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[Google Pixel 6 Pro] miravision:
Google Confirms the Pixel 6 Doesn't Charge As Fast As We Thought - ExtremeTech

Google has clarified how the latest Pixels charge, and the true maximum rate is not the full 30W supported by the new charger.

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Google Confirms the Pixel 6 Doesn’t Charge As Fast As We Thought​

By Ryan Whitwam on November 19, 2021

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Google’s recently released Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are huge steps forward for the company’s smartphones. Google is finally getting serious about its hardware by offering big batteries, great displays, and a custom ARM chip called Tensor. Google even boosted the Pixel series’ anemic charging speed, although, it’s not as fast as we thought. Google has clarified how the latest Pixels charge, and the true maximum rate is not the full 30W supported by the new charger.

Like almost everything that isn’t an iPhone, the new Pixel phones charge over USB-C. The last few Pixels were stuck at 18W maximum charging speed, but Google announced the 2021 Pixels will work with its new 30W charger, which uses the latest USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) features. We all took that to mean the Pixels could charge at 30W, but Google has published a support article that explains why that is not the case.

Google’s battery explanation has a hint of Apple hand-waving. It shied away from listing the actual rated charging speed on the official spec table, preferring to give rough estimates of charging times as measured with the 30W adapter. For the record, the Pixel 6 can charge to 50 percent in about 30 minutes, which is respectable but not incredible.

According to the new support page, the Pixel 6 tops out at 21W and the Pixel 6 Pro can hit 23W. Like all smartphones, those speeds are only attainable when the batteries are mostly empty. The speed drops as the battery becomes full, which helps avoid excess wear on the cells. Google says that it designed the battery and charging system to “strike a balance between battery life, longevity and fast charging.” One way Google accomplishes that is by tying the phones’ charging behavior into the Pixel’s machine learning capabilities. Adaptive charging can actually pause charging above 80 percent or slow charging to a trickle overnight in certain circumstances.

Google’s messaging here has been lacking, but at least we have all the technical details now. If you want to pick up Google’s official charger, it should be very versatile. Not only does it support standard USB-PD up to 30W, but it also has PPS (programmable power supply) support. That’s what the Pixels and a few other cutting edge devices use to more efficiently vary voltages. So it should fast charge your Pixels and anything else with a USB-C port up to 30W. It’s $25 from Google, or $35 if you want a cable with it. Any third-party USB-PD charger with enough capacity should be able to hit the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro maximum charging speeds (based on my testing), but they won’t be as efficient.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] galaxys:
Yeh, there were some other threads about this when Google confessed!😳📴
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] old_fart:
They're saying 30 and giving 22 is a black mark. We all love to hound those. ( over and over and over )

Probably the programming wizards in the dev area will fix it. PD + PPS combined is cool. IMHO, battery health trumps all but maybe we can have our cake and eat it too. I hope.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] unknown00:
I hope but I doubt any devs from xda can get us full 30w
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Hello all i have the tab s6 that i got primarily for photo editing using lightroom. Unfortunately it seems i cant access any form of external storage through lightroom in order to view pictures and then import them into lightroom to edit them. It seems that I first have to transfer the pictures into the internal storage of the tab, in my case 256gb, and only then i can see the pictures in lightroom prior to importing them. By doing this i would essentially end up with duplicate photos and then reducing the storage even further.

The only way i can access the external storage is via the files manager app installed. Is there any work around this? In ios i can see the pictures from the external storage through lightroom prior to import.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
What Android version? Scoped storage is fully active in Android 11/12 and it's a mess.

Unless the app has special permissions like that file app, scoped storage will puke on them and limit their access. You may be able to do a adb edit work around, not sure as I refuse to deal with these OS versions.

Maybe try using a OTG flashstick as a work around.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Running Android 11 and no new update available. And lightroom app permission under files and media it says “allow access to media only” dont see other options
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Any app that allows full access to external drives where i can see the full size picture thats stored?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Lightroom developers need to modify it for it to work most likely. Not a trivial task.

Do some searches to see if you can modify this behavior with adb edits. Yeah, now even bloody iPhones are easier to use than Androids, thanks for nothing Gookill...

I would just download the whole file copy onto the PC. You need to back it up anyway...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Last thing i want is too root the tab and gave things go wrong. Havent rooted an Android device in years and always more of a hassle than what improvements where promised
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
I prefer using stock. Adb editing is just modifying the user partition, a factory reset will undo the changes if you goof up.

If it came loaded with 11 you can't flash it back to 10 because of the boot loader version.

Try some Google searches ie something like "scoped storage workaround adb". Add xda to it to find threads about it here. Maybe Package Disabler could help but I doubt it as scoped store is a core feature.

There's a lot of pissed off Android users right about now... you're not alone.

Share your wuv and give Google some feedback.

I have to N10+'s, one is running on Pie, the newest on Q. Both behave almost identically, however Samsung added dozens of small system apks to do that... Samsung went to a lot of trouble to do that.

You confirmed my fear Samsung couldn't or wouldn't be able to do the same with the models running on R and above.

The culprit is Google not Samsung.

It's the game that moves as you play it.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Something so simple that they are alienating photographers and are forcing them into ios, maybe I should have gotten an ipad pro 😞
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
There are work arounds but you shouldn't need to do this. At this point Android is more iPhone than Android... a tard wannabe iPhone that is.

Return if you still can.

If you get a Samsung running on P or Q it will function normally and still have sufficient security.

Be wary of buying devices as they may list P or Q as the loaded OS when in fact they've been updated or factory loaded (depending on manufacturered date) with R.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Tried to look into the scoped storage but seems to be too much of a hassle and not really working possibly depending on what you need. There doesnt seem to be a definitive answer to my particular issue in regards to having lightroom (adobe) have access to external storage. I might just have to bite the bullet and get a 1tb microsd card although thats a huge expense.

On another note, Adobe should make it a requirement to have access to external storage, its possible in IOS and windows and tell google to allow it.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Test a small sd card first to make sure it works as you want with scoped storage.

Get a V30 rated card, Sandisk Extreme works well.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Take a look at this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
Thanks but not really what i am looking for. Will test out and old microsd card i have from an old android phone and see how that goes
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] adinis78:
So some positive news to report. Tried an old microsd card. As expected it automatically displays the photos in the photo app just like the built in storage. So tried to copy a picture that i had backed up in the external ssd, did this via the file manager app. Then the moment of truth, opened up Lightroom and i have access to the additional microsd card, the picture that i copied from the ssd along with all the other old photos showed up in lightroom. So, as much of an inconvenience this is, it seems that for my needs and workflow, i would need the extra microsd card.

So here would be my work flow after taking pictures

1-Backup all the pictures taken on a certain date into the Samsung T5 SSD.

2-Also copy all of the pictures into the extra microsd card (1tb)

3-Go through all the pictures on the microsd card using lightroom to decide which ones to edit and then import them into lightroom.

4-Do all my edits then save those edits into the built in storage, upload to Facebook, instagram, etc. then save those final edits into the Samsung T5 SSD.

5-Format the 1tb microsd and repeat the whole process when needed.

Extra steps but it seems this is the only way. Thanks Google 😞

EDIT: after thinking about it I think a 512gb would be more than enough for my expected workdlow and would be a significant savings vs the 1tb
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Yay😃 This will be a better setup than you had.

I always build dual drive PCs; the OS, apps, DCIM folder and the temporary download folder go on internal memory.

All critical data goes on the data drive. This is then backed up redundantly to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.

Do Not use DCIM in the name of photo folder on the SD card; there can only be one folder with that name.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] alpastor:
I'm having the same problem with this scoop storage issue that Google has handed us My 1tb card is full of music that I can't access it worked fine on my Note 8 but it doesn't work hardly at all on my new Note 10 I can't even get a playlist to function right people have talked about editing Android manifest in Android studio Man that's so far above my ability but I wouldn't just format my card I know I bought the best one I could buy and I still have the problem and I've had my card for some time I hope someone comes up with a solution
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] blackhawk:
Scoped storage is a mess. Back up the 1tb card's data at least twice on 2 different hdds, more backup is always better.

Or use a different SD card in the device.

With the test SD card format the card with the device (all data will be lost, etc, etc), then doing the data transfer through the phone load the data. See if that works.

Regardless it's best practice to leave the SD card in one device and not "share" it with other devices. Having other devices write to it can lead to card corruption.

Don't know if this will help or not. I'm still running on Android 9 and 10. Gookill sucks elephant balls bad now... no way I'll upgrade my N10+'s to 11 or 12, they're running too good as is.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Questions & Answers] alpastor:
Thank you for getting back with me I have a real hard time keep you track of stuff nowadays but I don't need the aggravation of this scoop storage stuff as it is I have to pay someone to root my phones anymore because I just can't do it.

I used to be fairly good at it but not anymore so dr.ketan is promising updates in April and unless the issue is addressed by him I'm going to go ahead and downgrade my Note 10 Plus to Android 9 or 10 wherever that point is I can avoid all this crap

I think I read on one of the posts that they didn't really see any speed difference between 9 and 12

I think 9 was what was on my phone when I bought it in December.

And it was my phone guy that brought it up to 12 and put on dr.ketan's ROM. But I am so used to backing up stuff to SD card that it's driving me nuts. And isn't that the idea of TWRP anyway to be able to back up to your SD card and restore if you screw things up? Anyway thank you again for getting back with me and if you hear of any news about a fix or patch that someone like me could put on to fix it other than having to have the skills of a developer let me know I appreciate it I'd even be willing to be a beta tester.

Take care Rick
[XPERIA X1 General] kersh:
Can anyone with the xperia post some photo samples made with the X1 and some with flash in the night or similar?

thanks!
[XPERIA X1 General] Rudegar:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=428691&highlight=camera

the "flash" is a LED not a real flash so dont expect wonders
[Android Apps and Games] Deleted member 11377467:
Dear XDA-developers Forum!

I want to introduce my app project to you.

Maybe you like to try it out and give me Feedback?

We launched at the Google Play Store a few weeks ago:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.contactship.app

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ContactShip helps to:

stay in touch with family, friends and acquaintances

and to spot toxic relationships faster and to avoid them

How it works:

You use it instead of the standard address book of your device and you can store and structure different types of information about the people you know.

This information is used for:

reminders to stay in contact

hints for the next conversation

cross-contact-analysis.

and to highlight good and bad relations.

This makes it easier to plan and enjoy your next interactions with the people around you.

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What type of information you can manage:

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Nearly everything! Occasions, interactions, contacts, contact details, descriptions, likes, dislikes, wishes, dreams, social links between contacts, group memberships etc.

And we use different dimensions to ensure a good overview:

Views, categories, time stamps, ratings, markings, automated lists

Our goal was to be as flexible as possible but still keep enough structure to have benefits of it.

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Some screen shots:

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There is no advertisement inside the app and moste features are free to use.

Maybe one or the other of you will like the idea.

I'm happy to answer questions here in the forum.

Here's the download link again:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.contactship.app

I look forward to your feedback!

Thank you all!

Best,

Matthias
[Android Apps and Games] mammothjojo88:
Will be testing this app and reporting back to you with my findings. This looks promising!
[Android Apps and Games] Deleted member 11377467:
Thank you! Looking forward to your feedback :)
[Android Apps and Games] Deleted member 11377467:
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The problem:

“What was this girl’s name I met last Wednesday? I know I wrote down her name and number … “

Contact Apps only display names and numbers. Therefore it's impossible to identify a person if you don't know his or her name anymore.

The solution:

“Sort contacts by created descending” sorts your contacts according when you saved them in the ContactShip app.

This makes it possible to identify new contacts even if you haven’t saved the interaction in their contact history.

What’s behind it:

ContactShip saves the creation date for new contacts automatically and you can use it later on.
[Android Apps and Games] sheldon.esquivel:
What advice would you give yourself if you could go back to when you first started?
[Android Apps and Games] Deleted member 11377467:
My advice would be to spend a lot of time to build an audience while you develop your product. I'm very happy with our app itself, but we lack on public reach. If people don't know it, they won't use it.

My mistake was to care about building audience and getting followers first after the launch because legal preparations, concepts, testing etc. ate my work time.

We still only have a few hundreds followers on most social channels and our community grows slowly but steadily. And it is very difficult to get in contact with the media if you don't have personal connection. And people with good connections want a lot of money to help you.

If I could go back I would spend 1/3 of my time on audience and followers.
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
Moderator Announcement

Thread closed as download link is not functionable and thread owner has left XDA.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] NooBHunterPro:
So I have been using a note 8 for some time now with customs. Now my main problem is that my screen cracked and recently the touch screen started to die so cant really use twrp. Can anyone have an idea how to solve the problem with something else? (The Spen works perfectly or volume keys to navigate?)

(Thanks for any help!)
[Lenovo P11] ggkameleon:
Hi ! The black friday comes and I don't know which is better ?

The P11 Plus Helio Gt90 Global 4/128

The Xiaoxin Pad Snap 662 Chinese 6/128

Snapdragon is better for unlock Twrp root and install custom/global rom but loose L1 and some App for hide root and have 2go more Ram.

Mediatek Rrrrr no sources and more difficult for have & install custom Rom etc.. I think for these never. But are global and not a phone with vanced & Adegard it's cool only mistake update. For finish Helio is better same as only 4go Ram for play games.

The two are same price but P11 plus Amazon and Xiaoxin Pad Aliexpress.

The choice 🤔

If someone have test it or just your opinion please. Thanks
[Lenovo P11] mardon85:
What's your budget?
[Lenovo P11] ggkameleon:
200/300€.

I see the mipad 5 global but not at 299€ now..
[Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro) Questions & Ans] xtheo:
Hello !

I'm looking for working audio mod. Im on Miui 12.5.1 with Magisk (rooted). Was testing JamesDSP but not working for me.
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Jayant_Deshmukh:
About US:

Superior OS is a AOSP based custom ROM with a bunch of features to fulfill the users demands nowadays.

* Your warranty is now void.
* We are not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone by installing any custom ROMs and/or kernels.
* You do it at your own risk and take the responsibility upon yourself and you are not to blame us or XDA and its respected developers.

"This is a user friendly thread, all your suggestions are important to us and will be taken into consideration"

CLEAN FLASH :

Download the latest build and boot-eng.img from same folder

Take Backup (Not Necessary)

Reboot to bootloader

fastboot flash --slot all boot boot-twelve.img

Reboot to recovery

Perform factory reset

Flash via adb ->adb sideload ROM.zip

Reboot

DIRTY FLASH :

Download the latest build

Reboot to recovery

Flash via adb ->adb sideload ROM.zip

Reboot

STATUSBAR
- 4G Icon Instead of LTE.
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NAVIGATION BAR
- System navigation

QUICK SETTINGS
- Quick pulldown option.
- Vibrate on touch.

GESTURES
- Double tap to sleep.
- Extended swipe gesture.
- Quick open camera.
- One handed mode.
- Power button press and hold gesture.
- Power button torch gesture.
- Screen off power button torch.
- Three finger swipe screenshot.

BUTTONS
- Reorient volume buttons.
- Skip music tracks.
- Volume rocker wake.

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- Incall Vibrations.
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SuperiorOS, ROM for Google Pixel 4a

SuperiorOS Version Name: Twelve

Device: Sunfish

Maintainer: Jayant Deshmukh

Build Type: OFFICIAL

Resources used

Source Code: SuperiorOS

Device Tree Source: Sunfish

Kernel Source: Stock Prebuilt

ROM OS Version: 12.0.x

ROM Kernel: Linux 4.14

ROM Firmware Required: Must be on Latest Firmware

Based On: AOSP

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: Twelve

SELinux Status: Enforcing

Stable Release Date: 2021-12-20

Created 2021-12-20

Last Updated 2021-12-20
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Jayant_Deshmukh:
Release logs:

Merged November security patch

Added Legacy-WFD support

Added battery stats reset option

Added support for signature spoofing

Adapted screenshot sound to ringer modes

Added dedicated switch for screenshot sound

Added global actions with advanced reboot

Added Double tap to sleep on status bar & lock screen

Added option to enable long press power button to enable torch

Added volte icon

Added increasing ring feature

Added option to scramble pin layout

Added quick unlock

Added volume rocker wake

Added volume key music controller

Added haptic feedback option for back gesture

Added navigation mode settings

Added hardware key customisation support

Added extended back gesture actions

Added option to enable toast icon

Added quick qs pull down

Added option to enable haptic feedback on qs tiles

Added incall vibration options

Added 3 finger screenshot gesture

Added switch to enable 4G icon instead of LTE

Added many stuffs to launcher which I can't count 😂

Old style mobile data indicators

Enabled sound profile icon on status bar

Introduced pixel prop utils

Implemented Proton based monet

Extended monet support to power menu

Enabled one handed mode

Enabled charging ripple animation

Killed some log spams

Added workaround to pass safetynet

Added proper light/dark mode support to QS

Enabled dedicated network tiles

Added more QS tiles

Added support for device specific keyhandler

Enabled LTE+ icon by default and updated it to new silky design

Some improvements to Screenrecorder

Note: Pixel Now Playing feature is available and works just fine!
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Jayant_Deshmukh:
Reserved for Screenshots
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] barramas:
very thanks for your job but the last release is 19.08.2021 xcalibur???
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Jayant_Deshmukh:
Sourceforge is taking some time to reflect the changes. Release build is

SuperiorOS-Twelve-sunfish-GAPPS-OFFICIAL-20211124-0526.zip
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] barramas:
very thanks my friends
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] mikezf:
Many thanks for your great job.

Question: Is dirty flash from 11 version possible.
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Jayant_Deshmukh:
Dirty flash from eleven I don't really suggest or never tried. But yes clean flash is the way to go or even you can give it a try if that works tell other users as well ;)
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] daemonspudguy:
I love how we went from Xcalibur to Twelve.
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] barramas:
the rom does not install, every time when starting return recovery error.I did everything as in the description, its installed correctly but it does not work
[Google Pixel 4a ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other] Voigt15:
Wanted to upgrade from 11 to 12, but didn't even come to make the choice to do it clean or dirty.

Flashed the boot-eng.img, since then it is stuck in fast boot mode. Can neither start android nor go into recovery.

If I try it says: Enter Reason error boot prepare

When I tried flashing back the old bootloader.img from June instead, it fails to install boot_a and says "no such partition".

I can reflash the new boot-eng.img without errors though.

I am on Bootloader version: s5-0.3-7357976