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They track the status on this repo: https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
TLDR:
ℹ️ “Safe for now” :trollface:
- Nothing
- OnePlus
- Microsoft
- Umidigi
- Micromax
- Ulefone
- Blackview
- Cubot
- Oukitel
I think you can’t change that on any other os. It should be implemented better in the app. You just type/share the ssid and password and the app should trust you that you know what you are doing, and it will be able to connect even if it’s not the network you are currently connected to.
E.g. the shelly app allows this, you can just type any ssid and pw.
That’s a bit more niche device, no xda page. I couldn’t found any custom rom for that device.
Most xiaomi devices at least have the so called xiaomi.eu rom is available which is basically the same as the original rom, but every chinese only parts and gapps removed. It doesn’t have one as the developer wrote here:
Actually, no. Conditions for a device to be supported: https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/supported-devices.65673/ Redmi 10C has a 720p resolution, while we only support 1080p and 1440p resolution devices. Please, don’t buy trash devices if you wish to use our ROMs.
So as this is a low end budget device I wouldn’t expect that it will be supported by any 3rd party. If you really want to hack on this device, you are on your own.
With this knowledge I would do the following:
- Unlock the bootloader. You can find info how you can do that here: https://mifirm.net/model/fog.ttt
- Install magisk for root: https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/
- Try to remove google services and optionally replace it with microg. Nanolx has a nice writeup how to do this on unsupported devices: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/-/blob/master/doc/Installation.md#installation-on-stock-rom-with-gapps
- If you mess it up at some point you can always reflash the factory rom, you can download it from here: https://miuirom.org/phones/redmi-10c
Good luck!
That’s a redmi 9c if that model number is correct. No official lineage support, but there are a lot of interesting roms on xda: https://xdaforums.com/c/redmi-9c.10999/
This seems good, official, gapps is optional: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-12-1-official-nusantara-project-4-5-unified-for-redmi-9a-9c-9-activ-garden-sinila-updated.4374805/
Afaik if you replace the rom they cant really do much. Also MIUI or whatever they call it nowadays is the worst android experience i’ve ever used.
I looked it up on the internet, e.g here it has only mean data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-country
Maybe 5 is not the exact number but it should be in that range.
I never said the quality is generally bad, but I think he misunderstands why other companies ask for details, that’s my point. If you don’t design something with enough details, you basically allows someone else to design it with your name on it.
Do you think Apple just sends a vague sketch about the iphone to china and let them figure out the details? As a designer you shouldn’t do that, because if something wrong happens with that thing it’s your liability.
He won’t tell the Chinese company what kind of welding should they use, so you can be sure they will use the cheapest method, because they also need money for food. If he would design the product correctly, with requiring standards, than I guess the price would be also higher, because now the Chinese company can’t use the cheaper option.
Well, I have a feeling that the fact that US median salary is around 5 times the Chinese is also plays a role here…
So for the same job which requires a human you have to pay ~5 times more to be made in the US, and for a black coated box like the one in the video it doesn’t really matter if it will be sitting in a container for 1 week or 4 weeks, so that’s a reason as well…
He speaks about in the video that the Chinese design details for him for free. But whose liability would be if that weld in the corner breaks? He will tell it was because the manufacturer used some bad welding practice, but he will have to pay for that. Good luck trying to sue a sweatshop in China from the US… The American company asks for details to cover their asses, not because they don’t know, so for a design failure they can point to the designer.
I’m not a metal shop I’m a software development company
This perfectly sums up. You don’t know what you are doing and the Chinese also see this, but they see it as an exploitable stupid American, who has no idea what he speaks about, so they can sell him the lowest quality product…
Yeah, because it works? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8
Today I fixed a carrier’s router by simply rebooting it, something was messed up with port forwarding, everything looked good on the webui, but it didn’t worked correctly. Reboot, bam, works.
As more things become “smart” (for the better or worse) and filled with microprocessors, it will become more common. Also it’s not just digital I remember some analog things could be helped by a reboot, the extra surge after a switch on can help some electrical components, waiting for capacitors to loose current can help.
And electric toothbrushes are much older, the first patent was filed in 1937. 40 years ago it was 1985, cordless electric toothbrushes are with us since 1960s…
And 40 years ago we couldn’t chat about an article with people on the other side of the planet, so I don’t really understand the comparison. Yes, Mr. Chen you are becoming older, as everyone else, wow, nice observation… The common workflows to fix your medieval daily things back in the day were different, obviously, we have different workflows now. I guess you couldn’t help your great-grandparent troubleshoot an issue with the gadgets of their time.
An actual problem is in the last sentence of the blog post, and nor the author of the article, nor Mr. Chen thinks of this as a much more bigger problem:
Oh, by the way, my attempts to reboot the electric toothbrush were unsuccessful. I had to replace it.
That shouldn’t be a solution. ONLY AFTER RESTARTING SOME TIME? No other ways were tried to fix it? Did he tried too take it apart an look for some clear problems? You should be able to fix it. Maybe just the battery died? or if the battery is alright, you can reuse that in your next toothbrush. I would restart a thing a million times instead of throwing it out. They are yelling at the wrong thing, and ignore the elephant.
Look up microg, with that you can use apps like that without play services
And you generate traffic for them, thanks. You could just directly link to the install docs on PostmarketOS, not for a shitty third party site: https://postmarketos.org/install/
Yes, title is very misleading. For the curious here is the list of currently supported phones: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Phones
You could write a similar article: How to install docker on your microwave oven: Step one, install a linux distro on your microwave…
Nonetheless PMOS is genial, I installed it on my Kobo ebook reader.
It’s a feature of an Android app (I even guess it’s preinstalled on some devices), and it was clearly stated in the title, that it’s not an Android feature, but it’s a feature of G**gle Authenticator.
Yesterday you agreed to my comment, that the problem is when Android and other app features are mixed up. Here it’s clearly stated that it’s not an Android feature.
You request more tight moderation, but unnecessarily strict mod control can kill communities. This news is related to Android, and isn’t against any of the rules on the sidebar. If you don’t want to see it downvote and move along. If a lot of us downvote it maybe OP will think differently and stop posting these articles.
I’m also ok if both of them are posted here, as most people use android with Google Play Services (GMS). But I’m annoyed when the two used as a synonyms. E.g “Android will get a new XY feature” than I open the article and I see it will be a feature of GMS not mainline android.
On a basic news website, or even in a more casual lemmy community I wouldn’t be bothered with this. But we should be a bit more professional in a dedicated android community, with less clickbaity titles.
BTW I use microG
Is this that though? Isn’t MKBHD just a youtube personality? I mean, you can live well from youtube if you do good quality stuff, but is he considered a “rich person”. If it would be zuck or elon or warren buffet, I would see your point, but I don’t see a reviewer as someone from a “higher class”, he is basically just a specialized journalist, who is looking for more ways to convert some of his fame to money, because youtube still doesn’t pay enough to him.
Do you also hate Linus because he constantly advertises his underwear, which is exactly the same as one you can get in any shop but for double price. It’s also a “scam” if you think about this way. I don’t know why there is this huge outcry for this as it happened a million times before, and I’m sure it will happen in the future.
You will loose your mind when you will learn about the girl who sold her used bathwater…
Why do you care? People do a lot of stupid and wrong things, you don’t have to care or share these things. See my example: I read about this backround image app or whatever is this, I thought “yeah, it’s stupid and I don’t care” and moved on with my life. Never thought about this again until you posted this here. There are a lot more important things to be angry about. Ignore the unnecessary. This guy makes nicely edited reviews, that’s all, forget the extra bullshit around that. Your life will be better.
Why don’t you just reflash the LOS image? You can get into bootloader, right? If you are there, just fastboot flash the LOS image: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/dubai/install/#flashing-additional-partitions
Than you should get to the LOS recovery, from there you can wipe? Or do you need authorization for fastboot as well like for adb?
Or is it a requirement that you need data from the phone?
Early iOs and Android icons were one of the last offshoot of the style called “Frutiger Aero”
Flat icons don’t necessarily bad and undetailed, it’s just harder to create something more recogniseable with less tools, but I actually like the order, that they look like they are related to each other. Back in the day I created icon packs for the programs I used on pc, so my desktop would look clean and uniform.
Design styles are in a cycle, just wait some years and they will show up again, I’m sure. There is already some connection with the new style of windows 11.
Redmis usually have a good 3rd party rom support, if you can open the bootloader. Literally any rom is a better experience than MIUI or whatever they call that nowadays.
There is already a crdroid official available: https://xdaforums.com/f/xiaomi-redmi-note-13-pro-5g-poco-x6-5g.12860/
It’s the most common and most supported 3rd party Android rom:
Usually you can have 3 kind of rom for an android device:
- Default from manufactuerer: usually locked down, shitty default apps and preinstalled crapware, updates stop soon. Usually stable.
- Cooked/unofficial rom from xda or telegram: some script kiddy has the same phone as you and they share the rom they built from source. Hit or miss, sometimes very good, sometimes terrible. Updates stop when script kiddy gets a new phone.
- Official 3rd party rom, Lineage is the most common, Crdroid, Graphene, eos and other secure and special roms are in this category, but they support far less devices. Updates are automatic, built by a server every month. Someone have to set it up, so you still need someone interested about this in the community, and the manufacturer have to release drivers, firmware. (They should be legally, but noone cares) Usually that’s the best experience you can get on an Android device nowadays
You can still install android on them, BlissOs is a rom for x86 devices. Intel and amd gpu hw acceleration works ootb: https://docs.blissos.org/knowledgebase/frequently-asked-questions/hardware-compatibility/ If you just need for media consumption they are good, some apps don’t work as they only support arm cpus.
The reason is choice and support. On an arm android device you have to wait for the manufacturer for updates or to publish source, so someone can support the device for you. With x86 it’s just a normal, standard pc, you can do whatever you want.
Never heard of Transsion before:
Transsion sells mobile phones in Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. It operates mobile phone brands Tecno, Itel, and Infinix, as well as after-sales support service Carlcare and accessories brand Oraimo
I see, so all instance admins can see that theoretically, but regular users can’t. I don’t remember where I read what I wrote, can’t find it now.
It’s a bit misleading that lemmy developers themself call votes “essentially anonymous” like in this issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4088
With this in mind I will go back to upvote memes with my other accounts, and switch between them more regularly.
Antartic treaty says it’s not part of any country, but I guess steam is available there.
That’s link rot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot I warned you that it’s expected for such an old device. If noone mirrors the links in the thread you are out of luck to find old roms. Maybe you can try to message the original uploaders, maybe they still have the files on some old drive. Maybe look at the end of the thread.
This phone is 3G only, so it’s possible that mobile data won’t work anymore, shutdown of 3G networks are ongoing worldwide. Here where I live all carriers switched off their 3G networks. Wikipedia has a list with shutdown dates per country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase-out You can still use this phone with wifi though.
I found some threads about this phone on xda, there are some tutorials on how to get started with no rom flashing experience. But these threads are old, so expect rotten links. https://xdaforums.com/f/samsung-galaxy-s-duos-2.4723/
I recommend this one after a quick glance through the threads: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-5-1-1-cm-stable-unofficial-cm12-1-galaxy-s-duos-2-trend-plus-s7580-s7582.3225297/ It has detailed instructions, stable and 5+. Most Android apps nowadays require Android 5+.
The official name of this phone is Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus, and it’s really similar to S Duos 2, also search for those.
Can you check the package names of the apps? On F-droid website you can see it in the url, for example https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jens.automation2/ the code is com.jens.automation2. You should see the same name on the page of the app in settings if you scroll down.
If the names are the same than nothing nefarious should be happening behind the scenes.
Unknown source can mean it’s not from a built-in store. If you would be rooted and install the F-droid Privileged Extension it should show up there correctly. Maybe they just block reading this kind of info from F-droid.
On common Xiaomi phones the rom cooking community is very vivid usually, you can just replace the shitty default rom really easily. Start to look for roms and tutorials about rooting on xdaforums
He is coming from a finance background, so the math and logic part of programming should have been easy for him. I guess he was also familiar with Excel formulas, from there to learn python is not an unbelievably big step, 1.5 years should be enough.
On the photo you can see the phone connects to a webpage(172.28.172.2:3000), which I guess running on the black box, so it’s just a website actually. There are literally tutorials on the internet to create something similar, first result: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-an-intelligent-chatbot-in-python-using-the-spacy-nlp-library
The article also mentions 40 people working for Jolla, I just don’t understand that line, why the manager had to learn to program, if he had 40 programmers to do this?
Actually their Sailfish os is not bad, it’s based on Linux, originally developed by Intel and Nokia, and they have a proprietary Android compatibility tool which can run Android apps very well on their phone. There was an article about this tool recently, compared to waydroid by a Gnome developer: https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/
Maybe all the programmer had better things to do, everyone could see that this current AI hype will just disappear in some years, and they just wanted to show something on MWC, and only the boss had time to dive into this bullshit.
Saarnio himself built the first product mock ups, after spending the last 1.5 years learning to program — upskilling from his former finance-focused background to close in on the AI opportunity.
It’s so hard to find programmers nowadays that this entrepreneur had to learn to program to create this raspberypi in a box.
Someone else had problems with this module and syncthing: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/scanning-syncing-with-syncthing-android-is-extremely-slow-1570/15770
In this thread there are some possible solutions and workarounds: https://xdaforums.com/t/fix-android-media-scanner-sdcard-cpu-utilization-battery-drain.2544220/
Here is another: https://xdaforums.com/t/battery-drain-com-android-providers-media-module.4321313/post-85829175
My current phone has an SD card slot but I never used it. I sync my photos to my server via wifi. In 2025 I don’t really see it’s point.
Also type-c usb drives and external hdds are common nowadays, if you just want to backup huge data via a wire, you can do that via it’s port. It’s more convenient plugging-unplugging an usb drive than removing the sd card, I use this feature occasionally.