[Weekly thread] - Discuss anything related to Android - 26-11-2024
AndrewZabar @ AndrewZabar @lemmy.world Posts 31Comments 747Joined 2 yr. ago
Ok thanks. This is just an experiment at the moment it’s not my actual phone it’s a spare. I have a bunch of phones that are a little old and I’ve been testing out roms to see what I like.
Oh, yeah the extended storage mode is iffy. They're all iffy to be sure, and I've seen icons be faded upon boot also but immediately they catch up and show solid.
Ironically, at least in my experience it is better to leave the SD as external, and use developer options to allow moving app to external even if not in the manifest. It's all about what apps you choose to move, less about the performance. Like I said, I don't move apps that need to run realtime and read and write data regularly, but stuff like icon packs, books, stuff like that, really anything that loads data only occasionally.
Right now, my real phone is still iPhone, but I'm thinking I'll change to android eventually. But I use several android devices as additional pocket computers.
I can't fathom why lineage devs made it like, not feasible. That should be up to the user. I did try to integrate some SD cards as extended internal storage but it fails every time with some java error and reports the SD corrupted. Lol three brand new chips are not corrupted dumbass Lineage lol. Good ones, too! So yeah, they effectively wrote it off as not an option. That's the one problem I have at the moment that I strongly disapprove. Other than that, the performance is insane! Similar with Cyanogen.
I still want to try out stuff like ResurrectionRemix, Havoc, /e/ and maybe Rising. For now I'm content mostly with Lineage on this Galaxy S5 but I really want to get something working that will let me move apps to the SD.
Thank you for all the replies and your insights. Greatly appreciated!
Hey do you think you can recommend a good utility to move apps to the SD card? I understand that performance is a major issue and I've even seen apps not work properly when run off there, which is why I only ever move things like Icon Packs or other referential apps, not stuff that needs to function in realtime and stay loaded. But Lineage does not allow this, even if you turn it on in developer options. Pretty sure that even being there is only an oversight. But the device I'm toying with only has 16GB internal, and icon packs are huge and absolutely don't need to be on internal.
do gatekeep pretty hard.
Yeah, what the hell is up with that?? It seems like they go out of their way to provide the content, but be ambiguous as they can about getting it to use. Who are they trying to impress? Some people have speculated it's just plain laziness, which I would not discount, but it seems like uniform laziness which would be weird. The instructions to install Lineage on this device were only the second set of instructions I've found that were coherent and comprehensive. I have tried to understand many others but they were really just plain incomplete!
Hey, dude or dudette, This worked perfectly! Thank you so much. On XDA forums these people write instructions like their abbreviating stuff on a grocery list. All it said for root was "get the latest magisk.zip from GitHub and install." Um - first of all, there's no zip from there, you need to rename the apk to zip - which he made no mention of. Second, saying to install an app is normally just running the apk in a file manager. Piss poor instructions from those guys. And that's consistent with pretty much almost all instructions I've seen over the past like year... YOU should be writing instructions on those pages FFS. And this you provided to me from memory! Dude/Dudette, you're AWESOME. Thank you.
And it's crazy also because I do not understand what the aging fuck I just did, and yet I've run my own IT company for nearly two decades. I think it's because mobile devices are so much in their own little pocket tech world. I dealt mostly with hardware and OS such as Windows and Linux, and software and network engineering and support. Mobile phones are such a separate cosmos.
Anyway, thank you again, a million times! I appreciate your help so much. I would gladly return the favor if you ever need something that I can provide. Peace out.
P.S. the only difference was in TWRP now you don't go to install, they have a separate ADB Sideload button. Other than that, literally step by step it was perfect instructions and took all of like 3 minutes in total. Most of that was the reboots lol.
I will try this, thank you!! I appreciate the fast response, too!
Question: sideload how? Sorry, I am not completely familiar... should I just adb push it onto the internal disk? Also, should I leave the existing installation on there?
One last question: why is the latest shown on github as 27 yet the app downloads 28 to update?
Seriously! It needs physical buttons. I don’t know why anyone bothers with this stuff.
Food for thought. Thanks.
That's very interesting. It was my understanding that, especially now with global informati9n at least ostensibly available online, that obituaries would br obviously available.
Is that still the case nowadays?
Ever heard of obituaries? Daily listings of people who have died.
Filters. I use Voyager and I have filters blocking pilotical crap. It works quite nicely.
Your personal experience does not define the platform. Yes, the fediverse got an influx of new users right after the Reddit API change. So you observed the similarities and concluded that this was designed as a replacement. That is just not the case. It got your attention because of that incident, but it had been its own thing for a quite a while already. The design is merely a sensible approach to the framework. You will find the same on many other social platforms because it’s a good design. Also, all these things are just front-ends to databases and often the designer will tailor that based on what they know is already popular.
But for Lemmy there are numerous front-end apps already that are not all the same. They’re designed slightly different from one-another, but mostly follow the same basic structure because - once again - it works well for the platform.
I’m not disagreeing with you that there’s a lot of similarity, I’m just saying there’s nothing about Lemmy that is intended as a reddit replacement. It merely serves that purpose fairly well. But there’s a lot of difference too, because it is not a replacement by intent.
Yes an alternative. One of a few but arguably the one with the most potential. It’s just you seemed to imply it was an intended replacement, that’s all. No sweat.
No it’s not a replacement fabricated for that purpose. It looks similar because the structure is a sensible one that makes sense for its design. It has no relationship to Reddit other than the fact that it’s a good alternative.
Yeah I know. Was just pointing it out. No big deal.
This is getting downright creepy. The site androidfilehost has thousands of listings. I go through alphabetically, on page 54 it goes from Spirit to Stylo. Splendor is NOT EVEN LISTED.
What the hell is it with this phone that its existence has nearly been erased from the internet?????
In my experience with new hardware, it's always been Ubuntu that works it perfectly where everyone else is like "what's that? I don't know that hardware"
A while back I got a new laptop and the audio hardware would only work with Ubuntu which is fine because that's what I was already using on the previous hardware. Ubuntu with KDE is a very solid setup.
Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like "yeah, yeah, I know" and click to silence those notifications.
Don't know if you're joking but this is not supposed to be a clone of reddit. I'm not bothered really I was just being nitpicky. I mean, of it's all the same, may as well use the right word.
Posted elsewhere as well.
So, what I need is a utility that will allow me to select any of my installed apps, and it will parse all installed icon packs and display all icons it finds for said app, and display them labeled with their respective pack names.
Thanks.