Hi, did someone manage how to use picture in picture mode ex. in youtube like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrEB8jkdiM#t=6m33s
In settings Apps & notifications > Special access > Picture-in-Picture I have all on yes but still this not working ;/
doesnt work me either
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after small research youtube PiP works only if you have Youtube Red or Youtube TV subscription
Netflix should work only on Oreo 8.1 supposedly
i did manage to get it working with Facebook app and that is about it
can you check google maps? it should work.
it works, but messed up my launcher obviously because of memory issues
i wish it had 6 gb or ram
not happy
Gregorius said:
it works, but messed up my launcher obviously because of memory issues
i wish it had 6 gb or ram
not happy
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Uhm, what? Memory issues? How could it possibly have memory issues? 4GB is more than enough for anything you might do with your phone. Don't give yourself a hard time thinking about the shortcomings of the phone (real or not), you'll just be unhappy all the time.
after oreo update, microsoft launcher fails on me everytime, crashes, so in order to get it working, i need to clear data and cache and start from scratch to enable it
i have 460 apps on phone, memory usage is always around 75-81 %
should be enough, but phone does not perform good
also, after oreo update, notification sound just goes on and on, without any notification coming in
driving me crazy
i have 270 apps on my phone and i stay with memory usage between 85 and 90.
you clearly have a BAD app installed. look in runnging apps and started services to identify the problem.
also i have no problem with google maps PiP nor with youtube
Gregorius said:
after oreo update, microsoft launcher fails on me everytime, crashes, so in order to get it working, i need to clear data and cache and start from scratch to enable it
i have 460 apps on phone, memory usage is always around 75-81 %
should be enough, but phone does not perform good
also, after oreo update, notification sound just goes on and on, without any notification coming in
driving me crazy
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The higher the usage the better, so you shouldn't worry about that. It just means that it's working as it's supposed to. Now about the actual performance, I didn't see anyone else complain. I seriously think you should do a factory reset and start clean, that should fix most of your problems. About the microsoft launcher, I couldn't give you any suggestion, but I guess it's just not optimized for oreo, meaning it's not oreo giving you problems but the app itself.
Hi guys, there's a way to get youtube pip working?
I tested the apps in the pip menu and only chrome and maps worked
nimo182 said:
Hi guys, there's a way to get youtube pip working?
I tested the apps in the pip menu and only chrome and maps worked
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Yes you either need to have a subscription for YouTube Red, or download a modded app called YouTube Vanced, there is a non-root version. There is a thread for it here on xda, so give it a go.
Thank you, it works great
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Hi all, here I is a list of fixes that work.
1. Improve battery
a. Disable data roaming
b. In settings 'power management' toggle on 'Queue background data'
c. If using Google Chrome browser - When in chrome go to settings and toggle off 'merge tabs and apps'.
d. Install and run Gservicefix from the Google Play store, as this stops all the parts of Google play services that run in the background, chewing up battery and slowing your device. Make sure you follow the instructions, no root required.
2.Remove lag, improve performance
a. Install the latest firmware 32.0.A.6.152.
Install Sony PC companion, it will download the latest firmware (takes a few hours) connect your phone, let it do its thing. This will have your phone running like melted butter.
3. Camera
a. Go into settings, apps, all. Find 'photo analyser' and disable it.
This not only improves picture quality but the camera app opens quicker and removes lag between taking pictures.
4. Browser
a. Download and install Rbrowser from the Google play store. The fastest internet browser ever for Snapdragon devices, developed right here on XDA, integrates with your Google account. Super fast, you'll be surprised!
Well that's it. All the best, hope it has helped and saved you time and frustration.
What about camera crashes with Xposed?
Has the latest firmware been updated to all models? The UK version as well?
Sent from my D5803 using Tapatalk
Thx man.. No battery drain.. Th again
What is the photo analyzer service?
Would anything used on a daily basis be affected by the gservices fix such as GPS or weather use
Standby Mobile Service drains most... :S
WOW, thanks for that. Not too bothered about the battery drain but what a difference it makes, disabling the photo analyser service. when the screen is off, the camera opens up in less than a second. Awesome.
And yes, the UK version has the latest sony firmware now.
Woza72 said:
Hi all, here I is a list of fixes that work.
1. Improve battery
a. Disable data roaming
b. In settings 'power management' toggle on 'Queue background data'
c. If using Google Chrome browser - When in chrome go to settings and toggle off 'merge tabs and apps'.
d. Install and run Gservicefix from the Google Play store, as this stops all the parts of Google play services that run in the background, chewing up battery and slowing your device. Make sure you follow the instructions, no root required.
2.Remove lag, improve performance
a. Install the latest firmware 32.0.A.6.152.
Install Sony PC companion, it will download the latest firmware (takes a few hours) connect your phone, let it do its thing. This will have your phone running like melted butter.
3. Camera
a. Go into settings, apps, all. Find 'photo analyser' and disable it.
This not only improves picture quality but the camera app opens quicker and removes lag between taking pictures.
4. Browser
a. Download and install Rbrowser from the Google play store. The fastest internet browser ever for Snapdragon devices, developed right here on XDA, integrates with your Google account. Super fast, you'll be surprised!
Well that's it. All the best, hope it has helped and saved you time and frustration.
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I have to say that you know your stuff. This really got my hand set going
Thanks, I'm a little iffy about "Gservicefix" though without knowing exactly what its doing and that it can be undone
Also wanting a little bit more info about the Gservicefix; After downloading and running it, do you still need to have it or can it be deleted? And yeah, exactly what does it do and is it a safe app etc?
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its the app that scans every picture you take ,in order to find faces.its only for album application,and only if you use this feature to categorize your photos based on the people that are showing in those pictures.
Still amazing that you should even need to look at a list of fixes and hacks to get a flagship device like the z5c working. My camera app is still painfully slow, as is focus to actually take pictures. Yesterday lag was so bad I had to restart my phone to be able to make a phone call. Still puzzeled by how this phone got good reviews? My worst android experience ever. The downward spiral just continues for Sony.
I m charging my z5 with quick charger but it takes 1 hour to charge 60%
Hi, i will share you what worked in my e2306 to fix the annoying Wifi drain. You need an app that let you disable broadcast receivers like RoomToolBox or MyAndroidTools. We are going to disable some Google Play Services receivers.
Open the app you choose to work, navigate to receivers and then DISABLE the following in GPLAY services app:
SystemUpdateServiceActiveReceiver
SystemUpdateServiceOtaPolicyReceiver
SystemUpdateServiceReceiver
SystemUpdateServiceSecretCodeReceiver
And then reboot.
No need to activate STAMINA mode. No need to choose GPS to power saving, no need to disable WiFi/BT location scan.
Ive tested for like 10 days or so. The overnight drain downed to 2% it was like 7%. Also now battery is as good as in LP fw, 1 and 1/2 day with moderate to heavy usage.
Attached screenshoot of two diferent charge cycles.
Does this sacrifice any functionality / break anything?
dagger1 said:
Does this sacrifice any functionality / break anything?
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As for now, i didnt noticed anything broken, but it might deppend what you do with your device.
I ussualy do the following with my phone:
*Using Google stuff like maps with gps accurate mode, Location history etc.
*Using google chrome and other browsers.
*Using google fit with realtime activity detection.
*Gmail / Email / Sms / Whastapp.
*Some gaming 2D / 3D / Console Emulators.
*The whole time at home WiFi connected, LTE/3g outside. (I never turn off wifi even when im out)
*Xposed with a variety of modules (app settings, apm+, and more..)
*Apps via playstore, music app, camera, weather and clock widgets, Root thingy like KernelAdiutor, Lucky Patcher, fstrimm. A large etc.
I can confirm that all these things seems to work ok, havent had any problem
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As for now, i didnt noticed anything broken, but it might deppend what you do with your device.
I ussualy do the following with my phone:
*Using Google stuff like maps with gps accurate mode, Location history etc.
*Using google chrome and other browsers.
*Using google fit with realtime activity detection.
*Gmail / Email / Sms / Whastapp.
*Some gaming 2D / 3D / Console Emulators.
*The whole time at home WiFi connected, LTE/3g outside. (I never turn off wifi even when im out)
*Xposed with a variety of modules (app settings, apm+, and more..)
*Apps via playstore, music app, camera, weather and clock widgets, Root thingy like KernelAdiutor, Lucky Patcher, fstrimm. A large etc.
I can confirm that all these things seems to work ok, havent had any problem
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So everything still synchronises like it used to? (you still get notifications and messages from gmail and whatsapp just as before when not using your device)
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So everything still synchronises like it used to? (you still get notifications and messages from gmail and whatsapp just as before when not using your device)
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Yeah i have autosync always enabled and everything syncs like it should when phone is at sleep, i receive whatsapp, email, gmail, xda notifications, Steam chats, Lounge offers (lol).
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Yeah i have autosync always enabled and everything syncs like it should when phone is at sleep, i receive whatsapp, email, gmail, xda notifications, Steam chats, Lounge offers (lol).
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A few of those were already disabled (perhaps by amplify).
For some reason i had multiple AccountsChangedReceiver from Google Services (all with that same name), with one bieng already disabled, so i left those as they were.
For now everything seems to still work. I'll report if I notice anything. Thanks for the tip!
Hmm so it wasnt only me, i have TWO AccountsChangedReceiver(android.accounts.LOGIN_ACCOUNTS_CHANGED) and one was already disabled before i touch anything, and few others i dont remember. Im going to check by restoring a backup and report here
Makes no difference here.
I did notice a big boost in battery duration. I'd say about 4 hours more. Though of course one should do a serious test to assert this.
I also noticed now playstore won't download updates if the screen is off. I get a message saying background data has been disabled when i turn the screen back on if playstore was downloading something.
Does this happen to you too? Worth it in any case.
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I did notice a big boost in battery duration. I'd say about 4 hours more. Though of course one should do a serious test to assert this.
I also noticed now playstore won't download updates if the screen is off. I get a message saying background data has been disabled when i turn the screen back on if playstore was downloading something.
Does this happen to you too? Worth it in any case.
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Do you use STAMINA?
In my case background data is ok and all the things that deppends of it are working fine, as for playstore i always disable autoupdates and i do them manually to prevent unwanted "new features" you know.. so i cant confims this last one. I never use stamina mode though.
Btw by restoring my backup i got the same result untouching anything but the last 4 receivers ive stated in the post so i dont thing the first 3 that also apperas to be duplicated are relevant, gonna edit it.
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Do you use STAMINA?
In my case background data is ok and all the things that deppends of it are working fine, as for playstore i always disable autoupdates and i do them manually to prevent unwanted "new features" you know.. so i cant confims this last one. I never use stamina mode though.
Btw by restoring my backup i got the same result untouching anything but the last 4 receivers ive stated in the post so i dont thing the first 3 that also apperas to be duplicated are relevant, gonna edit it.
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I normally don't, although it could've been automatically activated. I just tried downloading an app and turning off the screen for a while (while it was staarting to download). When i turned it back on it actually had installed so perhaps that was random.
Is there any way to do this on a LBL/nonrooted phone? As my BL can't be unlocked, and wifi battery drain is very proeminent, like 1% per 2-3 minutes.
There is no battery drain if you did proper clean install... Just wait for few days it will dissapear from battery list. I am getting 6 hours sot and 2 days battery life
Obivously clean install, stock rom, CE1, using flashtool, wipe user data.
thewailer said:
Hi, i will share you what worked in my e2306 to fix the annoying Wifi drain. You need an app that let you disable broadcast receivers like RoomToolBox or MyAndroidTools. We are going to disable some Google Play Services receivers.
Open the app you choose to work, navigate to receivers and then DISABLE the following in GPLAY services app:
SystemUpdateServiceActiveReceiver
SystemUpdateServiceOtaPolicyReceiver
SystemUpdateServiceReceiver
SystemUpdateServiceSecretCodeReceiver
And then reboot.
No need to activate STAMINA mode. No need to choose GPS to power saving, no need to disable WiFi/BT location scan.
Ive tested for like 10 days or so. The overnight drain downed to 2% it was like 7%. Also now battery is as good as in LP fw, 1 and 1/2 day with moderate to heavy usage.
Attached screenshoot of two diferent charge cycles.
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I tried but found no recievers at all
Ahmed A. Elhadidy said:
I tried but found no recievers at all
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Try MyAndroidTools and go to Broadcast Receiver > system and find out the Google play service, there you'll see the recievers. Hope that will help you
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I got a message from Gmail, "Gmail is having trouble with Google play services" after I made the changes in broadcast receiver, any solutions?
This is a very strange bug. I was updating PUBG and cleared the recent apps before going to bed only to wake up in the morning and see it not completed. I tried multiple times but the same happened. So I can conclude that the download manager gets "EXITED/STOPPED" by clearing play store from the recent apps. This shouldn't happen as download manager is an integral part of the android system and it's functioning shouldn't have anything to do with exiting the store.
Is anyone else having this problem. Kindly comment below.
Are you under tencents pubg? Why are they asking us to side load thru apk,wierd
Aimara said:
Are you under tencents pubg? Why are they asking us to side load thru apk,wierd
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Yes. I was updating the game through play store. Sorry for not being informative in the first place.
MasterFURQAN said:
Yes. I was updating the game through play store. Sorry for not being informative in the first place.
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Official update is up ,I just cancel the apk download from their website, downloaded almost 600 mb, then I cancel ,wierd I can't find half file where did it go ?
Aimara said:
Official update is up ,I just cancel the apk download from their website, downloaded almost 600 mb, then I cancel ,wierd I can't find half file where did it go ?
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I don't think you get my query. This is what happens:-
1. I update/download an app on the Play Store
2. I clear recent apps including the play Store
3. This freezes/ stops the update/ download.
So I guess that clearing the store from the recent apps also somehow closes the download manager. This shouldn't happen.
That's the problem I faced too none of aps including play store run in the background.If recent tabs is cleared the apps stops working
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Someone please tweet about this issue to jai mani POCO India head
MasterFURQAN said:
I don't think you get my query. This is what happens:-
1. I update/download an app on the Play Store
2. I clear recent apps including the play Store
3. This freezes/ stops the update/ download.
So I guess that clearing the store from the recent apps also somehow closes the download manager. This shouldn't happen.
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maybe you need to enable playstore in background to stay open ? anyway why would need to download overnight , took me less then 10 mins to d\l it
Ashish M Shet said:
That's the problem I faced too none of aps including play store run in the background.If recent tabs is cleared the apps stops working
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Someone please tweet about this issue to jai mani POCO India head
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Did you find any solution ?
I have a solution:
STOP CLOSING APPS.
You are destroying your performance and battery life by doing this. ONLY close apps if they're malfunctioning. It does NOT make your phone faster to clear apps.
I thought this crap was put to rest years ago, wow.
MasterFURQAN said:
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Ya lock the apps in memory and remove the battery saver option for the apps!
Ashish M Shet said:
Ya lock the apps in memory and remove the battery saver option for the apps!
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I can't find downloads/ download manager in the app saver list.
Yea I realised it last night.. I put pubg on update and went to sleep only to realise that the update failed somehow.. This has to be the problem I faced.
CosmicDan said:
I have a solution:
STOP CLOSING APPS.
You are destroying your performance and battery life by doing this. ONLY close apps if they're malfunctioning. It does NOT make your phone faster to clear apps.
I thought this crap was put to rest years ago, wow.
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Clearing recent apps doesn't necessarily mean closing the app especially for a system app like download manager.
MasterFURQAN said:
Clearing recent apps doesn't necessarily mean closing the app especially for a system app like download manager.
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That's exactly what it does, actually. It doesn't just "hide" then - it calls onDestroy (sometimes, it's not guaranteed) and disposes the activity, so next time you run it it has to be recreated from scratch again.
But yes, you are at least correct in that it shouldn't terminate any associated services. Maybe that's an MIUI "feature" of closing the apps.
But my point still stands - you shouldn't close recent apps unless necessary. Any Google result will tell you this, it's mainstream knowledge these days.
If you can't help yourself, see a doctor for OCD treatment. It's a 6GB device for God's sake, you will open 100 apps and still not run out of RAM. No it will not make PUBG FPS better. No it will not make your device switch apps faster. It does ONLY harm.
CosmicDan said:
That's exactly what it does, actually. It doesn't just "hide" then - it calls onDestroy (sometimes, it's not guaranteed) and disposes the activity, so next time you run it it has to be recreated from scratch again.
But yes, you are at least correct in that it shouldn't terminate any associated services. Maybe that's an MIUI "feature" of closing the apps.
But my point still stands - you shouldn't close recent apps unless necessary. Any Google result will tell you this, it's mainstream knowledge these days.
If you can't help yourself, see a doctor for OCD treatment. It's a 6GB device for God's sake, you will open 100 apps and still not run out of RAM. No it will not make PUBG FPS better. No it will not make your device switch apps faster. It does ONLY harm.
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Damn!! People clearing their recent apps have OCD. Really ? I've been using android phones for years. My previous phones had 365 apps installed in it and I had to use almost 50 to 70 or more of them daily. The thing is most if not all android apps have background services and these services do NOT get stopped even if you clear recent apps while other apps just get cached to the RAM and they too don't stop by recent apps clearing. And then there are wakelocks and GCM which are the reasons for apps giving you notifications and things like that. I can go on but I think you get the point by now.
I clear apps because I just like to see a clean UI. I know that these apps don't just get stopped by this. If I really wanted to stop an app I'd do it for saving battery and NOT for saving RAM and I'd use advanced apps like greenify and wakelock detectors for this because clearing apps won't stop these apps. Some apps just prevent the device from going to deep sleep and this is the reason for overnight discharge on most phones.
Peace.
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Yea I realised it last night.. I put pubg on update and went to sleep only to realise that the update failed somehow.. This has to be the problem I faced.
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I think the problem is with big apps. Whenever I install a small size app maybe upto 100 MB, it gets installed without any problems but whenever I tried to install/update a large app like PUBG, it never gets completed giving errors like error 495. Today it stopped at almost 1.05 GB. I'll check and see if I can find a fix.
CosmicDan said:
I have a solution:
STOP CLOSING APPS.
You are destroying your performance and battery life by doing this. ONLY close apps if they're malfunctioning. It does NOT make your phone faster to clear apps.
I thought this crap was put to rest years ago, wow.
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But this shouldn't happen on stock Android though.. Even on iOS swiping out apps from recents doesn't mean the user wants to force stop it. Xiaomi designing it's skin to do this is really counterintuitive. Because of this we are having all sorts of problem like this and messaging apps not receiving notifications in the background.
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But this shouldn't happen on stock Android though.. Even on iOS swiping out apps from recents doesn't mean the user wants to force stop it. Xiaomi designing it's skin to do this is really counterintuitive. Because of this we are having all sorts of problem like this and messaging apps not receiving notifications in the background.
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After a few days of use, I don't think that is the case. I tried multiple downloads/ updates from the store and cleared recent apps but they continued without any freezes or stops. The problem appears when I install/ update a large sized app like PUBG. It'll go on for sometime and then just freeze and return an error. Last night it stopped at almost 1gb+ with an error code 495.
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But this shouldn't happen on stock Android though.. Even on iOS swiping out apps from recents doesn't mean the user wants to force stop it. Xiaomi designing it's skin to do this is really counterintuitive. Because of this we are having all sorts of problem like this and messaging apps not receiving notifications in the background.
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Mmm, it may be Whetstone at work again. That horrible thing. Is there a "Memory Optimization" setting in Developer Options? If so, turn it off.
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Mmm, it may be Whetstone at work again. That horrible thing. Is there a "Memory Optimization" setting in Developer Options? If so, turn it off.
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There is MIUI Optimization in Developer settings but i don't think it helps disabling it in this case.(it helps a little bit on scrolling performance BUT after 3-4 days it becomes slow again for me..I think MIUI's Touch response & Scroll performance is very bad compared to Stock/Neuxs 5... Correct me if it's only for me)
MIUI has very weird ram management which literally kills the apps & all the services when you clear it from recent and there's no way to stop this on MIUI from my past 2 weeks of experience and research
For anyone experiencing notification issues.
I was. None were coming through when they were sent. I changed push notification delay. I tried near everything
(Not coming through you have turned on notifications turn off power saving etc for the app)
If you have root and are able to freeze applications ( I have used titanium backup) to freeze the security app. All my notifications are coming though properly now.
I saw on a website someone that changed the security app so I thought why not freeze it. It works .
Still have access to permissions etc.
The only thing to remember is to keep them in memory. If you close the app you will have to reopen it manually.
I'm on ZUI 11
Not root case
If you don't have root, you can turn off battery optimization in settings for the apps you want, them put them on "autostart" in the security app and just minimize the apps
It's not a good solution, since you can't close fully the apps, but at least you will have notifications
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If you don't have root, you can turn off battery optimization in settings for the apps you want, them put them on "autostart" in the security app and just minimize the apps
It's not a good solution, since you can't close fully the apps, but at least you will have notifications
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I tried that. I would receive notifications only occasionally... So it wasn't great :/
ajmdc said:
I tried that. I would receive notifications only occasionally... So it wasn't great :/
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Yes, it's not good, that's why I'm trying a custom rom now
But for those who are afraid to root/install a custom, it's what they have (notificon also helps, but have to pass through the same steps)
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For anyone experiencing notification issues.
I was. None were coming through when they were sent. I changed push notification delay. I tried near everything
(Not coming through you have turned on notifications turn off power saving etc for the app)
If you have root and are able to freeze applications ( I have used titanium backup) to freeze the security app. All my notifications are coming though properly now.
I saw on a website someone that changed the security app so I thought why not freeze it. It works .
Still have access to permissions etc.
The only thing to remember is to keep them in memory. If you close the app you will have to reopen it manually.
I'm on ZUI 11
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Just bought lenovo z5 pro 64gb. I have same problem with whatsapp and other user app notifications. Im on ZUI 11. 1.093 ST.
Im finally found a way to make whatsapp and other user app to make a sound when message coming.
Just install Missed Notifications Reminder from play store. After installation complete, just give permission access for this app to run. Next, you can set reminder for as low as 0.1 minutes ( fastest option and its fast enough ) and set reminder repetitions, i set for 2x repetition. Then finally you can select what application do you want to be reminded (any app on your phone).
Now, when new notification come, my phone will make sound :laugh:
For those who still use the stock china zui, the notification bug still occurs?
yes i still have notification issues sometimes with whatsapp even though i went through all the settings in the security app and battery optimization.even installed missed notifications reminder which helped a little but not always.
im using the latest zui rom 11.5.247.things worked much better on 10.5
Is anyone aware of a method of doing only spoofing and nothing else for this phone?
There are a few mods available for spoofing. They seem to assume that you're using a non-pixel device though, as they also "Pixelify" the phone with many additional pixel goodies that Pixel phones already have. I'm concerned that it might cause issues as it seems unhealthy to double up on features.
I've used pixelify, so far no issues and works with full size photos, the only kinda annoying thing is you need to turn it off every time you want to use magic eraser otherwise it doesn't show up as an option, as well if the app updates while the module is on you lose the eraser completely until deleting the data storage of the app and updating again without the module on, easy fix tho is just turn off auto update for google photos and update with the module off
GitHub - Kingsman44/Pixelify: Magisk module to enables pixel exclusive features and ui
Magisk module to enables pixel exclusive features and ui - GitHub - Kingsman44/Pixelify: Magisk module to enables pixel exclusive features and ui
github.com
Google unlimited backup is not working for me after root; the Google Photo app says it's not taking space, but the 'storage used' on the webpage actually increases. I tried using zygisk / shamiko / pixelify /lsposed module and those doesn't seem to work..
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Google unlimited backup is not working for me after root; the Google Photo app says it's not taking space, but the 'storage used' on the webpage actually increases. I tried using zygisk / shamiko / pixelify /lsposed module and those doesn't seem to work..
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I've checked out those other solutions that I mentioned in the OP and it seems like Google has started using a protection method that constantly checks the validity of certain services and dynamically re-enforces them to function as originally intended. So even if you get a mod like Pixelify to work it will stop working within hours.
The devs behind these mods are aware of this protection and have yet to figure out a way to crack it. For now we can't cheat Google Photos.
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I've checked out those other solutions that I mentioned in the OP and it seems like Google has started using a protection method that constantly checks the validity of certain services and dynamically re-enforces them to function as originally intended. So even if you get a mod like Pixelify to work it will stop working within hours.
The devs behind these mods are aware of this protection and have yet to figure out a way to crack it. For now we can't cheat Google Photos.
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I got it working yesterday on an old android 8 phone (htc10).
I factory reset, did not login Google account, applied zygisk/universal safetynet fix/pixel features, test that safetynet passes, then did the Google login. Google photos is saying that I can upload unlimited photos at 'storage saver' quality, but when I choose original quality it doesn't take up any space.
So yeah, it might have something to do with the newer protection methods, but for now I'm fine with copying photos to my old phone just for the backup.
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I got it working yesterday on an old android 8 phone (htc10).
I factory reset, did not login Google account, applied zygisk/universal safetynet fix/pixel features, test that safetynet passes, then did the Google login. Google photos is saying that I can upload unlimited photos at 'storage saver' quality, but when I choose original quality it doesn't take up any space.
So yeah, it might have something to do with the newer protection methods, but for now I'm fine with copying photos to my old phone just for the backup.
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Can you try restarting the phone and see if it still works when uploading a larger video? I also thought that it worked on some other phones until i restarted and the settings for the Google Play service resets in Zygisk, breaking the hack. Photos still said that uploads are unlimited, but they still actually took up space in the could.
RobbyRobbb said:
Can you try restarting the phone and see if it still works when uploading a larger video? I also thought that it worked on some other phones until i restarted and the settings for Google Play service resets in Zygisk, breaking the back. Photos still said that uploads are unlimited, but they still actually took up space in the coul
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That kind of scares me from restarting xd
I've uploaded ~50G of photo/videos with no problems, but haven't restarted for once yet. I'll try out restarting once I got all my old photos uploaded.
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I've checked out those other solutions that I mentioned in the OP and it seems like Google has started using a protection method that constantly checks the validity of certain services and dynamically re-enforces them to function as originally intended. So even if you get a mod like Pixelify to work it will stop working within hours.
The devs behind these mods are aware of this protection and have yet to figure out a way to crack it. For now we can't cheat Google Photos.
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Well of course why wouldn't they figure it out when people post and create so many videos of this spoof/exploit. Dont you think they would investigate then patch the issue lol wow
The OG Pixel gets unlimited original quality storage forever, so any device with the OG Pixel fingerprint would presumably be able to back up photos in Original Quality without counting towards storage.
The Pixel 2 through 5a all get unlimited Storage Saver (1080p) forever.
If I flash the pixelify module,will it work? or will all the other "pixel features" get in the way of my stock android 12?
squidbutt said:
If I flash the pixelify module,will it work? or will all the other "pixel features" get in the way of my stock android 12?
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You can use pixelify but unselect all features except unlimited google photos