The Files by Google app has a new "Receive" floating action button that acts as a shortcut for Quick Share file sharing.

You won't have to stop recording or casting to change what app you're sharing thanks to a new task switcher feature for partial screen shares.

Google might put an AI button on the lock screen. It's not clear what it'll do, but it could be related to its Gemini AI.

Google is preparing to upgrade the taskbar to show the two most recently used apps in a future version of Android.

The latest addition to Files by Google is a “Receive” floating action button (FAB) for Quick Share.

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Running a rooted (Magisk Delta) LineageOS 21 (ver. from 27 Sep) on a Motorola Edge 30 (dubai).

Managed to brick it by simply activating the "Invert colours" option in the settings. After doing so the screen has turned off and is unresponsive. Bootloader and recovery work fine. Booting into the actual OS shows the lock screen for a split second before the invert module activates and turns the screen off again.

Even though the touchscreen is unresponsive, the physical buttons/functions still work just fine (long pressing POWER toggles the flashlight as per my settings, and shaking the phone also toggled the flashlight before I rebooted the system). Upon connecting the phone to my laptop via USB, it shows up in lsusb, but of course doesn't mount itself since I'd have to open the USB connection settings window in the phone to mount it.

I did some digging and it turns out that this is a relatively common issue. My first instinct was to just go into recovery, connect via ADB and modify the settings file via adb push or adb shell settings, but my laptop is not authorised, so I can't do anything with ADB on it. Trying to authorize the laptop without the screen seems impossible. This, this, and this post, among many others, didn't work. Anything related to ADB might very well be out of the question, because even though adbd is running as root I still don't have access to any important parts of the file system without authorization (for reference, the /data, /sdcard, /mnt/system/sdcard, and /system directories, among many others, are empty). Editing prop.default or default.prop ADB properties to enable insecure ADB also doesn't work as upon rebooting the properties return to their initial state.

Screen duplication and remote input programs like scrcpy also don't work as they require ADB authorization to perform inputs.

I tried booting TWRP, but I couldn't find an image that could boot on the phone. Some got stuck on the boot logo, while some bootlooped ad infinitum.

I'd really like to repair this phone ASAP, as quite a few things depend on it and I was stupid enough not to make a proper backup, with my only one being my old phone containing data up to early September that I haven't wiped yet.

If I won't be able to do anything this week, I might be able to do something on the weekend when I get back home and hopefully use adb via my main PC, which should still hopefully be authorized. If it's not, I could try plugging an external display into the phone and/or a keyboard/mouse in order to authorize ADB.

I know posting this on Lemmy is a bit stupid considering how small the communities here are, but I figured it'd be worth a shot. If this doesn't work out I'll post it on XDA or StackExchange

TL;DR:

• Turning on "Invert colors" option in LineageOS 21 for the Motorola Edge 30 (dubai) turns the screen off and makes the touchscreen unresponsive while the phone is in the OS. Bootloader and recovery work fine.
• My laptop is not authorized to use ADB, and as such, I cannot access the file system to modify settings and/or recover data via ADB
• TWRP is not an option as there doesn't seem to be a valid image for my device
• Screen duplicating programs (ones that I know of at least) cannot work without ADB authorization
• I might be able to authorize the ADB connection by plugging an external monitor and mouse/keyboard into the phone when I get back home

I'm looking for a way to either revert "Invert colors" entirely or at least recover data from the device before I wipe it.

In order to do that I would have to:

• find a compatible TWRP image, OR
• bypass ADB authorization/enable insecure ADB, OR
• plug in an external input device and hope that it works (a keyboard would be the best bet)

Any advice is very appreciated

If I set an alarm for two hours from now, it will go off. I've tested this a few times.

But my morning alarms, at 6:07 and 6:13 am, just don't go off. I've been testing this for like a week now and I cant figure it out. Later in the day, maybe 3 or 4 hours later, the phone will alert me that I missed the alarm, even when my body clock wakes me up before the alarm and I lay awake watching my phone tick past the alarm time without it ever twitching or doing anything.

So far, I've tried:

• Deleting all alarms and recreating them
• Clearing the app cache and data, then rebooting
• Removing Duraspeed system app which I suspected of causing problems
• Toggling every setting and widget related to alarms and DND I can find

Here's my alarm setup:

Clock app settings:

Android sound settings:

Now, I suspected it was some battery thing killing the app, or DND preventing it from going off, but these settings all look correct to me:

And just now, its warned me about the missed alarm that I laid awake watching not go off:

Any ideas about what else to investigate, or what else to do? Should I just download and rely on a different alarm app or something?

Over the weekend, Google removed Kaspersky's Android security apps from the Google Play store and disabled the Russian company's developer accounts.

Users have been reporting over the last week that Kaspersky's products (including Kaspersky Endpoint Security and VPN & Antivirus by Kaspersky) are no longer available on Google Play in the United States and other world regions.

Kaspersky confirmed the issue on the company's official forums on Sunday and said that it's currently investigating why its software is no longer available on Google's app store.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-removes-kasperskys-antivirus-software-from-play-store-disables-developer-accounts/

Android has had an autofill feature for password managers for years now, but it's broken and needs to be fixed.

First of all, yes I have gone through droves of posts on XDA and frankly it’s a mess, but I can tell you that after following a few threads that just refer to themselves in loops, there’s no actual solution.

I have an LG US730 which was rooted and everything was great. I must have toggled something in SuperSU - I think maybe the option to be rooted during boot.

Anyway, now all I get is Security Error and it shuts off. None of the recovery power on switches will work. The only thing I could do is VOL+&- power while the usb is plugged in and it goes to a download in progress screen. Of course nothings happening and I need to remove battery in order to get this powered off at this point.

Anyway, I’d love if anyone has a tool to repair this. LG’s utilities all do nothing at all I think they’ve purged the back-end of older stuff so the programs that should download something and proceed simply wait forever.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20535453

Google made the Pixel 9 series even more secure than its predecessors by implementing changes to the baseband.

After announcing at I/O 2024 in May, Google is beginning to roll out a trio of Theft protection features for Android 10+ devices via Play services.

Google is working on a new trade-in mode for Android that will hopefully speed up phone inspections so you can get your refund faster.

I had been tinkering with some tools it was already rooted for days. I have a Galaxy that also was rooted and been messing with same said tools. No I didn’t foolishly make some change - I actually did not make any changes at all I was just looking around the options. One random time I rebooted and this happens. Now I cannot boot even into recovery mode :-(

Google is making it easier for users to jump into meetings with recent contacts by rolling out a revamped new call screen in Google Meet for Android.

Hackers Keyboard has that via ctrl+z, but only in horizontal mode. For this only i had my Galaxy S3 in horizontal per default. But can't do that with modern phones' aspect ratio and i'm missing undo since then.

Edit: i'll go with Heliboard for now.

The Thunderbird for Android beta is out and we’re asking our community to help us test it. Beta testing helps us find critical bugs and rough edges that we can polish in the next few weeks. The more people who test the beta and ensure everything in the testing checklist works correctly, the better!

Anyone can be a beta tester! Whether you’re an experienced beta tester or you’ve never tested a beta image before, we want to make it easy for you. We are grateful for your time and energy, so we aim to make testing quick, efficient, and hopefully fun!!

The release plan is as follows, and we hope to stick to this timeline unless we encounter any major hurdles:

• September 30 – First beta for Thunderbird for Android
• Third week of October – first release candidate
• Fourth week of October – Thunderbird for Android release

Google Play services is responsible for a slew of features on Android devices, and there’s now a way to see how much data is being used.

Gmail's Summary cards are getting a revamp with a new design, action buttons, and a dedicated section in your inbox.

Following phones in August, Google is adding a Search tab to the Play Store on Android tablets and foldables in a design that misses...

The Android 15 QPR1 Settings app redesign on Pixel prioritizes the “Google” menu. A Material You overhaul of “Google services" now seeing a big Material You overhaul of “Google services.”