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Bit of back story, I started with Android (2010-2014) but have used iPhone since. I have an Android phone (Galaxy S10) I use for some things. My wife is an Android user since 2010 but is not very technical.

When I’m using Android Auto, my phone will intermittently lose cell signal. It doesn’t happen all the time. Sometimes I’ll go weeks or months without it happening, then other times it will happen several times in a single trip.

Hours ago i freed up ~600 mb of space.

I’m looking for recommendations for a new-ish tablet that can do light gaming and video streaming, that can run on custom ROMs like Lineageos or equivalent Google-free Android.

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What can I do? It’s really annoying if you have a lot of apps and you have to confirm every installation manually… I’m using the newest LineageOS

Is there any hidden system setting, developer option, adb command, patch, and/or prop I can change to not require that? Root access is available if required (which I assume would be the case). Barring that, are there any custom ROM which don’t require periodic entry of the PIN in order to use fingerprint unlock?

I can’t seem to locate one anywhere that isn’t a 3-10 year old untouched repo on GitHub.

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I’m looking for something like Librewolf which I’m using daily on my desktop but for Android.

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I’ve seen NFC Taginfo used a lot, but it appears to be proprietary. MIFARE Classic Tool is FOSS, but it’s for more specific hardware than TagInfo.

I need an android tablet, the budget is around 270€. It doesn't need to be really powerful, just something my family could use to play online chess, watch videos etc.

Lots of features in it, but I don't trust random teams distributing apps on Telegram channels.

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Need to overwrite lots data (talkin ≳100 GB) using some thing like Extirpater in hopes it all can't be recovered . Hoping some one here will have knowledge whether this's safe for me to do as it's not really explained tꝏ well in provided link !

I've got an old nVidia Shield (2017) that doesn't handle 4K AV1. Unfortunately, it looks like AV1 is missing from the latest models, too.

I'm thinking about switching from Signal to Molly because I've heard that the UX in Molly is better. Is this true? Have they implemented Material 3 Expressive? Design-wise, what are the improvements over Signal?

After my phone updated to Android 16 last week, I've noticed that bluetooth gets re-enabled every day, even though I manually turn it off. I never use anything with bluetooth, so I figure I should just leave it off. I disable it in the top pull-down settings menu. But, every morning, it is turned back on again. I'm about 99.9% sure that I'm not turning it on in my sleep.

I get a ton of spam messages. I want to archive or delete those messages based on what I flag as spam. A basic Bayesian spam filter would be good too.

I'm talking about the back, home and app switcher buttons. I've just bought a Google Pixel Pro 9 but something that's really bugging me is that I can barely reach the back button, I keep accidentally pressing the home button. When I hold my phone in my right hand, my thumb only covers half way across and half way up.

Please .... I'm desperate, please help me find recovery or kernel(with included recovery) links that work! Or files!!

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anybody else noticing some pages hang loading for ages on mobile?

I'm not new to Android, but new to Lawnchair and was able to download and install Lawnchair 15 Beta 1 Google Play release.

Hi I am looking for a good e-book reader that is FOSS I tried myne but when I try to import my EPUB file it gives an error.

Is there a modern Darq alternative which forces dark background on other apps targetting modern android versions like 15, 16?

I've got a Mi 10t Lite 5g that's starting to show its age, and could do with a factory reset to clear some of the crap. Ideally I want to unlock the bootloader and try some custom ROMs too.

So, I've had a s21 ultra that I bought second hand years ago and I love it. I don't use as primary because I don't trust google/samsung (I use graphene on a pixel5) but I keep it as stock for the amazing camera.

Something turn-based, battery-light and enjoyable.

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I use Transit, but I'm always curious what else is out there, particularly for bike navigation on protected bike lanes.

Hello guys. I have island installed and have my "work profile" installed, which contains among others my browser in the island tab. The situation is that I have several PWAs that I dont want to receive notifications for while I am at work as they are distracting and unnecessarily annoying, but I want to receive them normally while not at work.

There was once a tremendous app on IzzyOnDroid called SuperImage, which allows me to upscale images.

I recently installed Wallabag and the software does the job, but the apps to interact with it, that I've found, could all do with a lick of paint. I'm currently using Frigoligo but I'm hoping there's something better out there. Anyone know of one?

Device: Ulefone Armor 24 (cheap-ish Chinese brand)

My phone still works perfectly fine despite its age and I'm too cheap to buy a new one.

I have a problem with noisy neighbours and want an app to measure and record the volume of their noise for possible legal action.

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i am having a problem the massive reset/reload of continuous frequent cell phone data connection

I quite like my launcher, but unfortunately it's closed sourced and employs some unsavoury features, despite being paid, it's limited in how many devices it can be installed on and it nags users for staying on old versions.

So, recently I read an article stating that apps can still access installed apps on your phone as long as they list the apps in their manifest or use intent based hacks. Unfortunately, the app I use to restrict permissions (App OPS) does not have any measure against this.

I am looking for a smartphone that is a music player at the same time, I want the device to have physical buttons for play/stop next/previous song. I can find android devices that are music players with physical buttons but are not smartphones.

I downloaded and successfully setup buzzkill. Then a day or two later found FilterBox. It was created at the same time as buzzkill but has AI spam filtering – I'm guessing a traditional algorithm for spam filtering used in emails and not an an actual LLM.

The sync developer has been MIA for a long time (1 year or longer) and I fear it will stop working sooner or later when Lemmy instances start updating to v1.0 in future.

My uncle just belled me to say that the define option has disappeared from his phone when selecting words and it's only happening since switching to his S25+. The option is always there on my Pixel, any idea how to restore it?

Title. The app is incredibly slow to respond to inputs and periodically freezes. Not sure why.

So, an ac​quain​tance of mine has a malware which shows an ad every once a while especially when you install apps.

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Ever since we've gone to hybrid working, I've been having to deactivate work notifications and enable game notifications back and forth and it's driving me nuts.

What the title says. When it reboots, the screen just turns black without any warning or pop up windows. (Though I think I have seen a very dim flash of a red warning strip across the screen one time when using it in the dark.)

I am interested in installing a de-googled android on my phone, but I would like to try it out a little bit first. Is there some way to emulate a phone on my PC, or is there anything like dual booting on phones?

Looking for a clean way to display newest article on RSS feed.

It's fine via Termux, but I don't seem to be able to do it at all via the new Android 15 Terminal that's running Debian.

I’m new to android. (Default android 13, not looking to install custom ROMs because I need this to be very functional and dont have time to deal with bugs).

Like the Meebok M7 which runs Android 11. I know most apps support Android 9 as minimum, but how future proof will Android 11 be for these coming 5 years for example? I know it went EOL like last year. I could go for the Meebook M8 with Android 14, but it's much more expensive..

I have stuff I've prepared to help my family with what is coming, info, steps to take, articles and other sources and evidence, etc. Its in multiple formats. What's the best and/or easiest way to move it to SNote or another E2EE app?

As the title asks, why do so many email apps go on to add calendars? What's wrong with keeping them as separate apps?

I’m thinking of buying one of the two models, not to read but because I have a disability that basically makes it impossible for me to use normal phones due to visual overload. I have a couple questions:

So I haven't run a custom ROM for a long time and I'm thinking of trying out GrapheneOS. Before I do, is there a modern way to take a full disk image of a stock Pixel 8? The intent would be to factory restore to where I am in this moment if need be.

Silent notifications are annoying me, they put up icons by the clock and make me think I have something to notice but it's just a service.

Does anyone know where I could find comparisons of the various Lemmy clients available? I'd like to see something contrasting things like app maturity, features available, update release frequency, and etc?

I don't want to use a USB, what's a quick and secure way to get data from a phone to a computer? They can be on the same WiFi network

I recently switched from a pixel 6 to a fairphone 5. There was stuff like a smart screenshot (which worked half the time) and the ability to select text most of the time. The fairphone doesnt have that, and i wonder if its a first party google feature, or if theres a different rom i should use.

So I have a debate in my head right now about how I should handle devices stored unattended in vehicles. The criteria: