Because it doesn't work for Amazon (it kinda go dark, but buggy) and Zepp Life, and probably others.

My device is rooted.

I’m using Connect and am quite happy with it. I’ve tried Sync, Infinity, Jerboa and a few others. None seems to allow me to swipe between an open post (and their comments below) and the next one by simply swiping right (or left for the previous post).

I was wondering if I was missing anything?

Connect has an experimental feature doing something close to it but it’s not perfect.

Yo,

Does anyone know how the "quick reactions" in telegram X work? On the normal app, you double click the message, and your preset reaction bops in. It doesn't seem to work the same way in X. There is a setting for it, but I have no idea how to get it to work.

Thanks!

Since I got a nice extension called Dark Reader for Safari on my Mac I fell in love with that extension, now I can't stand webpages which do not support system based dark mode, and this happens on Android too.

I am using Chrome as my default browser and since it does not support extensions I think it would be hard to achieve this.

Do you know about a workaround for this?

I just found ChatAll and I have been using it on macOS and fell in love with it, it is so useful because IAs are not perfect (despite what Hollywood wants to believe lol) and having different answers from different services is so cool.

I just downloaded ChatGPT for Android and now Bing, but I would like one app to rule them all.

Shopping for a new phone and out of the loop on releases. Just wondering if anyone knows if any mid range to high end non folding Motorolas are coming out in the next month or two.

Looking for a phone with quick charging, headphone jack for less than ~€1000 and I don't mind yesteryears phones.

Which one would you go for?

I care for: Photos, good biometrics, NFC.

Don't care for: Gaming, high resolution displays, speakers.

I was Xiaomi + LineageOS user for 5 years before bought an iPhone and using it for a year.

My experience is shit so far. Simplicity is good but not for me. I don’t even think iOS is a good OS. Like I shouldn’t open the app to let iOS understand I really read that message. I can’t even rotate the screen to the direction I want.

My only excuse is camera. I even tried Galaxy 23 (or maybe 22, not sure) and don’t liked its camera. Is it placebo effect or what? Is there a really an alternative Android with better or equivalent camera?

I saw this article and was wondering if anyone knows if there is an equivalent for coming to android/pixel/google Pay?

For me it's Motorola G72. It's excellent for the price. The phone is super lightweight despite having a 5,000 milliamper battery. The UI is very snappy and animations are very smooth (high refresh rate). It supports double tap on the back plus all other neat Motorola gestures. The under display fingerprint scanner works extremely well.

I've recently bought a Motorola Edge 20 pro and sometimes it fails to sleep and the screen remains on although the screen timeout has been set to 30 seconds. How can I diagnose this? Is this a common problem with Android or some app is responsible for it?

Hi, so when i open the 'app menu', you know, the app drawer or whatever it's called, and then open an app from there, say Liftoff, and then close it by pressing the home button in my navigation bar, my phone goes back into the app drawer.. i want it to go back to the home screen. To get there i have to press it again. Any help? Ty

I want to block calls that start with "+" as those are usually spoofed spam calls where I am from. I don't think the default google phone app can do that unlike the miui dialer.

Hi all I am looking for an app recommendation that echos what you say into it. The regular voice recording apps are good, but I am just trying to hear pronunciation of multiple words and don't want to delete a bunch of small files every time. If it can loop the last recording that would also be great TIA

I don't know what is wrong with my custom ROM (Paranoid Android) it is pretty much perfect it lasts all day and beyond (about 10 hrs of SOT with mid usage in my phone from 2020) and yet I struggle with the RAM management.

I am rocking a Poco F2 Pro which is EOL as of now, even when I moved from MIUI long time ago (is not that I don't like it, I just like AOSP more) one awesome feature I loved was the ability to lock an app so the aggressive MIUI RAM management would not kill it in the background, I used to pin a Reddit app for this matter, and now I want to do the same but with my Lemmy clients.

My device has 6GB of RAM and I feel that many apps reload a lot (Discord being one of them) anyway I only want to keep always active the Lemmy app now (only one at time since I use too many).

It's worth to mention that my device is rooted, so whether you know a handy trick to achieve this or with a mod I'd appreciate it... I have tried the battery restrictions feature but I don't think it is working the same as it was compared to MIUI's feature.

Normally a custom ROM handles the RAM way better than any stock ROMs because it comes with less bloatware and whatnot, but I am feeling I can only multitask 2 or 3 apps and nothing else.

I read you fellow android users!

I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...

For years I have been using daily Bing wallpaper app which used to automatically fetch the day's Bing wallpaper and set it for lockscreen and home screen. The home screen wallpaper used to be in "landscape", i.e. it was scrollable. The latest update has removed the setting for scrollable wallpaper to be set automatically. I can live without Bing images, but please suggest wallpaper autochanger which would set lockscreen and home screen from the internet and would be scrollable on the home screen. In the last few hours I have tried several apps, but did not find any which is scrollable. I tried Google wallpapers and it's scrollable, but is not setting on lock screen

So I've just ordered the newly announced Z Fold and Watch, and noticed after ordering that the sales tax on Samsung's invoice is higher than my local sales tax rate. My billing and shipping address are both in Seattle, WA, which has a state+county+city sales tax rate of 10.25%, but Samsung charged 11.275%.

Posting here (1) as a PSA for others to check their invoice, and (2) wondering if there's some obvious thing I missed.

The order is as follows (payment summary screenshot attached to this post):

• Galaxy Z Fold 512GB: $749.99
  • original $1919.99, -$120 free storage upgrade, -$1000 for iPhone 14 Pro Max trade in, -$50 for reserve credit
• Samsung Care+: $167.30
  • original $239, -$71.70 "limited time" discount
• Galaxy Watch 6 Classic 43mm LTE: $225
  • original $449.99, -$224.99 bundle discount

So, subtotal is $1142.29 as expected. Sales tax in my location is 10.25% (verified here), so the sales tax should $117.08, but instead it's $128.79, $11.71 higher than it should be.

Oddly, it's off by exactly 10% (of the expected sales tax amount).

I contacted chat support and all they could do was file a ticket internally and tell me they'll follow up in 2 business days. Screenshots of chat support: https://imgur.com/a/bdAaot7

As in title, is there a placr to get all stock wallpapers?

Simple Gallery Pro from GitHub is my go to. Really like the UI, features, speed. Truly awesome project. What would YOU choose? 🙂

Is it still safe to use as long as apps continue to be updated and is supported by the play store?

How long would you say someone could safely use an Android phone that no longer gets security updates for?

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/1519899

EDITED: As I am not in a rush, I've decided that my budget is now $500.

I am picky about the features I look for in a smartphone. Hopefully this post can be a good resource for myself and others who have similar preferences. For reference, I am using a Oneplus 7 Pro with a non-functional camera and flashlight.

Very important features

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Battery life

It should handle a day's worth of general usage before charging. Heat kills batteries, so decent heat dissipation is important too.

Durability or repairability

I recently bought a Google Pixel 5a, a phone I greatly enjoyed before I dropped it 5 feet and the display decided its work was done. My top priority is to have a useable device for ~5 years before needing an upgrade.

Storage

I like storing my music collection (30 GB and growing) and expandable storage would save me from having to carry a DAP (mp3 player). Without expandable storage it should have 256 GB storage.

Price

Electronics aren't meant to last a long time; I'd prefer devices costing ~300 USD, but I would gladly pay a little more for reliability.

Microphone

Please let me be intelligible on phone calls. Please? Pretty please?

Software updates or custom ROM support

OS updates for 3+ years or resources on XDA for flashing a custom ROM. Ideally LineageOS.

Would be nice

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Root capability

It's a bit dated nowadays, but I really do appreciate having that extra bit of control. This also ties into custom ROM support.

Fingerprint Sensor

I loved the dedicated fingerprint sensor on my Pixel 5a. Power button fingerprints are worse, but better than nothing. Typing in my passcode every time is a bit of a pain.

Speakers

Preferably dual front facing stereo speakers. Having some decent output for videos when I don't have anything else with me would be nice.

OLED/AMOLED display

Makes stuff WAY easier to see when the sun's all sunny.

Processing power

I don't play phone games. I watch a lot of media and I message people. Must be capable of simultaneously running muliple apps and background services.

IPA ratings

It'd be pretty sick if I could bring it with me in the shower without worrying about water damage.

Fast charging

Won't always use it, but it'd be great to have.

Cutting corners

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Screen resolution

I don't need a 4K display. Hell, I don't need a 1080p display. If it cuts costs, 720p is just fine so long as it looks okay.

Size

It can be big or small, thick or thin. Not picky.

Other features I don't need

Headphone jack, NFC, 5G, wireless charging

The phones I am looking at right now are as follows

• Sony Xperia 10 V - No custom ROM support, long term durability is unclear.
• Fairphone 4 - Slightly out of price range.
• Samsung Galaxy XCover6 Pro - Way out of price range. I would appreciate any input or questions.

Hey all, newbie to the Lemmy, signed up recently.

Also a relative android newbie, I've had a pixel 6 for about a year and a half.

I've played around with tasker, KWGT, KLWP, and all kinds of other power-user techie apps, so I'm reasonably confident in my ability to tinker with my phone.

I've been experimenting with my launcher, having gone with stock pixel launcher for my first half, and then using Lawnchair 12 for the second half, I wanted to try something new.

So, I open the floor up to you guys! What launcher are you using, what do you enjoy, and most importantly, why do you enjoy it? What sets your launcher apart?

As I'm not using it actively for months and want to stop using it, I want to delete my Twitter account. However I still have one use-case that prevents me doing that. My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter and I use the notification functionality of Twitter official client to be informed as soon as they post something.

I have tested some open source Twitter client which works pretty well for looking at content in my opinion but none of them have the capacity to push a notification when a post is done in a specific followed account.

Do you have some recommendations (it would be best if it's open source but I'm not completely closed to "free as in free beer" alternatives) ?

Thanks.

Ahoy all,

I know Samsung's phones don't do it natively (apart from using the actual shutter settings in pro mode), but does anybody know if there's an app that can emulate the iPhone's live photo long exposure effect (as seen here), using Samsung's motion photo function?

On the iPhone, you can open any live photo, then tap a menu option to have it stack each frame to create a long-exposure effect.

Blows my mind that Samsung hasn't dived into this type of thing, especially considering the Pixel now also has some great post-processing motion effects

Cheers!