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So I bought a moto G52 because it was listed as compatible with T-Mobile. It turns out it technicly works with T-Mobile but its limited to 2G and doesn't have service most of the time.

I am looking at alternatives but I don't know how to check compatibility. I'm looking to run lineage os and I need a headphone jack. I want to stay under $300 USD and I love Motorola's gestures so I would like to stay with Motorola if possible.

Any suggestions? I have been mostly brousing this website https://lineageosdevices.com

Is there any browser out there for android that provides this functionality.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this.

Preferably FOSS and supporting the side swipe up gesture. I know of Sesame, but it's been discontinued and doesn't support the gesture. Firefox on the other hand does support the gesture, but only does online search.

I want to avoid Amazon. Are amazon and the phones manufacture the only option? I don't want to have to create an account

Hi I am looking for an easy way to backup parts of my mobile like some apps and folders to my pc and restore it after changing rom or to another mobile. I am using nobara linux and android 13. Need some open source linux solutions that can be done in few clicks or commands. Assuming they would be using adb commands but can use fdroid apps if it can work without rooting as well. My current mobile is rooted but not sure if I will be rooting it again with another rom.

If that isn't available could just make a script to use certain commands. Need to backup the following stuff,

1. F-droid and it's installed apps I do have fdroidcl installed but haven't figured out the commands for it yet

2. Aurora and it's installed apps No idea how to do that

3. Aegis Auth I do have auto backup on so do I only take those files?

4. Bitwarden It is saved in cloud so can do it manually if it's messy

5. Few other apps if possible Not sure if taking a copy of certain data folders would work and no idea how many of them are there. Does it work for Aegis and Bitwarden as well? Both would be encrypted but if the key is my password then should be fine I suppose.

Still not that knowledgeable in these things so would be nice if the instructions are easy to understand.

I tried VLC but it doesn't render in custom font

I use the Google Messages app and I'm aiming for something like this:

1. I add a custom field called Timezone to my contacts and put in GMT+9 or whatever (I have a friend who's moving to Japan)
2. This theoretical app scans for the time zone field for each member of a chat
3. The app draws over Messages, displaying the time for every time zone it finds in the members of the chat

Does something like this exist? I haven't had luck finding anything.

are there any pixel/stock like launchers currently in development? went from motorola to oneplus and missing stock launcher, nova launcher isn't developed since 2021, lawnchair haven't seen any release since 2018-2019, ruthless can't be officialy installed because it's 'made for older devices', hyperion is weird with icons, they look small at 115% and clip if set to larger percentage etc.

I just ordered a set from Apple and I can’t get these to stay in my ear.

I got two pairs from logitech, but the max volume on those was far too quiet.

I got a dongle from Google to use some old AKG earbuds I had, and the inline controls rarely work.

Hoping to find something that has good quality audio, inline controls, decent volume, and eartips that stay in (and/or can be swapped). Preferably somewhere at or below the $20USD mark.

Thank you for any recommendations.

I have a Motorola edge plus that will not connect to mobile data. It will show several bars of service but the 4G icon is greyed out like it knows the service is there but will not access it I can make calls and send texts as long as they can be sent as an sms text. I use straight talk as a provider so my talks with customer service have been difficult, but they assure me my plan is in order and go straight to restarting the device (which does not work).

I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions? I'm considering trying a factory reset of the phone to see if that corrects any settings on my end, or maybe buying a new SIM card and reactivating the service? But I don't know if there's any chance that would work or if I should just try harder with customer service.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9331492

Hi. Is it possible to have Shelter app on a recent Samsung phone? I just got a Samsung A04s because of budget, and it seems like I can't run work profile apps in it. I've tried Shelter, Insular and Island, none of them worked, they're in conflict with native's Dual Messenger option, which is a limited work profile, that only can run message apps like WhatsApp.

Do you know how to solve this? Maybe someway to remove Dual Messenger?

When I use signal on my phone it works ok. But, occasionally I need to use it on my PC. Basically every time I start it on pc, it requires updating and repairing with my phone.

As a result, I do not have access to the history of my chats.

For me, this makes signal unusable.

What do I do wrong?

I've got a couple of old phones that I've had for a few years, and while both of them are in great physical condition, both of them run very slowly. So slowly that it's difficult to really use them for anything; even the home screens tend to be sluggish. My suspicion is that it's some planned obsolescence thing where they run a version of Android that they can't handle, and I would like to put them on something where they'll run more smoothly. After few years of digging around on the XDA forums and trying different things, I've never really made any progress.

The phones are a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (SCH-I435) on Android 4.4.2 and a Samsung S7 Edge (SM-G935V) on Android 8. Both are Verizon phones, and my understanding is that they're locked down pretty tight; I've never found a solution that will let me root them or flash a custom ROM. The S4 shows an open padlock on the boot screen, so I think I was able to unlock the bootloader at one point, but I wasn't able to go past that. I was never able to get anywhere with the S7.

Is there any possible solution to getting these phones running more smoothly? I'm open to hardware and software solutions if any exist. Thank you.

fuck the default file's app for not being able to select folders

My device is Redmi Note 10 Pro running Crdroid 7.19 (Android 11). I have always had problems with Bluetooth randomly disconnecting, but this used to happen like once a couple weeks.

But today my device went crazy. For the last 8 or so hours it's been repeatedly turning bluetooth on and off and every so often showing a "bluetooth keeps stopping" error.

• I tried clearing cache and data for the Bluetooth app.
• I cleared cache and dalvik in TWRP.
• I rebooted plenty of times.
• I tried changing AVRCP and MAP versions in Developer options

Nothing helped

This is the error log

What can I do?

Wishlist for Android 15, or future versions like Android 20.

Samsung S10 using Android 12.

I've finally managed to remove the 'Search on Bing' option (had uninstall Outlook.. Damn you Microsoft).

I've finally managed to disable the "Add event" button by not only disabling "Smart suggestions" but I also had to disable the system app before it would go.

Ideally I'd like the most common used buttons up front - cut, copy and paste.

Any suggestions?

Is there anyway I can remove or make this bar less ugly as I dont use google apps that often so I removed google go search but it resulted in that dull bar.Google original app is not supported for my device and I cant change launcher as I am on Android 11 go and third party launcher work really poor. Advice?

Since yesterday, sharesheet is crashing for me on the first time it open. The crash may even result in crashing the app from which the share was invoked.

Some of my friends are also facing this issue. Can anyone confirm if they are also facing this?

Is it possible? I don't think any of the big companies have a one time buy in, and If they do I doubt it's anywhere near 5 bucks.

I have to have the ability to restrict it to only clean music and ads.

Here's the corresponding source code for, e.g., one of the four tooltips given as an example

Samples can either be in Material 2 or 3 according to your preferences.
You have interactive examples of :
- 1 Badge ;
- 2 Bottom App ;
- 3 Bottom Sheet ;
- 6 Buttons ;
- 6 Cards ;
- 3 Checkboxes ;
- 11 Chips ;
- 5 Date pickers ;
- 3 Dialogs ;
- 3 FAB(, floating action buttons) ;
- 3 Extended FABs ;
- 8 Icons ;
- 3 Lists ;
- 4 Menus ;
- 2 Navigation Bar ;
- 3 Navigation Drawers ;
- 3 Navigation rails ;
- 4 Progress indicators ;
- 2 Radio buttons ;
- 2 Search bars ;
- 7 Sliders ;
- 5 Snackbars ;
- 2 Switches ;
- 9 Tabs ;
- 12 Text fields ;
- 4 Tooltips ;
- 3 Time pickers ;
- and 6 Topbars.

Also, does anyone know of a more suitable community on Lemmy to exchange this kind of information ?

Long time ago I'd use a third party app for that, but I don't really trust them enough for that now. The closest solution I found was to use the work profile with Shelter, would that be the way to go?

In my case the app is Facebook Messenger & phone is Pixel 6.

I think Samsung devices also had a built in way to do this

I want my phone to take a photo every 5 seconds after I tap "shoot" once. on MIUI I did it doing very long tap (longer tap more photos it would take).

I'm sure I did the same with my S21, but cannot find how to do this anymore.

Can anyone help me with this?

Or as a plan B: can you recommend a good (ideally free no ads, or inexpensive) camera app with this feature?

I am currently using a Realme device which runs on Android 13, When i set my app icons to match wallpapers color a few of them are staying as they are as shown in the screenshot. Is there any way to customise these aswell with the help of any 3rd party apps? This just doesn't look right.