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

Why is it so hard to transfer files to android phones? Why can't they just work when you plug them into a computer?

All mine do precisely that. Granted it's via MTP so you're better off just using FTP.

I don't know what that means. I'm using USB.

because all other filesystem solutions assume that there isn't an OS who also wants to own the files you're putting on that drive unless you can unmount the partition (which only was a thing in expandable storage days), everything has to be translated through the phone OS before being put on the device

I ended up installing Resilio Sync on my devices, which is like 100 times faster even though I'm doing it wirelessly. It just seems so absurd to me that the wireless solution is so much faster than the cable solution. Surely if Resilio works (and isn't bottlenecked by the OS), some workaround for doing it over cable should work too?

resilio is working at the app level, so it can only affect things in its own folder arbitrarily moving content requires the OS to be involved

Not sure what you mean about it only being able to affect things in its own folder, considering I can choose where to place its files.

because windows expects the USB mass storage device to a be regular old dumb flash drive but it's not, its a full computer. therefore windows shouldn't directly manipulate files, so android OS has to shim in between to make it look like a USB mass storage device to windows

That sounds like such a fixable problem though. I'm not convinced that it's just straight up impossible to make a system for moving files fast between two modern devices via cable in 2018.

not without cooperation from both sides without any real benefit you can't have a block device exposed to a second OS while also running a OS off that block device and expecting things not to break

Essential Phone, or Google Pixel XL?

Do you care about the Camera?

Why not the xz1 or xz2 compact? I bought the xz2 compact last week, had a slight discount so went for it. Its gonna replace my x compact which while really good, isn't obviously as good as the new compact sony phone, especially since this came out harshly gimped for a 550€ phone at release. Still waiting for it, but its supposedly extremely good, like, a sony phone that actually lives up to the flagship heights.

Depends on the price for each, how much you care about the headphone jack, and how much you care about the camera. The Pixel XL (assuming first gen) gains in camera and having a 3.5mm jack, but the Essential has a much better design and build quality, better battery life, and a beefier SoC. I own an Essential if you have any specific questions about it.

Kinda. Don't need the best in the world, only need to take pictures of text. Not a high priority, but of course would be nice. Priorities are decent power and battery.

I felt like breaking the habit of slabs, seeing how I've had the M2, M4 and the X compact, but yeah its good aswell fistbump for the compact version! about time I saw someone that doesn't wants a phone that can fit in a window frame

My vote is Pixel 2 then.

I think he's talking about a used OG Pixel XL, but dunno for sure Either way has way better camera quality than the PH-1...

As much as I hate the no headphone jack meme, I needed even use headphones to begin with so that's not an awful loss for me. How easy it is to unlock/root, and what is the custom ROM scene like?

Piss easy, it's basically like a Nexus. Turn on OEM Unlocking in development settings, reboot to fastboot, run fastboot oem unlock and bam. As far as custom ROMs...There's LineageOS support that's almost official (same barriers as the Pixel phones, the A/B partition layout's been problematic for LOS but that should be resolved very soon) and a few other AOSP-based ROMs (AICP, Resurrection Remix, Carbon), but it's not so important as the device runs close to AOSP code as it is and the official updates are pretty damn fast.

Considering getting one used on Swappa for about $300, it seems to be my best bet for now. Anything I should keep my eyes peeled for? I never buy used generally. Worried about battery depredation.

I got mine as an open box for $360 Uh, just look at the top grille mostly. The really early models had a cloth (?) grille that'd easily fall out. Otherwise there isn't much that's easy to tell from online photos. It's still a decently recent phone and unless the previous owner really abused it battery life should be decent.

The Xperia Compact series, respect. My brother who's currently using Iphone X, used my phone to see forex chart recently. He was like, "Why is your phone so fast?"

I'm mad that the newest phone in their Compact line (X2 Compact) has a 5" screen instead of 4.6" Why is it so hard nowadays to get a near flagship spec, compact phone I don't want a serving tray in my pocket

Should I be worried about the company going under?

That's up to you to really bet on, I think. I don't think they will, but I also wouldn't bet on a PH-2 coming out this year.

I like Pulsar but it's driving me fucking nuts. All of a sudden, it refuses to read the music off my SD card, even though it's got permission to read from my SD card.

my verizon v30 had an update and it made the proximity sensor turn off the display even when the phones unlocked super annoying anyone else have the same thing?

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/657/fff8b7f3-cb94-44da-aa7e-27dcefdb8de0/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/657/ebee1317-7be4-48b6-b6a2-e2b9563c9ddb/image.png There's finally an app that perfectly emulates PA's pie without root/xposed!

That sounds like a hardware issue to me. When I plug a USB cable (with a USB-C end on it) to mine it simply asks if I would like to allow files to be transferred, I touch 'allow' and it shows up in the file explorer easily. Another method I use is just to use GD or some other file transferring website.