Android phones, apps and tablets

You'd still need a Windows machine with large enough drives to take everything via Syncthing, and for that to then use BackBlaze.

In essence your Windows machine is still working as your NAS, it just additionally has Cloud backup.

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Pretty good price on a new unlocked Pixel 7 Pro

Anyone want a used 256gb pixel 7?

I quite fancy trying a ZenFone 9

me too

sure

In the last 4 years I've had 4 Samsung S9's. I have a drop rate of 1 per year - they're pretty fragile. I normally purchase a replacement from Ebay for £100 as it's cheaper than replacing the screen.

I haven't looked at any other phones in this period as I have an active disinterest in chasing the latest tech. I would like something that has similar or better camera and battery capabilities, and can be picked up for equal or less than the £100 I'm about to pay for another S9.

Are there any other options I should consider, or should I get another S9?

I keep my phone in a quadlock case, quadlock aside the case seems to prevent a lot of broken phones.

I think the S9 suffered more due to the wrap screen, avoid it.

How does Google Photos locked folder work when migrating to a new phone these days? Last time i did it it was an absolute ballache, i deleted all the regular photos locally then unlocked all the LF contents, USBd them to my pc, USBd them to my new phone and then relocked them. All after doing a whole migration then restarting the whole thing just to get my LF photos across. Wondering if it's any easier since you can now set LF to be backed up along with other photos

Any recommendations for a 10-12" tablet with memory card slot? Something with a fairly recent version of Android (or supported custom firmware), fingerprint sensor or similar and not cripplingly slow. Added bonus if USB C to hdmi works.

Used mainly for media consumption. Preferably in the £100-£150 range (can be second hand/refurb at that price).

Had a look on gsmarena but that only seems to have phones on their filtered search.

I do similar, but with the S10 (and less dropping...).

Similar price point too.

I have a Tab S3 running LineageOS for that - not sure if it can do USB-C HDMI as I haven't ever tried.

Interesting. How does it run, it looks to have a fairly old processor but if it is still getting custom OS updates it could be worth keeping an eye out on ebay.

I've never really taxed it - browsing with lots of tabs is OK, video at 1080p & 1440p is OK, and the S-pen is really nice.

It does times table rock stars and busy things. A lot.

Does the pen work okay with Lineage OS?

Thanks for the suggestions above.

Tonight I reverted back to an old Samsung S9 that the camera keeps crashing on. After lots of research the suggestion was that the camera hardware was to blame. So, I swapped out the camera one from another phone, and then again with one from an old smashed phone - but the camera still crashes.

Afterwards I decided to swap out the camera, and the motherboard, using one from an old broken phone, and that also had the same issue. So I guess the issue is in another part of the phone?

Does anyone have an idea what it could be? I've no idea how phones or electronics work, but I'm good and swapping out parts on things.

Sounds like you should swap the S9 for a phone that isn't an S9 ;-)

It does, yes.

All sorted.

I'm pondering a Galaxy Tab A9+ (unless I manage to see an S3 come up cheap somewhere). There's a 64GB option with 4GB RAM or 128GB with 8GB RAM.

Obviously the lower spec is a fair bit cheaper so wondering what real world difference is if anyone has any idea?

wondering what real world difference is if anyone has any idea?

I'd definitely spend the extra £50, based on how tight 32GB is on my A7 without even having many apps installed.

Any recommendation for a drawing app to experiment with the S-Pen?

And for other people, seems to be a nice option for a non-Apple tablet, certainly does all I want it to do (and as a bonus the one I got came pre-installed with Lineage)

is there a good way to silo specific websites in Android whilst keeping them away from general browsing data?

Open them in private browsing?

Otherwise, preventing 3rd party cookies, and the usual safe / paranoid browsing tools - unlock origin, noscript, privacy badger, decentraleyes.

And a "clean" browser for stuff that just won't run unless it has all the cancer enabled (the Independent website was like this for a bit). I use Lighting browser, then delete everything on exit.