yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] andyjeezy:
Even if its fake and gimmicky Symbian and Apple already have this app and I want it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyXyt-Ui5AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYgFYTjEFQU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgtLzarNJ3Y
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] otacon:
Nope. Highly highly highly unlikely this can be done. Our screens are just not sensitive enough to scan our thumb prints.

You can always have a fake, whereby it just looks like it's scanning your thumb print and unlock the phone. But it really defeats the purpose, because no added security at all.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] chalin:
It will be rally good to make some fake such as on the 5800, most of wm users will love it ;-) But with biometric scanner, ehm, we have to wait :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] thedicemaster:
you've got more chance of getting a working iris scanner for that.

i've seen a laptop do that using a webcam, so a phone with front-cam should be able to do it too(but at what battery and patience cost?)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] xxlildaddyxx:
itsallsubliminal

its a pressure sensitive screen... it might be possible with a capacitive screen like the iPhone's and G1's heat sensing screen, but even then i find it HIGHLY unlikely

Exactly if we could make a app that would measure how hard we would press the screen and we be able to go back re configure how hard the screen need to be pressed to unlock the phone
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] xxlildaddyxx:
Exactly if we could make a app that would measure how hard we would press the screen and we be able to go back re configure how hard the screen need to be pressed to unlock the phone
[General Questions and Answers] JetFixxxer:
It's only one contact and it's my wife. Notification shows her name and the text itself has her icon, but the main list doesn't show her icon and just shows the telephone number. When I check the details it shows her number, when I select the number I get "add to contacts", but the number has a +52 XXX-XXX-XXXX. Not sure where the +52 came from her contact doesn't show that.

I have cleared the cache on Messages.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Add the +52 to her number in your contact list.
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] SaidJan:
I flashed DFE and now my rom and recovery can't access data. Only recovery shows some encrypted data. I know if I format data, then I can access it. But I don't wanna do that.

Any other way to access my data?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] NOSS8:
Remove lock screen security and restart.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AlinTecsan:
I'm looking for firmwares patched 4.1.2 OR 4.0.4 without the chip emmc bug so i am looking for this file no matter if XEO COA ETC.

I have purpose to storage them in a flash drive maybe someone needs for reinstall.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] joniadriii:
Hi everyone. I have a Dual and also a tyttn. I have made my tyttn with the 6buttons htc home and everything works grate, I also had the audio manager on that. The problem is on the Dual because the icons are not displayed right on the home in general, programs etc. What can a do to fix that. Thanks in advance.

P.S. what about manilla 2D is it worth trying on both my htc. Thaks in advance
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] rling:
Did you use the right cab for it - ie used a VGA version ratherthan a qVGA one?

Manilla (M2D) or HTC Home - choice depends on taste and functionality. M2D is easily skinnable, but you lose a fair bit of the calender display - if one is busy, it will not display too many lines of appointments etc. Just give it a try and see. You can always switch between both easily.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarrettBear:
As the title suggests, over the past few days Bottom Quick Settings has started crashing when I restart my phone.

If I set the phone up and install BQS and then -NEVER- restart, it works, but if I restart it, after rebooting the Accessibility Service associated with BQS crashes and the app will not load.

I've been using the app for years now, and this is a very very recent issue.

I've factory reset my phone several times and tried alternating ways of setting it up, however as soon as I log into my google account, upon the next restart, BQS crashes.

I've even set Play Store to not auto-update anything before associating my account, but the issue still appears.

Any suggestions folks?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lousylogic:
Same issue for me. I installed an earlier version, malfunctioning still occurs.

Anyone can recommend alternative apps?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarrettBear:
There are no alternatives, I've been searching since making the post.

It appears that an update to Android has made the app unstable, I've tried everything to fix it, nothing works. I've emailed the developer and raised a bug ticket on their site, but no response yet.
[Google Pixel 6] NCVol:
I am rooted with Magisk and running the Raviole kernel. My Play System will not update past July no matter what I do. I delete all but one account on my phone and followed those instructions and still nothing. I have a 24MB update available and I've tried 20 times to download and install it but on reboot I just have the same level still. Anyone have a similar issue or know of a workaround? I even did a factory image install with the update to A13...twice.
[Google Pixel 6] tom1807:
I got on September 14(!) also the 24MB update, but then it showed I am now on August patch level.

Maybe it has something to do with your kernel?

Cheers
[Google Pixel 6] NCVol:
I checked on the kernel and that shouldn’t be the issue. I don’t know if Magisk would have any effect on it. I’m kind of out of ideas for the time being.
[Google Pixel 6] poit:
stock unrooted, and I just got the August Play system update yesterday. Prior to that I got 3 updates that were all dated July.
[Google Pixel 6] Fytdyh:
have you tried installing the apk from apkmirror ?
[Google Pixel 6] tom1807:
The apk is only a "visual" update and only displays August update, too small for the complete PlaySystem Update.

But some reported after installing, it triggered something and after a while the "real" system update was downloaded and installed.

Cheers
[Google Pixel 6] Abhi_aime:
I've purchased pixel 6 and bring in india, how to unblock the carrier setting
[Google Pixel 6] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
Is this an unlocked Pixel 6? If it is, carrier settings may be locked by the network. For example, my Pixel 6 uses a Straight Talk SIM backed by Verizon's network here in the United States. With that SIM installed I cannot change any carrier settings.

What the audience really needs is a little bit more detail from you, such as whether it is unlocked and what model you have.
[Google Pixel 6] Mr Hassan:
remotely possible
[Google Pixel 6] Abhi_aime:
My pixel is not unlocked, that's why asking for unlocking it
[Google Pixel 6] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
You weren't clear in your initial question, thus my post.

Anyway, if there is a third party service that can remove the carrier lock, pay them. Otherwise you're screwed. Keep in mind that even if you do get the phone unlocked, some US carriers, e. g. Verizon, lock the bootloader. This means no root will be possible.
[Moto Edge 30 Pro] AYIV:
Hi everyone!

I've faced issue with my XT2201-4 (edge+ 2022\edge 30 pro), google play service says that my device is not certified.

Bootloader not unlocked, fresh factory reset didnt help.

How to fix that, any ideas?
[Moto Edge 30 Pro] AYIV:
So, basically no brainer issue, "just" reflashing firmware (european one, but on a verizon device) fixed this problem.

If someone will get something similar, no cache deleting or other stuff will not help.
[Moto Edge 30 Pro] Svike3:
Hi. Did you flash other firmware? I can't find any information.

Did you unlock bootloader?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Z138:
i am needing LineageOS 17.1 for Google Pixel 3a (I need android 8 or 10) but I can't get it on the homepage, currently they only have LineageOS 19. Please give me zip and img link of LineageOS 17

thanks all
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] ga77a:
thank you for posting this, my eyes have been opened.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
Already 100+ views but only 1 comment, hmm...

Nobody knows anything?

I seriously want to get ansers to the above questions... these are real concerns to me.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
My questions don't seem to get to much attention here, not even to mention a reply.

Does anyone know a forum or another place where i can ask what is written above?

I wan't answers, these are real privacy concerns!
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] gregpilot:
Hmmm. I don't have answers to your specific questions. In another thread, you posted, generally, that most people don't care about your concerns. Very true. I wholeheartedly support you advocating your views; however encourage you to tread lightly if you want people to reply to you.

The only sure answer to your situation, and for me, also, is to grab the source of the rom which suits you, one without gapps, and then hire a dev to help go through the source to answer your questions. Then edit as needed and re-compile.

I am familiar enough with the process in general however don't have the skills to do it myself. LOS and its variants are probably a good place to start. I am using a vanilla build of RROS on A10 on a Oneplus8 pro. Since we have tools for A11 that is good but the tools generally aren't available for some time after a new Android release.

Your question might be asked of the Lineage devs, though I am sure they are busy and they are not forcing you to use their (free) product. There are also Linux phones available, although so far the hardware I have seen is not great.

What phone are you using? If you are serious about this, and are willing to support a dev project as above, we would have to settle on one or two similar OSes on the same Android version, and hire someone for a few days. This would be expensive. I, for one, would contribute. If we found 10 or 20 like minded people a crowdfunding page could be set up. If we did not reach the necessary amount then the money could be refunded.

To tell the truth, G keeps putting more obstacles in the way of modders and I am getting to the point where its not worth the trouble. Hopefully the hardware for Linux phones will improve.

Thoughts??
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] ShaunSmit:
Most people don't care that they are been spied on. They are after the they easy life. Want all the mod cons to make things easier. Unfortunately you can't change peoples habits. Have started seen a lot of custom rooms with suspicious files, that makes a person wonder if google is paying the devs to include their software.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] SigmundDroid:
Well, plenty of people do. For example, just see XDA's thread for FairEmail:

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-5-0-fai...en-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/

Well, I am interested in and have subscribed to this topic... it's just that LOS19 is still not really a hot topic for me yet (still fighting with LOS18, lol).
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
My bet lineage 1.18 is also affected by what i described above.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Fytdyh:
there might be some privacy oriented custom roms. have you checked ?

e Foundation - deGoogled unGoogled smartphone operating systems and online services - your data is your data

your data is YOUR data

e.foundation

or

Purism– Librem 5

Introducing the – Librem 5 by Purism

puri.sm
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
Never heared about https://e.foundation/ will have a look at that one.

The librem 5 has outdated hardware and is expensive, but that's not the problem... the shipping times are totally ******. Can take years for you to ever recive that phone.

Besides, that doesn't anser any of my above questions about LOS, guess that wasn't your intention anyways.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Fytdyh:
about your privacy related inquiries, i recon that Lineage, while it used to stand for privacy in the first years, it started to be seen more as a way to get updates on no longer supported devices. and given that almost every user that uses lineage also had flashed gapps, makes sense for them to add gapps in their everyday custom rom as well. Google has its sets of downsides and upsides. Privacy is good, but functionality is more important. a lot of good apps rely on google implemented functionality. Say that i would need to drive around the country. Privacy is my preference, but i need a fully functional bugless waze. Waze without google play services is a mess, if you get it working. Android Auto without gapps isnt possible.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] gregpilot:
For my devices, at least, Lineage did not have gapps baked in. For me, a good thing. There are a few vanilla roms left out there. Even without gapps, there are still leaks to google (the captive portal connectivity check, for one) but the footprint is much smaller.

For me, I have found open source alternatives to ALL of googles bloat and spyware. Not as convienient, sure. Pain in the a** sometimes, yes. Wayze? Host your own cameras, use openstreetmap (osmand) instead. google has made it very convienient with their ecosystem. I, for one, do not wish to share my life with them.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
No idea why people use gapps or microg, it's anti privacy so i do not ever use any of that.

I do not use any google services in my life and i don't miss them or need them for anything, i have alternatives.

I have to disagree on this phrase "Privacy is good, but functionality is more important".

If you are forced to give up privacy to use a service or product then the service or product is not worth being used.

Privacy is way more important than functionality, besides 90% of the time you can find perfectly working privacy friendly alternatives for almost anything.

Instead of google maps for example i use these:

Map at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

www.openstreetmap.org

Not sure if that is helpful while driving, would be fine for me, never heared about waze.

I banned Google of my life and im happy with that, wasn't that hard after all.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
My lineage version also doesn't have gapps in it, atleast nothing that is visible or accessable to me..

Not sure about the calendar thing described above..

What do you mean by captive portal connectivity check, what's that?

I beleve LOS uses Googls SUPL Server's too.

Great to meet someone with the same mindset, way to many people throw away their privacy which is equal to freedom, for "convienience"... It's crazy.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] gregpilot:
Every time your device makes a network connection (wifi or cellular) it pings "connectivitycheck.gstatic.com". Not really a ping, its a http request to check for internet connectivity. Successful completion will remove the "x" by the wifi and/or cell data icon. Although if the address is blocked on your router the "x" will remain, and your device will complain about not having internet access....but it does! (so long as your wifi router/cell net has access). But wifi calling won't work.

For more, go here:

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-avoid-the-captive-portal-checkin-to-google.3927561/

You can host your own check server, or....just disable the check.

I have confirmed this works on A9 and A10 AOSP roms. There are different variants of this command for different roms. You may have to try several of them.

From an adb shell: (needs root)

:/ # settings put global captive_portal_mode 0

***********THIS DISABLES GOOGLE CONN CHECK***** A9 and 10

To verify it is disabled:

:/ # settings list global | grep portal

Should return "captive_portal_mode=0"

If you do connect to a captive portal page (public wifi, open connection) where the owner wants a login cred then the side effect of this is that it won't work.

The issue is that everytime the check is run, google will get your IP address and browser/OS and can infer your coarse location even if location services are turned off. I have all google domains blocked on my wifi so to keep my wife happy I disable the check on her phone also so she does not get the "no internet" notification.

Another hole is the agps (assisted gps) database downloaded from google or your phone carrier regardless of enabled location. I believe you can edit the server which is contacted, again, will require root.

This post says you can edit the gps.conf file:

https://xdaforums.com/t/a-gps-supl-protocol-and-privacy-breaching.3602863/

Anyone try that? What abour removing "supl" from the apn type?

But I'm not there, yet, I usually have location selected off. Rob Braxman has a good vid here, use freetube:

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbBkZ-MROEk?

Again as stated earlier the best fix is to find a AOSP source of a rom you like, edit (or hire a dev) to edit out all of the bloat and google tracking which may remain, and re-compile.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
Thank you for this interesting reply, i will attempt to remove captive portal connectivity check / connectivitycheck.gstatic.com with adb by following your provided command

settings put global captive_portal_mode 0

settings list global | grep portal

However you mentioned this needs root, my device is not root so this basically wont work without root?

I could use magisk for rooting.

Rob Braxman is great, watching all of his content. But i couldn't find any instructions to disable googles SUPL.

I also don't think rob has a video for captive portal connectivity check, or does he?

From my experience with his videos he acts as if degoogled phones with lineage are 90% better than normal phones, so i guess the other 10% are things like SUPL and captive portal connectivity check which are not that easy to disable..? If google knows my locations on a degoogled device with lineageos by using captive portal connectivity check then hell, that#äs really disturbing i had no idea that they still know where my phone is / where i am, very scary...
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] gregpilot:
Yes, the command needs root. Also there are some differences based on your version of Android.

The following is old, but has some good stuff:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cldrym

The biggest help for this is to not install google services, and use a vanilla rom without it.

As far as captive portal, that is fixable.

The DNS servers can be changed from googles, but it is less straightforward.

NLP is not present without gapps, from what I have read

The SUPL issue, for me, is a WIP. I will happily deal with slow GPS TTFF. What I don't know:

1. Editing (removing) the supl entry in the APN file, what affect, if any;

2. Editing /vendor/etc/gps.conf (newer roms have the file in /vendor) to show a non g server;

3. the big question, which GPS radio chips may or may not have SUPL on the hardware level and therefore, if so, we are unable to fix.
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
I just tried using your solution for the onnectivitycheck.gstatic.com issue by using the provided command

:/ # settings put global captive_portal_mode 0

Before i that i rooted the phone with magisk, the command did not work (i attempted executing the command on cmd in windows inside the adb/fastboot folder, usb drivers are also installed.

I was able to start the daemon by using adb devices but the command you provided didn't work.

The phone was booted normally during the test, maybe i should instead go to downloadmode or recovery mode? The link you send for more instructions says we should use a cmd app on the phone to exectue this command (a pc is not mentioned), however i don't find any cmd app on the phone (lineageos 19.1).
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] gregpilot:
No, the command is made from a root shell on the phone directly, or through an adb shell.

First:

open a cmd window on your pc, cd to your adb folder. Do you have "minimal adb and fastboot" installed on your pc? Its on the forums here.

Plug in your phone to USB, do not boot to recovery or download mode. Just the normal system.

From the open cmd window, issue "adb devices". What appears?

If "unauthorized", you have to enable adb debugging in developer options. You have that enabled, right? If you do you will get a prompt on the phone to allow adb debugging access when you connect over USB.

If you get "device XXXXX", I do not recall the number of characters, then you can proceed.

issue "adb shell"

you should get a shell prompt (your phone cmd shell)

Issue "su"

If you are rooted magisk may prompt you to allow root

issue "whoami", this has to return "root".

Then issue the command I gave you. " settings put global captive_portal_mode 0"

The second string "settings list global | grep portal" is only to verify the success of the first command.

You don't need adb for this, you can also enable the "local terminal" in developer options. Or use your favorite terminal. I like Termux.

Open the terminal from your app drawer

issue "su"

Again, you should get a magisk prompt requesting permissions, allow it

issue "whoami" , verify root

then issue the same two commands.

What version of Android are you on?
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
Thanks! i think it worked, i didn't get a confirmation but also no error.

Looking at the phone you mentioned i should/could see that it says that there is no connection even when there is, i don't see any of that as of now, rebooted twice and connected to wifi but no error yet.

Can i somehow verify that the command to remove googles con check worked?

I'm on LOS 19.1, was thinking to update to 20.0

Thanks again, apreciate the help!

-image removed because of unique id-

Edit: almost forgot to mention, in develeoper options i could not find any results when searching for "terminal", and where do you get Termux?
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] gregpilot:
Hello, your screencap looks good!

If you want to open another root shell just like the screencap except issue:

settings list global | grep portal

(the vertical bar is the pipe symbol)

you should see:

captive_portal_detection_enabled=0

and/or

captive_portal_mode=0

That is your confirmation the connectivity check is disabled.

Under Developer Options, there should be an option to enable local terminal. Not on all roms.

Termux:

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

Since you presumably don't use playstore you'll have to install manually. I think its also on fdroid, I do trust that app repository. Glad it worked!
[LineageOS Questions & Answers] Privacydroid:
Thank you very much, it worked!

I checked developer options again but couldn't get any results when searching for terminal.

This is the build i'm running: https://ivanmeler.github.io/devices/herolte.html

If there are any other "settings" that should be disabled with root/adb please let me know, my goal is to have a privacy phone with no compromises.

I'm about to install termux, not sure which version to use, x64 or armx64 ?

I installed it anyways and tried using the command: settings list global | grep portal

Result:

Oh, right i don't use playstore, just another google spyware.

Aurorastore and FDroid are great.

By the way, i don't have many apps but we all need a webbrowser, i'm using bromite.

Releases · bromite/bromite

Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser! - bromite/bromite

github.com

Bromite

Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and enhanced privacy; take back your browser

www.bromite.org

If you know a better privacy option let me know^^

I don't trust duckduckgo, and firefox for mobile sucks...