OT: Android management

and some say a vacuum sucks.

So Google knows who you interact with every day and stores every text message. Once voice recognition improves a little they will know everything you say and do all day and night. What's the evidence that modern phones (apart from the display) ever turn off - you can't remove the battery? This must seem a little creepy even to those with "nothing to hide". It also soaks up bandwidth for those of us with poor network connections.

YALP store from the F-Droid repo. Bypasses all that nonsense.

Oh derar. Another one who has drunk the koolaid and wants to use a phone 'like google ntended' to simply part you from your money at every possible po8nt and give nothing of valiue in return except a moments distraction..

Be that as it may, the original comment was that 'all your apps would get configured once you had looged into android'

We have established that what wa smean was logging into google, and you have estbalished that merely means getting your data back NOT your app configurations.

And why is it that contacts are NOT avialable by USB, only via google?

I am not interetsed in payinga shitload of money for a frint end to google and amazon, and a device thet records my everyt movment with them

I want a phone.

App configs too, if the app is well written.

Don't buy a smartphone then. Even an address book is probably a step too far, why not just type in the numbers each time?

Or perhaps saddle up the horse and go over to visit?

Your typing is also regressing to the 1780s, perhaps you should slow down a touch.

Cheers - Jaimie

If you want to be paranoid what makes you think there is only one battery in the ones you can remove one from?

Google has had zero money from me, but it has paid me some money to use it.

That's not true, properly written apps get their settings back too.

I can put my contacts on an internal SD card or a USB stick from my phone or transfer them by bluetooth/wifi/mobile data to other accounts than google on my android devices. You may have a 2018 android phone but you still think its version 1.0.

So buy a £10 phone then. BTW they track *all* mobiles and save *all* text messages on *all* mobile phones in the UK. You don't need a smart phone for them to do so. I should know I worked on some of the stuff they use to do it.

I heard on a TV program regarding smartphones) that if you use yuor andriod phone to buy something then google records what you brought when and where and sells that info to other advertisers and supplies. If you use Apple pay they don't keep any such records and a fee is applied that the buyer doesn't pay the advertisor pays the CC company.

I would but hospitals, banks, stockbrkes, etc etc etc keep wanting to send me texts, not emails.

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The question is "Who are _they_ and will the data be used to annoy me?".

Targeted advertising certainly just annoys me.

But what is worrying is that it seems quite difficult to find out what an individual phone is capable of doing and actually does.

For example, why does one of my phones seem to have a 2d accelerometer and the other a 3D one? How do I find out if the 2D one is actually a broken 3D one? Another example, Before buying some vehicle diagnostic software for use on a smartphone, I need to know exactly what version of Bluetooth each phone is using. I've not been able to do this. There may be an app that does dig out the info, but I haven't found it.

Before the launcher crashed, I'd been using the Termux terminal emulator to attempt communication with OBD2 vehicle stuff. I wonder if that could be used to run some Linux diagnostics on the phone internals (not that I know anything about Linux diagnostics!)

A very fair question. I think to supply even a very low power version of a mobile phone transceiver the battery would have to be of quite significant size, and someone who repairs phones would have noticed by now. Unless the battery is disguised, and marked as, say, an electrolytic capacitor ...

Thinking of hospitals, have you had your cardiac procedure? Hope it went well. Seriously.

A £15 phone will do text messages. Its been a basic feature for decades.

Electrolytic capacitor s are used as memory backup batteries. So possible.