Doing a bit of reverse name matching... I may have it now.

There are some fun projects that you could do with this. Although for wearable I guess it is a lot harder to really do something cool yourself. Wearable Arduino already handles things like wearable lights. This would be more for having a secret screen inside your coat to watch movies on.

I'm thinking about one of these for the kids' bedroom back in Texas so that we can have a multimedia and multipurpose device that we can hook up to a TV monitor but get more general purpose use out of it than we would with just a Fire Stick or something like that.

Put 4G in there and I'd be very interested. 2GB, and I just don't really care. The ancient Android version doesn't thrill me, either. This doesn't seem like they are taking it very seriously.

@aidan_walsh said in Android OS: ConnectBot:

@gjacobse IIRC thats an optional extra for creating an account to sync your auth details between devices.

Yepp. And also, generating SSH keys, I'd imagine, but I may be off base on that. I have the paid version, and it's cheap, so I bought it since I use it so much.

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Good info, thanks!
That would work for me. But we'll have to go to a store so she can hold it in her hand to see if it will be a good fit. (personally, I'd probably prefer the S8+)

We use T-Mobile, they've been great and the best for us so far, so no plans on switching... especially if they keep improving things like they seem to be.

For me, I prefer Windows Mobile... as my mobile use focus is on convenience (not sure how familiar you are with Win10 Mobile, but it's brilliant) and working seamlessly with my Win10 laptop.

My ideal solution or phone fantasy, would be the S8+ running Win10 Mobile! I doubt that will happen, so I'm waiting to see what happens with the "surface phone". But I am all about the S8 for my wife if it's a good fit after trying it out.

@travisdh1 said in Some Android Devices Susceptible to Wifi Hack:

@mlnews Huh, the news story I saw on that sounded like anything using a Broadcom chipset was vulnerable, which means a lot more devices than just Android and Apple.

Anything using a specific chipset. Not sure if anything outside of phones uses that one.

@Tim_G said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture:

@matteo-nunziati said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture:

@Tim_G said in Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Already Defeated with Picture:

I don't understand why they didn't do it like the Lumia 950xl... iris scanner. Infrared to light up the eyes, another to take the pic.

they also have it! fingerprint, face, iris, pin, sequence... they only miss the list of things in your fridge :P

Then how can a regular picture fool it? Seems like a software issue and not hardware.

I mean: you can either auth yourself via face or any other solution. Samsung AFAIK doesn't implement so named pure biometric 2 factor-auth. You have just to avoid face and fingerprint (as it is too close to camera). just use iris or sequence/pin...

I own a xiaomi redmi 4 and to be honest rear-fingerprint scanners are a bit of a pain... I alternate fingerprint to sequences...

@aidan_walsh said in Build a Pine 64 Android TV for Under $50:

@scottalanmiller said in Build a Pine 64 Android TV for Under $50:

Well it is specifically Android TV, so if you want the Android TV OS, interface and compatibility. It's a video gaming platform as well as television system.

Its not through. Its a stock Android 5.1 image that requires you to get a media style interface from the Play Store, rather than a "proper" Android TV system.

Weird, maybe they pulled the version. They have Android 7 TV...

http://files.pine64.org/os/android/android-7.0-pine-a64-tv-v1.11.0-r67.img.gz

@scottalanmiller said in Google Renames Messenger to Android Messages:

Just a branding change, or does this signal a change in strategy for messaging on the Android platform by Google?

Nope, it's still a mess with all the different apps. They do like to rename one of the many, I can only assume it's meant as a marketing ploy because they rarely change the app functionality (unless they're removing features.)

@IRJ said in Android malware bites back in the real world.:

@travisdh1 said in Android malware bites back in the real world.:

@scottalanmiller said in Android malware bites back in the real world.:

@travisdh1 said in Android malware bites back in the real world.:

@scottalanmiller said in Android malware bites back in the real world.:

Android seems like a really bad choice for high security applications, like military. Custom Raspberry Pis with super locked down Linux general purpose OSes would make more sense.

Any consumer cellular devices period, I can easily triangulate a cell phone with very little hardware investment.

Do we know that they were consumer phones? I didn't look into it. You can put Android on non-phones, too.

True. I was assuming because the malware was able to stay in contact somehow. Might have been on a dedicated military network with just 1 connection to the outside.

Very interesting article...

You don't have to hack hundreds of phones. Have 3-5 important android devices may be enough to nearly paint a full picture.

And one might attack another.

@scottalanmiller said in iPhone 6 Plus dying... need new phone... suggestion?:

@Son-of-Jor-El said in iPhone 6 Plus dying... need new phone... suggestion?:

@stess said in iPhone 6 Plus dying... need new phone... suggestion?:

Well.... after reading your comments... I will give iPhone another chance (also because Oneplus 3T is 3 weeks away). I believe Apple has 14 days refund policy or sometime so it doesn't hurt my wallet that much.

If you have the $$$ go with the highest amount of memory you can afford.

I switched from 16GB to 128GB. SO much better!!

Totally agree!! I went all the way to 256GB. No more worrying about deleting songs, or pictures.

@Dashrender said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

I'm not convinced it's necessary. Both iOS and Android have sandboxing features that prevent malicious code from running. Android, of course, lets the user run it anyway if they give that app permission. I think iOS has something similar but they have a pretty decent app store that prevents that type of thing, unlike Google.

I am an Android guy by the way.

I'm not convinced it's necessary either, but I believe I was infected and now I'm all paranoid.

One security research firm (I don't remember the name I'll have to look) went through the Google App store and downloaded as much malicious stuff as possible. They found that unless the application is given permission, which means a user has to allow it, then it really can't do anything on the system. If the user allows it then, obviously, the malicious code was able to execute and do it's thing.

That's exactly what creeps me out about Android - why does everything need permissions to stuff you wouldn't expect it to use. I fear the answer is "to slurp your data". Which is garbage. However the app won't run without it.

Example: "Samsung Briefing" which is a news aggregator - asks for permission to save to disk, phone, etc etc

The newest version of Android took a cue from iOS and now lets you be more judicial with app permissions. Haven't been able to play with it yet.

in what way? I don't see a way to prevent, for example, Skype from using my camera but allowing it access to the network and microphone.

Do you have Nougat? I could have sworn that was one of the selling points. Where you give permissions like that on an as needed basis. So you could very well prevent skype from accessing the camera but allow it to access the microphone. It may not work as expected but...

@Dashrender said in OpenVPN and Andriod Mobiles:

@iroal said in OpenVPN and Andriod Mobiles:

Right now I'm connected to Openvnp, in a Pfsense, and sending you this message all from my android Phone.

I use OpenVnp 0.6.60 for Android.

His problem isn't using OpenVPN from his android device. His issue is split tunneling - or the ability to surf the web through his office network's internet connection.

I mean I connect from a Samsung S5 using OpenVpn App, the OpenVnp server It's the Pfsense.

@IRJ said in Viewing PDF Files on an Android Mobile Browser:

webView.loadUrl("https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=" + "url of pdf file");

That prompts any URL to open using google docs viewer which works great in chrome mobile browser.

Is that ASP.NET code or classic ASP? Our pages are classic ASP.

Yeah but really it's likely not the device. It's USB-C quick Charing and people using Chinese cables and chargers. With USB-C the protection is built into the cable. These a much higher amp charging that normal.

I saw my first Phone made by Google commercial last night. I don't recall seeing it called a Pixel at all.

I don't recall ever seeing or hearing that Google had Nexus ads, but then again I'm not surprised, the Nexus was always touted as a developer's phone.

It's clear to me that Google plans to try to sell a lot of Pixel phones. Now I wonder how long until we see them in big box stores?

@Dashrender said in Show off your Android Destkop:

@IRJ said in Show off your Android Destkop:

@Dashrender said in Show off your Android Destkop:

Of the screen shots shown, I'm surprised to see the phone icon is missing - I guess you guys don't use the phone portion of your device much.

The phone icon is right on my home screen as well as my apps screen. Look at the first 2 screenshots.

Aww, it's on your home screen, but not in the dock (I'm assuming the icons down the left are sticky - i.e. always show).

The icons on the left are just categories. There's a category for communication, games, internet apps, etc.

Internet of the Figment of Security (because the NSA is demanding back doors to everything)

"Ifs" for short If we had access, this wouldn't have happened.... Yeah sure....

Yes, I play it sometimes. It is fun, but KOTOR is my goto

On the Ubuntu Linux family, for instance, you can fix it with the following steps:

Open /etc/sysctl.conf, with an editor, such as vim. Enter the line: net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999 Save the file. Use the shell command "sysctl -p" to update the configuration.

@stacksofplates said in Cyanogen, Inc. lays of 20% of its workforce, incl. OS devs:

@scottalanmiller said in Cyanogen, Inc. lays of 20% of its workforce, incl. OS devs:

@stacksofplates said in Cyanogen, Inc. lays of 20% of its workforce, incl. OS devs:

@IRJ said in Cyanogen, Inc. lays of 20% of its workforce, incl. OS devs:

I've used CyanogenMod OS many times, but I never heard of Cyanogen, Inc. It sounds like it was doomed for failure from the beginning.

Well they had that whole referral program to get the OnePlus and screwed it up. Not surprised.

OnePlus?

It was the first phone they put out. They've had a few since then. They were really popular when they first came out.

Here is the problem. The people that use CM are techy enough to put it on themselves. The ones that don't use CM aren't techy enough to appreciate and understand the features. Sure there is a group of a techy people that don't root their devices, but that group is a small percentage of total sales.

@travisdh1 said in Android 7 Coming ...................:

@scottalanmiller said in Android 7 Coming ...................:

@s.hackleman said in Android 7 Coming ...................:

@hobbit666 said in Android 7 Coming ...................:

My phone hasn't even been updated to 6 yet lol

And this is why I switched back to Apple. 4.5" phone, updates directly from Apple, and no bloatware.

Yup, same here. It's great knowing that there is no artificial crippling me to get me to buy a new phone or to hold back features and such.

Which is why I swear by the Nexus line if you want Android. Apple is still the easiest/quickest game around for phones/tablets tho.

My next phone will be whatever the Nexus line has when I get ready to replace my Note 4.

@scottalanmiller said in First Look at the NVidia Shield TV:

@IRJ said in First Look at the NVidia Shield TV:

It seems like that is just a list of android games.

There are a handful of Android TV only titles, but nearly everything that runs on Android TV also runs on Android, but not the other way around.

Well not all Android apps run on Adroid TV, but actually most of them do work if you sideload them. Sometimes the controls can get lost if the apps only work for touch screen devices. I have sideloaded alot of apps and most android apps do work on Android TV.

@gjacobse said in KeepassX & Cloud Storage:

@johnhooks said in KeepassX & Cloud Storage:

I keep my KeepassX database in DropBox, but my actual key file is not there.

I've not used a Keyfile,.. only a 'decently long complex' password.

I do both just because I'm paranoid. My password is only 15 characters, but with the key file I think it helps. That way even if someone gets my database they can hammer the database with passwords all they want but it won't matter.

All the "best" magazines.