Ambient peek mode is not just deprecated, it’s completely removed from Android Wear 2.0 onward.
Yearly Archives: 2016
“Compact Volume Panel” is one of many features/tweaks in my Xposed module (since version 0.4.3 this tweaks is compatible with TouchWiz devices running Android 6.0). This particular tweak trims down the size of the system volume panel. As you can see on the screenshot of Youtube (before and after), it gets rid […]
All My… (Xposed Tweaks) feature: Compact Volume Panel
1 Every month PayPal sends email instructing me to view my recent transactions. There’s Log In Now button that takes me to the PayPal (video playing) homepage.
PayPal and their completely useless monthly emails
Every Android device since version 5.0 has native support for “Do not Disturb” mode (sometimes also called Interruptions/Down time/Priority mode or Zen mode in source code). With the current version of OxygenOS, OnePlus 3 is probably the first device that comes with crippled DnD: If you use Google backup/restore to […]
OnePlus 3 has extra hardware button, so they removed scheduled ...
3 Just like in the smartphone market, most motherboards usually receive few BIOS updates within one year and that’s it. No single new feature ever comes to old motherboard BIOS.
Make NVMe bootable by modding BIOS on your 4 years ...
15 Android includes native SIP support since 4.x versions. Yet manufacturers and operators often cripple SIP system configuration/permissions or hide settings screens from users.
How to enable SIP (VOIP) on Samsung Galaxy S6/S7
Just as it wasn’t enough that some devices come with two year update support, other with only one year and some do not receive single bump in Android version. Even buying the top of the line device doesn’t guarantee anything. Samsung two year old flagship (Galaxy S5) received updates from Android 4.4.2 […]
Features come, features go
2 I finally gave in and installed Truecaller as I wanted to avoid all those annoying telemarketers. I registered with my phone number, enabled blocking of “spammers” and disabled features I didn’t feel like I needed. The next day I received my first notification reminding me something about Truecaller. The day […]
Truecaller: Replacing one kind of marketing spam with another
People complain about battery life of their phones (barely lasting single day) and demand 4000 mAh or even larger batteries from device makers.
You don’t need bigger battery, you’re using it wrong
It’s new, it’s fast, it’s better, there’s no one up side so why anyone wouldn’t want USB-C?
USB-C still doesn’t save us
Some times I look at CPU benchmarks trying to understand how fast all the new hardware is. My understanding is that benchmarks try to plot the marks in a linear way so regular Joe understands what speed to expect (say how fast will apps compile).
Making (non)sense of CPU benchmarks
If the latest leaks of iPhone 7 diagrams are real, iPhones will be still stucked with their Lightning connector. USB-C port is slightly wider than Lightning port. Based on the measurements, it should be Lightning. Too bad, it would be nice to charge both phones and laptops with single connector.
No USB-C on iPhone 7
No comment.
Now it’s a rectangle with some lines
This is how the system Settings menu on Android Wear (Android 6) looks like.
Google is evenly responsible for poorly designed Android Wear apps
Letsencrypt/certbot is great and it probably pays of using it in plenty of projects. There are some less known roadblock though that may slow you down.
The real world letsencrypt/certbot obstacles
After a reboot from Windows 10 to (Arch) Linux, there are still traces of my Windows session accessible to linux. Just taking a plain screenshot reveals images (bottom right) from a page I was visiting in Google Chrome.