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Kitkat is coming to Note 8 soon

GOOD NEWS FOR NOTE 8 GETTING KITKAT 4.4.2 UPDATE SOON
The upgrade provides a number of innovative, easy-to-use features that enhance the user experience, including a
more intuitive user interface, enhanced messaging capabilities and updated applications:
Location Menu: An integrated location menu enables users to easily activate GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile networks, while
simultaneously checking the battery usage of apps running location service capabilities.
Enhanced Messaging: Enables users to choose between Messages or Hangouts as their preferred default messaging
application, and select from a larger assortment of updated Emoji icons.
Upgraded Google Mobile Service™ (GMS) apps: Users can automatically back up photos and video and can open,
view, rename and share Google Docs and files.
link:
official
http://www.samsungmobileuspress.com...firms-KitKat-for-U.S.-Smartphones-and-Tablets

Sounds cool Is this website an official Samsung channel?
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Old news...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653189
...and i quess it isnt "any soon"

xyboox said:
Sounds cool Is this website an official Samsung channel?
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yup

Thread Closed!!
Let's have 1 dedicated 4.4.2 thread opened...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=50431150

Xposed Modules

What xposed modules are people using with their Nexus 6P? What would you recommend?

Depends on what you want to do.
>Greenify
>Xgels
>Youtube background playback
>Youtube adaway
>Power Nap

where do I find the powernap module? that sounds interesting but I dont see it in the download section.

I'm wondering too, what would benefit us the most when it comes to xposed modules thanks

Good thread idea
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GravityBox MM (tons of mods available)
YouTube Ad away
App Settings (per app DPI, etc)
UnWatch (use airwatch on a rooted device)

ChromePie is great if you use Chrome.

Here are some of my favorite along side some already posted:
Maxlock - per app locking, with finger unlock.
Sensify - allowing play store use of HTC Sense apps
MinminGaurd - adblocker
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Flat style color bars...
I love for the navbar to match the status bad color
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To get powernap you have to subscribe to the community on google+ and join the beta

nycdiplomat said:
To get powernap you have to subscribe to the community on google+ and join the beta
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Got a link to the page?

BankZZ said:
Got a link to the page?
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Just get on google plus and search
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c_86 said:
Just get on google plus and search
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BankZZ said:
Got a link to the page?
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Don't hold your breath on joining. I requested to join three weeks ago and still nothing. Ended searching google for the apk.
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If you purchase the pro version to greenify they offer a "power doze" setting/option. Sounds like it would be the same thing.

BootManager - stops some apps from starting up with phone
CustomShare - customizes share with menu
GravityBox - tons of tweaks
Greenify - hibernates apps
MaxLock - locks app - can use with fingerprint sensor
MinMinGuard - get rid of in-app ads
Notification Count - adds count of notifications on status bar (shows a 3 if you have 3 emails from gmail for example)
NotifyClean - removes apps from notification bar
Play Store Changelog - shows full changelog and can set store to open on your app page
Use USB for Marshmallow - forces usb to use mtp instead of having to manually select it each time

"Caping" app silently installed on system

I've just noticed that we have some hidden apps installed on our "pure" Android device. "Caping" is one such app that you won't be able to find anywhere on the phone, even in the system apps, but when you go to the Play store, you can see that you can uninstall that app.
I've noticed the app using the "Action launcher" because it displays it in the app drawer, but the stock Launcher 3 doesn't...
I've been searching for it for a while and just thought that it installed and uninstalled with the Action launcher as bloat, but today I've received a notification from the "Capting" app and that's how I realized that the app is still present and went ahead and deleted the app via notification long press...
I've seen in the Mi A1 forum that Xiaomi installs this app silently on that phone so probably the same happened to us.
There may be more of these hidden, silent apps and if you know of any more, please report here. For everyone else not wanting these hidden apps lurking around their device, feel free to remove it.

I don't see the app using action launcher..

TKDN regulations Working flawless on our country ? ?

not on my phone. I guess it's just Xiaomi automatic installation on the first run. I always clean out every app except the remote since that's the only one I used.
And for others, that Caping app only available on Indonesia region afaik.

kesadisan said:
not on my phone. I guess it's just Xiaomi automatic installation on the first run. I always clean out every app except the remote since that's the only one I used.
And for others, that Caping app only available on Indonesia region afaik.
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Also in Thailand. I just noticed it when changing to Rootless Pixel launcher

philipnzw said:
I don't see the app using action launcher..
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Check searching for it on the Play store just to be sure.
kesadisan said:
not on my phone. I guess it's just Xiaomi automatic installation on the first run. I always clean out every app except the remote since that's the only one I used.
And for others, that Caping app only available on Indonesia region afaik.
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I'm from Europe and that's what was weird to me...

Caping (and Babe) is one of the prerequisite apps that every vendor/OEM must have installed on their devices in order to bypass the Indonesian regulation, and since some of Xiaomi devices rom is compiled in their HQ/Server in Indonesia (see about phone, on the compilation date you'll notice the time is in WIB which means Waktu Indonesia Barat or Western Indonesian Time) i guess these apps is pretty much baked on the system.

alf0 said:
Caping (and Babe) is one of the prerequisite apps that every vendor/OEM must have installed on their devices in order to bypass the Indonesian regulation, and since some of Xiaomi devices rom is compiled in their HQ/Server in Indonesia (see about phone, on the compilation date you'll notice the time is in WIB which means Waktu Indonesia Barat or Western Indonesian Time) i guess these apps is pretty much baked on the system.
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wait you're serious? are the government want to poison us with stupid and click bait news all day?

This is crazy. Luckily I don't have any installed on my phone...

Just to update. There are a couple of other Xiaomi apps installed on the device not displayed in the app drawer of the stock launcher (Launcher 3) such as the Xiaomi Store and others. I've found them using Lawnchair launcher. Thought this might be useful information for anyone wanting a bloat free phone.

I got my phone from an online Chinese store and its a Global version and it has the Caping app. Uninstalled it already. Any more apps that we should know that shouldn't be there in the first place?

OverTheEdge said:
I got my phone from an online Chinese store and its a Global version and it has the Caping app. Uninstalled it already. Any more apps that we should know that shouldn't be there in the first place?
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You can uninstall Mi Store and Mi Community also. These three apks are hidden for those who live in India.
Also, there are few telemetry apps that you guys should disable via adb:
/system/app/TelemetryService/TelemetryService.apk=com.qualcomm.qti.haven.telemetry.service
/system/app/Spock/Spock.apk=com.miui.spock

pianistaPL said:
You can uninstall Mi Store and Mi Community also. These three apks are hidden for those who live in India.
Also, there are few telemetry apps that you guys should disable via adb:
/system/app/TelemetryService/TelemetryService.apk=com.qualcomm.qti.haven.telemetry.service
/system/app/Spock/Spock.apk=com.miui.spock
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I don't have the store and community installed, just the file manager and remote. Kept the remote and replaced the file manager with Files Go.
What are the functions of the telemetry and spock? Is there a way to remove them without using adb?

Found that Google Indic, Korean and Pinyin Keyboard were installed as well.

Things changed after stable pie update

I find display to be on better side thn earlier, auto brightness is actually working fine. I also find camera to be better thn before both normal and portrait. Theme option is added and other pie updates.
But I thing app opening is bit Slow, needs to be improved. I could not find Digital wellbeing but at play store it shows that it's installed.
Will update other changes, please share the changes. I may be wrong on some facts

I feel ram management has improved.

Ditigal wellbeing should be available in settings menu only, not as an app

It's not there in settings, could not find

Technicalyog said:
It's not there in settings, could not find
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U must download apk and install it and it will work fine in setting

behzad.bz said:
U must download apk and install it and it will work fine in setting
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But play store saying it is installed

Technicalyog said:
But play store saying it is installed
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Download and install to update the non-beta version
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/digital-wellbeing/digital-wellbeing-1-0-221419252-release/

Technicalyog said:
But play store saying it is installed
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Yes, but not appear, in play store I subscribe to beta and now appear in settings

digital wellbeing - playstore - beta
luisjoseb said:
Yes, but not appear, in play store I subscribe to beta and now appear in settings
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1) When I install "digital wellbeding" from te playstore and subscribe to beta program, digital wellbeing gets visible in setting.
2) autohide of navbar is now working fine!
Hide Navigation Bar only type: adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.navigation=*

GCAM and camera2api working?

How's proximity sensor in Pie? Has it improved?

Applied theme won’t stay

Having a problem with themes.
Downloaded several themes and no matter which I apply (using the Mi theme app) it doesn’t stay for more than an hour or so.
Seems fine, then I don’t use the phone for a while (an hour maybe), I pickup the phone and notice the theme has switched back to the default theme.
Do I have to, somehow, make the new theme the default ?
New to android after a few years away with Apple.

Fred98TJ said:
Having a problem with themes.
Downloaded several themes and no matter which I apply (using the Mi theme app) it doesn’t stay for more than an hour or so.
Seems fine, then I don’t use the phone for a while (an hour maybe), I pickup the phone and notice the theme has switched back to the default theme.
Do I have to, somehow, make the new theme the default ?
New to android after a few years away with Apple.
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What ROM do you have?

Pure stock, running Android 9, MIUI global 10.3.11.

Having poked around the web for a while, seems to be a common problem. I’m using a theme from the official mi theme store but added the Flight icon pack to it (not from the mi store) using the MIUI theme editor from the play store

Fred98TJ said:
Having poked around the web for a while, seems to be a common problem. I’m using a theme from the official mi theme store but added the Flight icon pack to it (not from the mi store) using the MIUI theme editor from the play store
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This can be less of an issue but most likely the permission if you download the app that has to modify System settings you have to allow it to do so, for example I'm using Poco Launcher and Pixel icon pack also from Play Store and every time I reboot the phone the theme is back to stock because Poco Launcher didn't have allowance to modify System Settings so you need to go to Settings / Permissions / Other Permissions / Modify System Settings there you'll see the list which app can modify default System Settings.