cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/611442

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So I have an update to my post from a couple of weeks ago. I did a few full charging sessions and they all showed estimated capacity around 4700mAh:

Then yesterday I found this curious setting, after updating to Android 16 QPR1:

I turned it off, did a full charge session and I got this estimate:

And that result looks to be right back to the normal cycle degradation line:

I'll do a few more full charge sessions but we have a tentative culprit. Google seems to have introduced a battery capacity cap under this setting, presumably to extend the cycle life of the battery.

Hello! Im looking to get a new phone since my old OnePlus 9s battery is real bad. I was thinking about a new Pixel 10/Pixel 10 Pro and pray the Graphene devs manage to get Graphene running on it, although i read that the base Pixel 10 is way less equipped than the 10 Pro.

What are your thoughts here? Worth mentioning that work is paying for it. Unsure how willing boss'll be to get the Pro but only time will tell. Im looking for alternatives in the case that the Pro is a no-go. Also just generally curious about the status of Graphene and the 10 series, heard there were some challenges but dont know how bad its looking?

I'm searching for a good Android app that lets multiple people work together to create a list of meals for the next several days. Ideally, it should offer easy collaboration (shared lists or planners) so everyone can check/update meals. Does anyone have recommendations for apps that make group meal planning straightforward? Thanks!

There are lots of good FOSS options.

I would strongly recommend checking this site for the trackers in an app if you're at all concerned about privacy. Links to each app's exodus privacy report is also at the end of the table linked above.

FYI, Nova has been owned by a data mining company for many years and it is worth moving away from even if you think it is good enough now and doesn't need updates.

Edit: For what it’s worth, you can give Google feedback to stop this nonsense. Scroll down to Get Ready section and click on Share your feedback. You can use the following text as an example.

Android’s strength has always been in being both secure and open. Restricting sideloading goes against this principle and does little to protect users. The existing toggle and clear warnings are already enough to inform users of the risks.

Meanwhile, the Play Store itself continues to be the main source of Android malware. In 2023 alone, malicious apps on Google Play were downloaded over 600 million times. More recently, 77 infected apps with 19 million installs and 200+ other malicious apps with nearly 8 million installs slipped past Play Protect. These numbers make it clear where the real problem lies.

If Google truly wants to protect users, the focus should be on strengthening Play Store defenses. Android’s openness is not the threat; malware inside the official store is. Please prioritize fixing that instead of undermining one of Android’s core values.

I’m considering leaving Apple for Android for a very long time now. On my shortlist I have the Fairphone Gen 6 and the OnePlus 13. Other options are not possible. I don’t want Google or Samsung hardware, or any other manufacturers that make it difficult to unlock your bootloader.

One of the reasons is the freedom to install any app I want on my device, because it’s my device. But with the news about Google forcing developers to share their personal credentials it makes it difficult for me to go to Android. Basically Google is trying to kill sideloading. Should I even move to Android now or is Android with the limitation just like iOS?

Sad to read, but not at all surprising. I remember how much damage control Kevin was doing back when the sale to Branch happened.

I hope he has learned something about trusting the word and contracts from entities like Branch from the whole thing.

Has anyone experienced this? Using my mom's comcast wifi when I navigate to a new site the navigation takes a very long time, like a full minute. Once it eventually completes, I can click around inside the site at normal speed. This only happens with Firefox (I tried installing the Duckduckgo browser and it doesn't have the problem). It only happens on the comcast wifi (switching to mobile internet makes it go away). Using my laptop on the same wifi network has no problem. The issue on Android only started with the last update on F-droid. The only extension installed is ublock origin.

I can make some useless guesses at what might be happening (DNS queries getting hung somehow) but haven't made any attempt to check them with network sniffing.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I know FF + ublock allows you to do that, but I'm looking for an app solution. Plus, FF on Android is buggy sometimes. I'm looking for things like background play, PiP play and adblocks. Google sign in is optional.

I have tried:

• Newpipe: works ok. You can even download the videos. The downside is I dont know how to get Newpipe to customize the trending videos. E.g. I want only trending in topics I care about, not trending becsuse the video has the most views during that time.

• Youtube Vanced: very nice app, you have everything: adblock, PiP, Google account sign in, background play. The downsides are you install YT Vanced from Vanced Manager and there is a lot of fake sites with fake Vanced Manager apk. In addition, I also get a lot of frozen videos and have to relaunch the app - not sure it it's adblock problem or anything similar.

I'm attempting to alter the XNext walkman Magisk module for the Xperia 1 IV. I've gotten to the stage of modifying the existing asound.conf, but I'm struggling to find the right controls on the device to play media through.

In this case, I have a config that defines audio in/out devices (resourcemanagr_waipio_qrd.xml), and from this I have extracted the following out-device: https://paste.debian.net/1394516/

From this, I have noted the corresponding hw device from aplay -l: CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0 multicodec-0

I'm lost, however, as to how I might determine how to address this in asound.conf - which contains the module as follows: https://paste.debian.net/1394517/

where the first and last name elements appear to be the name of the device. I have attempted the following values:

CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0 multicodec-0
CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0
CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0 Audio Mixer Multimedia1

The last being a vague hope that there are somehow some additional configuration flags necessary. However, each time I attempt aplay -v -D headset test.wav, aplay responds that the device cannot be found. headset is slaved indirectly to pcm.headphone, and aplay does contain the correct device name according to asound.conf, so instead I must have the wrong device - except it's configured as such in all the resource config files. So what am I doing wrong, and how might I find the correct combination of bits and pieces?

Here is the full resourcemanager_waipio_qrd.xml: https://paste.debian.net/1394821/

Output of aplay -l on the device: https://paste.debian.net/1394822/

asound.conf as it currently stands: https://paste.debian.net/1394823/

Update! I have discovered that the DMA control is now obfuscated on this generation of audio card. Instead, I am supposed to turn on and off the dac switch. As a result, I have come up with the following:

{
					name 'HPHL_RDAC Switch'
					preserve false
					lock false
					value [ 0 ]
				}
				{
					name 'HPHR_RDAC Switch'
					preserve false
					lock false
					value [ 0 ]
				}
				{ name 'RX_MACRO RX0 MUX' value AIF1_PB }
			    { name 'RX_MACRO RX1 MUX' value AIF1_PB }
			    { name 'RX INT0_1 MIX1 INP0' value RX0 }
			    { name 'RX INT1_1 MIX1 INP0' value RX1 }
			    { name 'RX INT0 DEM MUX' value CLSH_DSM_OUT }
			    { name 'RX INT1 DEM MUX' value CLSH_DSM_OUT }
			    { name 'RX_COMP1 Switch' value 1 }
			    { name 'RX_COMP2 Switch' value 1 }
			    { name 'HPHL_RDAC Switch' value 1 }
			    { name 'HPHR_RDAC Switch' value 1 }
			    { name 'RX_RX0 Digital Volume' value 84 }
			    { name 'RX_RX1 Digital Volume' value 84 }
				{
					name 'HPHL_RDAC Switch'
					preserve true
					lock true
					value [ 1 ]
				}
				{
					name 'HPHR_RDAC Switch'
					preserve true
					lock true
					value [ 1 ]
				}

Now aplay -v -D headset test.wav returns the following:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
ALSA lib confmisc.c:136:(snd_config_get_bool) Invalid type for value
Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
aplay: set_params:1436: Unable to install hw params:
ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT:  S16_LE
SUBFORMAT:  STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 32
CHANNELS: 2
RATE: 44100
PERIOD_TIME: (10666 10667)
PERIOD_SIZE: (470 471)
PERIOD_BYTES: (1880 1884)
PERIODS: (15 17)
BUFFER_TIME: (170657 170658)
BUFFER_SIZE: 7526
BUFFER_BYTES: 30104
TICK_TIME: 0

I'm not quite sure if this is because I actually have the incorrect values, or if I just have the wrong components. They certainly match the contents of my mixer paths...

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36703523

It does not require root, user namespaces support or disabling SELinux, but it relies on proot and other hacks instead. It uses a fork of Termux-the-terminal-emulator app, but has no relation to Termux-the-distro.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/45207780

TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile

I was searching for YouTube clients on my Plasma Bigscreen Linux TV Box, and found NewPipe, a popular Android YouTube frontend. Turns out this tool is how they moved it over.

Great solution alongside projects like Waydroid, as you can post individual apps to Flathub or other Linux storefronts, rather than needing to install a whole ROM to get your Android apps to appear in your Linux app tray.

Whenever I go to my homescreen or otherwise load another app the previous one closes. If I'm browsing Lemmy and I open a page linked on a post to read it, my app will have reset itself when I close the tab and I either have to give up or root around for the post.

This OS is borderline unusable in this state. It even evicts my homescreen app so there's a 5-10 second lag when tapping the circle button.

Any tips? I have 8GB of RAM, which should be more than enough for a dozen apps.

Play Protect recently warned me that an external apk I was sideloading can steal my financial Information.

So I did what any rational person would do, turn off Play Protect because I know half of it is useless and ran the apk against Virus Total. Turns out it has exactly ONE match against 50+AV engines and that too is a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).

So, it is exceptionally unlikely that the apk was ever going to steal any of my info. Unless it is a zero day malware that only Google Play Protect caught and every other AV skipped(which is exceptionally unlikely) ; chances are Twitter would be more interested in spying on me than my Side loaded apk.

So, why does Google does this? It's pretty obvious these are harmless apk's. Does Play Protect just flag them for being outside the Play Store? I mean,the Play Store is full of apps where you can literally bet with IRL money and Google does not bat an eye and has problem with a non malicious apk?

On Android, you can choose whatever browser or launcher or any apps you want as default. I managed to find good alternatives (e.g. Brave instead of Chrome...etc.) , but email is the one thing I am still struggling with. I use Gmail and have tried the followings:

• Main Gmail app : it comes preinstalled. I can easily do a search, e.g. search for a starred email from 3 months ago, Gmail app shows immediately. Email format is shitty, some emails' font sizes appear too small. You cant "Mark as Read" from Notification shade.....

• Fairmail: I appreciate the dev's response. Very customizable. Emails are formatted very well. BUT.... I'm not sure if there are hidden changes recently, but Fairmail tends to go to a "deep sleep" state where I get zero notifications unless I open the app. Other time, it is even worse: I get notifications for emails from 2pm onward, but everything before is not notified unless I open the app. Performing the search function like Gmail above results in very slow and laggy app.

• Outlook: Their email app is good, but very often, I have ads within my inbox. Emails are formatted very well. In addition, the calendar app can cause conflict:

My phone has its own Calendar app (Google, 3rd party...etc). If I respond "Yes" to a meeting in an email, that creates a meeting within the Outlook app for my Gmail account. Sometimes, this does not sync with the web calendar from Gmail. This means I can literally have 2 Gmail calendar opened (Outlook and phone) and they are mismatched.

• K9/Thunderbird: Most recent comments from Google Play Store say they are shit. I tried and they load the emails well, format is much better than Gmail app. But we have similar problem as Fairmail above: sometimes the app just doesnt sync unless you open it.

• Edison/Sparks: I used Spark in its early days. It was great back then. Now? Too much AI bs. Too much. The app sometimes pops a message asking you to subscribe to use AI....

Any recommendation? I just want a normal email app, with none of the paywall and AI bs. Or just use Gmail from the web and forward emails to Proton/Tuta to read on Android?

Ive been using custom roms to greatly extend the lifespan of my phone (still using a xiaomi mi9t from 2019, running smoothly on A15, with lineageOS). Some apps, like banking apps, or gov apps sometimes require a stock android and locked bootloader. But, besides the stock spyware, stock roms become unusable in 2 to 3 years, forcing an upgrade.

Im thinking of getting a cheap 2nd phone to keep with stock android to use banking/gov apps and to leave at home. This way i could use my primary phone with a custom rom and have it working for way longer than 3 years, with less spyware, and wasting less money (depending on the price of that 2nd phone).

Does this seem like a decent strategy considering how android is moving?

Important question: If the cheap phone gets outdated, would it be safe to use it for banking considering i wouldnt install other apps or use a browser in that phone?

The brands available here (brazil) are mostly motorola, samsung, lg, xiaomi and realme (no pixels, nothings, fairphone, pinephones,...). What would be the best options for these two phones? The 2ndary phone should be cheap and reliable (gonna be used like once a week, but should last as long as possible) and 1ary phone should have unlockable bootloader and have good rom support for many years (i hope this niche wont die soon).

Banking on the browser is not an option anymore in my situation. I think it wont be around for long in the rest of the world too.

I was looking at this chart in AccuBattery and this dip looks rather strange. It does not look like normal battery wear. Did we get nerfed by the July update like the a-series with bad batteries? What's your graph look like, if you use AccuBattery or equivalent?