**The Fairphone 4**, as nominated by [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/be_gt)! As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.  But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to... **Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+**, as nominated by [@[email protected]](https://discuss.online/u/OpenStars)! You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!  That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks! (Nomination thread is [here](https://lemmy.world/post/10291122) for future references.)

Previously: [Submission Statement Edition](https://lemmy.world/post/3297922) Haven't done these in a while, so let's get started. 1. Since we haven't really heard any feedback one way or the other, *rule 8 is now official*. To be fair, we've had a lot less microblog posts than I expected (only one Twitter/X post in the last month even after I waited longer than the initial 1-2 weeks expected, and that was a crosspost.) - Again, the rules are always a work in progress, feel free to give your two cents here whenever you like. 2. As you guys know, PipedLinkBot went completely insane 2 days ago and looks like it's temporarily shut down. So, I'd like to use this opportunity to explain why I banned the bot pretty much immediately after our community reopened. (And gloat a bit, of course) - Even though I do agree with the principle of using open source, privacy focused frontend instead of using Youtube directly, I have a real problem with using a bot to respond every time somebody posts a Youtube link. It feels like spam, and it doesn't feel like it serves any utility besides pushing an agenda (even though many people here would agree with it). Most people have seen it around here enough to use pipedvideo if they wanted it to use it already. - I think it's always been a rage inducing part of the reddit experience that you see you received a response to your comment, but only have it been a bot smugly correcting your grammar or tell you all your letters are in order or something useless like that. So, for this place, I would like to make sure that everyone you talk to here is a real person as much as possible, because people inspire people to be greater, but bots don't.

Hey! I'm looking for an app or browser with a good reading mode, preferably with images too, of website articles. So many websites put random shit between paragraphs that break up the article, and not just ads so using an adblocker doesn't help much. For example, I saw this article about my city: https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/37178834/new-train-station-opens-europe-city-break/ And it's just a shitty experience to read the article, I just want the text and images. I tried Firefox reading mode but it doesn't do a great job a lot of the time (including this article), like not removing the right stuff and even removing parts that are actually the article. Very much prefer a FOSS app, searched around a bit but didn't really find anything.

Hey all, im looking to ditch the stock rom and put a rom on that doesn't have any proprietary stuff on it. i have a Moto G Stylus 5G 2024, and from XDA, it seems that there is not only root, but also GSI roms. do GSI roms still contain google binaries (play store, play services, etc...) or is it similar to a AOSP rom where its just a bare android image with no apps other than the very basic stuff? Sadly i can't afford getting a pixel atm or another device that can run mobile linux or graphene, so just wanted to see if this was viable.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/65174 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38001927 > > > > In this post, I hope to clarify and expand on some of the points and rebut some of the counter-messaging that we have witnessed.

How to hide files on Android phones so that they cannot be tracked by anybody apart from the user ?

I'm kinda devastated, I'd been keeping a list of places my wife and I have been wanting to eat at across the world. I know a bunch of tabs with Google searches isn't a great way to keep a list, but it was what I was doing. They were moved into "archived tabs" whenever that became a thing, and now I've just learned there was a change that defaulted archived tabs into being removed after so many days of inactivity. I don't know when this went into effect, and I don't know how I'd search my history to find a bunch of closed Google searches, but if anyone has any ideas when this change went into effect so I could narrow my search, or any ideas on how to bring back dead groups of tabs, I could really use some assistance. Until then I'm just going to scroll through my history... Which feels so futile. Edit to add: I had even named the tab group, I searched in the history for the tab group name and was unsuccessful.

I recently bought a USB-C to headphone adapter so I could use my phone with the Aux input in the car. It's going great except the phone mic doesn't work when it's plugged in. I semi-frequently use voice messages while driving to avoid looking at my phone and this isn't an option now without unplugging the USB and replugging it which is distracting so defeats the purpose. Is there a way to force the phone mic through settings or similar? Lesser AudioSwitch sounds like it would do the trick but doesn't seem compatible with my device

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/14305957 >Per the GitHub readme: > > > This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking "why-type" questions - I wont engage with them. > > > The reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes. > > > Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app! > > This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the [Syncthing-Fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android) version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.

I've been recently interested in custom ROMs for the past 2 weeks. And amongst them, **Project Infinity X** caught almost all my attention. The customization features it provides swayed me away. But it struck me hardly in my heart when I checked their device support list on their official website. My phone's model wasn't mentioned there. Not only that, I tried to search for other _Popular_ ROMs and they too didn't have a version for my exact model. Then I posted in fb, some dudes told me to try gsm ROMs, or searching for ROMs with the exact codename for my phone. I didn't know what a codename is, they told to install an app from play store and then to check the codename. I still didn't understand what is a codename. Given below is a screenshot taken from that app which I think is the codename. When I researched about gsm ROMs, I came to know that, almost all the gsm ROMs gonna cause at least one hardware-software integration problem. SIM card, or wifi, battery etc. Then I came to know about XDA forums. I couldn't comprehend The website's UI at all. What I gathered that, the website was a place for unverified/unofficial versions of custom ROMs. Labeling that as **unsafe**, I couldn't trust the site. [ **Edit:** As xda forum being unsafe, I meant, since it provides unverified/unofficial ROMs made by random developer, It could be buggy and unstable. So much so that it can be worse than gsm ROMs. ] Only then, I stumbled upon LineageOS, as much as it pained me knowing that unfortunately they too, don't have a version for my exact phone, I came across all sorts of content where the uploader claimed that, they installed an older version of LineageOS in their phone which is also not cited in the official website's page, but the ROM just worked fine for their case. So I was wondering if the same is possible for my exact model. Not only with LineageOS, but with other ROMs too. My phone model is **Redmi Note 13 5g.** Came with MIUI, android 13( I think, because I forgot ), then after 2 updates, it is now running android 15 on HyperOS UI.

> Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it's more powerful than most of my laptops. So why not use it as a laptop? > Why not, indeed, says Google, which has introduced -- at long last -- a native Linux Terminal application in its March 2025 Pixel Feature Drop.

I've spent a long time looking for info about trying to circumvent Xiaomi's locked bootloader on a Redmi tablet. My son forgot his code and Family Link prevents the tablet from allowing the usual data wipe factory reset. I've tried to get support from Xiaomi but all they provide is generic unhelpful guides. Has anyone found a tool that can override the locked bootloader just to factory wipe it? While it's not an expensive tablet (£90) it's fairly new so very annoying from a parent's point of view.

Hi all! I'd like to replace my old S10e, which was my ideal phone format, with a middle range (inexpensive) phone, in that size if possible. Extra points for a decent fingerprint reader (I'd like to avoid in-screen ones if possible), and perhaps unlockable bootloader. I'm currently on a Pixel fold 9, for the GrapheneOS part, and I've been keeping the s10e as my trusty work phone, keeping the work profile. Sadly the lack of android updates is now being noticed by the security team and they *suggested* i should move on soon. Since I already have a massive personal phone, I'd like to keep it small for the work one. Any ideas?

> Android 15 QPR1 automatically stops screen sharing when the device is locked. In previous versions, apps could keep seeing the screen.

Previously on Lemmy: [Tablets](https://lemmy.world/post/9103168) Let's talk about deGoogling Android this week, since it's a common topic of interest around here to talk about GrapheneOS and CalyxOS. I feel like Google services has been lacking for the better part of a decade to the degree that I am reluctant to rely on most Google services nowadays. However, I don't think I have the effort to actively remove all traces of Google from my phone, as the cost of bootloader unlock and rooting is a bit too much for me. So, I would like to hear what your deGoogling experiences, since I'm unlikely to do it myself. Past Discussions - [Asus](https://lemmy.world/post/8175465) - [Productivity](https://lemmy.world/post/7245162) - [Emulators](https://lemmy.world/post/6225605) - [iPhones](https://lemmy.world/post/3666684) - [Repairability/Build Quality](https://lemmy.world/post/3213947) - [Google Pixel](https://lemmy.world/post/2826903) - [Foldables](https://lemmy.world/post/2436246) - [Samsung](https://lemmy.world/post/2075289) - [Sony](https://lemmy.world/post/910303) - [OnePlus](https://lemmy.world/post/706987) - [Motorola](https://lemmy.world/post/214784)

As noted by the [news release from CalyxOS](https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/) and [Mastodon thread from GrapheneOS](https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114661914197695338), Google did not release the Pixel device-specific source code alongside their Android 16 AOSP release like they usually do. I think many of us, including myself, are hoping this will be published in the near future, but considering they [moved AOSP development behind closed doors earlier this year](https://9to5google.com/2025/03/26/google-android-aosp-developement-private/), it's more likely Google has stopped publishing this section or their code altogether, making development of custom ROMs for Pixel devices significantly more difficult. Sad news for the Android ecosystem, and for open source in general.

Hello, I'm trying to gather some information about the Linux Development Environment now seeming to crash my Pixel 6a, with Graphene OS. I have previously used the new Linux Terminal, though only infrequently. I had one setup on my main profile and one within the locked private profile. Both have the issue occur. I opened the terminal a couple days ago and it lagged at the loading animation then my phone went black and rebooted. I've tried it a few times since, even attempting to disable and enable it to start from scratch. I was able to select the option to download the Linux data, but after it began to download it once again lagged and my phone rebooted. Outside of some other oddity or user error, I've considered my phone being older and possibly not handling some update or change made since the last time I used it. Maybe some graphical addition? I've simply not yet found anything elsewhere online about this type of issue. Any advice or guidance you can provide is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

Adding fonts to an OS is ancient, so it is baffling to me to have such trouble finding any resources on how to add my fonts to Android. How many fundamentals do they have to turn decades backward?

So I finally got my preorder of the EU version and activated it without needing support by using the esim transfer on my old pixel. After close to a week now I've had 0 issues!

This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).   Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/ Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest. Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see. More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

I am greatly displeased at the smartphone industry. I think it's time for a heavy handed crackdown about all the spying they're doing. The smartphone industry and in particular the company qualcomm I find an intolerable company in their practice, I believe they should be smashed, their equiment liquidated and their intellectual property destroyed. The smartphone industry is a festering cancer on general computing, a persistent and pernicious assault on human rights. An invasion of our private spaces. A colonization of our lives. I think it is past the point of reform, not that there are any regulator with to intelligence figure out what is wrong let alone the wherewithal to do anything about. For those reasons, I think global thermonuclear war is our only realistic option for setting back the clock on this travesty. I am willing to hear your alternative, I don't believe anything short of that has a snowball's chance in hell to change anything about this.

First off, im not new to Lemmy, im behind my Alt account. But I was to make this post because if an android app me and my boyfriend are currently working on, or soon to be working on. We value are privacy and security very much, and we take this much to ensure we are protected as much as we can. We know we can’t do 100%, but we can achieve 99.97%. Anyways… So, my boyfriend is in the process of making an Android app that lets users sign into their online accounts in one app. He said he wants to make this Twitter UI like app, with the ability to login with his accounts, with privacy and maintaining a healthy security. However, he has a problem due to us being in a situation where we ~~can’t~~ don’t want to pay for API’s for such services we have accounts for. The main point, is it possible to make it to where; once the user opens the app, taps the button to sign in with Facebook let’s say, it opens Facebook in webview and when the user is done authenticating, the app then closes webview and shows content, within the custom UI in the app. > Same goes with other platforms like, Twitter, YouTube and what not. Again, I’m not even sure if this is possible, but consuming that I have an android phone, and I play Fortnite at time to time, whenever I go to sign into my epic games account. The game opens webview and when I’m done signing in, it closes and continues with my account shown. It’s basically a privacy security focused browser, but with an added features like viewing and managing your online accounts.

Edit: This is the stage where LineageOS logo appears.  I have an 8 years old OnePlus 5 running Lineage OS 22.2 as a secondary phone alongside my iPhone. Yesterday the phone froze, turned off and refused to go past the Lineage loading screen — where it froze and some weird colourful squares in a single line appeared before turning off. I tried factory resetting it as well from recovery but no success. Today morning I turned it on again and it booted w/o any issues. I think the UFS might have started to show its age — which was used heavily with heavy games, RAW photos, Lightroom processing, continuously running KDEConnect, Syncthing, multiple factory resets and multiple custom ROM installs. So I was thinking to dedicate it to do something else like an Immich slideshow display, a clock, a controller or something like that. Is there any lighter than LineageOS custom ROM which can allow me to do something like that?

Just upgraded, and now some things are huge, and other things are small, and it's a pain in the backside, frankly. Also, wtf is with that battery icon? It's MASSIVE, and ugly, and the only way to make it smaller is to adjust text scaling, which then makes all other text much too small. FFS Google.

The review may have waxed eloquent about the watch but Oneplus and Ticwatch still lasted way longer in terms of battery life (in fact, Samsung 's Tizen OS watches were hitting the 3 day mark). Second, and this is purely from personal anecdote of wearing of Galaxy Watch 6, that one thing smartwatches suck at is displaying time. The AOD (unless raise to wrist is awake) is so dim as to be useless in my area due to the intense sunlight.

I have a Pixel 6a and I would like to limit the phone to about 80% instead of going to 100 for...explody reasons. At no point do I want it to go above 80%. Is that possible with an app? Most that I saw on Fdriod only give you a notification. I want it to be automatic.

I recently found out that a locked device (aka a carrier lock) is actually locked in two very different ways. 1) the sim lock, which prevents you from using a sim card from a different carrier. This usually has some sort of policy regarding how and when to unlock the device (for Verizon it is if the device goes for 60 days without connecting to the Verizon network, might also need to be fully paid off as well) 2) Bootloader lock, this locks the bootloader and therefore disables any way of flashing anything (rom, root, etc) This is not something that will automatically be unlocked as far as I can tell and only the carrier can modify it. Most carriers seem to have the basic decency to unlock the device if you request it from their support, but be warned that there is no guarantee. What is guaranteed, is that Verizon will tell you to fuck right off and will never unlock your device. The point of this post is to bring awareness to this issue, it is on me that I didn't properly research this and just assumed that carrier lock means just a sim lock, but this sucked. I bought a pixel 8 which was sim-unlocked but sadly, as I discovered, its bootloader was locked and the "oem unlock" option was grayed-out. This is because it was a Verizon model that was out of the network but still, a Verizon model... As of right now there are no known exploits against this device / Android version, and so, there is no known way to bypass this. I literally argued, begged, and threatened Verizon. And their official stand is that they don't allow bootloader unlocks, they don't have the ability to do them (A lie) and that it will degrade my experience (Idiots) So I started doing anything I could think of. I tried old exploits that were patched (unsurprisingly they failed), I tried sideloading other versions of stock android (worked but didn't affect the bootloader), I even setup mitm wifi hotspot that has a transparent tls inspection (see PolarProxy) but it seems that the OS does not trust any "user" CAs and so it tries to connect to android.googleapis.com, sees that the CA is not a system CA and aborts the bootloader check, which keeps it grayed-out. My idea was to spoof a valid response but apparently Android has good security practices (who knew) Short of reversing the OS/Bootloader, it seems there is nothing to do. So this is my warning to you, don't buy carrier models, but if you do, make sure the oem unlock option works, but if you don't, absolutely never buy a Verizon model. ETA: I bought second-hand under the impression that it was an unlocked device, I thought that by checking sim compatibility I verified that it was, I was wrong.

Sad to read, but not at all surprising. I remember how much damage control Kevin was doing back when the sale to Branch happened. I hope he has learned something about trusting the word and contracts from entities like Branch from the whole thing.

Every few updates, Google seems to hire a new team of UI engineers and it's annoying. I'm too old to change! grumble grumble etc. On Android 15, I swiped up on the green phone soft button to answer calls. Now it's just a button. I swear at one point on previous versions it was a swipe-to-center. Is there anyway to change the behavior back to swipe up? Is this a component that I can replace entirely to keep it stable? I'm using Nova launcher (disallowed updates since they were bought by someone sketchy) and I am playing with F-Droid, if that helps. TIA!