Android Daily Superthread (Nov 28 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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• Daily Superthread (Nov 28 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!
• Sunday Rant/Rage (Nov 28 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread!
• Props to Android's newer features
• Pixel 6 Tensor Chip- The Multi-Tasking Beast of 2021
• Would you use a phone that no longer receives security updates?
• Small trick to get Youtube app to work with older android...

Daily Superthread (Nov 28 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! Posted: 28 Nov 2021 04:15 AM PST Note 1. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves 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. Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discussion as well. The /r/Android wiki now has a list of recommended phones and covers most areas, the links have been added below. Any suggestions or changes are welcome. Please contact us if you would like to help maintain this section. Entry level (most affordable devices costing under $250 (US)/ $325 (Canada)/ €200 (Europe)/ £200/ ₹12,500 (India) Midrange section, covering the $250-500(US)/$300-700(Canada)/€200-500/£200-450/₹12,500-30,000 segment Flagship section, containing the most expensive devices with the highest end specifications submitted by /u/curated_android [link] [comments]

Sunday Rant/Rage (Nov 28 2021) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 28 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST Note 1. Join our IRC and Telegram chat-rooms 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. submitted by /u/curated_android [link] [comments]

Props to Android's newer features Posted: 27 Nov 2021 08:07 AM PST I am security and privacy conscious when it comes to my devices. When Google revealed its newest features in Android 12 that pertained to security and privacy, most of them seemed like they existed for marketing purposes alone. Disabling camera and microphone access for all apps and services isn't something that I think the grand majority of people would do. Yet, they went the extra mile of throttling the other sensors when microphone access is disabled to make it more difficult for those other sensors' data to have a microphone-like readout. (Edit: I crossed that last sentence out because I couldn't find the source of that claim, I just remember reading it somewhere.) So that's nice. The Privacy Dashboard also seemed kinda useless, but like another user has found, it's useful for me. Seeing fringe apps have permissions that don't need them makes me go 😠 And then there's disabling your advertising ID, which doesn't solve the issue of apps fingerprinting you altogether, but it's nice to have the choice. Really, I should be giving props to Apple for doing this first and possibly encouraging Google to do it too. Besides that, there's scoped storage and Project Treble and other stuffs but they're not too new so I don't want to get into them. But I am pleased with Android's efforts and I hope they continue. submitted by /u/cephalopoop [link] [comments]

Pixel 6 Tensor Chip- The Multi-Tasking Beast of 2021 Posted: 27 Nov 2021 09:57 AM PST submitted by /u/IamVenom_007 [link] [comments]

Would you use a phone that no longer receives security updates? Posted: 26 Nov 2021 12:43 PM PST I finally caved in and switched my primary device from my beloved KEY2 to a Pixel 5. The KEY2 has gotten 3 full years of security updates (impressive for a TCL device) but that has now ended, with August 2021 being the last update. In the past, I never paid any attention to security updates, I didn't care about them in the slightest. What mattered to me was: Do I actually enjoy the device I'm currently using, even after the initial "honeymoon" period? Now, thanks to some fear mongering about device vulnerabilities after EOL on a certain BlackBerry oriented forum, I felt compelled to put down my KEY2 and pick up a slab phone. Also one that supports 5G because apparently LTE-only phones won't get reliable enough signal starting early next year when 3G shuts down. What about you? Are you comfortable daily driving a phone that has reached end of life in terms of security patches? If yes, what steps do you take to reduce risk? submitted by /u/e_boon [link] [comments]

Small trick to get Youtube app to work with older android... Posted: 27 Nov 2021 12:46 AM PST So Youtube have basically blacklisted all old ver with the "no dislike" ... but if you remove updates and reinstall you can launch it from the play store Very stupid but it works, but when you close it , it will show the same lame blacklisted screen saying to upgrade or use browser , so you have to do it everytime ,this is just for old androids firmware that cant go any higher submitted by /u/Leeroyedtothemax [link] [comments]

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