or is it like signal where it uptates by it's self

I have been struggling a lot finding a wallpaper app on Android that simply lets me to have both online and local sources (merged) and automatically cycle between them in a specified time, I have tried all of the picture and many of them do this half good, I checked some FOSS apps and I think they are the best (no features locked for example, better UI and less crap).

From the ones listed in the picture I think Wall You is the best, it basically let me have the good things of both worlds, although not at the same time I think, and it has done some weird stuff with my local wallpapers, like miss placed them, not applied them correctly and sometimes only applying it in the home screen and not in the lock screen.

Doodle works fine although only from Google/their sources.

Wallme also allows local, but I could not get the Wallpaper changer to work at my specified time (3 hours) I think that menu is buggy, plus it's online sources comes from Reddit and I'd prefer to not use its API (although it seems a good candidate).

Muzei works fine for local sources and maybe for external because I think it is like plugin based? But I don't like that you can't customize how it applies the wallpapers and they are always miss placed because of the effect (that I don't know how is called).

The last two are some that I got from the Play Store ages ago and I had them installed, iWall only has its own stuff and it is not what I'm looking for and Walli I think it could do the job, although I am not sure, and I'd be willing to try some others before paying for it to unlock those extra features.

So, yeah in a nutshell finding the perfect wallpaper app for me has not been an easy task, do you have something in mind? Or do you think it is weird to want to have a mixed source? What do you recommend me?

For now I am using Doodle although I really would like one which supports both sources and cycle them!

I read you.

i use qksms as my main sms app

So the puppy has chewed my Mum's phone screen, stopping both the display AND touch sensor on half of it.

I'm trying to back up photos and contacts from internal storage. I've got a USB hub which I can connect a mouse to that seems to work, but the HDMI output from it isn't working. It's not showing as no signal though, it's connected with a completely black screen.

The phone has been turned off and I can't unlock it, so I'm wondering if this is a result of the system still being locked? If this is against the "no lock screen bypass help" rule, just let me know and I'll delete it.

The model of phone is a Huawei P30 Pro.

Any help would be appreciated

I've been using inoreader and decided to move to something local instead of cloud based. I found feeder and it is decent, but has one major annoyance for me. The "compact" view that gives you the title and a short blurb gives you uneven rows, and the other options (card and super compact) do not offer the same info.

Are there any other FOSS (or even just local, not cloud based, apps) that have what I'm looking for? I'm happy to pay a few bucks, I just don't want features locked behind a subscription.

I want to put solar panels on my roof, but there are some big trees (in my neighbor's yard) that shade my roof at various points throughout the day. I'm really not sure how much sun I get consistently.

I was thinking I could do something like take time-lapse pictures of my roof, perhaps once per hour, and collect that for both summer and winter.

I have a couple of old Android phones available. I was wondering if I could put one one a tree, facing my roof, and have it collect pictures periodically, unattended. I can get power to it, and it's within range of my WIFI.

Anyone done anything like this? Any recommendations on Android app or approach? (Or other ideas on assessing my roof solar coverage?) Thanks

Or hold it open while Bluetooth active and in use?

Would be extremely useful to have my screen stay open while phone is playing music in the car. Phone is a Samsung A31 running Android 12, although I have had the same issue on other devices running different versions of Android so not sure its relevant.

Tired of all the tracking in app. 9 trackers found. Any suggestions?

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Because it doesn't work for Amazon (it kinda go dark, but buggy) and Zepp Life, and probably others.

My device is rooted.

I’m using Connect and am quite happy with it. I’ve tried Sync, Infinity, Jerboa and a few others. None seems to allow me to swipe between an open post (and their comments below) and the next one by simply swiping right (or left for the previous post).

I was wondering if I was missing anything?

Connect has an experimental feature doing something close to it but it’s not perfect.

Yo,

Does anyone know how the "quick reactions" in telegram X work? On the normal app, you double click the message, and your preset reaction bops in. It doesn't seem to work the same way in X. There is a setting for it, but I have no idea how to get it to work.

Thanks!

Since I got a nice extension called Dark Reader for Safari on my Mac I fell in love with that extension, now I can't stand webpages which do not support system based dark mode, and this happens on Android too.

I am using Chrome as my default browser and since it does not support extensions I think it would be hard to achieve this.

Do you know about a workaround for this?

Is there an app to create a custom action in the sharesheet? I want to create an action that takes a link or some text and transforms it into a new URL. For example, I highlight some text, click share, click Search with (custom search engine), and that action would append the highlighted text to the search engine URL.

I just found ChatAll and I have been using it on macOS and fell in love with it, it is so useful because IAs are not perfect (despite what Hollywood wants to believe lol) and having different answers from different services is so cool.

I just downloaded ChatGPT for Android and now Bing, but I would like one app to rule them all.

Shopping for a new phone and out of the loop on releases. Just wondering if anyone knows if any mid range to high end non folding Motorolas are coming out in the next month or two.

Looking for a phone with quick charging, headphone jack for less than ~€1000 and I don't mind yesteryears phones.

Which one would you go for?

I care for: Photos, good biometrics, NFC.

Don't care for: Gaming, high resolution displays, speakers.

I was Xiaomi + LineageOS user for 5 years before bought an iPhone and using it for a year.

My experience is shit so far. Simplicity is good but not for me. I don’t even think iOS is a good OS. Like I shouldn’t open the app to let iOS understand I really read that message. I can’t even rotate the screen to the direction I want.

My only excuse is camera. I even tried Galaxy 23 (or maybe 22, not sure) and don’t liked its camera. Is it placebo effect or what? Is there a really an alternative Android with better or equivalent camera?

I saw this article and was wondering if anyone knows if there is an equivalent for coming to android/pixel/google Pay?

For me it's Motorola G72. It's excellent for the price. The phone is super lightweight despite having a 5,000 milliamper battery. The UI is very snappy and animations are very smooth (high refresh rate). It supports double tap on the back plus all other neat Motorola gestures. The under display fingerprint scanner works extremely well.

I've recently bought a Motorola Edge 20 pro and sometimes it fails to sleep and the screen remains on although the screen timeout has been set to 30 seconds. How can I diagnose this? Is this a common problem with Android or some app is responsible for it?

Hi, so when i open the 'app menu', you know, the app drawer or whatever it's called, and then open an app from there, say Liftoff, and then close it by pressing the home button in my navigation bar, my phone goes back into the app drawer.. i want it to go back to the home screen. To get there i have to press it again. Any help? Ty

I want to block calls that start with "+" as those are usually spoofed spam calls where I am from. I don't think the default google phone app can do that unlike the miui dialer.

Hi all I am looking for an app recommendation that echos what you say into it. The regular voice recording apps are good, but I am just trying to hear pronunciation of multiple words and don't want to delete a bunch of small files every time. If it can loop the last recording that would also be great TIA

I don't know what is wrong with my custom ROM (Paranoid Android) it is pretty much perfect it lasts all day and beyond (about 10 hrs of SOT with mid usage in my phone from 2020) and yet I struggle with the RAM management.

I am rocking a Poco F2 Pro which is EOL as of now, even when I moved from MIUI long time ago (is not that I don't like it, I just like AOSP more) one awesome feature I loved was the ability to lock an app so the aggressive MIUI RAM management would not kill it in the background, I used to pin a Reddit app for this matter, and now I want to do the same but with my Lemmy clients.

My device has 6GB of RAM and I feel that many apps reload a lot (Discord being one of them) anyway I only want to keep always active the Lemmy app now (only one at time since I use too many).

It's worth to mention that my device is rooted, so whether you know a handy trick to achieve this or with a mod I'd appreciate it... I have tried the battery restrictions feature but I don't think it is working the same as it was compared to MIUI's feature.

Normally a custom ROM handles the RAM way better than any stock ROMs because it comes with less bloatware and whatnot, but I am feeling I can only multitask 2 or 3 apps and nothing else.

I read you fellow android users!

I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...