I'm looking for a midrange android tablet, exclusively for taking notes with a stylus in Obsidian. It doesn't need to be powerful, but just take good notes. The ideal size is anything 11'' and under. I would also appreciate if it isn't too bloated, and behaves similar to stock android. I have looked mostly into the Pixel Tablet as well as the Lenovo M11, P11 and K11. Other suggestions are welcome.

(when you hit the recents button) I can't believe they actually restored a feature that they'd removed by accident during an update this is wild. how long has it been back? how many years did it take them to accomplish this

For some users, the Google Search app on Android is sending out a new style of Weather forecast notifications...

Hello everyone, some time ago I broke the screen of my Pixel 5. I brought it to a repair store, which replaced it, but apparently they did a bad job because since then the proximity sensor started to misbehave (it was working even with the broken screen, unfortunately they refuse to acknowledge that and won't repair it for free, and it costs too much to repair it again).

Well, this sensor is driving me crazy. It works kind of good for calls, but it's almost impossible to play voice messages: the screen continuously flashes, turns on/off every second because of the sensor, and voice messages constantly stops, restart, switch from speaker to ear speaker... it's incredibly frustrating. For some reason Telegram and Signal work good, but on whatsapp and other IMs, it's almost impossible to listen to voice messages without going mad.

I have a Pixel 5 running Andoird 14 (stock, non rooted), and I'm looking for a way to disable the proximity sensor just for one app, or entirely. Searching fo

Why does Google Play Protect stop me from sideloading apks (from, say, Obtainium) while almost regularly I read reports about malicious apps being available in Google Playstore itself ? Why do they allow those ?

Probably just a rant out of frustration. I ignore those alerts if I am confident about the apk I'm sideloading, lol.

Yet another excuse to keep checking our phones.

I used to use stocard to store the fidelty cards from several shops in one place, but now it's apparently closing and they want me to download another app which has 700 features I don't care about and that wants me to make an account and accept cookies..

Is there any Foss app that does simply this?

Storage gradually becomes less valuable as apps and software on devices seem to get bigger. To combat this, Google now...

I am increasingly conscious of security and privacy. I don't want my data or telemetry being sent to google or Facebook, and I want to make sure my device is encrypted and not readable by anyone other than me.

Is there a standard go-to guide on securing an android device with these types of goals in mind? Is true privacy possible without having to install Graphene?

In case anyone's interested, I've updated my list of free games. It now includes games from other sources besides the Play Store, FOSS games marked with ✅️, and clearly stated source in brackets (such as F-droid or GitHub, e.g.).

I've also updated my other list of favorite paid games with indicators for controller support 🎮 to ALL games that qualify, portrait 📱, and 120FPS.

Before you ask, I can't add the same indicators to my free games list because those are mainly user recommendations and I don't play most of them.

You can recommend games for either list and they'll be added if criteria is matched (plus personal discretion on quality for the paid games).

Cheers ✌️

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