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Re: Android Oreo

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Post by fosco »

mino wrote: post #235
fosco wrote: post #183

I have an HTC One M8 which I purchased in summer/fall of 2015. The phone works great but it makes me sad that I am still on Marshmellow and the phone is no longer supported. lately I have been been wishing there is a way I can just run some version of linux like debian/fedora on my phone and be able to run apt-get update and upgrade (or yum) as updates are released. IIRC it cost $600, and technically it does more tha…

Every time someone asks me advice for "I have a 2-year $600 phone which is not updated" I simply suggest of installing LineageOS. I've been running it on a few phones. Zero issues so far, the install procedure is trivial once you do it once, it self-updates and the changelogs are clean.

Thanks for sharing I will look into this further. I noticed no one mentioned sailfishOS, any reason why?

will my phone work with tmobile and still make calls with my sim card by using lineage OS?

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by devopsproject »

Nullabillity wrote: post #528
devopsproject wrote: post #241

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maybe it is a company phone or it locked by by his carrier (eg verizon pixel) or he wants to use android pay\netflix\other apps that detect root or etc. There are many reasons.

All of which can be summed up as "don't work with shitty companies".

give me an alternative to android pay and netflix on a google device

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by tinus_hn »

ksk wrote: post #608
tinus_hn wrote: post #265

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Good thing they don't have to test these iPhones!

They do. Apple makes them available to carriers pre-launch IIRC.

Probably, but they won't delay the launch for months if the carriers drag their feet

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by tomkarlo »

pjmlp wrote: post #627
tomkarlo wrote: post #601

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Most security issues are handled by security updates, which don't require a letter update. They're issued as patches, so OEMs can issue them for an older device without updating it to a new release. https://www.android.com/security-center/monthly-security-upd...

They can, but most don't.

Most of the major OEMs do. The security update rate for upper tier phones runs about 75% within 3 months these days.

Anyway, I was responding to the comment "Most of serious security issues still require full OS updates." This is demonstrably inaccurate since the security patches do not require a full OS update.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by digi_owl »

pjmlp wrote: post #629
digi_owl wrote: post #566

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Indeed. It is one of those things that seems to go unspoken of, because even Google don't want to acknowledge that they once tried to pitch Android as more than a media consumption platform (Android 3.0, aka honeycomb, aka the tablet/landscape focused Android variant).

Which lead to the situation that although Windows Phone failed in the market, Windows 10 seems to be on good track to win the hybrid tablets market. All the consumer stores on my city have mostly Windows 10 hybrid laptops on sale, with the exception of a few Samsung and Huawei ones with Android.

In particular as Microsoft has waved the license on smaller screens.

The other day i found a 10" tablet with a keyboard dock and no less than two A ports on the tablet part.

I am presently contemplating grabbing one to use with a RTLSDR dongle i picked up on a lark.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by ndesaulniers »

pjmlp wrote: post #454
ndesaulniers wrote: post #429

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Actually, this is not an allowed customization.

Then spend one hour of your life listening to ADB Podcast, where Android team explicitly states that, saying that they don't want to encumber the work of them creating unique experiences. http://androidbackstage.blogspot.de/2017/08/episode-75-proje...

I sit next to Iliyan; I mentioned your comment to him and he chuckled.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by suckerburg »

2bitencryption wrote: post #646
suckerburg wrote: post #636

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I like to read but I don't challenge myself all that much so I'm afraid I'll be in over my head, would you recommend checking something out to sort of "prepare" myself? Like watching Tarkovsky straight from Michael Bay is not something I'd recommend, I'd tell them to watch some Nolan for contemporary, then Kubrick and stuff before going for Solaris. Is there an equivalent?

you could read some of DFW's short stories to understand his style a bit. other than that, don't be too afraid -- Infinite Jest is intentionally complicated and convoluted, being a bit confused is part of the experience. even if you aren't quite sure what's going on in every chapter, the writing is gorgeous and funny even on a sentence-by-sentence basis. You'll meet one character, then move on to another character, t…

Thanks, that puts me at ease. I haven't read Pynchon but I watched Inherent Vice and had a similar experience with stuff happening without context or anyone understanding what's going on.

I've only read Roger Federer as Religious Experience and that was pretty fun even though I don't watch tennis or care enough to know the rules, it was pretty fun to read the actual thing with extended footnotes open in a different tab.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by rohan1024 »

matthberg wrote: post #357

This looks interesting: "Linkable files: API that allows you to share files across the Internet via web links." Will this mean that I don't have to download a pdf to view it? I wonder what this feature means.

I am still wondering what it is. Theirs no documentation.
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