Android Daily Superthread (Dec 14 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! |
- Daily Superthread (Dec 14 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!
- The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Performance Preview: Sizing Up Cortex-X2
- Android 13 may add a toggle to disable Android's new background app limitations
- AetherSX2 is the best way to play PlayStation 2 games on your Android smartphone
- A closer look at Android 12 (Go edition)
- OPPO unveils in-house MariSilicon X chip, to debut with Find X4 series soon
- Here's a new look at stock Wear OS 3 from the updated official emulator build
- Galaxy S22, S22+ and S22 Ultra dummy leaks
- Redmi Note 11T 5G Review: Successfully carrying the burden of 5G in 2021
- Honor X30 Live Photos Leaked: Center Punch-Hole and New Camera Module Design
- Twitter thread giving insight on the CameraX API situation
- OPPO Unveils 6nm Cutting-edge Imaging NPU - MariSilicon X
- Realme GT 2 Pro will introduce three world's firsts on December 20, including innovative build material
- MIUI 13 Logo and features Revealed: Leaked Videos Shows infinity scroll, small widgets and sidebar
- How to get the old Wi-Fi and mobile data QS tiles back in Android 12 [updated method]
- Freebox Remote offers an alternative to the Google TV app's remote control feature
- Don't clean your smartphone too much using alcohol.
- The concept of getting "x years" of updates is flawed and benefits a company's marketing more than users. Instead we should ask for number of complete versions regardless of time.
- Motorola's MYUI 3.0 based on Android 12 comes with Material You
| Posted: 14 Dec 2021 04:00 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. Flagship section, containing the most expensive devices with the highest end specifications [link] [comments] | ||
| The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Performance Preview: Sizing Up Cortex-X2 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 06:15 AM PST
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| Android 13 may add a toggle to disable Android's new background app limitations Posted: 14 Dec 2021 07:39 AM PST
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| AetherSX2 is the best way to play PlayStation 2 games on your Android smartphone Posted: 14 Dec 2021 11:14 AM PST
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| A closer look at Android 12 (Go edition) Posted: 14 Dec 2021 10:01 AM PST
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| OPPO unveils in-house MariSilicon X chip, to debut with Find X4 series soon Posted: 14 Dec 2021 07:49 AM PST
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| Here's a new look at stock Wear OS 3 from the updated official emulator build Posted: 14 Dec 2021 11:19 AM PST Google quietly released an updated Wear OS 3.0 (Android 11) emulator image recently. Wear OS isn't open source, so this is the only way to test the latest version apart from buying the Galaxy Watch 4. The build date is Nov. 17, so it's pretty fresh. Reddit user amoledwatchfaces has posted a bunch of screenshots over on the /r/WearOS subreddit. XDA's article summarizes some of the changes. edit: I'm sharing some additional images/info over on Twitter if you're interested. [link] [comments] | ||
| Galaxy S22, S22+ and S22 Ultra dummy leaks Posted: 13 Dec 2021 08:48 PM PST
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| Redmi Note 11T 5G Review: Successfully carrying the burden of 5G in 2021 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 07:29 AM PST
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| Honor X30 Live Photos Leaked: Center Punch-Hole and New Camera Module Design Posted: 14 Dec 2021 09:19 AM PST
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| Twitter thread giving insight on the CameraX API situation Posted: 13 Dec 2021 09:07 PM PST
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| OPPO Unveils 6nm Cutting-edge Imaging NPU - MariSilicon X Posted: 14 Dec 2021 08:09 AM PST
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| Posted: 14 Dec 2021 06:36 AM PST
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| MIUI 13 Logo and features Revealed: Leaked Videos Shows infinity scroll, small widgets and sidebar Posted: 14 Dec 2021 06:34 AM PST
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| How to get the old Wi-Fi and mobile data QS tiles back in Android 12 [updated method] Posted: 13 Dec 2021 03:47 PM PST For those of you who dislike the new Internet panel in Android 12, I have some good news. If you'll recall, I shared a method back in late October to re-add the old Wi-Fi and mobile data tiles using a simple ADB shell command. However, it was discovered that this command didn't work on the Pixel 6 series, and it also doesn't work on other Pixel phones following the latest December update/Pixel Feature Drop/QPR1 rebase. Thankfully, you can still do this by making a slight adjustment to the process. Simply run the following command in ADB shell: to stop SystemUI from replacing the WiFi and Cell tiles with the Internet tile. ("Provider model" is the code-name for the Internet panel, just FYI.) Then run the following command as before to re-add the Wi-Fi and mobile data tiles: Feel free to remove the Internet tile afterward. This works in Android 12L Beta 1 as well. An interesting side effect of setting the flag for the Internet panel to false is that the Internet panel doesn't stop working, but rather reverts to an older version of it called Internet Connectivity. The Internet panel lets you tap a network to switch, while the Internet Connectivity panel only lets you toggle Wi-Fi and/or mobile data. (You can switch between Wi-Fi networks once scanned, though.) As a bonus, the Internet Connectivity panel has a toggle for airplane mode. Here's a visual comparison. [link] [comments] | ||
| Freebox Remote offers an alternative to the Google TV app's remote control feature Posted: 13 Dec 2021 06:28 PM PST Freebox Remote, an unofficial remote control app for Android TV set-top boxes from French ISP Free, can act as a universal Android TV remote if you set the model to Freebox Pop while scanning. The app was recently updated to support the new Android TV Remote protocol v2, which is what the Google TV app's remote uses. Unfortunately, the developer told me he hasn't gotten keyboard input to work yet with the new protocol. Keyboard input does work if your TV hasn't received the latest Android TV Remote Service update, which supports the V1 protocol. Since this app supports the v2 protocol, it should work with the Google Chromecast with Google TV as well, but I don't have one so I can't test it. I'm curious to know if it works! You can download it for free from Google Play. There's a small IAP to remove ads and use widgets without restrictions. I have no affiliation with the developer. I'm just sharing a cool app that a friend of mine told me about. [link] [comments] | ||
| Don't clean your smartphone too much using alcohol. Posted: 14 Dec 2021 12:43 AM PST I've been using Samsung S10e, and since the pandemic began, I've been cleaning my phone using alcohol from time to time (dabbed tissue with 70% alcohol then wiped the phone). The screen died very recently. Luckily I the phone itself was fine (alarm still turned on, although I had no way to turn it off). Went to authorized service center, and according to them, they've been seeing increased number of broken phones when people started to clean their phones using alcohol and hand sanitizer because of the pandemic. When they tried to peel the sticker skin off the back of the phone to see the IMEI number, the back cover popped off easily. So apparently the back cover glue was weakened as well. And I just found out that replacing the screen is pretty much the same as replacing half the phone lol Photos of the broken sparepart they gave me. On the plus side, new battery is included in the package. So at the very least, my phone feels brand new now. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 13 Dec 2021 08:48 AM PST Edit: since some seem to be misunderstanding, this is given the current situation, which I'm changing to bold below. If the situation changes, from 1 update/year, then of course the argument would still be to ask for them to update until the final full-version build in the given years, not just "x years" without regard for full-version updates. ---- The Pixels get "x years" and Google is praised when they add one year to it. The phones come out right after a new Android version, then they get stuck with an early build of the new OS version. And Android 12 is pretty buggy, just look at the bug-fixing in the Dec patch, which the Pixel 3 didn't get. Admittedly it will probably get one in January, but that's gonna be it, and P3 users will have had to wait 2 months for it. A similar thing happened to previous Pixels. Would it have been better to stop at the final A11 build with 2 full versions, or bug-ridden initial A12? The former looks bad and tech sites would shame them for it, and the latter looks better for Google, but screws the users. Is Google really looking to fix the dead Pixel 3 phones, or the bug with widevine on many people's (but not all) Pixels, on the P3? Neither update option above is fine. But instead of asking for more years, people and tech sites should start asking for more full versions. Hopefully with Pixel 6 Google will not only keep updating Android 15 with "security" patches, but also functional bug fixing updates. We don't even know if the "security" patches will be monthly after the 3 years of OS updates. [link] [comments] | ||
| Motorola's MYUI 3.0 based on Android 12 comes with Material You Posted: 13 Dec 2021 10:17 AM PST |
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