OnePlus uses clock on lock screen for branding and paints leading ones in red.

The Google’s clock design is reportedly problematic for people with dyslexia. In OnePlus’s case it’s problematic for people with (partial) color blindness.

Personally, I can’t stand it. It makes it harder to read time in a quick glance at the lock screen.

Neither Google nor OnePlus provide options to change any part of this. On the other hand, manufacturers like Samsung show time in one line and in single color and even offer heavy lock screen customization (in the LockStar app).

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The best working solution for me is to run KeePass in “Wine”. On macOS Catalina/Big Sur or newer macOS’s lacking 32 bit app support, you will need wine that includes wine32on64 binary. One such package is wine-crossover from following 3rd party Homebrew repository of gcenx (see for more details).

brew tap gcenx/wine
brew cask install --no-quarantine wine-crossover

With this package, the only requirement to run KeePass is to install .NET Framework (I have used version 4.7.2).

winetricks -q dotnet472

Note that .NET Framework installation may take a long time (even over an hour on slower CPU). Then, just start KeePass. Both portable and installer versions work.

wine Downloads/KeePass-2.46/KeePass.exe

Optionally you can enable “RetinaMode” with higher DPI.

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You can quickly flash firmware with English translation from the official support site however it may not be always clear how to enter the management interface (thanks to mobile redirects and startup wizard).

So the url is:

http://192.168.0.254/home.html

From here, open the tab with the gear icon and upload the new firmware. After a automatic restart, interfaces will be in English.

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As I only use this modem rarely, it took me some time (years) to realize this limit. There never was any error in long in web admin.

What angers me is that the manufacturer doesn’t list this limit anywhere on product site, specification sheet or manual. WiFi AP allows to setup 4 SSIDs but the limit is shared among all of them.

That’s graphics from products site. It gives impression that it can handle lot’s of devices while it’s not sufficient for single family – and I’m not even using WiFi light bulbs, just phones, tablets, laptops and TVs.

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I will only list features that are essential, deeply rooted in system and cannot be worked around without root or by installing another 3rd party app (say OnePlus Contacts app that can be easily replaced with Google Contacts app).

Here are the differences (as observed on Android 10):

• (System) settings app doesn’t rotate – it’s limited to portrait only
• (System) settings app doesn’t offer dark mode; some rare UI elements are black on gray when system dark mode is enabled
• Wifi icon in status bar has activity indicators (little arrows signaling download/upload) – that cannot be turned off
• “Old” status bar icons that are filled instead of the new Android 10 outlined look
• Device connected to computer (Win/mac) via cable always shows CD drive with OnePlus drivers

And some extras OxygenOS offers:

• (Automatic) call recording – works with right hacks but requires OnePlus Phone app as default (doesn’t work for VoIP)
• Alert slider – plus it also can be partially hacked to remap to things like flashlight
• VoIP – available without hacks
• Multi user support
• SystemUI tuner icons are configurable just like that in settings without any hacks
• Screen gesture to control phone with display powered off
• Timed power on/off
• Miracast support
• Screen recorder
• System wide support for icon packs
• Reading mode (b/w mode configurable for any app)

Let me know if there’s anything important I left out.

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In addition to Phil’s guide, there are few extra requirements that needs to be done:

• Make un-encrypted iOS backup (obviously)
• “Find My iPhone” must be turned off for restore (iTunes warns about that)
• I also recommend (temporarily) disabling iCloud backup

But the most important thing is:

• Binary plist contains not only file size but also Base64 encoded SHA-1 (see on the picure above). One way of getting the encoded has would be site like this.

If the hash of any file in Manifest doesn’t match, iTunes stops the restore and says backup is corrupted. If you do all steps correctly, iTunes will restore and override all files from backup.

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https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/win64

If anything happens and apple no longer provides download via this link, simply use an browser extension to modify your User Agent (and spoof older Windows or some other mobile OS).

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1. If not already enabled, enable Developer options in Android
2. In Developer options, turn on “Enable Bluetooth HCI snoop log”
3. Make your Bluetooth headphones connect to Android (power on Bluetooth on your phone)
4. Log should be saved in the phone primary storage in “Android/data” folder, file named “btsnoop_hci.log”. There’s a lot of other folders so don’t get lost! If there’s no such file or if you’re running Android 8 or newer, you will have to capture bugreport (by runnig “adb bugreport”) – which will generate zip file with system logs and btsnoop inside FS folder.
5. Transfer that file to desktop computer and open it in Wireshark.
6. In the “Apply a display filter” field, enter “btavdtp” and press enter.
7. All the codecs your headphones support are on the lines right after “GetCapabilities”. The final codec that phone selected is on line after “SetConfiguration”.

Captured log with QCY QY31 confirms that these earphones really support aptX but not only that, it also supports AAC!

The mini mono earphone QCY Q26 really supports just SBC.

I also recently purchased KZ ZS5 wired earphones so I will be testing the original KZ Bluetooth cable (should support only SBC) and also some 0.75 mm Tiandirenhe cable claiming to support aptX.

Edit: If you have a Mac, it’s much easier to use Apple (Xcode) development tool “Bluetooth Explorer” to enable all codecs and check active one. See guides like this one.

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First I thought It was media reencoding but actually it was not. After reading through the Google forums, I found this post.

The problem is close to the media indexing service, probably related to issues indexing some mkv, flac or other formats.

So the workaround is to disable access to the non camera folders by creating “.nomedia” file inside all folders containing possibly problematic files. The side effect of this is that the media can no longer be visible to other apps (some apps can be set to ignore the “.nomedia” option).

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Termux

I managed to compile NZBGet as package for Termux and submitted it to the app’s repository (see pull request) — let’s hope it will be included. Intil then I included binaries for all architectures.

Running SABnzbd required only installing few dependencies.

DOWNLOAD: I put the install scripts on Github https://github.com/moneytoo/termux-scripts and included instructions for quick install.

TIP: It is possible to configure both apps to download and/or unpack files to external/removable storage (like SD card with capacity of hundreds of GB). Just run once “termux-setup-storage” and you will be to reference the path “/data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/external-1”.

/data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage
├── dcim -> /storage/emulated/0/DCIM
├── downloads -> /storage/emulated/0/Download
├── external-1 -> /storage/34BA-57D4/Android/data/com.termux/files
├── movies -> /storage/emulated/0/Movies
├── music -> /storage/emulated/0/Music
├── pictures -> /storage/emulated/0/Pictures
└── shared -> /storage/emulated/0

Files downloaded here will actually be in “/storage/XXXX-XXXX/Android/data/com.termux/files” — but both video players (like MX Player) or file managers (like Solid Explorer) will be able to access that (without any non standard requirements like root). I bookmarked that location in Solid Explorer for faster navigation.

Saving files to any other folder on SD card is not possible for native (C/C++) apps like these running in Termux as access to SD card “can be requested only from Java”.

Tasker

None of the apps requires you to type anything to the terminal for managing downloads — as they both have web frontends. The only requirement is the startup:

# Start NZBGet
nzbget -D

# Stop NZBGet
nzbget -Q

# Start SABNzbd
sabnzbd start

# Stop SABNzbd
sabnzbd stop

I also created simple scripts for use with Termux:Task (for free at F-Droid) so any service can be started/stopped via few taps. To use the tasks, create them in Tasker — the install scripts already put the requirements in the right place (use scripts sabnzbd.sh and nzbget.sh with following arguments: start/stop/restart).

The scripts also open the program specific url on start (http://localhost:6789 for NZBGet and http://localhost:8080 for SABnzbd).

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