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    Android Moronic Monday (Nov 25 2019) - Your weekly questions thread!

    November 25, 2019

    Android Moronic Monday (Nov 25 2019) - Your weekly questions thread!

    Moronic Monday (Nov 25 2019) - Your weekly questions thread!

    Posted: 25 Nov 2019 03:15 AM PST

    Note 1. Join us at /r/MoronicMondayAndroid, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

    Note 2. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

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    Razer Phone 2 - $399 CAD

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 11:38 AM PST

    Galaxy S11 5G benchmark reveals Exynos 990, 12GB of RAM

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 10:46 PM PST

    Google - Pixel 3 XL 64GB - $ 450 & Pixel 3 64GB - $ 349

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 06:20 AM PST

    Huawei MatePad Pro announced with punch-hole display and top-end specs to rival the iPad Pro

    Posted: 25 Nov 2019 02:42 AM PST

    Titanium Backup 8.4.0.2 fixes built-in MENU action not appearing on some devices (+ adds GUI setting to forcibly hide it)

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 08:29 PM PST

    PSA: Convert your @googlemail.com account to @gmail.com

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 11:47 AM PST

    Mostly affects UK, Germany, Russia and Poland users. https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2010/may/04/digital-media-google

    So I've recently had issues with logging into games and apps on my phone and today I finally fixed it!

    There is an issue with a login API that doesn't support the @googlemail emails anymore, causing failed logins. This affects any app that requires or utilises your Google account login. @googlemail accounts are older alternative gmail accounts (>5 years?) used in countries where the @gmail name was trademarked. @googlemail and @gmail can be used interchangeably for emails, however it may cause login issues for Android apps.

    Steps to fix

    When I did this, I had to relogin on my phone and it started working again!

    Edit: Added some more details.

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    Realme shows no signs of slowing down in India, and that should worry Samsung and Xiaomi

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 10:02 AM PST

    Pixel 3 XL redux: It hasn't aged well...

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 05:44 AM PST

    Samsung Messages vs Android Messages

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 10:41 AM PST

    Android needs palm touch rejection

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 09:44 AM PST

    With today's design trend to have as little bezel as possible especially on the sides, I am finding a much higher rate of false touches because on a big screen my thumb is stretching over and a second touch is being registered by my palm at the screen edge, etc.
    It probably isn't that hard to use "machine learning" to figure out how to ignore false touches. Android needs to do this.

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    Porsche CEO talks iPhone vs Android in US and China customers - YouTube

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 08:05 AM PST

    ABN stops their support for paying with your phone

    Posted: 25 Nov 2019 02:32 AM PST

    [Discussion] Splitting /data (exc. sdcard) into usr-data and sys-data?

    Posted: 24 Nov 2019 10:22 AM PST

    Why aren't they split?

    It would make updating between android versions much easier for google since they essentially only have to format one partition if at all, and for everyone else who likes to tinker (i've actually had this issue a lot) it would make getting out of a system boot loop much easier. Backups between OSs would also be easier to do via automated adb backups for user apps.

    I see no downside to splitting them, on the contrary i find it a downside that now if your system breaks and you need to factory reset you end up having to remove both the usual culprit (system apps) and the app list. At the very least we could have the installed apks in a different partition so clearing data wouldn't remove the apps too? I don't know, perhaps i'm just asking for a more in-depth recovery solution, but for the moment having the partitions more modular would be great (perhaps splitting them again from sdcard too?)

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    What do you guys think?

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    Location Tracking and History with only Storage Permissions

    Posted: 23 Nov 2019 05:12 PM PST

    The recent camera security flaw identified by CheckMarx (https://www.checkmarx.com/blog/how-attackers-could-hijack-your-android-camera) is unsettling, but it'd be difficult to make this feasible to use widely. First off, it requires the offensive app to open a camera app (hard to hide), wait for the picture to be taken, then return back to whatever it was doing before hand, all while the phone is interactive (basically phone screen "ON" for most cases). IF this was used widely, someone would have seen it long beforehand. The way CheckMarx described how an app could get some of the data (location for example) is even more unsettling, because that can be done by only using storage permissions.

    Almost all pictures taken with any camera app tags the image with location metadata (if this was enabled). For proof, just open Google's Photos app, tap on the last image you took, and scroll up. If you enabled location tagging, you'll see a mini map of where you took this picture. This has its uses, as it allows for organizing photos based on a special place you visited, by city, or by trip. However, any app that has Storage Permissions not only has access to all your photos, but access to this same location metadata.

    So that simple weather app that just happened to ask for Storage Permissions now has access to a good chunk of your location history, spanning the time of the earliest photo you took with location data (in my case 2014, which was 4 phones ago) up to the last photo you took. If you happen to be someone who takes lots of photos daily, you can essentially be giving an app a live feed of your current location.

    TL;DR - CheckMarx published a sort of unsettling camera vulnerability but missed the mark in identifying an even more unsettling issue on Android.

    Edit: This image is a PoC app that I built which took all the photos from my device, and scanned them for Lat/Lon, then put it to a map.

    https://imgur.com/oPliFmD

    This was also posted on /r/androiddev.

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