Police forces in the UK are seeing a "record number" of false calls to 999, the UK's emergency services number, and the culprit is apparently Android. As the BBC reports, Android 12 added an easy-access feature for emergency services: just press the power button five times, and your phone will dial emergency services for you. That's apparently pretty easy to do accidentally when a phone is sitting in your pocket, or if you have a wonky power button, resulting in a surge of totally silent accidental calls to emergency dispatch.

App privacy policies openly contradict the far more visible "nutrition labels." //

Mozilla rates a few Google apps like Gmail as "needs improvement," but that's missing the forest for the trees. The report doesn't dive into this, but for Android, Google likes to do privacy sleight-of-hand and center the discussion around the idea of "app privacy," when "OS privacy"—privacy from Google—should probably be more of a concern. Google and your device manufacturer both have system-level access to the OS that exists outside the app security model, so they can basically do whatever they want on your phone, including collecting all your data. //

The same "privileged permissions" model also applies to preinstalled apps, which is part of the reason Facebook works so hard to be preinstalled on most Android phones—more permissions means better spying. It would be nice if the Play Store labels were accurate, too, but nobody wants to talk about the entire OS.

3. Lower the audio quality
   Some users suggest lowering the audio quality as the songs are buffering on the highest one (256kbps AAC). You can do that in the app settings and, hopefully, the issues will stop once you transfer to Normal quality. We understand that this shouldn’t be a thing, but it seems that Google still needs a lot of work to make YouTube Music a valid successor to Google Play Music. //

4. Disable Battery optimization
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can't be done without rooted phone.

can move media, but whatsapp still stores additional in original location

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Since Android 10 update, my daily alarm is not sounding off at all, which is causing aggravating consequences on my daily schedule! at first, I thought I mistakenly left the phone too far away, or forgot to set the sound level loud enough.

Today I realised there is a message showing up very briefly at the bottom of the screen when I open the clock app. //

I suggest clearing storage for the clock app. Tap and hold on the clock app, tap the i, tap storage, then tap clear storage. Afterwards try setting a new alarm and see if it works properly.

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TechCrunch first discovered the vulnerability as part of a wider exploration of consumer-grade spyware. The vulnerability is simple, which is what makes it so damaging, allowing near-unfettered remote access to a device’s data. But efforts to privately disclose the security flaw to prevent it from being misused by nefarious actors has been met with silence both from those behind the operation and from Codero, the web company that hosts the spyware operation’s back-end server infrastructure.

The nature of spyware means those targeted likely have no idea that their phone is compromised. With no expectation that the vulnerability will be fixed any time soon, TechCrunch is now revealing more about the spyware apps and the operation so that owners of compromised devices can uninstall the spyware themselves, if it’s safe to do so.

Given the complexities in notifying victims, CERT/CC, the vulnerability disclosure center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, has also published a note about the spyware.

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Another comment by greyson-signal on #10618 3:

I’ll reiterate that we cannot just ‘turn the old thing back on’. It was very bad for multiple reasons, and we’d probably just have to re-do it from the ground-up and do a bunch of testing on it. That takes a lot of time, and it’s hard to justify putting a lot of time into features to support non-encrypted messaging. Not saying we won’t ever come back to it, but we need to schedule time for it, and there’s no time in the near future.

SMS Messages not imported after enabling from Signal app #10618 //

greyson-signal commented 2 days ago
I'll reiterate that we cannot just 'turn the old thing back on'. It was very bad for multiple reasons, and we'd probably just have to re-do it from the ground-up and do a bunch of testing on it. That takes a lot of time, and it's hard to justify putting a lot of time into features to support non-encrypted messaging. Not saying we won't ever come back to it, but we need to schedule time for it, and there's no time in the near future.

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