Android

I've been wanting to Curb my Doom Scrolling Habits as of Recent as I've been wasting waaaay to much time opening the Same Apps 5 Times in 10 Minutes.

One Method thats been Said to Work wonders in that Regard is to have Apps only be accessible after typing in a Password. After doing a bit of Light research it seems I'll need an App for this as I don't wanna deal with Samsungs "Safe Folder" needing a Samsung Account stuff.

Do any of you have Suggestions for Trust Worthy Apps for this?

Over the last three years I've had a lot of folks ask me questions about using GrapheneOS. Let's answer them!

I'm looking for a file manager or gallery app that will let me browse to particular directories easily (prefer a file manager interface for this), look at images I find in them, and (this seems to be the really hard part) easily rename them while I'm looking at them. I don't want a conventional gallery app that just presents one huge list of all the folders it found anywhere on my device, as there can be several with the same name, and it's tedious to figure out what directory each one is under. I need to be able to go to a particular directory, look at the images within, and rename them while looking at them - the quicker & easier the better.

Help?

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/45174889

Reddit post by Jeff Gadway: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClicksPhone/comments/1rg082s/clicks_communicator_coming_in_azerty_qwertz/

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/45175566

Hi all,

I'm looking for a GUI way to utilize a VPN over TLS. I can host whatever backend VPN is needed to tunnel through, Wireguard, OpenVPN, SSH, anything. My goal is to have the VPN travel over port 443 as TLS traffic and still be able to use the native android blocks for when the VPN is not active. I currently use Wireguard, but need to convert to a TLS solution.

So far the most promising and up-to-date I've found is WSTunnel: https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel with this guide from Hetzner: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/obfuscating-wireguard-using-wstunnel, however this requires me to run a command line app in Termux and then the WG client on top of that, vs having a full GUI option. I'll go down this path if I need to, but want to make sure I'm not missing something.

Thanks!

I have created a tech content platform with thousands of tech feeds from individual bloggers, open source projects and enterprises.

The content is organised into spaces. In the Android space, you can find the latest Android related articles. In each space you can control the filtering with a threshold parameter.

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I'm having trouble finding a good WiFi or Bluetooth walkie app. Both of them on f droid are too old to run on android 16

It claims to be compatible with most Android apps under the sun though I still assume VR headsets are a solution in search of a problem (though of course you are free to disagree).

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.

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?

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.

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.

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
• UserLAnd
• Termux (install distro via command line)

Mobile distros:

• Mobian (aims to mainline into Debian)
• Droidian
• Maemo Leste
• Postmarket (based on Alpine)
• Manjaro (based on Arch)
• Ubuntu Touch
• Pocket Blue (Fedora-based)
• Others

Mobile desktop environments options to try on your distro:

• Phosh (Gnome-based)
• Plasma Mobile
• Lomiri
• GNOME (mobile) Shell

You could even try installing Waydroid in it for Xzibit-style Android-ception

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

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