Has anyone experienced this? Using my mom's comcast wifi when I navigate to a new site the navigation takes a very long time, like a full minute. Once it eventually completes, I can click around inside the site at normal speed. This only happens with Firefox (I tried installing the Duckduckgo browser and it doesn't have the problem). It only happens on the comcast wifi (switching to mobile internet makes it go away). Using my laptop on the same wifi network has no problem. The issue on Android only started with the last update on F-droid. The only extension installed is ublock origin.

I can make some useless guesses at what might be happening (DNS queries getting hung somehow) but haven't made any attempt to check them with network sniffing.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm attempting to alter the XNext walkman Magisk module for the Xperia 1 IV. I've gotten to the stage of modifying the existing asound.conf, but I'm struggling to find the right controls on the device to play media through.

In this case, I have a config that defines audio in/out devices (resourcemanagr_waipio_qrd.xml), and from this I have extracted the following out-device: https://paste.debian.net/1394516/

From this, I have noted the corresponding hw device from aplay -l: CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0 multicodec-0

I'm lost, however, as to how I might determine how to address this in asound.conf - which contains the module as follows: https://paste.debian.net/1394517/

where the first and last name elements appear to be the name of the device. I have attempted the following values:

CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0 multicodec-0
CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0
CODEC_DMA-LPAIF_RXTX-RX-0 Audio Mixer Multimedia1

The last being a vague hope that there are somehow some additional configuration flags necessary. However, each time I attempt aplay -v -D headset test.wav, aplay responds that the device cannot be found. headset is slaved indirectly to pcm.headphone, and aplay does contain the correct device name according to asound.conf, so instead I must have the wrong device - except it's configured as such in all the resource config files. So what am I doing wrong, and how might I find the correct combination of bits and pieces?

Here is the full resourcemanager_waipio_qrd.xml: https://paste.debian.net/1394821/

Output of aplay -l on the device: https://paste.debian.net/1394822/

asound.conf as it currently stands: https://paste.debian.net/1394823/

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/45207780

TIL about Android Translation Layer (ATL), a way to port Android apps to Linux Mobile

I was searching for YouTube clients on my Plasma Bigscreen Linux TV Box, and found NewPipe, a popular Android YouTube frontend. Turns out this tool is how they moved it over.

Great solution alongside projects like Waydroid, as you can post individual apps to Flathub or other Linux storefronts, rather than needing to install a whole ROM to get your Android apps to appear in your Linux app tray.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36703523

It does not require root, user namespaces support or disabling SELinux, but it relies on proot and other hacks instead. It uses a fork of Termux-the-terminal-emulator app, but has no relation to Termux-the-distro.

Whenever I go to my homescreen or otherwise load another app the previous one closes. If I'm browsing Lemmy and I open a page linked on a post to read it, my app will have reset itself when I close the tab and I either have to give up or root around for the post.

This OS is borderline unusable in this state. It even evicts my homescreen app so there's a 5-10 second lag when tapping the circle button.

Any tips? I have 8GB of RAM, which should be more than enough for a dozen apps.

I know FF + ublock allows you to do that, but I'm looking for an app solution. Plus, FF on Android is buggy sometimes. I'm looking for things like background play, PiP play and adblocks. Google sign in is optional.

I have tried:

• Newpipe: works ok. You can even download the videos. The downside is I dont know how to get Newpipe to customize the trending videos. E.g. I want only trending in topics I care about, not trending becsuse the video has the most views during that time.

• Youtube Vanced: very nice app, you have everything: adblock, PiP, Google account sign in, background play. The downsides are you install YT Vanced from Vanced Manager and there is a lot of fake sites with fake Vanced Manager apk. In addition, I also get a lot of frozen videos and have to relaunch the app - not sure it it's adblock problem or anything similar.

On Android, you can choose whatever browser or launcher or any apps you want as default. I managed to find good alternatives (e.g. Brave instead of Chrome...etc.) , but email is the one thing I am still struggling with. I use Gmail and have tried the followings:

• Main Gmail app : it comes preinstalled. I can easily do a search, e.g. search for a starred email from 3 months ago, Gmail app shows immediately. Email format is shitty, some emails' font sizes appear too small. You cant "Mark as Read" from Notification shade.....

• Fairmail: I appreciate the dev's response. Very customizable. Emails are formatted very well. BUT.... I'm not sure if there are hidden changes recently, but Fairmail tends to go to a "deep sleep" state where I get zero notifications unless I open the app. Other time, it is even worse: I get notifications for emails from 2pm onward, but everything before is not notified unless I open the app. Performing the search function like Gmail above results in very slow and laggy app.

• Outlook: Their email app is good, but very often, I have ads within my inbox. Emails are formatted very well. In addition, the calendar app can cause conflict:

My phone has its own Calendar app (Google, 3rd party...etc). If I respond "Yes" to a meeting in an email, that creates a meeting within the Outlook app for my Gmail account. Sometimes, this does not sync with the web calendar from Gmail. This means I can literally have 2 Gmail calendar opened (Outlook and phone) and they are mismatched.

• K9/Thunderbird: Most recent comments from Google Play Store say they are shit. I tried and they load the emails well, format is much better than Gmail app. But we have similar problem as Fairmail above: sometimes the app just doesnt sync unless you open it.

• Edison/Sparks: I used Spark in its early days. It was great back then. Now? Too much AI bs. Too much. The app sometimes pops a message asking you to subscribe to use AI....

Any recommendation? I just want a normal email app, with none of the paywall and AI bs. Or just use Gmail from the web and forward emails to Proton/Tuta to read on Android?

Ive been using custom roms to greatly extend the lifespan of my phone (still using a xiaomi mi9t from 2019, running smoothly on A15, with lineageOS). Some apps, like banking apps, or gov apps sometimes require a stock android and locked bootloader. But, besides the stock spyware, stock roms become unusable in 2 to 3 years, forcing an upgrade.

Im thinking of getting a cheap 2nd phone to keep with stock android to use banking/gov apps and to leave at home. This way i could use my primary phone with a custom rom and have it working for way longer than 3 years, with less spyware, and wasting less money (depending on the price of that 2nd phone).

Does this seem like a decent strategy considering how android is moving?

Important question: If the cheap phone gets outdated, would it be safe to use it for banking considering i wouldnt install other apps or use a browser in that phone?

The brands available here (brazil) are mostly motorola, samsung, lg, xiaomi and realme (no pixels, nothings, fairphone, pinephones,...). What would be the best options for these two phones? The 2ndary phone should be cheap and reliable (gonna be used like once a week, but should last as long as possible) and 1ary phone should have unlockable bootloader and have good rom support for many years (i hope this niche wont die soon).

Banking on the browser is not an option anymore in my situation. I think it wont be around for long in the rest of the world too.

I was looking at this chart in AccuBattery and this dip looks rather strange. It does not look like normal battery wear. Did we get nerfed by the July update like the a-series with bad batteries? What's your graph look like, if you use AccuBattery or equivalent?

I have a Motorola Razr+ 2023 from T-Mobile that I have had for 2 years and is now paid off and unlocked.

It works with physical sims from other carriers but no esim will begin to activate. It only pops up with a message to call T-mobile which I did but, they won't help me because I am no longer a customer.

The carrier unlock in the settings of android says unlocked so I don't know what to do next.

Any ideas or fun ADB things I can try?

I've been using my current phone for about 7 years now and it's well behind on updates and starting to fail in minor but foreboding ways so I'm looking to get a new one and was hoping people here could help me with my indecisiveness.

My greatest requirement is long term support, which immediately puts Google and Samsung at the top of the pack (Fairphone, I see you but you just aren't supported well in Canada as far as I can tell).

My other biggest interests are display quality, battery life, and customizability. I like the 6.2"-6.3" screen size that both the Pixel 10 and S25 fall in.

I don't care overly much about the camera beyond quite casual use and I don't care about gaming on it at all. I don't plan to use Graphene OS.

Given these preferences do people think one phone comes out over the other? I keep waffling back and forth. I'm also happy to hear about other android models too if someone thinks one fits the bill better that I'm unaware of.

Edit: Replaced "Restrictions" in place of the word "Ban"

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36316138

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• Lobsters.

Every few updates, Google seems to hire a new team of UI engineers and it's annoying. I'm too old to change! grumble grumble etc.

On Android 15, I swiped up on the green phone soft button to answer calls. Now it's just a button. I swear at one point on previous versions it was a swipe-to-center.

Is there anyway to change the behavior back to swipe up? Is this a component that I can replace entirely to keep it stable?

I'm using Nova launcher (disallowed updates since they were bought by someone sketchy) and I am playing with F-Droid, if that helps.

TIA!

So I am trying to get into these OSes like Graphene, Callyx, e OS..etc. If need be, I will try to de Google the phone too. Anyway, I understand that you can install apps using stores like Amazo, Fdroid, Acrescent, Aurora...etc, instead of relying on Google Play Store.

If an app I need relies on Play Store, then so be it; I think OS like Graphene allows you to run a profile with Google Play stuff?

Otherwise, I can just use apps from Fdroid, Aurora..etc. Say I have Firefox installed from Fdroid and it requires a serious security update, which store will get the update first: the Play Store or they come at the same time even to Fdroid?

Or I am a dev and I need to send an update for my app, where do I send it first?