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    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 11:54 AM PDT

    Samsung is investigating the possibility to produce future Galaxy phones with a speaker resonance chamber, which would significantly improve the sound quality, by using a flexible screen, which can partly fold forward and come out of the frame (with a kind of pop-up mechanism)

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 05:42 PM PDT

    Google unifies the old and new Assistant UIs for all devices

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 03:51 PM PDT

    Pixel 5 owners report gaps between phone's display and frame

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:51 AM PDT

    Mobile GPU Rankings 2020 (so far).

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:14 PM PDT

    Android PS3 emulator "Trampoline" is in development

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:03 PM PDT

    A fully fledged android PS3 emulator Trampoline managed to boot up to the health and safety warning, after months of crashes and a ridiculous amount of work, holding a steady FPS of about 1-3. Is set to become open source before March.

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    Apple's MagSafe wireless charger magnetically connects to the Pixel 5 - VIDEO

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:48 AM PDT

    Zenfone 7/pro gets new ota with various camera related optimisations

    Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:29 AM PDT

    New budget Lenovo P11 tablet full specs and renders leak

    Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:43 AM PDT

    Pixel RMA policy change - no more RMA devices under standard warranty.

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:54 AM PDT

    I've had to RMA almost every Google device I've owned (my Pixel 3 was RMA'd 3 times for repeat issues). In the past, Google would just swap my device with a refurbished unit.

    I guess their poor quality control has caught up with them, as they changed their policy back during the 3A. I have to swap my 4 XL (hardware related issue again), and Google just told me my options are to send in the device for them to repair (being without a phone for weeks), or to go to one of their "certified repair technicians" to repair the device itself. (My issue would require a mainboard swap, so goodbye to any waterproofing it has). The only way to get an RMA swap starting with the 3A is to buy the extended warranty for $150. I usually get a new device each year, so I've never been interested in buying the extended 2 year warranty. This changes their policy over the last decade, and I don't recall seeing any press about the change. As a longtime Google store customer, I'm super disappointed.

    TLDR: Google Store doesn't swap devices for hardware issues anymore unless you buy the extended warranty.

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    Our favorite 10 new things coming to Smart Displays

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:09 AM PDT

    File transfer between MacOs and Android phones

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:22 PM PDT

    File transfer between MacOs and Android phones

    Every few months, I have a particularly big file or a large number of files i need to transfer between my macbook and my s10, and then i find myself in this rabbithole of trying to find the best wired file transfer program to move stuff onto and off my phone.

    So here we go.

    1. Android file transfer. This unmaintained pos software can go burn in hell. Slow to work, often crashes the device, honestly really poor even when it does work, do not use.

    2. (for the more tech savy) ADB - you can push or pull files via adb even remotely at this point if you wanted to- but it's not as plug and play as what I'm looking for

    3. Mac Droid - the wet dream:

    • you can edit android files on mac without having to copy them onto your computer,

    • you don't need to do any real setup,

    • it works will all devices (a lot of softwares don't work with samsung because of some FUSE issue).

    • It just appears as a mounted phone in your finder and you can do what you want.

      But alas, tis but a dream because for some reason this is a subscription software???? I would be willing to pay for it, but i'm sure as hell not willing to pay monthly for it. There's a free version but ht does't let you copy files from your mac to your phone (and who the hell needs that right?)

    1. Handshaker - sketchy chinese software but honestly it works - i wish it were more OS integrated like Mac Droid but i guess we can't eat our cake and have it too.

    2. Samsung Smartswitch - i mean i guess, but it's clunky and not designed for this as its primary purpose...or atleast i hope it's not because god damn.

    Honestly my main purpose for writing this up was so that there was a more consolidated place for people to look and also weep when they find themselves in my predicament.

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    I have been using a TCL 10 Pro, AMA

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:49 AM PDT

    I bought a TCL Pro 10 a few weeks ago. I've been surprised that there is next to nothing on reddit about this phone. AMA

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    How to get Timely working on Android 10+

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:59 AM PDT

    This is basically the solution to the locked topic https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/czlf0z/timely_alarm_on_android_10 which was since locked.

    Basically what we need is to modify Timely to include the new permission START_ACTIVITIES_FROM_BACKGROUND

    This is not entirely trivial but manageable:

    • Download ADB for your system. On Linux you can usually do sudo apt-get install adb
    • Install APKTOOL according to instructions from https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/install/
    • Install APKSigner, e.g. sudo apt-get install apksigner
    • Semi-Optional: Download ApkSign from e.g. http://www.mediafire.com/?gs6n10oh09c039n, you only need the key.pk8 and certificate.pem (or create those yourself)
    • Make sure to enable ADB access in developer options
      • To enable developer options go to Settings->About and tap "Build number" about 8 times till you get the notification
      • In System->Developer options enable "Android debugging"
    • Install timely from Play Store
    • Find out the installed location of the APK: adb shell pm path ch.bitspin.timely
    • Pull the APK to your PC using the output from above: adb pull /data/app/ch.bitspin.timely-<some chars>/base.apk
    • Decompile: apktool d base.apk
    • Edit the AndroidManifest.xml inside the created folder (likely name "base") and add a line <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.START_ACTIVITIES_FROM_BACKGROUND"/> below the other similar lines (above(!) the <application ...)
    • Repack: apktool b timely -o timely-android10.apk (older versions might not need the -o)
    • Make sure you have the key.pk8 and certificate.pem in the current folder, or enter full paths in the next command
    • Sign: apksigner sign --key key.pk8 --cert certificate.pem timely-android10.apk (Other options are possible depending on they key you'd like to use, see apksigner sign --help)
    • Replace installed Timely by the patched one
      • adb uninstall ch.bitspin.timely
      • adb install timely-android10.apk (This may trigger some warnings on your phone which you can dismiss)

    This should be enough to make it work. To be safe battery optimizations should be turned off too:

    • Settings -> Search for "Optimize Battery" or "Akku-Optimierung" or similar and select
    • At the top select "All apps"
    • Go to Timely and select "not optimized" for it

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    Good luck and as always: I'm not responsible for any damage or whatsoever.

    Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11852r/how_to_modify_an_apk/ for the workflow (I updated it here for the recent versions)

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    Report: India could get a sub-$40 5G smartphone soon

    Posted: 19 Oct 2020 05:38 AM PDT
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