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Review revelation: Xiaomi is also cutting costs on a specific smartphone component https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-revelation-Xiaomi-is-also-cutting-costs-on-a-specific-smartphone-component.1363567.0.html https://redd.it/1vls8mk @reddit_android

DeX Inner Tester allows your Galaxy foldable to run Samsung DeX locally without a monitor https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-dex-local-android-app-3697211/ https://redd.it/1vlsafi @reddit_android

Inside Swiff: An Interview with NaviVani on Bringing Flash Games Back to Android https://gardinerbryant.com/inside-swiff-an-interview-with-navivani/ https://redd.it/1vlf0y0 @reddit_android

Xperia 1 sales are "growing significantly" in Europe https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/2608/10/news015.html](https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/2608/10/news015.html https://redd.it/1vljy73 @reddit_android

Samsung’s Hearing Aid Feature on Galaxy Buds Cleared by FDA https://news.samsung.com/global/samsungs-hearing-aid-feature-on-galaxy-buds-cleared-by-fda https://redd.it/1vlhnuk @reddit_android

Daily Superthread (Aug 11 2026) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! Note 1. You can search for previous daily threads. Note 2. Join our IRC and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discussion as well. https://redd.it/1vlfh3a @reddit_android

Feedback Looking for feedback on my app – send WhatsApp messages without saving contacts Hey everyone! I launched a small Android app a few months ago and recently started working on it again. Before adding new features, I'd like to get some feedback from other Android users and see if there are things I should improve, change, or fix. # What does the app do? The app makes it easier to start a WhatsApp conversation with a phone number without having to save the number as a contact first. For example, if you need to send a WhatsApp message to a delivery driver, a customer, a seller, or someone you probably won't contact again, you can simply enter their phone number and open the conversation directly in WhatsApp. The idea is to make this process a little faster and avoid filling your contact list with temporary numbers. # Why did I make it? I found myself frequently needing to send WhatsApp messages to numbers that I didn't want to save as contacts. I wanted something simple that would make this process more convenient. But more importantly, I've noticed that many people who aren't very familiar with smartphones struggle with this process. They often have trouble entering the country code, area code, and phone number correctly before they can start a conversation on WhatsApp. I wanted to make this process simpler and more accessible, especially for people who aren't very comfortable with smartphones. # I'd love your feedback I'm particularly interested in hearing about: Is the app useful to you? Is the process intuitive? Is there anything confusing or annoying about the UI? Are there features you think would make it more useful? Did you encounter any bugs or unexpected behavior? Is there anything you'd change about the app? I'm still working on it, so I'll be following the comments and answering questions here. Any honest feedback — positive or negative — is welcome. If you'd like to try it, it's available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chamarnozap.app Thanks for taking the time to check it out! ⚙️ https://redd.it/1vkyqzd @reddit_android

Google Play Now Takes Venmo Payments | You can use Venmo to pay for Android app purchases and subscriptions. https://www.engadget.com/2232988/google-play-venmo/#Echobox=1786363509 https://redd.it/1vlaucy @reddit_android

USBIPBeta: Free, Open-Source USB/IP Server for Android (VirtualHere Alternative) Hey everyone! 👋 If you've ever wanted to connect and share USB peripherals (like gaming steering wheels, pedals, and controllers) from an Android device to a Windows client over your local network, I built something that might help. Introducing **USBIPBeta**—a lightweight client application and custom kernel driver suite designed to bridge Android hosts and Windows PCs using the USB/IP protocol. # 🚀 What It Does * **Peripheral Redirection:** Share physical USB devices attached to an Android device over your local network. * **Sim Racing & Gaming Focus:** Great for plugging hardware like a Logitech G29 directly into an Android setup and routing it smoothly to a client machine. * **Cross-Platform Bridge:** Consists of an Android APK host component and a Windows client executable/driver suite. # 💻 Open Source & 100% Free This project is completely free and open-source, and it always will be! If you want to check out the code, inspect the setup, or download the beta release, you can find everything here: 🔗 **GitHub Repository:**[https://github.com/hellfurian1228/USBIPBeta](https://github.com/hellfurian1228/USBIPBeta) *Note: While the app is and will always remain 100% free to use, if you find it helpful and want to buy me a coffee, you can find an optional donation link over on the GitHub repo!* https://redd.it/1vl0u2o @reddit_android

ANROID BEAM RETURNS! Hey everyone, I missed Android Beam after Google removed it, so I built a simple app that brings the same idea back. ANRO-BEAM lets you send files between two Android phones just by holding them back to back / tapping them together. No internet, no cloud, no account needed. You can download it here: https://s9723651-debug.github.io/anrobeam/ It’s still early, so I’d really appreciate any feedback or bug reports. Thanks! https://redd.it/1vl19ef @reddit_android

Another YouTube auto-play bug/feature (not sure which) https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-autoplay-bug-or-feature-3696192/ https://redd.it/1vl4lcp @reddit_android

Exclusive: First images show Fairphone 6+ in Cobalt Blue https://www.newmobile.com/Fairphone-Gen-6-Plus https://redd.it/1vl0iob @reddit_android

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra Review: What Happens When Samsung Stops Playing It Safe https://www.androidheadlines.com/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-ultra-review https://redd.it/1vkyijv @reddit_android

Google Play Store starts distributing third-party Android app stores – here’s how it works [Gallery] https://9to5google.com/2026/08/10/google-play-store-third-party-android-app-stores-launch/ https://redd.it/1vksty7 @reddit_android

Google Pixel 11 Pro XL Geekbench 7 result offers early look at Tensor G6 performance - Notebookcheck News https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-Pixel-11-Pro-XL-Geekbench-7-result-offers-early-look-at-Tensor-G6-performance.1364515.0.html https://redd.it/1vkmz4e @reddit_android

Daily Superthread (Aug 10 2026) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! Note 1. You can search for previous daily threads. Note 2. Join our IRC and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discussion as well. https://redd.it/1vkivsk @reddit_android

NL Tech - Don't make this $2,100 mistake! Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra review! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97jqMkPG6s https://redd.it/1vkau9z @reddit_android

Got Root on my S22 Ultra! Ported CVE-2026-43499 exploit (Android 15) Hey everyone, I just published a port of the CVE-2026-43499 exploit for the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (codename: `b0q` / SM-S908W). The exploit successfully establishes an arbitrary read/write primitive, switches SELinux to permissive, and spawns a root helper daemon, giving you full root access. **Status:** This vulnerability is **currently UNPATCHED** by Samsung and works on the absolute latest firmware available! 🔗 **Repo Link:** https://github.com/sarabpal-dev/IonStack-S22U **Currently Supported Target:** * **Device:** Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (SM-S908W) * **Android:** 15 / SDK 35 * **Firmware:** `AP3A.240905.015.A2.S908WVLS8FYG7` * **Kernel:** 5.10.226-android12-9-30958166-abS908WVLS8FYG7 * **Architecture:** aarch64 \### ⚠️ Reliability & Kernel Panic Warning Because the exploit relies on a race condition and precise timing, it can be somewhat unreliable and may trigger a kernel panic on bad runs. **Tips for success:** For the highest success rate, **reboot your device** before running it to ensure a clean heap state. Close all background apps, keep the screen unlocked, and do not touch the phone while the exploit is running so background tasks don't disturb the timing. \### 🛠️ Porting to other firmwares / Generating `target.h` The offsets in the repo are specific to the firmware version listed above. If you are on a different build, you need to generate your own `target.h` file by extracting kernel symbols and offsets from your specific kernel binary. Here is how to do it: 1. **Extract the uncompressed kernel binary (`Image`)** from your device's `boot.img`. 2. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the `target_generator` directory to install dependencies, compile the `kallsyms` extractor, and run the generator script. 👉 **[Full step-by-step instructions for the target generator can be found here\](https://github.com/sarabpal-dev/IonStack-S22U/blob/main/target_generator/README.md)** Once you generate your `target.h`, place it in `src/targets/<YOUR_FIRMWARE_VERSION>/target.h` and compile using `make PROJECT=<YOUR_FIRMWARE_VERSION>`. \### 🚀 How to Deploy and Run Once compiled, push the binaries to your device: ```bash adb push build/S908WVLS8FYG7/bin/cve-2026-43499 /data/local/tmp/cve-2026-43499 adb push build/S908WVLS8FYG7/bin/cve-2026-43499-root /data/local/tmp/cve-2026-43499-root adb push build/S908WVLS8FYG7/bin/cve-exp32 /data/local/tmp/cve-exp32 adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/cve-2026-43499 /data/local/tmp/cve-2026-43499-root /data/local/tmp/cve-exp32 ``` Execute the exploit stage to start the root daemon (it will automatically retry up to 16 times if it fails): ```bash adb shell "LD_PRELOAD=/data/local/tmp/cve-2026-43499 sh" ``` Once successful, pop an interactive root shell: ```bash adb shell "/data/local/tmp/cve-2026-43499-root" ``` \### 🤝 Contributions & Pull Requests I'd love to make this exploit more stable. If you have ideas to improve reliability, optimize the futex choreography, **Pull Requests are highly appreciated and welcome!** Check out the repo for the full source code, build instructions, and technical details on the porting changes from the v6.6 kernel to the v5.10 kernel. Technically it should work on all firmware and all varients of s22 family need to put just target.h. Please dont ask for port to other devices its impossible without having real device on hand other devices can check Root-My-Galaxy repo https://redd.it/1vjndfi @reddit_android

The only eink device running Android 17? The Musnap Neo 2 ships with Android 14 userspace, but its hardware boundary is an Android 12-era GKI 5.10.233 kernel with vendor policy level 31. It is also rootable out of the box and that made it an interesting AOSP target: instead of touching stock partitions, I keep the stock kernel/vendor stack and boot replacement generic-arm64 /system images as temporary DSUs. The hardware is a 6-inch 1448×1072 e‑ink panel. Its display path is not exposed through a generic Android display interface, so the project captures physical-display composition from SurfaceFlinger, converts it into the panel’s evidenced 16-level grayscale input domain, and submits an owned buffer through the device-specific vendor e‑ink engine. That proprietary lower layer still handles panel conversion, waveform selection, and panel transport. It is the reason this is an integration project rather than “flash a GSI and call it done.” Across the tested AOSP branches: Android 14, Android 15, Android 16, and Android 17 / API 37, the same presentation path has worked: SurfaceFlinger composition reaches the vendor e‑ink engine, Android UI is visible and usable on the physical panel, and repeated refreshes are accepted without recorded lower-engine rejections in the tested diagnostics. The frontlight path is also working at a narrow, testable level: calibrated cool-only and warm-only midpoint requests, plus explicit zero/off, completed without Android-side write failure. There is persistence and sleep/wake replay now, and lift cover to wake works, but I haven't integrated it with the native brightness control yet instead I have a simple controller apk with some config settings right now. I can’t distribute a flashable image because it needs proprietary libraries, waveform resources, and calibration data though. The AOSP-side code and build logic are publishable; the device-specific runtime pieces have to come from the owner’s own stock firmware. Not sure if there is interest in the presentation-adapter itself as these eink panels are ubiquitous across the industry. E: https://github.com/eink-fan/eink-aosp-lab https://preview.redd.it/7c7mh13ehdih1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75ab18befd0eb43f96a7dcd0dbd6a3621cf9e413 https://redd.it/1vjtmtc @reddit_android

desktop session running at twelve frames per second. And that is Android SkyView! It's not supposed to be a replacement for Windows workstations or gaming PCs, but a way to make desktop apps more accessible without requiring their owners to become part-time Linux administrators. Ain't nobody got time for that. A lot of the baseline is already there--the missing step is turning that capability into something ordinary people can use without requiring users to understand virtualisation, package managers, or terminal commands. But would you use this? More importantly, which part would collapse first under real-world engineering constraints? https://redd.it/1vk2acn @reddit_android