131–140 of 260 posts
Does anyone happen to know of any third-party Android 10+ distributions that work for the Motorola Moto G6 Play? They cancelled major updates for this model after just a year or so on the market.
I got many answers to my Lineage questions on reddit. All were already answered in fact.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is less useful than it sounds because there’s no integrated night vision, unlike even the cheapest ip cams. So really only works as a webcam.
How do you manage the battery? I would be afraid of a fire after x years being on all the time. Note that I have no specific knowledge on the subject ; it's quite possibly a fear without any reasonable ground. But I had a cheap speaker that I used with a Chromecast audio to listening to podcasts ; I left it always on and... I came back just in time one night, the speaker was producing a large dark smoke. I almost put…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always done upgrades and they usually worked, but updating across Android versions is quite painful. You need to be wary not to accidentally keep old versions of GApps and any other system modifications installed, and not all system services migrate that easily. At some point, a transitionary .zip was published to help users upgrade between versions. However, I'm pretty sure their official policy is still that y…
Unless the major upgrade is Fedora, then it works great and is well supported to update in place for many years. The one major issue I had once was my fault because a force rebooted in the middle of the install. Still got it working though.
I installed LineageOS on my old Samsung Galaxy S3 back in the day. It's currently only used as a fancy alarm clock, I got an app that requires me to solve math problems to disable alarm. Just yesterday I was wondering if it was still supported by LineageOS, and I see that it is not. What are the chances that a new version will work on this "ancient" device? And even if I do, would it be safe enough to use or does the…
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-11-0-i9305...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-12-0l-i930...
However, "random reboots" doesn't sound great for a daily driver...
But just look around in the forum, sometimes there's a good alternative, it doesn't have to be Lineage.
I'm still pissed at Google for locking the bootloader on my Pixel 2. I bought the phone unlocked directly from Google, specifically so that I could install a custom ROM once Google stopped supporting it. But I sent the phone in to repair a broken USB port, and apparently it was Google's policy to send back a phone with a locked bootloader any time you get a repair. I can't even get a response from Google's support ab…
I can guess what the reason for this is: probably every phone that leaves Google must pass SafetyNet, and an unlocked bootloader will make SafetyNet fail. This cannot be circumvented, see this thread from the Magisk developer: https://nitter.net/topjohnwu/status/1237830555523149824
IMO, that shouldn't cause SafteyNet to fail either, but that's a different issue...
Also, the phone was bought in 2017, and the repair happened in 2018, so I think all of it predates that SafteyNet tightening.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I won't buy a phone that I can't run LineageOS on. MicroG. Life is too short to struggle and play games with the spyware that ships on phones by default nowadays. Better to be able to blow it all away.
> I won't buy a phone that I can't run LineageOS on. MicroG. I won't buy one that doesn't have an aux port. Do you know any lineage-supporting modern phones that have an aux port (and an SD slot, ideally!) by chance?
Have been on Cynogen/Lineage since 2012. Love the idea and the philosophy. Recently have been coming across safetynet issue. Will 19 address that? Also wondering what is the future of AOSP development, now that big companies are poaching developers (and effectively killing good projects like Magisk)
https://nitter.net/topjohnwu/status/1237830555523149824
Luckily, all banking/authenticator apps I depend on only check for root and do not require SafetyNet. Yet....
I'm still pissed at Google for locking the bootloader on my Pixel 2. I bought the phone unlocked directly from Google, specifically so that I could install a custom ROM once Google stopped supporting it. But I sent the phone in to repair a broken USB port, and apparently it was Google's policy to send back a phone with a locked bootloader any time you get a repair. I can't even get a response from Google's support ab…
This sounds like it's class-action worthy.
Also, I find it unlikely that we could compel google to do the right thing and unlock everyone's phones, even if we won. I think the more likely outcome would be a small monetary compensation that was hardly worth anyone's time (except for the lawyers).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you run out of uses for your smart phone you can always convert it to a wifi LAN camera using IP Webcam by Pavel Khlebovich and consume the output in VLC. I have been using an old phone for this purpose successfully for years.
Is it running 24/7? How is the camera (sensor) holding on? Is the image quality still ok? I had the same plans, but I was always afraid that running the camera for a long(-er) time will degrade the sensor fast, so te phones are collecting dust in a drawer now :)
There are enough settings to allow for just about any use-case. For me, I had issues doing full HD over wifi, since the router is upstairs in a different room, but you can play around with settings for resolution and FPS until you find something stable enough for your setup.
The heating seems okay, leave it on 24/7 with no downtime. Occasionally the phone falls off the wall due to the advanced taping mechanism keeping it there, but that's not the software's fault.
You can have it automatically run at boot. We have load shedding here often, and the phone recharges quickly enough after the 2 hour shutdown of power and can stream throughout (connected to mobile hotspot wifi - also for loadshedding reasons)
I don't buy many apps, but this one I recommend for sure.