I use dev mode to switch the sensors off. Recently I noticed that after a few days, maybe a week or so, I wasn´t a dev anymore and had to restart dev mode. Does this happen to anybody else? And can I make dev mode permanent again? If relevant, I´m on a Fairphone 4 using Android 15.

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/44940960 > https://www.poweredbymediatek.com/device?search=Clicks > > If true this is great. It will have more than enough power for 99% of tasks and will be able to do it all smoothly. The Clicks Communicator, if you haven't heard of it, is an upcoming Android phone with a physical keyboard.  It currently has pre-orders open however a working prototype hasn't been shown yet, with one coming Q2 according to the company. Release is expected Q4 this year. They have successfully released keyboard cases for other phones in the past.

Hello, I have two phones, a Note 11 Pro and a Sony Xperia 1 J9110. The first phone is sold in my country, but the second one was never sold here. I bought it secondhand very cheaply. My question is, which phone is better? Which one is better in terms of daily performance and up-to-date features? I will be playing Minecraft and Rainbow Six Mobile.

What does it mean when an Motorola Android's Hardware Version is "pvt"? I read that it's "product validation test". Demo unit? Has the firmware been tampered with? The phone seems to work fine. The bootloader is locked but unlockable.

Out of the blue, my google speech to text has become absolutely terrible at recognition and has completely stopped adding punctuation marks comma typing them out instead period Anyone else getting this? Retrained it, updated, deleted, updated again, nothing works, my Google stt is largely useless now. Is there an alternative anyone is using?

Following this thread: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-app-root-disable-block-ipv6-on-android-prevent-ipv6-leak-on-vpn.3298659/page-2 I discovered that `echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6` indeed works on my Samsung Galaxy S23 (One UI 7.0). However, a reboot undoes this, because it reloads system configs from a prepackaged image. One could decompress the image, make the relevant tweaks, recompress the image and have Bob be your uncle that way, according to a quick search on the World Wide Web. However, for those of you that use Magisk - and *maybe* are rooted through Magisk, I am unsure (my S23 *is* rooted with Magisk) -, there are some directories that I suppose Magisk sets up to be used for custom boot up scripts: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/blob/master/docs/guides.md#boot-scripts Taking inspiration from these two guides: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-run-a-script-at-every-boot-using-magisk.4454493/ https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-change-any-file-or-directory-using-magisk.4543103/ I decided to put my script for disabling ipv6 into `/data/adb/service.d` While this did disable ipv6 for some of the interfaces among the - pardon my French - messed up array that is the Android network stack (since I don't understand it, that is...), some interfaces either remain ipv6-enabled or get reconfigured during or after boot. Thus, I tried giving the script some waiting time, which worked. Now, after each boot, all of my relevant interfaces are ipv6-disabled: ``` #!/system/bin/sh sleep 60 ; echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 ``` This did *not* prolong the boot process 60 seconds. Edit: while the configuration does "survive", or rather, come into effect at boot, it resets at WiFi disconnect. Maybe it has to do with MAC address randomization being turned on. I'm not putting more time and effort into this. Edit2: I guess the takeaway is, that you could run a great variety of scripts this way.

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to: * pay Google * give government ID to Google * agree to Google terms and conditions People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops. e.g. via F-Droid. We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem. https://keepandroidopen.org/ https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116087210269757672

Doesn't require root, installed on top of Android, launches like an app. Best, lowest risk way to get familiar with the capabilities without requiring a new device with specific distro support. I'm a huge believer in having things you can actually experience in your hands. - [Andronix](https://andronix.app/) - [UserLAnd](https://userland.tech/) - [Termux](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux/) (install distro via command line) Mobile distros: - [Mobian](https://mobian-project.org/) (aims to mainline into Debian) - [Droidian](https://droidian.org/) - [Maemo Leste](https://maemo-leste.github.io/) - [Postmarket](https://postmarketos.org/) (based on Alpine) - [Manjaro](https://manjaro.org/) (based on Arch) - [Ubuntu Touch](https://ubuntu-touch.io/) - [Pocket Blue](https://pocketblue.github.io/) (Fedora-based) - Others Mobile desktop environments options to try on your distro: - [Phosh](https://phosh.mobi/) (Gnome-based) - [Plasma Mobile](https://plasma-mobile.org/) - [Lomiri](https://lomiri.com/) - [GNOME (mobile) Shell](https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/) You could even try installing [Waydroid](https://waydro.id/) in it for [Xzibit-style](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg) Android-ception

This will be great for secure communication with people who have yet to switch to Android

I am looking for a set of wired earbuds with a USBC Jack. I had a set of apple ones with an adapter but I found the adapter too unreliable. This will be for use with a google pixel phone. Anyone got a set they could suggest?

Hi, I will certainly buy a new android phone in the next month and I will need help choosing which one. My requirements : has support from LineagesOs, ability to root, good battery, NFC and Google Pay should work even after root, camera should be at least OK, price under 200€ (or even 150€). I have seen devices in that range that satisfy almost all the requirements. My current phone is Mi Mix 2 from 2019 and still usable but battery drain in one day even though I don't use it that much. I changed battery recently but nothing changed so I am always carrying an external battery. So a similar phone with bigger battery and good camera can be a good candidate. I always bought Xiaomi devices and I don't know how are the other brands.

Just wondering what everyone uses. Currently some of the apps I use are proton apps, openboard fork with futo voice, grayjay, notesnook, signal. I have more but wanna hear your apps! Creating Lemmy content!

Also citing the [release notes](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/release-notes) directly, here are the bug fixes that this update introduces: >- Fixed an issue that caused the system to stop detecting a SIM card if Fixed Dialing Number (FDN) features were enabled. > >- Fixed an issue that caused connectivity interruptions for devices with carriers using 5G standalone (SA) mode. > >- Fixed an issue for some devices where a blank home screen displayed after unlocking the device. > >- Fixed a performance issue by temporarily disabling feather-styled live wallpaper on Pixel Fold. The live wallpaper version will be re-enabled after the other underlying issues are fixed.

I would like an open Source TTS app that I can use with **Organic Maps** that dose didn't sound as bad as **espeak-ng** maybe something with AI. I am running **GrapheneOS**.

Obviously this is still a _Pixel_ issue - but at least I can connect to my home Wifi again. I previously posted saying that Wifi was broken in general, but I mistook my ongoing Xfinity outage as being unable to connect to any wifi. Thus I removed the post. When the outage ended, I could connect to some other networks and couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until after a painful factory reset process that I tried going from WPA3/WPA2 mode to just WPA2 on both of my APs and suddenly everything is able to connect again. It seems that the recent OTA update borked WPA3-Personal in a way that doesn't allow it to navigate the "compatibility mode" of WPA3/WPA2 either. Edit - Looks like this might even be something Verizon specific - UQ1A-20231205.015.A1 Edit2 - Also mine is a Pixel 7 Pro - a Pixel 6 Pro user reports no such issue - YMMV.

*(TL;DR and update at the bottom)* Running a rooted (Magisk Delta) LineageOS 21 (ver. from 27 Sep) on a Motorola Edge 30 (dubai). Managed to brick it by simply activating the "Invert colours" option in the settings. After doing so the screen has turned off and is unresponsive. Bootloader and recovery work fine. Booting into the actual OS shows the lock screen for a split second before the invert module activates and turns the screen off again. Even though the touchscreen is unresponsive, the physical buttons/functions still work just fine (long pressing POWER toggles the flashlight as per my settings, and shaking the phone also toggled the flashlight before I rebooted the system). Upon connecting the phone to my laptop via USB, it shows up in `lsusb`, but of course doesn't mount itself since I'd have to open the USB connection settings window in the phone to mount it. I did some digging and it turns out that this is a [relatively](https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/7070) [common](https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/17ffpcv/samsung_a52s_g5_screen_black_after_pressing/) [issue](https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/18w7cm4/blacked_screen/). My first instinct was to just go into recovery, connect via ADB and modify the settings file via `adb push` or `adb shell settings`, but my laptop is not authorised, so I can't do anything with ADB on it. Trying to authorize the laptop without the screen seems impossible. [This](https://xdaforums.com/t/bypass-secure-usb-debugging-prompt-on-phone-with-broken-screen.2965462), [this](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/199263/how-to-bypass-authorize-adb-rsa-key-with-broken-touch-and-screen), and [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/17ffpcv/samsung_a52s_g5_screen_black_after_pressing/) post, among many others, didn't work. Anything related to ADB might very well be out of the question, because even though `adbd` is running as root I still don't have access to any important parts of the file system without authorization (for reference, the `/data`, `/sdcard`, `/mnt/system/sdcard`, and `/system` directories, among many others, are empty). Editing `prop.default` or `default.prop` ADB properties to enable insecure ADB also doesn't work as upon rebooting the properties return to their initial state. Screen duplication and remote input programs like `scrcpy` also don't work as they require ADB authorization to perform inputs. I tried booting TWRP, but I couldn't find an image that could boot on the phone. Some got stuck on the boot logo, while some bootlooped ad infinitum. I'd really like to repair this phone ASAP, as quite a few things depend on it and I was stupid enough not to make a proper backup, with my only one being my old phone containing data up to early September that I haven't wiped yet. If I won't be able to do anything this week, I might be able to do something on the weekend when I get back home and hopefully use adb via my main PC, which *should* still hopefully be authorized. If it's not, I could try plugging an external display into the phone and/or a keyboard/mouse in order to authorize ADB. I know posting this on Lemmy is a bit stupid considering how small the communities here are, but I figured it'd be worth a shot. If this doesn't work out I'll post it on XDA or StackExchange # TL;DR: - Turning on "Invert colors" option in LineageOS 21 for the Motorola Edge 30 (dubai) turns the screen off and makes the touchscreen unresponsive while the phone is in the OS. Bootloader and recovery work fine. - My laptop is not authorized to use ADB, and as such, I cannot access the file system to modify settings and/or recover data via ADB - TWRP is not an option as there doesn't seem to be a valid image for my device - Screen duplicating programs (ones that I know of at least) cannot work without ADB authorization - I might be able to authorize the ADB connection by plugging an external monitor and mouse/keyboard into the phone when I get back home **I'm looking for a way to either revert "Invert colors" entirely or at least recover data from the device before I wipe it.** In order to do that I would have to: - find a compatible TWRP image, OR - bypass ADB authorization/enable insecure ADB, OR - plug in an external input device and hope that it works (a keyboard would be the best bet) Any advice is very appreciated # Update, 12 Oct 2024: Unfortunately the ADB authorization on my main PC expired, and the phone didn't support video out via raw USB to HDMI, so I had to just wipe it. Thankfully at least I didn't lose everything because of my old phone that I haven't wiped yet, but still. I did some testing after I wiped the phone and it turns out that the touchscreen *is* functional, it's just extremely hard to get any signs of life when you can't see fuckall. **Likewise, the screen isn't completely turned off, just *EXTREMELY* darkened.** At full brightness the bright blue header of the setup notification was visible with the setting turned on, which was enough to let me navigate back to the setting without much hassle. **If you're having the same problem, then genuinely try to feel your way back to the setting, this will be even easier if you happen to have a second phone with LineageOS (or any modern Android, really) on you that you can use as a reference.** And of course make backups regularly unlike my silly ass. In fact, *go do one right now*. Just do it. You might thank yourself later. I know I would have.

i uninstalled wefwef to get the new icon in the last update, i had it installed as a pwa and it would show up in my app drawer like an actual installed app now i click the same install button from chrome but it only lets me add it as a shortcut? i can't get it to install as an actual app anyone else have this?

This is in the native phone app. I'm in the US. Definitely didn't have this feature before. It announces when you start recording. I know it's been a thing with some other phones and in other countries, but hey it's cool to have it on my Pixel 8.

Samsung is offering a whopping 6 OS upgrades for this relatively entry level model. Too bad though, they junked the 3.5 mm jack for this one.

Weird Countdown on lock screen. I've restarted both devices. Any ideas?

It seems kind of insane how hard it's been to find a good TTS app. I have TTS Util and that's worked sporadically but if I get it to start it will stop in the middle of reading. I can't even seem to find a basic app to let me paste in text and have it read. Any recommendations? I'm mostly trying to have web articles read aloud and I don't care about robotic voices that much.

How do yall backup your phone? Trying to de Google as much as I can but that means I wont have the ability to sync everything again if I drop my phone in a lake. Preferably a program that can run on linux or a NAS that auto backs up over wifi. Id be fine with cable backup too if I had to.

Yesterday everything was fine, today every site looks like I have activated some kind of grandpa mode. All sites look like they are zoomed in but it doesn't let me zoom out more. I have tried to change font size in options but it doesn't help. Desktop mode also does literally nothing. Does anyone else have this issue too? edit: it looks like desktop is actually not working at all. If I activate it on lemmy, site reloads but if I open options again the desktop mode slider is off. edit2: this is about firefox mobile on a lenovo tablet

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.

(unpaywalled version on archive.today: https://archive.ph/03cwZ) Interesting figure that comes out of the article: 87% of US teens prefer iPhones. Also the explanations given aren't quite surprising, I guess it's mostly because of iMessage. Teens will feel like outcasts if they get an Android phone while their friends still use iMessage because of the [green bubbles](https://technology.inquirer.net/121775/why-green-imessage-bubbles-are-a-no-no-for-us-teens). It's actually hilarious how we allowed consumerism to take us this far and that we have now peer pressure over smartphones. >“You’re telling me in 2023, you still have a ’Droid? [...] You gotta be at least 50 years old.” ouch 😔

Hey. I want to buy a phone. My priorities are: camera >>>> performance >> battery I found the Mi 11 refurbished (excellent condition) for that price which I thing is VERY good for a phone that was a flagship and the camera seems to be EXCELLENT. Is there a better phone I can buy for that price? (Highest I can go is 250/300€) If possible, it should have custom ROM support (so probably Snapdragon cpu). I live in Spain. I recommend looking at prices in kimovil.

I want to know if it's reasonable to expect a degree of privacy with stock android.

I'm looking for a midrange android tablet, exclusively for taking notes with a stylus in Obsidian. It doesn't need to be powerful, but just take good notes. The ideal size is anything 11'' and under. I would also appreciate if it isn't too bloated, and behaves similar to stock android. I have looked mostly into the Pixel Tablet as well as the Lenovo M11, P11 and K11. Other suggestions are welcome.

In a recent update to the HSBC app they've added a screen to prevent you from using the app unless you use the default (google) keyboard. They do a similar thing if you have an accessibility service running that can access the screens content. A fair enough security warning if you've happened to install a dodgy keyboard app, but highly frustrating when using an open source alternative that enhances the security and privacy over the default option (HeliBoard in my case). I haven't found a way to circumvent the page yet. It would be useful if Android allowed you to block the permission to query all packages, but alas.

I don't like how my friends, family, and work contacts are mixed in to the menu when I press share. I see a random jumble of people from various apps on my device. I want to clean it up and just keep a few apps there (ex. Copy to clipboard, open in Firefox, share to signal) and remove the rest. Is this possible anymore? Some old threads suggest ShareDr but I can't install it since it's for an older version of Android