptive Connectivity Services that doesn’t exist yet in Beta 4. Interestingly, the feature is explicitly disabled for Spectrum mobile.

Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world. Youtube is blocked in Russia. Moscow court fines Google in $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Google allows MAX, a Russian state surveillance app, on the Play Store. Irony? [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.oneme.app&hl=en-US](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.oneme.app&hl=en-US)

Is there any apps that can record calls these days? I've been using cube acr until they stopped working due to the accessibility loophole being closed. I'm looking to avoid downloading outside of the Google app store - it's a work phone and I'm not entirely sure if I'd get in trouble or not. Doesn't even need to be great quality.

Another weather app for android. Modern design, take a look. 👀

Similar to the very random Share suggestions this has been a pet peeve of mine for ever: How in god's name does Android decide which 3 devices to display in this screen? Two of those I have not connected to in ages and one of those only maybe once or twice ever. Is there any way to change this? I would so love to have my most used devices there to save me a click and searching through the long list of saved devices. Any ideas? If not, that's fine as well, I'm also happy to just have ranted a little.

If I connect my laptop to a Wi-Fi hotspot provided by the phone? Is there a way to let me SSH into the laptop via an IP address? Or vice versa, allow the laptop to SSH into the phone (I can already SSH into my phone on my local network by using an app that provides an SSH server on my phone) from the laptop while it's connected to the hotspot.

Jeroba is already lackluster and there's a lot of stuff you can't do on Jeroba that you can do when browsing lemmy through a web browser. One new issue that jeroba has developed is that now it crashes a lot. This has crossed the line for me. It was already a pain to use but the crashing makes it so much worse. Are there any alternative apps yet?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641 > Simple Xposed module to support the [Belfius](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.belfius.directmobile.android) app on Rooted devices! > > **Source** > [https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root](https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root) > > **License** GPLv3 > > **Motivation** > Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past, > they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device, > and then allowed you to keep using their app. > > However on 2024-07-01 this changed. > Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root. > > I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you. > Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices. > > After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process, > I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module. > > Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted! >

Will this effect Graphene? Too bad that Linux phones don't seem to be going anywhere...

I know Google changed it to 3 columns in landscape a few months ago, and it's better this way. But did they also change it from 2 to 1 in portrait? And I just didn't notice until recently. It's so stupid looking this way. Any way to change the column number?

I have >350 albums automatically generated. Nearly all of albums comes from a folder managed by Obsidian. I'm having trouble to understand why the system create an album for every folder on my device. If I only need photos and screenshots album, How do I remove access of album creation for a specific folder? One reason I'm asking is because I'm having trouble locating the photo album i want to backup with immich, it is really hard to locate an album in randomly ordered list of hundreds of albums thanks a lot in advance