Android Moronic Monday (Feb 17 2020) - Your weekly questions thread! |
- Moronic Monday (Feb 17 2020) - Your weekly questions thread!
- The Samsung Galaxy S20 has more RAM than most laptops - and that's stupid
- Our Motorola Razr's display is already breaking and peeling at the fold - Input
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Durability Test – Fake Folding Glass?!
- Dieter Bohn on Twitter: After @ZacksJerryRig showed the Z Flip scratches very easily, we got a comment from Samsung. The company stands by the claim that it's "Ultra-Thin Glass." Scratching is apparently on a plastic protective layer above the glass.
- I lost my device recently. I found out that Samsung's Find My Phone is WAY better than Google's Find My Phone feature.
- The madness begins
- Galaxy Z Flip durability test calls Samsung’s Ultra Thin ‘Glass’ into question - The Verge
- Session - A Signal protocol fork with decentralized servers and no need for a phone number
- Using the Galaxy Z Flip Daily
- Maui Project Wants to Bring Convergent Apps to Linux Desktops and Android
- Hi there r/Android! I've seen a lot about the xhelper malware recently and happen to have a burner ( LG P769, Android 4.1 ) that is somehow infected with it. Ask me anything.
- Comparing phone display sizes using inches no longer makes sense
- I have the Samsung galaxy z flip . AMA.
- The way Android handles application sounds perplexes me
| Moronic Monday (Feb 17 2020) - Your weekly questions thread! Posted: 17 Feb 2020 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. [link] [comments] | ||
| The Samsung Galaxy S20 has more RAM than most laptops - and that's stupid Posted: 17 Feb 2020 12:22 AM PST
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| Our Motorola Razr's display is already breaking and peeling at the fold - Input Posted: 16 Feb 2020 08:50 PM PST
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| Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Durability Test – Fake Folding Glass?! Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:20 AM PST
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| Posted: 16 Feb 2020 12:33 PM PST Yesterday I ended up losing my Galaxy S9 inside my apartment's hallway, and apparently one of my neighbors took it (probably to keep it safe, rather than steal). Anyways, I panicked and I used both Samsung's and Google's Find My Phone features. Here is what I found to be way better on Samsung's version:
The main issue with Google's version is, if the person just turns off your phone, you are done. You can't do anything anymore. With Samsung's version, you can enable maximum power saving mode AND prevent the person from turning off your phone. You now effectively have a long-lasting unstoppable tracker. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Galaxy Z Flip durability test calls Samsung’s Ultra Thin ‘Glass’ into question - The Verge Posted: 16 Feb 2020 09:42 AM PST
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| Session - A Signal protocol fork with decentralized servers and no need for a phone number Posted: 16 Feb 2020 02:54 PM PST r/androidapps requested I cross-post this here... Session is a cross-platform, anonymous and decentralized messaging application. You don't need a phone number or email address to make an account. Session uses the Loki Service Node network to route the data, for which the nodes are rewarded with $LOKI. The Loki Network itself is made up of some ~1000 community operated Service Nodes where 44% of the supply is held in the SNs - about US$7.5 million at the moment. I love Signal, but I don't love the attached phone numbers or central servers, but I know there's a challenge in allowing an altruistic intention over a financial incentive for the node operators - Sybil resistance. By using Loki's Service Node network, the crypto-economics is designed in a way that a bad actor would drive the price exponentially up while trying to accumulate enough Loki to be able to perform any traffic analysis on the routed data. Think of it as a Signal fork meets a Monero fork meets an incentivized TOR network. Web: getsession.org Whitepaper: https://getsession.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Session-Whitepaper.pdf [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:26 AM PST I played with the Galaxy Z Flip for about 20 minutes today, and really was struck at how much better it feels, all around, compared to the Fold from last year. Solid construction, significantly better hinge, and just a better quality build overall. I can see that foldable phones really will be the future, once they sort out the glass durability; my guess is that foldables released in 2021 will be pretty decent, and really good in 2022. However, the clamshell form factor of the Z Flip is really a dealbreaker IMO. Right after I played with the Z Flip, I went to the grocery store to pick stuff up like i usually do. I had a list of things written down in notes, and looked at the list 7-10 times throughout my shopping trip. Each time I pulled the phone out of my pocket, unlocked it, checked things off my list, and continued on. Each interaction took a few seconds, plus additional time if I was reading/replying to texts. Using the Z Flip in the same scenario would be exhausting, and would also be likely that I would drop the phone when opening or closing it, especially since I would be using the phone one-handed. What goes from a simple process:
It would add another fairly involved process of unfolding the phone, then folding it again, before putting it away. Sure, I could leave it unfolded, but the screen still isn't durable enough to be able to confidently do that. I almost ordered the Z Flip today, but the shopping trip really made me hold off. I'll likely wait until a true Fold 2 comes out, and I'm really hoping the outside screen on it is bigger/more useable because that's a form factor that I think is the most useable in this type of situation. [link] [comments] | ||
| Maui Project Wants to Bring Convergent Apps to Linux Desktops and Android Posted: 16 Feb 2020 08:18 AM PST
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| Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:24 AM PST Points to take note of: It has been a while since it was infected, and I don't recall everything. I seem to recall factory resetting the phone (from system settings app), and having it come back within a few days. I do not believe I restored anything after the reset. I cannot uninstall it Disabling it does nothing It does the following: . Displays popup ads over content Displays banner ads over content Displays ads that pop up as an app Displays/redirects to ads in a browser (in chrome if I'm using the browser app, and in the browser app if I'm using chrome) . It is extremely annoying because the phone itself is slow, and so any changes (i.e. popup ads) take probably 1-2 minutes to get back to the original content. Please realize that I haven't tried very hard to remove it because it is just a burner phone. It doesn't have a SIM card or sd card installed I am willing to try anything you want, for science. [link] [comments] | ||
| Comparing phone display sizes using inches no longer makes sense Posted: 15 Feb 2020 09:04 PM PST It would make sense if all phones had the same display aspect ratio, like a few years ago when pretty much every device had a 16:9 display, but nowadays as ratios range from 16:9 all the way to 21:9 I believe surface area would be a way more useful comparison unit. Example: the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra has a 6.9 inches display whereas the Google Nexus 7 has a 7.0 inches one, so they must be very similarly sized, right? Wrong, the Nexus 7 actually has a 25% bigger display. [link] [comments] | ||
| I have the Samsung galaxy z flip . AMA. Posted: 15 Feb 2020 08:34 PM PST I brought the Samsung galaxy z flip direct from Samsung ask me all your questions proof [link] [comments] | ||
| The way Android handles application sounds perplexes me Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:43 PM PST Something I've noticed, and maybe this is just from Android 10, but I've seen that while any game application will happily play sounds even on vibrate mode only, curiously alarms and alarm apps will only play noise when the "ring" setting is on. This completely baffles me, but for all I know I may just have overlooked some kind of setting somewhere. All the same, I can't comprehend why that would be the default setting. One would think that if anything users would want alarms and timers to be the applications overriding volume controls. wouldn't they? [link] [comments] |
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