The Fairphone 4, as nominated by @be_gt@lemmy.world!

As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.

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But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to...

Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+, as nominated by @OpenStars@discuss.online!

You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!

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That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks!

(Nomination thread is here for future references.)

Previously: Submission Statement Edition

Haven't done these in a while, so let's get started.

1. Since we haven't really heard any feedback one way or the other, rule 8 is now official. To be fair, we've had a lot less microblog posts than I expected (only one Twitter/X post in the last month even after I waited longer than the initial 1-2 weeks expected, and that was a crosspost.)

• Again, the rules are always a work in progress, feel free to give your two cents here whenever you like.

2. As you guys know, PipedLinkBot went completely insane 2 days ago and looks like it's temporarily shut down. So, I'd like to use this opportunity to explain why I banned the bot pretty much immediately after our community reopened. (And gloat a bit, of course)

• Even though I do agree with the principle of using open source, privacy focused frontend instead of using Youtube directly, I have a real problem with using a bot to respond every time somebody posts a Youtube link. It feels like spam, and it doesn't feel like it serves any utility besides pushing an agenda (even though many people here would agree with it). Most people have seen it around here enough to use pipedvideo if they wanted it to use it already.

• I think it's always been a rage inducing part of the reddit experience that you see you received a response to your comment, but only have it been a bot smugly correcting your grammar or tell you all your letters are in order or something useless like that. So, for this place, I would like to make sure that everyone you talk to here is a real person as much as possible, because people inspire people to be greater, but bots don't.

> Can picking the wrong charger damage your expensive new smartphone purchase? Here's the facts you need to know.

Lizard insurance app mandates you give location permission, refusing access to the rest of the app otherwise. I have 0 intention of giving them this but so far have failed to find a phone number to call them (their mobile website tells me to use the app).

Until I find a different company run by living, real people, my current intention is to use the app to manage my insurance in the meantime. I don't want to give them my location, even if it's only while using the app, so how do I get the app to think it has my location when it actually doesn't?

inb4 just use a computer: nah. It's about spite at this point.

Are there any recent Android models that have native call recording enabled in EU?

I will root the phone if necessary, but considering that Google is closing the platform down even more by making custom/rooted ROMs fail security checks, I would prefer to avoid that.

Wuta Camera, Max Browser, WhatsApp Mods, Spotify Mods, and Minecraft Mods were found to be infected with a Necro Sideloader. All the apps are shown to contain CoralSDK. If you downloaded any of this remove the apps and wipe your phone.

As the title says. Google had released the pixel 9 pro xl here already, but not the 9 pro. Bummer for the early adopters, because they also dropped the price about $200ish when the new iphone dropped, a couple of months after launch.

Hey people. I have a bit of a niche situation. I use my phone with my left hand. When I hit the full screen button in YouTube or Jellyfin or any other app that can go full screen, the screen rotates to the right. So, if I rotate the phone the "natural way" for me, to the right, the image is upside down. Usually it only takes a second for the screen to rotate to the correct orientation, but sometimes it just refuses, so i have to do a weird dance with my phone (portrait-landscape-portrait-landscape).

Any idea of a way to "fix" this? I use a pixel 8, if it matters.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20178785

> Wanna share some of my thoughts re this. I don't wanna write a very long essay, so here are just 5 items – > > 1) I agree that 1 swipe down should let us alter the brightness. > > > 2) I'm OK with no sun icon in the brightness slider. I'll know that it's brightness even without any icon. But some may have a hard time, so adding an icon will be more user-friendly for them. > > 3) Obviously Nothing didn't wanna overuse their dot matrix design. I side with Nothing on this 1. Putting it all over the os will be 👎 for me. But beauty is subjective. Some may want the dot matrix design all over the os. > > Carl Pei probably thought re the folks switching from a different Android phone or an iPhone to a Nothing phone. He probably wants the process to be as smooth as possible so the user will be satisfied. So he didn't use the dot matrix design on the icons. He said something related to this. Changing many things fast versus changing some things gradually. He said Nothing couldn't be overeager to alter stuff. > > 4) Re the phone and messages apps, I wonder whether Nothing wanted the users to use the Google apps for these or Nothing is making their own now and will release those in the future. Is it so hard to make a phone app and a messages app? > > 5) I agree that Google photos is not for everyone. > > Some don't wanna have a Google account. > > Google photos is cloud-storage-focused, not local-storage-focused. Some want a local-storage-focused gallery app. > > Its search doesn't work offline. Some need a gallery app that works offline.

This is my first post on here, and the title tells it all, I have debloated my phone but I kinda wanna go the extra mile. And if there is no custom rom or way to install roms I might sell my Galaxy for something else (like a pixel 5 or something.) Or maybe a Thinkpad.

> It turns out that Android phone users can rename group chats for all participating iPhone owners thanks to RCS.

i use firefox with a lot of extensions, making the shortcut widget with the built-in add to home screen function won't work because it'll open the site with extensions disabled.

i've managed to make it work better by making the shortcut with internet disabled which opens the link in the actual firefox app but that gives the shortcut app a generic icon which looks bad.

i've searched around and there are apps that make shortcuts but no luck finding a foss one.

Are there any devices that, by default/by design, allow the user to unlock the bootloader totally offline, no ransom, validation, account, internet or whatever required?

> Starting in Android 15 QPR1, Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than 2 weeks old.

00:00​ I hacked Linus! 00:59​ How Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak hacked the telephone network 02:22​ Early history of the telephone 07:08​ The kidnapping of Sheikha Latifa 08:41​ How Signalling System No. 7 works 11:03​ Why SS7 is vulnerable to hacking 12:15​ How hackers gain access to phones 16:17​ How I was able to spy on Linus’ phone 18:09​ How hackers can intercept text messages 21:04​ How your location can be tracked via SS7 29:03​ How to protect your phone from hacking

Most of the android phones I've had came preinstalled with something called "Mobile Services". I normally remove it because it just keeps randomly installing apps and games that don't want but I've never had an active phone plan on those phones. If I disabled it from my phone, would I still be able to send and receive calls and texts?

So far the only thing I have found out is that "Mobile Services" is an app that is only preinstalled on android phones who's carrier is Tracfone.

Edit: Even though I wasn't able to get an answer, I've decided to just disable it. I wont be manually testing it and I wont be updating this post with results. I no longer care at this point and I wont be responding to anymore comments about this.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20065081

> Hey folks, > > So, some of the instruction steps I am not expert already. Once I do this kind of thing once or twice I usually never need help again. However, this would be the first one I do in a few years. > > Anyway... Moto X device, replace OS with Eclipse ROM. The instructions have a few steps. > > So, first of all, I have already gone into developer mode. The OEM unlock that is often there is not, so I need to know how to do that via ADB. I could probably look that up. The next thing is it says I have to already be on 4.4.4 Android build, and I cannot find that level of specificity in the About. I will post the page. > > I have downloaded the appropriate rom file. > Then it says wipe data but don't do a complete reset. Okay I will do that. > > Install the ROM. Okay, how? > > Reboot. I can handle that. > > So, I guess I need to unlock bootloader via ADB, I need to determine and ensure the current KitKat is up to 4.4.4 > Need to install the new ROM > > If someone could help me with these, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks! > > !About

> At the moment, birthdays that appear in Google Calendar are based on Google Contacts information, but manual creation is now coming.

> According to a Samsung moderator, the company still has no set release date for the anticipated One UI 7 beta update based on Android 15.

> Google could soon add a new Ultra HDR editing option in its Photos app for Android, replacing the current HDR effect feature.

> Google announced the first wave of Android Cross-device services at the end of May, and we’re now seeing Internet sharing and Call casting...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19906578 >> We've uncovered development towards a new Google Messages "Sending as" indicator that could support multiple profiles or dual-SIM usage.

Hello all!

My new phone (Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 running Android 14) keeps giving me this alert that an app is giving full screen notifications. The app in question is the freaking telephone app, which I of course want full screen notifications from! There's no option to disable the alert. (The two choices are "go to options" and "not now," by the way. And "go to options" takes you to the telephone app's notification settings.) I cannot seem to find a setting related to this, and I've disabled every Motorola app (including system apps) that I can find in the app list. Although, some of them don't allow disabling.

Anybody familiar with this by chance? I'm getting this stupid alert for every other phone call.

Thank you!

Still have this device somewhere

and 2 HTC Diamonds ( Windows CE ) - lol

Howdy fellow lemmings,

I know your collective knowledge is greater than mine, so I have come to you for your wisdom.

My OnePlus 9 is nearing the end of it's life. The power button doesn't work or registers a double press (I use tap2wake and tap2sleep instead) and some other parts are hinting that they're starting to die. Also, something in 915Mhz or 925Mhz seems to be causing random UI reboots at the grocery store. Might be hardware or custom rom related.

I'm looking for something with:

1. Unlockable bootloader with option for root. I may or may not root this time around, depends on how tailscale to my pihole at home works. I absolutely must be able to strip out the bloat and preferably the google apps as well (though I'd like to keep the option for play store), I'm extremely ad-phobic.
2. Open hardware that third party developers can properly use. I'm running CrDroid on my OP9 and it's ridiculously great, but cannot make good use of my camera. There are quality issues, cropping issues, and functionality issues and I've experienced similar with other phones I had in the past. Are there manufacturers who publish specs resulting in better 3rd party camera implementations? I would be fine with a more midrange phone, as I don't play many games, but I need the camera to work well.
3. A large/active modding scene is appreciated
4. Bonus points if they don't advertise a bunch of AI bs that I don't want or need
5. Location is USA, though phone can be from anywhere as long as it works. I need at least a few bands to be able to use the phone in Germany.

Can anyone advise on which manufacturers meet my requirements?

My understanding is: OnePlus - unlockable, rootable, custom ROM cameras suck unless the rom uses default op9 camera and it seems that this doesn't work well with more AOSP-y ROMS

Pixel - varies by manufacturer

ASUS - I'm seeing concerns about unlocking and Roms though it seems they have been good in the past

Nothing Phone - unlockable/rootable

Fairphone - seems ideologically pure, but performance, camera, and battery life may not be awesome

Suggestions and insights are appreciated.

> Google Maps is picking up a couple of new features on Android Auto, with a new and much easier way...

>Google’s rollout of the Find My Device network has been a bit less than ideal, but things are due to get better over time. One of the highly anticipated additions to Find My Device is support for UWB trackers, which the app appears to be preparing for with the addition of a “compass.”

The unknown phone is Techno

> Google could be working on a feature that syncs notifications between your Android phones and your Android tablets.

> Google seems to be preparing a new feature to help users backup their Health Connect data on devices running Android 15 or higher.

> Third-party Android launchers often suffer from limitations and issues because of Android, but this user survey could help.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19441320

> cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19441267 > > > I have a 2nd-gen chromecast, it's factory reset. If i plug it in all it tells me is to install the app to start configuring. > > > > I don't have a google account not do i want to install/use google-related stuff on my phone. > > > > My home router doesn't register any new device, which makes sense since the cast doesn't know the SSID/pass of the WiFi. > > > > Does it try to ping some service/port? Multicast perhaps? Where would it get an IP from without authenticating? > > > > My (wired) PC runs gentoo. > > > > How can i get it to work in these conditions?