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    Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 06 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    September 07, 2020

    Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 06 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 06 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:11 AM PDT

    Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

    This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:

    • Your device.

    • Your carrier.

    • Your device's manufacturer.

    • An app

    • Any other company

    Rules

    1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer.

    2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars.

    3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on.

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    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:14 PM PDT

    A tool to help with rooting and updating of Android devices!

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:41 AM PDT

    I've just finished building a small tool called symbit which helps with rooting and updating of existing rooted devices. With Android 10, some TWRP versions have not been updated to support the new /system partition format and do not work for those devices. This tool aims to solve the issue by making it easier to root and update existing rooted Android devices.

    Source code

    README

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    My original motivation to create this was when my friend asked me for help updating his Pixel 3 XL. Due to the fact that TWRP does not support Android 10 on the Pixel, I had to tell him to use the manual updating method which involved typing many commands to update the system and patching the boot.img file via Magisk. I decided then to create this small utility to help him and (hopefully) someone else who may have difficulties rooting/updating their rooted device.

    In future when I (hopefully) have more time to work on this, it will support running without a PC and directly on Android itself through termux.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this! 😉

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    If your phone can't connect to Messages for Web, try changing your DNS server

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:27 PM PDT

    At some point several months ago both my and my wife's phone stopped being able to connect to Google Messages for Web. Every time we scanned the QR code to connect it would fail to do so and throw a non-specific error. Googling the problem didn't reveal many answers as most posts are from 2018-2019 and people have success in re-connecting by simply clearing app data/cache, which didn't work for us.

    What did work today was changing the IPv6 DNS server address on our router to a Google DNS server address. It seems that the default DNS server would time-out and fail to resolve the request for some reason. (We moved a few months ago and have a new ISP, presumably the DNS server we connected to changed at that time).

    Hope this helps anyone who has been having a similar problem. PS this may also help if you have trouble connecting your PC to the Microsoft Your Phone Companion app or similar applications.

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    Android flagship alternatives in Europe to the Samsung Exynos 990 fiasco?

    Posted: 06 Sep 2020 03:55 AM PDT

    I do not think it is catastrophically bad but it is definitely something that I dislike and in a way a very anti-competitive move from Samsung, and to fight that the only two options are either some huge regulatory pressure OR maybe we can still use some old free-market pressure and pick something else? It looks like already Samsung is not doing well this year and maybe some extra pressure from buyers would send some message? In some instance we might already be at a point where there is very little choice (for instance with the phones specifically sold by carriers) but other than that what are the good options?

    Here is a short list, please feel free to suggest any good alternative!

    1) Buy Samsung with Snapdragon from somewhere else - IMHO a bad idea for warranty and to some extent updates, maybe even price but most important very bad for market pressure purpose - if instead of Exynos Samsung we buy Snapdragon Samsung we have sent a pretty bad message and Samsung will laugh at us all the way to the bank. That IMHO is an especially bad example to be set with the Fold 2 but that is another story.

    2) Sony Xperia 1 II (and soon Sony Xperia 5 II) - IMHO those are at the very top for somebody that values the headphone jack (and Sony must be commended for listening to the customers on that issue) but unfortunately availability worldwide in general and in Europe in special seems abysmal.

    3) Asus Zenfone 7 Pro - just as above availability worldwide in general and in Europe in special seems abysmal.

    4) Oneplus 8T/8T Pro - remains to be seen what those will bring, 8 Pro did not impress me personally but Oneplus is the ONLY phone from the entire BBK group (Oneplus, Oppo, Vivo, Realme) that I would somehow consider buying from the software point of view.

    5) Xiaomi phones - the Mi 10 Ultra seems interesting but will be China-only and in fact very, very few of the best Xiaomi phones have decent international availability and support - this could improve a little when many carriers seem to move from Huawei to Xiaomi but I would not hold my breath (and generally software updates for Xiaomi are still poor and not something I would recommend for a flagship).

    What other options do you think there are in Europe?

    EDIT:

    I appreciate the idea of a midrange phone but the title of the post was very clear, if your answer is that you probably did not read anything I wrote or you are trolling. Also the naive suggestion of "buy a midrange" is in Europe again a significant issue and it again leaves the monopolists like Samsung run laughing at us all the way to the bank.

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