I had the fold4. I used the hinge maybe once a month tbh. I thought I’d use it more but its just not that practical. Despite babying the phone, the inner screen began to peel after a year of use. I’ll never buy another foldable screen until they worked that out. The phone itself was really heavy too and gave me wrist problems. I want to love the tech but it’s honestly still not there yet
It sounds like the file permissions were changed/reset. As a not Motorola user, I have no clue any difference you may have, but I’ll try to help.
Judging by your date of June 22, I’m guessing its been a month sence you got this, or was it just rolled out to you in the last few days?
Here a few potential spots to start, theres a high chance you’ve done them already, but I’ll start here.
If you share a new folder to your device, does it ask permission to “access the folder”. You may just have to redo all your syncs.
if you where previosuly syncing to the system “root” folder, you can not. (The folder with “Android” and “Pictures”. You have to be in a sub-folder. (No idea how long this has been a thing, but will include anyways)).
Does sync thing (and your file apps) have any new required permissions, obviosuly ensure your running the latest version. It might require a reinstall to retrigger the permission diologues.
There is a backup option in the sync thing app, however I have never used it and thus have no idea how “complete” of backup it is.
Yeah, I tried the first thing basically immediately, I grant it access to a subfolder (I discovered much earlier to my chagrin I couldn’t just sync the root folder). I checked the app’s settings to see if there were any permissions it needed I could give it, there weren’t, but I hadn’t tried reinstalling the app as I didn’t want to lose my data. The backup option just backs up the configuration file of the Syncthing app.
I ran into something similar where the main Syncthing interface was limiting a folder to “Send Only” with that same “locked to read only” message. In my case I was able to work around it by going to the Web GUI and there I was able to set the folder in question to “Send & Receive”. I don’t know if it will apply to your situation, but you might give that a shot if you haven’t already.
The fastest touchscreen keyboard I’ve ever found is OpenBoard with Gesture Typing: it’s both a regular keyboard and a super-fast Swype-like keyboard. It’s open-source and it doesn’t connect to the internet, so you don’t need to freak out because the APK is 2 years old.
I only have the two options, Try Again and Factory Data Reset. The first just reboots the device and I return to the same two options. The second asks for a confirmation, then it shows an error (/system/bin/tune2fs is missing) and takes me to the “dead droid” screen briefly, after which it reboots and we’re back to the same two options.
I’m familiar with the news about the brick - in the past I’ve had this problem (I think it was a bricked… pixel 2?) and faced similar power off issues. Keep trying what you’re trying but in various ways - I vaguely recall that I had to press volume up first and then hold power or something like that (meaning pressing them both at once or power first didn’t work). One of the various combos you’re trying is supposed to be the one that forces it off after ~30secs of holding but a fuzzy memory reminds me it was real finicky to actually get working. Worst case scenario, just let the battery die. :(
Google’s official position is “contact us” which I did today, but they wouldn’t tell me whether it would cost me or not without sending them a video of the problem, which rubbed me the wrong way. I know my phone is out of warranty now but the manufacturer broke this with their own update. Probably no more Google hardware for me. 😐
Wonder if benchmarks will switch to a more sustained load profile.
I also hope that Android will get some desktop mode with maybe even linux app support like chrome os (but I of course am dreaming) to actually use the insane power in a more ergonomic environment than in my palm
Don’t think we are getting an official desktop mode any time soon, ChromeOS is Google’s laptop/desktop operating system.
ChromeOS ran Android apps relatively well when I last tried this a few years ago. Most apps were clearly not designed for desktop UI/UX. Many didn’t work all that well as tablet apps either.
I hope that Google releases more tablets and give landscape orientated designs a little more love, something that is currently falling behind by many many apps (many don’t have that options at all). That could really make a difference once they DO decide to implement desktop mode.
Maybe they could experiment with some forced landscape mode or something? (If that does already exist, let me know because Nothingphone has removed homescreen rotation for no reason).
I would like to see that coming more to smartphones anyway. Phones are so big these days, landscape mode gets really comfortable because of it IMO.
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