Android

Hi everyone,

So I am looking for a phone[^Floss]:

• around 100-150€/$
• screen ~6.50'
• a mini jack 🎧
• Easy to install/Flash another ROM ! ( let's dream, maybe the vendor itself guide/help in order to do so )
• Bootloader not locked !?
• Easy to be the root [^root]
• Not need to be the newer model

[^Floss]: Floss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

[^root]: And by the way, why we should struggle and trick so much just to gain root access? Do are we not the owner of our phones? Why not a simple option that asks to be root? And the user will take its own responsibility for it !?

Hello everyone! Is there any alternative to android auto for a degoogled phone running microG? I mean, one that can connect on " android auto ready” devices.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60496784

It all goes well until brunch, when I get tons of errors about missing manifest xml's. I can browse to the folder where the xml file should be (the folder exists) but the folder is empty. Where am I supposed to get them??

EDIT: to be clear, this device has been dropped from LOS support. I have an installation zip and got the proprietary blobs tho...

I learned only yesterday that Google is going to effectively shut down open android. So I'm gonna have to move away from there. But what are my options? Is there a nice website that lists and compares alternatives?

I hear that Graphene is the goat, but I'm not on a pixel phone. Currently I'm on a Samsung galaxy a15

I hear about lineageOS as a good second, but it sounds like Google's decision to close down android might affect lineage too.

I hear about others, but I'm not too well versed in running obscure OS.

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/45175566

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/

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.

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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.