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

this assumes that there's easy access to stock firmware sometimes there isn't so if you fuck up you're fucked

Yeah I guess that's easier for me to say because I have a newer device. However, from what I recall Samsung has older firmware for older Galaxies. Can't vouch for the tablet part though. That's a question I'd ask on the XDA forums if I ever needed to.

Oh neat, Android 9.0 dropped officially today: Android 9 Pie Update from the beta is about 50mb.

So I'm pretty tired of my ipad mini 2 not having a decent multitasking and not being able to run more than one app without unloading everything else after a minute of being in background. Any good and relatively cheap (under 400$) android tablets for entertainment without problems with keeping stuff in memory and with decent multitasking capabilities? (mainly being able to run youtube and browser/reddit client at the same time) I'm looking for something not smaller than 10". Or should I just look for windows tablet at this point?

updated to android 9 and this is my first time seeing the new navigation menu, let alone using it. it's going to take a lot of getting used to, and this is after getting comfy with android in the first place after switching to it last year

My phone is kaput, I need a new one. Any recommendations at $350 or lower? I had a Moto X Pure and I liked it, but it did start to get pretty slow after like 1 1/2 to 2 years.

Does anyone know when the Nokia 5.1 comes out in the US? It looks like the kind of phone I want (ie. not a thousand dollars, well-built, not too big, stock OS, and has a fucking headphone jack), but I can't find it for sale anywhere, and can't find anything saying when it comes out (besides a few rumors about it coming out mid-July that clearly didn't pan out).

try Xiaomi mi A2

Planning on ditching Virgin when I'm done with my plan. What brands offer the least shit plans and service?

Not available in the US...

red hydrogen one finally gets a release date: November 9th (preorders get it a month early in October)

sure it is Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite 4G Phablet Global Edition

That's an import from HK, but fair enough. Don't see why you'd get an A2 over an A1 though if you're gonna go that route.

a non ugly design, better cameras, better soc, a more recent release (longer software support) I'm probably getting it if the price is right once someone imports it

I'd just get a Surface Go if I was you.

No headphone jack, worse battery life, nothing appreciably improved from the last generation... Meh.

4GB of ram sounds like something that's not going to be enough for windows to comfortably use it. And 8GB version is +150$

Eh I'd say it comes down to what you want to do with it.

Sometimes my OnePlus 5 freezes completely - I reach to grab the phone (it's locked and worked, for example, 10 minutes ago) - and it's completely unresponsive. I have to do a hard reset in order to restart it. How can I troubleshoot this? Is there something like kernel crashlogs or something on Android?

/proc/last_kmsg on marshmallow and above /sys/fs/pstore/console-ramoops that will probably be the most useful (you'll need to grab it from recovery, it'll get wiped when you boot) also /devlog, latest will be kernel_log, older kernel_log.1 and so on also those may be helpful http://www.althority.com/getting_android_logs/ I'd recommend going to twrp and wiping cache and dalvik-cache , if it doesn't help, maybe it's time for a factory reset

So I found my 2013 Nexus 7 sitting in a closet unused today. I totally forgot about it, considering I gave it to my parents so they could try Android before they bought their first smartphone (which they bought for me originally for the same reason). It still fires up with no problems after god knows how long of not being charged. It makes me miss my Nexus 5. I really wanted to see how it compared to my current daily, the Moto G4 so I went ahead and installed an Oreo custom ROM on the Nexus 7 (something that isn't stable on my Moto G4 yet). To my surprise, it's amazingly usable even by today's standards. Considering my G4 likes to overheat and thermal throttle wildly with any sort of workload, I think I'm going to get even more use out of this 5 year old tablet.

Those things also support slimport, good for hooking up to TVs or something in place of a chromecast or whatever

Well 4gb of RAM in the Galaxy Tab S3 isn't any good, so avoid that one if you were looking at it. Chrome is a pretty bad experience on it. My Pixel 2 XL runs Chrome better and updates apps insanely faster then the Tab S3. The Tab S4 isn't much better going off the specs. I'll agree with @Awaken90125 and go with a Surface (or a Go) or the other option, a Chromebook.

This might sound funny to some of you guys but is there any way in hell I'd be able to install 9.0 on an LG G3?

A little late, but what's the problem with the note 8 with android auto? I used my s8+ with android auto for two weeks in a rental and I didn't notice any issues

most likely yes, but not yet, the phone doesn't support treble, so you'll have to wait until someone makes a rom for it, but that may take some time as the sources just released a few days ago

It constantly crashes out and doesn't work for more than 5 seconds at a time... But then I can go 500 miles with it working fine. I love it, but Apple Carplay gave me zero issues. There's all kinds of stories online of the Note8 being trash for Android Auto, I just didn't read any of them before buying.

If there's one nice thing about the Essential phone, it's the fact the cheapest phone on my provider that wasn't some specialty budget version gets 9.0 the same day as Pixels did.

Would it be better to buy a phone locked or unlocked? I'm not looking at the payment plan difference but from what I've heard, updates hit locked ones much sooner. Is this true?

Often you'll end up with a locked phone when buying through a mobile network/carrier. These phones have carrier-specific software on them, so they run a slightly different firmware version. For a while now, the Android update cycle has consisted of the following stages: Android Release OEMs apply customization to the firmware and sprinkle extra features on Carriers take this firmware and then install their apps The last time I had a network-locked Android phone, I had to wait additional months for bug fixes or a new Android version.