qirex posted:

a topic so non-controversial that this forum basically stopped talking about it when the old android thread got closed

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My experience with your applications so far:
I installed your Mine Colony game about 15 minutes ago.
"Has no special permissions required." Great!
Crashed on Install ("Google Apps has stopped working.")
No worries, the icon was still there so I played the game.
Now, I was going to start preparing some notes to help you out.
So first, I went to uninstall Mine Colony. Crash. Cannot uninstall app, not responding.
Tried again, same problem.
Now suddenly, icons start disappearing from my screen. "Settings has stopped responding"
Other background apps now crashing, I reboot.
Android loads to a completely unresponsive black screen.
After a few minutes, the screen is still black but I'm able to only bring up the Reboot/Shutdown menu.
Reboot again, same problem.
Doing a full shutdown now.
I am a very frustrated and angry customer right now. My phone is completely Effed Up at the moment.
Update:
Full shutdown doesn't help either.
Going into recovery menu.
I don't swear very often, but I must say: your software just totally hosed my operating system.
Did you make a bricking virus or something?
Oh poo poo. Safe Mode isn't even working. gently caress.
Need to download some tools, going to try clearing Application Cache if I can access it.
Using a PRIV, this isn't going to be fun.
Apparently, I'm going to have to install the Android SDK. Got the USB drivers installed.
SDK might not work out after all, need to enable USB debugging. Developer mode already on, but I still need access to the OS menus.
Looking at other options.
Wife called me asking why I'm still at work. "I tried to help someone out, and got hosed."
Yep, "System UI isn't responding" even in Safe Mode. ADB won't work unless I can Authorize it from the UI. Can't access contents in any way while the UI is broken.
Will hunt around for bootloader options, maybe there's a way to replace the O/S without wiping all data.
Welp. If I had a different Android, I would have more options available. But, having a PRIV puts a lot of restrictions in place. The only option is a complete wipe, wonderful.
When Blackberry says "securely wipe the device", I hope they're not writing zeroes to it. Would be nice to recovery some data after the fact.
That's not good. Failed FR, now phone won't boot.
Trying the flash again.
Worked this time thankfully. Back to the new user Welcome screen.
I'm not hopeful on any data recovery but I'll give it a shot. Time to rebuild my phone, during the Easter long weekend of course.
It's late now, so I'll have to start re-building tomorrow on Good Friday.
In three days hence, my phone will rise again!
I forgive you Tomasz.
* 04/14/17: Update from /u/faultexception, /u/lacozzini & /u/justjanne
Cause is most likely the icon file size, its 3556x3556 and causing a Out of Memory exception error.
According to /u/justjanne, most devs won't notice the bug because they install via Android Studio or Visual Studio, using ADB which never displays the icon.
/u/lacozzini pinged Google about the issue, as it's something they can easily search and eliminate on their store. It's also important to track after approval and submission, since the icon file could be updated or replaced if a programmer had malicious purposes.
For those that were interested, data recovery is very limited (e.g. contacts, some images) unless you have root access. PRIV can't be rooted (AFAIK), so I can't recover important stuff. On a different android, I would have been able to recover the phone fully. But, the PRIV apparently uses unusual security measures.. it's like they built a prison where all of the doors are unlocked from the outside, and the only way to fix those doors is to burn down the entire prison and build it again. But, the contractors will keep installing the new wrong doors.

BONGHITZ posted:

video is gone, what was it?

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OnePlus says ‘jelly’ scrolling effect on OnePlus 5 is normal - The Verge

[–]domosicecreamOnePlus 3| VertexOS 38 points 3 hours ago
They saying it's normal because it's a hardware issue, the display is mounted 180°. If they admitted it, there would be a huge backlash and would probably have to recall all the phones.

[–]shorty6049Nexus 6p/Pixel C/Moto 360 13 points 3 hours ago
What do you mean by "the display is mounted 180°" ? Like they accidentally put the screens on upside down or something?

[–]livedadevilS8+ Snapdragon / Oneplus 3 19 points 3 hours ago
Yes. Turn your phone upside down and scroll, things squish and stretch (my S8 plus does) which means that one plus hosed up manufacturing and actually mounted the displays wrong on some units

The Management posted:

it doesn't. this is complete nonsense. displays don't get mounted upside down. they don't even have an upside down, the scan direction is reversible. what this person is seeing is probably just lag in the touch response that gives it the rubber band effect

The Management posted:

I just recently found out that whatever kernel an android device ships with, that's the version it stays with forever, through all OS upgrades.

what. the. gently caress.

Doc Block posted:

for the anroid phone in question, its possible that rotating the device makes it fall off some optimized, direct framebuffer-to-screen drawing path, and having to go through the window compositor (so the screen contents can be rotated 180 degrees) introduces a noticeable lag. (as if anroid has an optimized drawing path )

Endless Mike posted:

the short version is that it's not that some are leaving the factory with a panel in one orientation while others are 180 degrees from that, it's that they sources the same panels as the previous phone but designed the phone such that the panel is 180 degrees from that.

eric posted:

Yep. The AirPods are good. It's time to let go of wired headphones.

The Management posted:

I bet Sergey Brin is glad his intern loving was exposed years ago before there was a penalty

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

when i was a kid i thought jonathan rhys davies literally was pavarotti

SO DEMANDING posted:

i remember the coby kyros ~*~in the club~*~

lost to the ages, that video. or maybe cuz yosposters were making GBS threads all over the comments idr

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

apples socs and cores are way way larger than arms though, just saying that i don't think there's that much on the table at the scale arm does cores at (i assume arm at least has bigger stuff on the roadmap, but i expect that apple will keep being the most audacious designers for the foreseeable future).

possibly samsung should have attempted something similarly ambitious, but they were mostly playing in the same ballpark as arm, and thus achieved nothing terribly interesting.

The Management posted:

1) the chips can run at a lower frequency. dynamic leakage increases with the square of the frequency, so they get significant power savings for the same computation.

Pinterest Mom posted:

people held house parties to celebrate the launch of windows 7

DoomTrainPhD posted:

As an embedded engineer, I hate sdcards with a passion. Apple was 100% correct never to add them to iPhones.

Plank Walker posted:

yosposters are huge nerds, but we're all self hating nerds, so we bully each other into doing 'normie' things that are actually good, like using spotify instead of music janitoring

crepeface posted:

google doesn't want to be a hardware company anyway, as long as everyone's using their services, they don't give a poo poo.

hifi posted:

https://infrequently.org/2021/03/the-performance-inequality-gap/

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

lot of renewed noise about fuchsia. prepare for google to go from android pretty much being the smartphone windows 95 to a proper google product where they randomly eol half the core features without warning.

Jabor posted:

it's okay, once we figure it out we'll send scotty back in time with the secrets of transparent aluminium

Endless Mike posted:

$2000 LIMTED EDITION MARIO WATCH

FMguru posted:

she got to yahoo, saw that it was probably in an unrecoverable state, and decided to just shower its money on doing favors for her friends

Sagebrush posted:

i have a car that recharges in about 3 minutes at any of about 150,000 charging stations around the country.

infernal machines posted: