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I’m at a point in life I get a phone, set it up and live my life....

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn’t the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

Basically the question. I use work profile (created with shelter). The stock android launcher supports this personal/work separation. But I want to know whether nothing phone launcher support this feature. I know you can install a third party launcher like lawnchair for this. But with these 3rd party launchers the gesture...

I still use an unsupported 2018 Asus ZenFone Max (M1) ZB555KL X00PD with a broken screen. I’d like to change the screen....

I just met my new neighbor for the first time, and when we exchanged numbers (by me texting her number) my phone (Pixel 8) showed her full name with a tilde in front of it below the phone number. She’s not in my contacts. Where did it get that name from?

I want to install a (or build my own) custom AOSP-based OS on my Samsung Galaxy J3 SM-J337W that has microG instead of the proprietary Google Play Services. Please forgive me if I’m doing something stupid: I’m a complete noob with this....

I’ve been using SwiftKey since before the Microsoft acquisition, but now I want to move on because it’s pushing copilot....

See title. I’ve heard that the S23 and S24 have region locking for international SIM/eSIMs, is this true? (ie: SIM refuses to work because of software lock)

I am trying to set up a plan with a smaller carrier, but I have a feeling that since they are not on Google’s allowlist (even though I live in Canada), they will not let me use 5G with them. The Pixel watch supported carrier list also makes no sense, because for some reason the new carriers for the watch 2 don’t support the...

So I sideloaded few apps that are already present in playstore. But whenever I go to my updates menu , I can see all my apps installed via playstore as well as side loaded. Is there a way to stop this?

I’ve preferred Pixel phones for the last few years but I’ve heard that Pixel 6/7 had 5G connection problems (Pixel 8 apparently has a better modem, but I think I’d rather stick to a Qualcomm design for now)....

The first Android 15 beta has busted my tap and pay. Anyone else lose NFC?

I have Tecno Spark 10 Pro and would like to install lineageOS or other degoogled firmware, but how can I do this if my phone is not in the list of supported ones?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14368233...

So I have a Galaxy S22 and saw /e/os and thought it looked great then saw it didn’t list my phone as one of the compatible devices....

Any recommendations for an sport/activity tracking app? FOSS would be super but I’m open to all suggestions! I’ve been walking more and wondering just how far I’ve been going and at what pace....

I realise I really miss that feature from 10 years ago. Any (foss) app doing that?

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Surprise....

Every 6 months or so I go looking for a solution to this problem and still haven’t found one....

I need a FOSS contact apps and only condition is, it should integrate with my system contacts so that I can use it with my dialer,messenger,etc. (Tried Connect you but too buggy)

The system launcher on my phone has a data usage that is non-zero. I’ve already disabled background data for it....

I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my KeePass database for years, but I want to switch to Syncthing. My only concern is losing a password due to file versioning. Usually if I have KeePass open on both my phone and PC, there will be a conflict when saving to database, so Dropbox creates a conflicted copy. In some cases that means...

While Google Translate has its obvious privacy-related issues, it’s at least a very mature system. The same cannot be said about Samsung’s translator, especially in its current form, yet they’re trying to roll it out ASAP and to as many people as possible....