Yes, mostly using Magisk and addon, I used it for a couple of years on a rooted device, to fool banking app and netflix and whatnot, but it’s a cat and mouse game… android update something, next time you want to tap to pay, it does not work, you have to go on XDA and search for the right addon/trick to fool it again, and 2 weeks later, same thing… after doing it for months/years, it’s boring and annoying…

Keep a “secure” phone with locked bootloader for banking/tap to pay etc, and use others phones to tinker with, install ROM, etc.

Great, but what hardware do you need? Will it work with a pixel 7? 8? 9?

On my PoCo phone, google clock was being killed during the night to preserve battery, even if I set it to “unrestricted”. I have to use the MiClock for my alarm.

Debloat your phone with UAD maybe, no root require, you can simply disable an app instead of really uninstall it, it’s safer

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

Afaik this is a host “problem”, not client. If you have a Asus mesh, you can set some rssi level at when the host will disconnect the client so the client will connect on the other AP.

Else the client will happily stay on the weaker host. On

Lol I thought it did not exist anymore, like in Canada (where I am)

I have a PoCo F3, basically a xiaomi, and I disabled all their crap, especially security/avast

My phone support (and came with) a 33W charger, I tested it and it properly charges at 11V 3A, very quick, I used it 2 or 3 times only in emergency because I had to go and 20 minutes charges to 70% or something.

Else? My phone is on my desk, connected to the computer, it charges slowly (5V 500mA?), when it reaches 80-85% I unplug it.

I WFH so it is never a problem, I keep my phone between 30 and 80% most of the time. After 2 years battery life is still impressive I think.

I pay with my phone since 2016, don’t even have a wallet anymore. On my previous phones I installed custom ROMs and too often after a g-pay update or whatever, I had to install all kind of magisk modules and scripts and hiding app or fake testpass or whatever to have my g-pay working… for days/weeks until the next upgrade that borked eveything and you have to explore XDA and find all the trick to re-enable it, until the next time etc. It goes boring pretty fast. My latest phone I kept the bootloader locked and OEM rom.

The guy who is making Connect did its initial release in 4 or 5 days, I remember I tried it, he was updating multiple times a day in the beginning, impressive

A lot of company are doing that, in Canada or USA. It’s completely disclosed, e.g. https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans check the Domestic mobile hotspot line entry, depending on your plan there’s a limit in speed or GB.

Yeah but if I cannot tap to pay, it’s a no for me…

Can you use Google Wallet and tap to pay with it?

I did with my old samsung, motorola, asus, nokia. But my last phone, PoCo F3, no, especially because it’s difficult to have a working Google Wallet with unlocked bootloader/root. I did it with my asus zenphone and nokia, but damn it broke every few weeks with a google update, and you needed to patch after patch after faking stuff and magisk addons etc for it to run a couple of weeks and BAM! Google Pay was disabled again… very annoying.

On my F3 I disabled/uninstalled unwanted apps with a debloater and I’m using Firefox for browsing. No need to root yet. When I’ll change phone I’ll root the old one.

I’m trying app for a month, problems were mostly from instance network unstable and all, at some point only PWA was ok.

Now the latest Jerboa is stable and pretty nice, in list mode. Connect is updated every day with new features and bug fixes.

I’m waiting for Sync.

Yup, incredible, I was using SyncPro hours per day for 10 years, I certainly spent thousands of hours on it ☹️