Shockingly, I’m very surprised a trillion dollar company could miss such an obvious bug. /s

I don’t see a force dark mode option in dev settings? I am also plagued by this bug.

I’ve never hear of a typing notification…and I gotta say, that sounds absolutely horrible.

Its probably only to get you in the app, maybe you start typing a message to someone else while you wait for the first, and that person start typing a message to someone and the chain eventually gets to the first person distracting them from finishing their message to you creating a terrible cycle of pointless notifications and you still have no idea why you opened the app.

the fanart for 18 is going to be interesting…further investigation will be required.

It would also help to limit how many times you can click the “10 more minutes” button. Sure you can have an extra 10 to finish up whatever you’re watching/playing/etc, but after that you’re done.

If it functions like the headline suggests;

It’s for when you’re already on the phone with them, if they start asking for your name, address and social security number the systems says “scam detected”.

Not really the answer to your question, but maybe my recent experience will help.

A lot of apps can export settings. Having recently joined the alternative android club, that was a definitely a time saver. On my last phone transfer I spent a few day when I had time reconfiguring every app, this time around all my main apps were pretty much fully setup in an hour.

For an “app list”, I just took a screen shot of my home screen layout and app drawer. Had everything downloading in about 10 minutes. Home screen took a bit to put back together. If you can export the launcher config, maybe restoring it after you’ve downloaded everything will restore home screen layout too…no clue, I never tried that one.

I use K-9 mail (its on F-droid too).

Its soon to be the Thunderbird mobile client.

That’s a fair point. I set up totp as a backup, but most won’t.

So the remote screen lock only takes a phone number? No sign in necessary??? Edit: It needs a “security challange”, so better than nothing. The funnier part is you need a phone to call their number after visiting the website. At least with “Find my” I can just login anywhere and lock it.

Could I enter my friend’s phone number? Could someone make a script to to lock phones at random times???

That would be infuriating.

You can pin buttons too. I have left/right cursor arrows and clipboard buttons pined. Super handy for me.

Speaking of tracking, any one have any good suggestions?

I use for another feature somehow missing “confirm call”

Gives you chance to double check the name.

One feature I miss from my Samsung was “flip to silence ringer”. Was great for letting spams/unknown ring all the way to voicemail without listening to the ring or making it obvious I declined the call.

My pixel puts the whole damn phone to silent mode.

Got my pixel direct, the unlock for me was greyed until I connected to WiFi. Other than that, I didn’t have to sign into anything and immediately put graphine on it.

Survay is anonymous and takes 1-2 minutes.

Everyone fill it out, don’t care if your on iphone (its not like google cares about your privacy), just fill out the damn thing.

Don’t check everything, check a few random things to make it look legitimate.

Let’s all be honest and not fill the survay with bull-shit data that helps 3rd-prarty launchers, that would be imoral. Remember google’s old motto, don’t be evil.

I hope that’s a good thing…

Good luck. It is a bit weird getting setup at first with the way they do profiles, but once its set you dont have to think about it if you need to make a new alarm.

“Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers” also known as AMDroid Alarm clock.

Yes it can shuffle music.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amdroidalarmclock.amdroid

Downsides; Not FoSS and not free, however it is a cheap one time purchase, no subscriptions. free version ads are just unobtrusive banners. I have Netgaurd blocking WiFi and cell with no issues.

Features: (no idea what’s paid and not)

• Incredibly customizable, I never knew there could be so many alarm options - but there are.
• you can make different alarm profiles, so you only have to set up each “type” of alarm you want once. From there, you just set a time and pick a profile with your settings. Everything from this point on is profile specific.
• pick any sounds on device (or a folder for random picks), set volume, vibrate, ingnore do not disturb, ignore headphones plugged in, etc.
• Calandar integration. If you have a schedule that varies, you can set it up to follow that instead of set-days and times.
• One time skip and one time adjust buttons. Need to wake up an hour early one day, got tomorrow off? Just use these to make the adjustment, next day the alarm will back to normal.
• optional post alarm “are you awake?” notifications. Dismiss the alarm but fell back asleep? After a few minutes (user set time) it will ask if your awake. With no response, after some time the alarm will go again. (With a different sound or volume if you like)
• snooze timmer can decrease each time you use it. First snooze 10 min, next is 8, then 6 and so on.
• various optional challenges that I don’t use. Easy things like type out this text, to the WiFi signal must be higher than X (go stand next your router to shut off alarm).
• location based settings - for example, morning alarms only go off at hone, break alarms only go off at work.
• the list continues for some time, but I’ll stop here.

NetGaurd.

Others have said it, I’ll say it again.

It gives seperate control over WiFi and cell. So for example my weather widget won’t update in background over cell, but on WiFi it can update all day.

Only downside is it takes up your 1 VPN “slot”, which might be a bad thing if you a vpn.

Well thats a suprise. Being google I just assumed they intercept everything for data mining.

Here’s my 5

• stop spying on me
• Bring back controlling the color of my contacts.
• stop selling my data
• end to end encryption
• a desktop app that stays signed in (the browser is nice, but having a dedicated app would be cool)

It looks like this this has a more usable start menu than windows.

From what I found, the short answer is no.

Long answer, summarized from a form post: the original dev got sick and launcher was left in limbo. Someone eventually contacted dev, the dev got better but “left android” and gave the person permission to open source it.

It is now avalible on GitHub, but does not seem to have an apk for download.

Anyone know if any alternative supports app-drawer paging? Ive tried around six in the last few days, and none so far have. I’m open to trying other workflows but the “catch all” dock isn’t it.

I like to keep my home screen with a few widgets and the dock - stuff I want to see often, but not open an app for like weather and calandar.

When I open the app drawer I see a page full of everything I use daily, then I can swipe to the other pages organized for work apps, games, and other crap.

Folders don’t work as well because they usually sorted at the top of the screen and not quickly reached.

I’ve tried some of the minimislt scrolling launchers, but 1) I dont remember the exact name of every app and 2) for me, having to scroll through a list 100+ apps to get to “outlook”(for work) is not faster than having a page of my 20 most used apps.

Well that really sucks.

It sounds like the file permissions were changed/reset. As a not Motorola user, I have no clue any difference you may have, but I’ll try to help.

Judging by your date of June 22, I’m guessing its been a month sence you got this, or was it just rolled out to you in the last few days?

Here a few potential spots to start, theres a high chance you’ve done them already, but I’ll start here.

• If you share a new folder to your device, does it ask permission to “access the folder”. You may just have to redo all your syncs.

• • if you where previosuly syncing to the system “root” folder, you can not. (The folder with “Android” and “Pictures”. You have to be in a sub-folder. (No idea how long this has been a thing, but will include anyways)).

• Does sync thing (and your file apps) have any new required permissions, obviosuly ensure your running the latest version. It might require a reinstall to retrigger the permission diologues.

• • There is a backup option in the sync thing app, however I have never used it and thus have no idea how “complete” of backup it is.

Thats the neat part; they found a billion of people to test for free!

That verb is quite cumbersome to use, I propose the following;

• “A quick ducking”
• “I ducked it”
• “Go duck it!”
• “You should duck him”
• “never duck that”
• “You should often duck yourself to learn what it will be like when other people duck you.”

The point is you know its an official app and not some scam or independently ran group posing as an official government app

Who cares if they outsourced the development? The point is they have an app, and the badge tells you its legit (assuming we can trust the badge and its not trivial to trick google into giving any app the badge).

Still on Nova too. Haven’t had any issues. It’s internet access is blocked.

Netgaurd does not require root.

It can run as a VPN, to funel and block unwanted WiFi or data usage from apps. Lots of settings and options per app to block WiFi and/or data. You can also set it so an app will allowed only if the screen is on (good for weather, lemmy or email updates)

As for gmail, it sounds like that would be setting within gmail, however I just briefly looked and did not see it. Personally I switched to K-9 email, it works great for me. I wonder if gmail follows the system data saver or something stupid (If you happen to have that on)?

Heliboard (keyboard) just released on F-Droid. (Its the continuation of Openboard which is no longer maintained.)

Netgaurd - blocks apps from acessing WiFi or cell. Great for crippling spyware and getting misc apps with background updates to be WiFi only.

I use K-9 Mail for email. Eventually its going to be taken over by Thunderbird to become their long over due mobile client.

I’ve been checking F-droid first for miscilanous utilities I need, such as a .txt editor or PDF viewer.

Any store that gives you access to the actual downloads is the way to go.

iTunes is suprisngly good about this - on a PC. Wherever the library folder is, you can just copy the files to your phone’s music folder (You might have to convert them from m4a to mp3 first). (You can also export ituens playlists to transfer them)

bandcamp, and amazon are good alts to itunes. (Not prime music, search for a song or album and buy the mp3 version just as if your buying anything else).