Hi, phone is galaxy s22. Can I turn this off in status bar? I don't want to remove music player widget thingy from notifications. Thanks a bunch

Need to overwrite lots data (talkin ≳100 GB) using some thing like Extirpater in hopes it all can't be recovered . Hoping some one here will have knowledge whether this's safe for me to do as it's not really explained tꝏ well in provided link !

EDIT : Asked this in a discord the answer I got was that any phone NAND should take a few times it's full capacity in read write just fine as long's you're not doing it tꝏ often , so guess that means I'm in the clear ?

I've got an old nVidia Shield (2017) that doesn't handle 4K AV1. Unfortunately, it looks like AV1 is missing from the latest models, too.

Anyone have a good ad-free'ish suggestion?

I'm thinking about switching from Signal to Molly because I've heard that the UX in Molly is better. Is this true? Have they implemented Material 3 Expressive? Design-wise, what are the improvements over Signal?

Disclaimer: if you don't like modern Android design or M3E, while I appreciate you, I don't need nor want you for this conversation, but the next one, we'll be like a buddy movie, promise!

After my phone updated to Android 16 last week, I've noticed that bluetooth gets re-enabled every day, even though I manually turn it off. I never use anything with bluetooth, so I figure I should just leave it off. I disable it in the top pull-down settings menu. But, every morning, it is turned back on again. I'm about 99.9% sure that I'm not turning it on in my sleep.

Any ideas as to why this could be happening?

Phone: Pixel 6a
Android version: 16

I get a ton of spam messages. I want to archive or delete those messages based on what I flag as spam. A basic Bayesian spam filter would be good too.

I could not find anything in fdroid.

SpamBlocker can filter sms but needs manual hand crafted rules.

One app for notification which does this is FilterBox. I want one for SMS.

I'm talking about the back, home and app switcher buttons. I've just bought a Google Pixel Pro 9 but something that's really bugging me is that I can barely reach the back button, I keep accidentally pressing the home button. When I hold my phone in my right hand, my thumb only covers half way across and half way up.

Is there a way to either change the order the buttons are in, or move them all to the side? For some reason I never had this problem on my One Plus 6T even though it's got a slightly larger display.

Please .... I'm desperate, please help me find recovery or kernel(with included recovery) links that work! Or files!!

the only feature i need is

1. change app icons

the rest i can get used to.

edit: i chose Hyperion

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41691086

anybody else noticing some pages hang loading for ages on mobile?

Using Fennec F-Droid, some pages the progress bar hits 25% and then hangs for an amount of time between a couple minutes to forever. Usually the same page will always hang around the same time, but trying hours or days later it might work. Sometimes the page loads after a couple minutes, but if it doesn't, I can come back hours later and the progress bar is still at 25% for that tab. Killing the app doesn't seem to make a difference. I do use Ublock origin and one other extension to redirect reddit links to old.reddit.com. Haven't started disabling extensions yet, I wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing this on Android.

I'm not new to Android, but new to Lawnchair and was able to download and install Lawnchair 15 Beta 1 Google Play release.

So far, I really like it. Folders in the app drawer was great, though it requires a bit more work. I know it's a beta so I'm keeping my expectations in check.

I'm moving over from Smart Launcher, which I moved to from Nova Launcher. There are two main features that I don't know I'm just not seeing or if they don't exist:

• Access to Hidden Apps: I like to hide my NSFW apps for obvious reasons. It seems like the way to access hidden apps is to go to Settings, App Drawer, and then selectively unhide the app you want to use and then hide it again when you are done. Is that correct? This seems very round-about. Smart Launcher's hidden drawer feature is really useful and would like to see something similar in Lawnchair
• Gestures for home screen icons: I like to keep my home screen as minimalistic as possible. I use "swipe up" and "double-tap" gestures on icons on the home screen to toggle alternate apps. For example, I double-tap "Phone" to get to "Contacts", double-tap "Messages" to open "Google Voice". I don't see this feature at all for Lawnchair. Am I missing an option or does Lawnchair not have this feature.

Thanks!

Hi I am looking for a good e-book reader that is FOSS I tried myne but when I try to import my EPUB file it gives an error.

Ok, I was looking at developer options and found this "grammatical gender" mean in terms of android device? Like, I tried selecting it and doesn't seem to do anything....

Device is Galaxy A71 with lineage os 22.2, also my Galaxy A55 with stock oneUI 7 has it. (Both android 15) like what does it do? Just curious...

Is there a modern Darq alternative which forces dark background on other apps targetting modern android versions like 15, 16?

Darq was last updated in 2022 and play store flags it as malicious for some reason.

I've got a Mi 10t Lite 5g that's starting to show its age, and could do with a factory reset to clear some of the crap. Ideally I want to unlock the bootloader and try some custom ROMs too.

It's been years since I did a backup without moving to a new phone, so I don't know the best way to do it anymore. What's the best way these days?

So, I've had a s21 ultra that I bought second hand years ago and I love it. I don't use as primary because I don't trust google/samsung (I use graphene on a pixel5) but I keep it as stock for the amazing camera.

I made the mistake of making a google account to play games. I just used random letters as I have no interest on it and I'm just being forced for the game to run. Today the phone was stuck on "phone is starting". I tried reseting cache on recovery, but nothing. I figured only factory reset would work.

Now it forced me to login to my @#$@$#%ing google account that I never wanted. It won't let me use my @#$@#$ing phone if I don't know the @#@%@ing google garbage. Is my amazing phone now a piece of brick because google needs to sell my data for my "security"? Is it really gone?

It's recently updated. I don't remember if I unlocked the bootloader (I don't think there are custom roms for it so I didn't bother) but it seems to be locked. Is there really nothing to be done?

I bought it for 1/4 of the price, but it was still a lot of money for me. Totally worthy because the camera is amazing, but did google really destroy my phone for my "security"? I understand forcing to wipe out data, but bricking the phone? How on hell is that for my security?

Just complaining out loud. I know that the answer is the same as "protect from terrorism" or "protect the children" is just really "to give us more money". But anyway, is there something that can be done?

Apple is the same or even worse right? if not, as much as I hate them, I would move. But now... It looks to me that if I want a good camera, I buy a real bulky one. If I want a good processor, I buy a laptop. Nowadays phones need to be just cheap garbage that can be thrown away easily if you don't want to please google/apple....

Anyway, any help is appreciated, though with my knowledge of phones, I think there is none. It's a brick now, that I wish I could throw at some people on google...

Something turn-based, battery-light and enjoyable.

Lichess was my first guess, but I'm looking for some other options.

hey guys

which apps would you say are must have for you for a trip abroad also general apps recommendations are fine

preferably ipen source (foss)

hopefully here is fine i didnt see any rule against it if its not okay remove the post

I use Transit, but I'm always curious what else is out there, particularly for bike navigation on protected bike lanes.

Hello guys. I have island installed and have my "work profile" installed, which contains among others my browser in the island tab. The situation is that I have several PWAs that I dont want to receive notifications for while I am at work as they are distracting and unnecessarily annoying, but I want to receive them normally while not at work.

I have been trying to figure out how to get it set up so that I can both trigger the actions at scheduled times, or manually through the quick tile I created from macrodroid (my work hours are not really stable/fixed).

However, when testing with a push notification testing site, regardless what I do I still get the notifications.

Here is my setup so far:

Macros:
Enable Work Profile
--------------------------
Triggers:
    Day/Time: 08:00 Mon, Fri
    Quick Tile On/Press

Actions:
    Action 1:
        Target: Broadcast
        Send Intent: island.intent.action.FREEZE_APP
        Extra 1: package_name = com.brave.browser
    Action 2:
        Display Notification (with a message saying work mode enabled)

Constraints: None

Disable Work Profile
--------------------------
Triggers:
    Quick Tile Off

Actions:
    Action 1:
        Target: Broadcast
        Send Intent: island.intent.action.UNFREEZE_APP
        Extra 1: package_name = com.brave.browser
    Action 2:
        Display Notification (with a message saying work mode disabled)

Constraints:
    Day of the Week: Mon
    Time of Day: 19:00 - 19:01
------------------- OR --------------------------
    Day of the Week: Fri
    Time of Day: 22:00 - 22:01

Some things to note:

I am using /e/os version 3.0.1-t-20250606498724-official-FP5 Android is version 13

What am I doing wrong here? Ideally I would like to have as few apps installed as possible to achieve a single task, but as I understand it macrodroid doesnt have the necessary permissions to affect other apps notifications (hence why island is necessary).

If there is another way which is easier to achieve what I am trying to do I'm all ears, however I do not want to use do not disturb for this purpose because obviously I need to be able to use my phone normally while at work except for those 2-3 apps I dont want to receive notifications for, but there are also situations where I want a full DND experience where I will get nothing coming through, not even alarms (e.g. meetings/classes, etc). Also for those unfamiliar with /e/os, it doesn't currently have the Focus Mode feature so that is also out of the picture.

Many thanks in advance!

There was once a tremendous app on IzzyOnDroid called SuperImage, which allows me to upscale images.

However one day the developer decided he was moving to a closed source model and archived the repository: https://github.com/Lucchetto/SuperImage

I've been using the app the whole time but it's now two years since the last update. I guess I was hoping someone would fork it and keep it alive, but I've had no joy in that regard.

Having looked at what the app has now become, it seems the developer hasn't slacked. I don't mind paying for the pro, but I'm also in my feelings about the fact it became closed source. Should I just switch to the new closed source version? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zhenxiang.superimage.pro

I recently installed Wallabag and the software does the job, but the apps to interact with it, that I've found, could all do with a lick of paint. I'm currently using Frigoligo but I'm hoping there's something better out there. Anyone know of one?

My phone still works perfectly fine despite its age and I'm too cheap to buy a new one.