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    April 23, 2020

    Android What should I buy Thursday (Apr 23 2020) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

    What should I buy Thursday (Apr 23 2020) - Your weekly device inquiry thread!

    Posted: 23 Apr 2020 04:13 AM PDT

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    What if Google tossed a Snapdragon 865 and 8GB of RAM in a Nexus 5, promised years of updates and called it the Nexus SE for $399. Would you buy it?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 10:54 AM PDT

    Samsung Offering Free Phone Repairs to First Responders and Healthcare Workers!

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 05:16 PM PDT

    It doesn't have an eligibility list for phones so I wonder if my S7 Edge is included, but they will even cover mail in costs so you don't have to have contact with a store.

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    https://www.samsung.com/us/support/service/free-repairs-for-the-frontline/?CID=afl-ecomm-cjn-cha-092118-53005&cjevent=3fc0929f84da11ea805100510a24060c

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    Motorola returns to flagship phones with the Edge Plus

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 09:00 AM PDT

    Anyone else miss Lumia designs?

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 08:27 AM PDT

    Lumia and WP were far ahead of their time. My Lumia Icon from 2014 had * 1080p AMOLED * curved bezels * dark mode * flat UI * iPhone level animations * wireless charging

    These things are pretty common now but that was 6 years ago. Nowadays Android phones look like uninspired Samsung knockoffs. I miss unique new design ideas like the Lumia 920's wraparound brightly colored polycarbonate body, the 950's replaceable leather back cover, the 925's all metal body, etc. All I'm saying is there's many ways to make a beautiful rectangle all these new phone leaks are getting boring.

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    The Snapdragon 865+ will not be made, Meizu's CMO reveals

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:49 AM PDT

    Cast Phone to Screen (and keyboard, mouse I/O)

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 09:12 PM PDT

    I saw this was posted before but it should be again. You can cast your phone screen to your pc monitor and control it with your keyboard/mouse, for free. And it's easy.

    I found this because I was searching for a way to get around my verizon hotspot throttling. You can look up how to do that, and the solutions are hilarious (and work). But if you are no-root and don't have any hotspot subscription access, those methods won't work for you, but this method will. Or if you are just interested in controlling/viewing your phone on your pc, this is for you. You can stream video, browse the web, play games, etc.

    1) Go here: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/README.md

    2) For windows, download https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/download/v1.12.1/scrcpy-win64-v1.12.1.zip

    3) Extract the zip file.

    4) Enable "developer options" and "USB debugging" on your phone.

    5) Run scrcpy.

    It's that easy. For my 1080p monitor, I run:

    >.\scrcpy.exe -S -m 1920 --max-fps 60 -f

    You can look up the configuration options in the readme or by entering 'scrcpy --help'. There are also useful shortcuts listed in the readme. You can make a batch file to run whatever launch configuration options you want and put it on your desktop, replacing the leading '.' with the absolute path to your scrycpy folder. It's that easy.

    You don't have to download adp, the android sdk or any other bloated/subscription bullshit. You might have to authorize your adb usb connection with a prompt on your connected phone. You can run 'adb devices' on your pc (from the same folder) to confirm your phone is listed as 'device' over adb.

    You cannot forward the audio, so plug into your phone jack if you want that. This means the audio will be slightly ahead of the video feed, but personally, I used this on my mid-end pc for video streaming, I could not notice any audio/video disconnect, and I think I'm pretty sensitive to that kind of problem. Your mileage may vary.

    I just want to end this by saying, I hate verizon, and I hate the "journalist" shills who pseudo-covertly advertise subscription services for what scrcpy does for free. They even try to make scrcpy sound scary when it's literally a standalone folder that is extremely easy to use.

    Thank you to https://github.com/Genymobile for making this!

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    Apps have access to your file system without permission

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 04:56 PM PDT

    So i figured something out and I don't know if anyone else has as I can't find information on the specific circumstance that I found it in. For the game Mario Kart Tour, at some point there was an update in March which caused it to stop working on my Oneplus 6T. It just force closed after a few seconds or locked up soon after loading. I figured it might have something to do with Root as Nintendo doesn't generally let you run their apps on a rooted system for whatever stupid reason. It was working up until that update so I assumed they changed something in their code.

    Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago where I figure if I can't play it on my Oneplus I'd pull my old LG G4 out of my drawer and play on that. Everything works fine, whatever must be root then. I started getting frustrated with the lag I was getting whilst on the multiplayer and figured I'd try and flash Lineage to see if that helps. Immediately breaks Mario Kart, same type of crash that I was getting before on my other phone. I tried magisk hide and all that jazz as other users reported that it worked for them. No dice for me, I go back to stock and it works again.

    Fast forward to today I go back to stock on my Oneplus and tried Mario Kart again, still the same behaviour I was getting previously. It should be noted that the way I returned to stock was just to flash an update over my previous Oxygen OS to the newer version. When you do this on a Oneplus phone it removes root and relocks the bootloader but it doesn't touch your data so you can continue to use the phone as it was before the update. This is important.

    I then tried finding a solution to the Mario Kart problem again online and found that one user had luck deleting the TWRP folder in the root of their storage. I try it and lo and behold it works. The only thing different from my phone and a completely stock phone is the inclusion of the TWRP folder.

    So thinking logically the app Mario Kart Tour reads the root of my storage without any app permissions at all and force closes when it finds a folder named TWRP. I tested this theory by creating a TWRP folder on my phone and on my other phone and it broke the app on both phones.

    Why is Nintendo allowed to do this and isn't it something that is explicitly not allowed by Android?? If it can read the name of that folder then it can read the name of every folder thus giving information to the app developer about what is on your phone. Highly insecure.

    The purpose of a permission is to protect the privacy of an Android user. Android apps must request permission to access sensitive user data (such as contacts and SMS), as well as certain system features (such as camera and internet). Depending on the feature, the system might grant the permission automatically or might prompt the user to approve the request.

    A central design point of the Android security architecture is that no app, by default, has permission to perform any operations that would adversely impact other apps, the operating system, or the user. This includes reading or writing the user's private data (such as contacts or emails), reading or writing another app's files, performing network access, keeping the device awake, and so on.

    Source

    Ignore me if this has already been discussed and addressed before, but I only just found out about it by chance and can't see anything else online about it.

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    Making Of Motorola Edge Plus / Motorola Edge

    Posted: 23 Apr 2020 01:35 AM PDT

    $200 Redmi Note 9S vs $1000 Galaxy S20! (Camera Test Comparison)

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 05:27 AM PDT

    Your smartphone history and ratings!

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 11:04 AM PDT

    So, I'd thought it'd be interesting to see the how everyone's phone/smartphone history progressed and shaped itself by trial and error. I'll just leave mine as an example so you can follow:

    ~2004 Nokia 1100 8/10 (I was 12)

    ~2007 Sony Ericsson W200 3/10 (wanted a cool phone with camera, stolen)

    ~2008 Sony Ericsson K850i 8/10 (probably coolest phone I've owned, eventually screen died)

    ~2010 Sony Ericsson W995 4/10 ( was on SE hype train but this phone was outdated the second it came out BC of smartphones, in reality I wanted the Nexus 1. I was 18, i wanted flagships but I could only afford older ones )

    ~2012 Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S 6/10 (first smartphone! Again, a previous years flagship. I was really torn between this and the Xperia play, I regret not getting the unique Play, but the Arc S had the better internals and display)

    2014 Motorola Moto G 10/10 (I payed 140€ for this, and although i really wanted the Motorolas with the custom materials this phone was a huge step up from anything I'd had for one of the smallest pricetags. One of the best phones ever in my opinion)

    2016 Nexus 5X 9/10 (by now I had a little more purchasing power and I was sold to stock Android due to the Moto G which was showing its age, unfortunately I dropped it in water 6 months in :(

    2017 Motorola Moto G5 7/10 (decided to go back to budget Motorola, because I couldn't justify spending that much in smartphones over such a short period, by then Motorola was Chinese and it showed. Just not the same quality)

    2019 Oneplus 7 (non pro) 10/10 ( I have some more money to spend now, and bought it for 415€ 5 months after release. Truly great flagship experience, simply an awesome deal I found on gearbest I really couldn't justify anything else value wise)

    Ok that's it! You don't have to include the parentheses in your list, but I am curious about your rationales, and if you have any obvious alternatives that you think I should have gone for!

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    MIUI 12 AOD supports non-linear animations with over 1K custom animated AOD styles

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 05:41 AM PDT

    Motorola Edge+ hands-on: The $1000 Moto phone is here

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 11:13 AM PDT

    Motorola Edge Plus hands-on: back in the game

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 09:23 AM PDT

    Google Pixel Buds 3 design revealed in patent images, and this is what they look like

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 07:32 AM PDT

    Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra camera review - DXOMARK

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 01:27 AM PDT

    Motorola Edge Plus Online

    Posted: 22 Apr 2020 03:45 PM PDT
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