android

I got a samsung j3 2016 which can’t connect to LTE. I read that this phone can’t connect anymore to 4g (only 2g) after the provider (TIM from Italy) removed 3g antennas. It’s like the phone is not in the provider whitelist (first time I hear about it). Is it legal? Is it possible to bypass the block without going root or...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1032247...

I haven’t really kept up with android stuff for a while, but it looks like a handful of recent FOSS apps are using Shizuku for cool functionality. The new SDMaid uses it, and so do apps like Lemmy Redirect. In the list of apps, there’s also F-Droid, but I don’t really know what that’s for just yet....

My friends all have gallery apps that can sort by faces or search for things on pictures and I’m sitting here still using Simple Gallery. Is there a “smart” gallery app, that’s open source, ideally offline and privacy/security respecting?

I don’t know if this post fits here but the lineage os community has no traffic....

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For years I have been using daily Bing wallpaper app which used to automatically fetch the day’s Bing wallpaper and set it for lockscreen and home screen. The home screen wallpaper used to be in “landscape”, i.e. it was scrollable. The latest update has removed the setting for scrollable wallpaper to be set automatically....

Looks like it’s just a rebranded r7 that are left from last year.

I’m into Photography as one of my hobbies, but the curse of using a Sony camera is that they don’t have GPS built into their bodies. On top of that, their app which is supposed to connect to your camera via bluetooth sucks, and often loses connection randomly (or doesn’t get a connection at all) leaving many, or all,...

Hello, Android community! Let’s kick off a discussion on app organization and decluttering 📱🧹. How often do you clean up your app lists, and what are some apps you have recently removed?...

Do you guys recommend any custom ROMs for Xiaomi 12X or if any exist? I appreciate all responses and recommendations.

We revealed what the Google TV Streamer looks like earlier this week, and now some of the first specs have emerged.

So yesterday I tested WiFi Direct against Quick Share and to my surprise (kinda) WiFi Direct was much faster than the latter...