Android Thread - Give It Up, Headphones Jacks are Dead. - Hardware & Software

would love for samsung to give the ability for older devices like the note9 and s9

Until you get a microscopic piece of sand between the two halves, I guess.

Got a new OnePlus 6T and I really like it so far. Still haven't gotten around to migrating everything on to it but I got the essentials in. Was kinda surprised to learn there isn't really any maybe video or music player. I haven't looked in this space for a while so I've been using MX player and Poweramp like I have for years, so I'm wondering if there's anything new and better out there you guys might recommend.

Poweramp's still great. I personally use just use mpv or vlc for playing videos since MX got some malware added to it a few updates ago.

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Referring to MX player? The free version is loaded with crappy ads (I guess not malware per-se but people have spotted it phoning home with weird stuff a handful of times) I guess the pro version is okay? But the app got bought by a company that's known for lots of shady adware and tracking stuff in stuff they own so it's kind of a foregone conclusion that eventually it'll start going to shit too

I hope someone had a similar issue and may know how to fix. I host some services at home and my crappy fiber ISP doesn't support NAT loopback on their modem, so I setup a local dnsmasq server that redirects the requests from inside my network to my DDNS to their respective local IPs. I've configured my connection and set it to use this DNS server. However, if I use any app and try to connect to the services, it refuses to connect, as if my ports weren't forwarded, which they are. I try to connect to them via Chrome and it works, but not if I use other non-browser apps. For example, I host a bitwarden instance via docker and I can connect to it the first time I launch the app on wifi. After that, trying to sync just fails, but it works perfectly fine if I use LTE.

Mpv mobile is really good Also on music, I used to use poweramp but I switched to vinyl, which is a phonograph fork which is a fantastic player

Are there any wireless car charging mounts that aren't fuck ugly and low quality? I'm looking for one with adhesive because I don't care for vent mounts. I've scoured Amazon and the usual sites but a decent one is so hard to come by.

https://www.androidauthority.com/fxtec-pro1-review-960653/ Oh man I want this If it only had a flat screen with no rounded corners it'd be perfect

Why would anyone want to go back to physical keyboards for typing when we have swipe/gesture typing?

Because (even though I use it) swipe text prediction sucks in my experience, and I wouldn't need to tap through like 3 different screens to get to the special character I want?

I could see that for something like SSH connections or like you said. But outside of pretty specific cases, who does that often enough to justify it? It'd be just as fast for me to pull out my Surface and hotspot my phone, with the added benefit of not a 5" screen trying to read either terminal text or a 23" monitor.

The fact is, some people want a physical keyboard. I've tried swipe keyboards, all different kinds of keyboards on different sized displays, in portrait and landscape, and none of them work as well as a physical keyboard for me. You could say that I'm "using them wrong" somehow, but at the end of the day, we all have our own preferences.

a lot of people still don't like typing on touchscreens, and that doesn't even BEGIN to cover the most obvious reason of accessibility. physical keyboards are a godsend for handicapped/disabled phone users and accessibility settings on touchscreen phones only mitigate a continual annoyance. having a physical keyboard attached to the phone is great

This thing would be pretty great for anyone who needs to manage servers remotely and etc. I really hope it suceeds. It also seems to tick all the boxes in terms of being an enthusiast phone (headphone jack, microsd, hdmi out over USB-C, amoled, no notch, hardware keyboard), but I'm sure /r/android will find a reason to hate it.

Are there any keyboards that allow customised shortcuts panel? So you could set up a panel with standard BBCode or Markdown snippets for example.

I've got the Oneplus 6T for 6 days now, and goddamn this thing is a powerhouse. By average the battery lasts me 2 days during the work week, and last weekend I was able to squeeze 8 hours of SOT out of it in 27 hours. Absolutely not bad at all. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/459470833384030221/551146652593946626/Screenshot_20190301-215941.jpg

dark theme seem to do wonders with amoled phones, main reason why i want a samsung

So today I found out that you get shafted to 960x540 on Netflix when your bootloader is unlocked, ain't that just fucking wonderful. I checked to confirm and indeed, I'm on security level L3 now.

Look for "test patterns" on Netflix, it's a series that displays the current resolution and what not, that's how I confirmed it on my end. Oh yeah and you can check your Widevine DRM security level by installing this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidfung.drminfo If "security level" is L1, you should be able to watch 1080p and higher, but if not then it's anything under that.

I'm on a Pixel 3 rooted and bootloader unlocked. Have you tried installing Magisk to help with the bootloader issue?

I've also had Google Pay break in the last week on my Magisk rooted OnePlus 5

Fixed my Safety Net failures after root and bootloader unlocking. Netflix works at 100%, and my bank app is Magisk Hide'd so I can use tap to pay.

My LG G6 is dying a horrible death ATM (settings changing on reboot, occasional boot-loops, can't turn on wifi, etc), and I'm looking for a new phone ASAP and honestly not sure what to get (with Koodo in Canada). I'm considering just grabbing one of the more recent Samsung ones but I kinda prefer the stock android, the pixel 3 looks nice as well but the lack of a headphone jack or micro-SD slot is kinda annoying. Any options out there that are less obvious but fit the bill of just wanting a mostly stock android phone with all the standard features and a solid camera?

I'm typing on my Pixel 3 right now. I've had it for a little under a week and I love it. It comes with a USB-to-3.5mm adapter, as well as some Pixel USB C buds. Haven't tried them yet as I'm all Bluetooth but they give you options.

I figure I could probably make do with the usb c adapter and the 64gb of storage is enough for my music for the most part but it's kinda frustrating as a concept that it has the least features and highest price of all the flagships I'm looking at. I've tried the camera in person and it's undoubtedly really, really good but is there anything else particularly special aside from the fact that it's by google and will get software updates reliably?

i feel like that should be obvious your device is significantly less trustworthy overall with an unlocked bootloader

I don't understand this line of thinking, is having more control over your device untrustworthy? It seems like a path which just leads to users losing more freedom and control in the quest to get everything locked down and "trustable".

Depends on what else you're looking at? I like to fuck with my phones when I have them so I prefer the easy no-BS of straight Google images. It's pretty top notch in all regards.