Recent content by Hendrix7

Useful and thanks for making, but please provide an option show the current immediately instead of showing "measuring" for several seconds. The Android API immediately indicates the current. On older phones (2013 and earlier) the reading used to be unstable (sometimes the API of the Galaxy S4...

I would like to find out at which point Samsung stopped throttling battery charging while the screen is on. Until the S8, charging was severely throttled: 6 watts instead of 15 watts. (BGR, SamMobile) Root users can manually bypass it by changing a system file called "siop_level". Can any...

Why? Because this thing could do it too: Nokia E71, 2008 If a 2008 mobile phone can do it, a 2020s mobile phone should too. It's embarrassing for a 2024 smartphone to fail at something a 2008 phone could do. It appears that Android OS imposes the limit that only one app can access the...

Get lost, spamGPT.

For over three decades, the method to select large amounts of text on desktop and laptop computers was to click at the beginning, drag down the scrollbar to the desired position, hold the shift button, and click the end of the selection. Even Windows 3.1 from 1994 can do this. This is much...

Indeed. This would be so simple for phone vendors like Samsung to implement. Samsung already lets the user decide whether to always launch in photo mode or the last used mode. This is just one step away from an option on which camera to launch.

This is about phones, not vehicles. Is this ChatGPT spam?

Slow-motion video means that the encoded video is slowed down while high-speed video means that the encoded video is saved at the same high frame rate that was put out by the image sensor. What severely disappointed me is that Samsung went back to slowing down video files recorded in slow...

Yes, I know, Samsung has USB-PD fast charging, but did any Samsung phone ever get Quick Charge 3.0? Samsung was among the first to adapt Quick Charge 2.0, but Samsung rebranded it as "adaptive fast charging". Samsung implemented it on the Galaxy Note 4 in 2014, but after that, it appears they...

Some smartphones have cornered rear cameras, some have centered rear cameras. photo credit: Android Central History While iPhones always had cornered rear cameras, Samsung implemented centered rear cameras for around a decade (2011 - 2019). With the Note 10, released in late 2019, they...

I hereby release both of the preceeding posts under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution ShareAlike license.

Another method to preserve date and time stamps is using a file archiver that creates an archive file that contains many files. Usually, those files have their date and time attribute attached. Some file managers have built-in ZIP creators, but not all of them preserve the date and time...

The date and time attribute of files could get lost while transferring files. This is especially a problem with files that do not store any date and time information internally. Some formats like JPG and MP4 store the encoding date and time inside the file, and software usually gives them...

Posted here because the "General Questions and Answers" subforum does not support polls, so I guess I am supposed to post them here. I am doing this poll because something that severely annoys me about smartphones is that the front camera is launched if the front camera was last selected before...

I was going to post this into "General Questions and Answers", but there is no "Poll" tab above the text area, so I assume polls are intended to be posted into "General Topics". One of the most frustrating parts of using a smartphone is the battle to avoid pull-to-refresh. The...