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Thanks. Interesting. But that pages suggests this feature was added with Android 12. But as stated in the original post, Android 7 already had a GPS-based clock option.

As of writing, it's November 4th, 2025. I used Android's GPS clock feature, which lets Android get the clock time from GPS satellites. Strangely, my clock was set to March 21, 2006. I tested it again a day later, on November 5th, 2025, and the time was set to March 22, 2006, so both are one day...

Does anyone know a technical reason why coldness improves the chances that it will start? And you put it in the freezer without the battery, right? Coldness reduces the current a battery is able to output due to slowing down the chemical reactions, so it should only be freezed without the...

For several years, Apple was primarily concerned with making their smartphones fashionable at the expense of all else, including battery capacity and robustness. This was especially true in the early-to-mid-2010s, while Android smartphones were "function over form", which I always preferred. I...

Thanks. It seems, however, that older Android versions don't support this syntax but date 010112002050.00 (month, day, hour, minute, year, seconds). Another benefit of using the command line is the ability to set seconds. Android's settings only allow minutes, so you would have to depend on...

Android only lets you set the system clock until 2037, so smartphones released nowadays will not be able to be set to the correct date in 12 years, meaning by the time today's smartphones will be as old as the Galaxy S4 is today, the date range will end. In comparison, cordless landline...

Data corruption not only be caused by unsafe unplugging but also by low-quality flash memory. Flash storage quality varies wildly. I have a SanDisk USB stick that is over 15 years old but still fully readable. Never had any corrupt data. But low-quality no-brand garbage can suffer from bit rot...

Other vendors also added exFAT a long time before stock Android. HTC had exFAT at least since 2014 (One M8). https://xdaforums.com/t/does-htc-one-m8-support-exfat.2966329/ The OnePlus One, also from 2014, seems to have had it too: https://community.oneplus.com/thread/125139 I could find no...

Actually, there is another possible solution: A file manager that performs the move should detect a change in the last modified time and in that case change it back. I created this shell function, but it only accepts two arguments at this time, so it can only move one folder at a time. I can...

It's not searchable by text and by far doesn't have full coverage of all posts. You can only get to a page if you have the URL. And it's not even guaranteed to stay. It has been under attack in recent times. Hackers are destroying the Internet's history book right now

Agreed. But people said this when Samsung switched to non-replaceable batteries. Nothing happened.

The history of the Internet is unfortunately littered with websites shutting down with little to no notice, taking decades of volunteer contributions with them. Burned down like the library of Alexandria. Examples include NixCraft in 2015, Yahoo Answers in 2021, Club MyCE in 2022, and...

Could you please post the link to that that Samsung Community thread? I would like to read more of it. I couldn't find it through search.

Unfortunately, Samsung's executives have little reason to care about us power users anymore. We are a small fraction of their user base. Normie users are happy when they get their daily dose of Instagram, WhatsApp (why I stopped using it), TikTok, and other stuff that ten year old phones can...

External storage formatting iOS 18 added the ability to format external storage (source). Android could do this since at least the 2.x era (I don't know the exact version), meaning around 2010, but obviously only in FAT until they added exFAT support in 2020, except vendors like Samsung that...